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How Can Glenn Beck Be Right on So Much and Yet Still Believe the book of Mormon? (serious question)

Posted on 10/26/2009 7:51:02 AM PDT by Scythian

I'm a huge Beck fan, in fact I'm listening right now here

http://www.ksfa860.com/common/gap_streamer.php

but something really confuses me. It takes the ability to use real critical thinking to know what Beck (and most of us know about the state of the country and where we are heading). That is, we have the ability to discover the truth no matter how much the media or conventional wisdom try to hide it. Yet on Mormonism, Beck is cleary wrong. Any Christian knows that the book or momonism is severely flawed and that Joseph Smith was no prophet. How can Beck cut through all the chaff of what is going on in our world and come to the truth and yet believe the writings of Joseph Smith? It doesn't make sense? I'm not saying he's up to something secret, not by any means, it's just that he's so right about so many things and completely wrong on the most important thing. Now, he just said on the air that he believes Jesus is the Savior of the world and that he is Mormon.

I also think that because he is Mormon he is not attacked near as much if he was a Evangelical Bible only believer. Anyway, am I nutz or does Beck being a Mormon seem bizarre?


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1 posted on 10/26/2009 7:51:05 AM PDT by Scythian
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To: Scythian

I guess it worked for him.


2 posted on 10/26/2009 7:53:15 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Scythian

Have you watched Glenn Beck?
I have, and while I find him entertaining at times, and shockingly correct about a lot of things, I also find him to be about 1/2 step away from crazy.


3 posted on 10/26/2009 7:53:24 AM PDT by brownsfan (The average American: Uninformed, and unconcerned.)
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How Can Glenn Beck Be Right on So Much and Yet Still Believe the book of Mormon? (serious question)

What do his religious convictions have to do with anything?

4 posted on 10/26/2009 7:53:39 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Scythian

He needs to watch the South Park episode it is a clincher.


5 posted on 10/26/2009 7:53:40 AM PDT by boomop1
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To: Scythian

If you read the Religion forum, you’ll see I’m a very harsh critic of Mormonism, but come on, leave Beck alone on this. There’s no accounting for spiritual perception, particularly when someone has straightened his life out so much after joining a given sect.


6 posted on 10/26/2009 7:53:48 AM PDT by dangus (Nah, I'm not really Jim Thompson, but I play him on FR.)
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To: Scythian

Why bring religion into it? Whatever you might think of the Mormons, they are honest and productive, and don’t go around shouting “jihad” every second. You wanna pick on an idiot religion, try Islam - who’s principal prophet would be jailed for child molestation were he to be in this country.


7 posted on 10/26/2009 7:54:29 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Scythian

Everybody has a blind spot. No exceptions.


8 posted on 10/26/2009 7:54:38 AM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: dangus
leave Beck alone on this. There’s no accounting for spiritual perception, particularly when someone has straightened his life out so much after joining a given sect.

Amen!

9 posted on 10/26/2009 7:54:45 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Scythian
I've often wondered that myself. Since we are constantly being called racists for disliking obama’s policies, it seams the Beck would want to distance himself from a religion founded by a man who claimed the black people were descendants of Cain.
10 posted on 10/26/2009 7:55:21 AM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: Scythian

Personally I don’t care what his religious beliefs are as long as he isn’t an islamderthal head hunter. Mormons aren’t running around hacking people’s heads off that I’m aware of.

There are probably more believers in UFOs than there are Mormons. It doesn’t matter to me unless they call me a bigot for not voting for Mitt Romney.


11 posted on 10/26/2009 7:55:29 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: Scythian
Beck being a Mormon seem bizarre?

How about --- maybe he is right and you are wrong?

12 posted on 10/26/2009 7:55:36 AM PDT by Dan(9698)
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To: Scythian

His religious beliefs are irrelevant to me.


13 posted on 10/26/2009 7:55:52 AM PDT by rabscuttle385 (http://restoretheconstitution.ning.com/)
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To: AppyPappy

As a matter of faith is he required to believe the religious text of your choosing?

When he has come forward and said it was the/his Mormon faith that got him clean and sober and turned his life around who are we to question? I could care less if you worship a Pepsi can as long as you’re a decent, respectable, productive citizen.

Who are you to judge when we have a guaranteed freedom of religion?


14 posted on 10/26/2009 7:55:54 AM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark
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To: Scythian

A co-worker asked me last year “how can someone as intelligent as you not be a ‘progressive’?” I refrained from responding “because I’m intelligent enough to not be one.”

The same reasoning may apply to your question.
(No, I’m not judging Mormonism either way, just commenting on the nature of such questions.)


15 posted on 10/26/2009 7:56:37 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (Obamacare violates the 4th Amendment.)
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To: Scythian

his faith is his faith and his business , his investigating and reporting effects us all and is doing a great job too.

I couldn’t care less about his religion but it does seem in the mormon religion they have not been infested with liberals like many of us in the christian religion.

The homos and the left targeted our churches many years ago. they placed their people in our churches to get us to think that being homo was alright.
Even on here a woman who says she goes to church every week and helps out said she has no problem with homos because she knew a guy at church who told her how he wanted to be left alone and to love in peace.

she bought the crap form him and it seems mormons have not.

Look at the catholic church in the north east where they hardly ever speak against abortion and homos and they vote for the Dems.

I say keep on getting the word out about this white house and it ism up to us to tell everyone we meet and who we know about what is really going on instead of moaning on the likes of here and the staying silent on the issues as some do not want to offend or be called a name


16 posted on 10/26/2009 7:56:38 AM PDT by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman, end of. -end racism end affirmative action)
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To: Scythian
I also am a fan of Glenn Beck....

The theology and worldview of LDS is NOT challenged from within....

A little critical thinking, thorough research and apologetic methodology enable objective comparisons...

That's all I have to say about that..... atm

17 posted on 10/26/2009 7:56:40 AM PDT by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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To: greyfoxx39; Colofornian

ping


18 posted on 10/26/2009 7:57:38 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Scythian

Almost every single religion looks strange and cultish when viewed from the outside, yet, for someone on the inside of said religion, it seems perfectly sane and logical. Viewing things from the inside, one has trouble understanding how people view it differently from the outside. It is all a matter of perspective.

(I’m not LDS, this is just a general statement).


19 posted on 10/26/2009 7:57:46 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: Scythian
I have wondered the same thing myself but if Mormonism has enabled him to turn his life around then it has been a good thing. He may come to other realizations later on, right now I am grateful for what he has uncovered. Go Glen Go!
20 posted on 10/26/2009 7:57:57 AM PDT by Ditter
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