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NYT: At Lincoln Memorial, a Call for Religious Rebirth (Crowd Estimate)
New York Sl/imes ^ | 8/28/2010 | KATE ZERNIKE and CARL HULSE

Posted on 08/28/2010 7:43:33 PM PDT by GVnana

WASHINGTON — An enormous and impassioned crowd rallied at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday, summoned by Glenn Beck, a conservative broadcaster who called for a religious rebirth in America at the site where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech 47 years ago to the day.

“Something that is beyond man is happening,” Mr. Beck said in opening the event as the crowd thronged near the memorial grounds. “America today begins to turn back to God.”

It was part religious revival, part history lecture, as Mr. Beck invoked the founding fathers and the “black-robed regiment” of pastors of the Revolutionary War and spoke of American exceptionalism.

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Officials do not make crowd estimates because they are unreliable and can be controversial, but event organizers put the number of attendees at 500,000; NBC News said it was closer to 300,000, but by any measure it was a large turnout. The crowd stretched from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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KEYWORDS: beck; glennbeck; inman; lds; mormon; restoringhonor
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To: restornu
It is the devil tha stir the pot the LDS are not the ones who starts these railings...

Ha ha ha!

Tell us; you ex-PRESBYTERIAN; just what did JS learn to be UNTRUE about your old religion?

321 posted on 08/29/2010 8:37:12 PM PDT by Elsie
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To: maine-iac7
don't want to hear from you again.

Oh NO!

You just DID!


322 posted on 08/29/2010 8:39:20 PM PDT by Elsie
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To: maine-iac7
 
some heads are so stuffed with self-rigeousness and self-esteem, there is no room for reason.
 
 
You know; I've heard of things like that...

 
 

MORMON
ATTITUDES OF SUPERIORITY
 

  1. I’m Superior; I have a special gift of the holy Ghost -- you don’t!
  2. I’m Superior; I have God’s true priesthood power -- you don’t!
  3. I’m Superior; I can go in God’s secret Temple -- you can’t!
  4. I’m Superior; I’ve been Endowed with special Gifts and Knowledge -- you’re just normal!
  5. I’m Superior; I’ll have my family with me in heaven -- you’ll be with strangers!
  6. I’m Superior; I’m becoming a God -- you aren’t!
  7. I’m Superior; My women know their place as servants of man and yours don’t.
  8. I’m Superior; YOUR creeds are wrong because they come from man - mine comes from God (you can find each one printed in our Scriptures).
  9. I’m Superior; I don’t HAVE a creed - I’ve got 13 Articles of Faith.
10. I'm Superior; I have 4 "Bibles"-- the standard works (5 if you count the JST) -- you've only got one: in as far as it is translated correctly.
11. I’m Superior; I can lie with impunity about such things as church membership, church growth, church doctrine, church history, church influence, etc. —                           -- You can’t.
12. I’m Superior; I am right (everybody knows) when I say 'evangelical' Christians are lunatics -- 
                           -- You’re a hideous narrow-minded bigot, who is persecuting me by practicing discrimination by saying I'm not a Christian.
13. I'm Superior; I have a testimony about a prophet -- you don't.
14. I'm Superior; I have a Scripture-producing Amos 3:7 prophet -- you don't
15. I’m Superior; I have a Living Prophet who talks to god every day -- you have a dim-witted hireling of Satan who only talks to himself.
16. I'm Superior; I have my calling & election made sure -- you don't.
17. I’m Superior; I have magic underwear to protect me from the bogey man -- you don’t.
18. I’m Superior; I have secret clasps and grips to give the angel so I get admitted to the celestial kingdom -- you don’t ;so you can’t.
19. I'm Superior; I know secret handshake codes for afterlife entrances-- you don't.
20. I’m Superior; I will see Joseph Smith setting on the right hand of GOD, when I get to Mormon heaven, and he will recognize me and judge me favorably                              -- You’re on your own; when you get to wherever you’re going!
21. I’m Superior; I’m going to hie to Kolob -- you’re going to who knows where.
22. I’m Superior; I get to have a harem and act like a celestial stud for time and all eternity -- you don’t.
23. I’m Superior; I have sun stones, moon stones, sky stones, cloud stones, Saturn stones, and the evil eye of Osirus guarding my temple
                            -- all you have is a stupid cross.
24. I’m Superior; My church has billions in assets stashed away -- yours has taken a stupid vow of poverty.
25. I'm Superior; Last - we have the power to keep a whole race out of our priesthood if we wanted to reinsert our 148-year legacy  (we ARE still keeping an entire GENDER at bay!)
26.  I'm superior; I have the "higher law" -- everyone else "lives under the "lesser law' because I say so...(over and over).
 
 
Revision 46.2
Semi-Official creed of the EXclusive club of Freeper Flying Inmans.
All rights liable to be abused.

323 posted on 08/29/2010 8:41:12 PM PDT by Elsie
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To: maine-iac7
some heads are so stuffed with self-rigeousness and self-esteem, there is no room for reason.
 
 
Yeah; a person has to watch for things like that happening...

 
 
 
Professor Robert Millet        teaching at the Mission Prep Club in 2004  http://newsnet.byu.edu/video/18773/  <-- Complete and uneditted

 
 
Timeline...    Subject...
 
0:59            "Anti-Mormons..."
1:16            "ATTACK the faith you have..."
2:02           "We really aren't obligated to answer everyone's questions..."
3:57           "You already know MORE about God and Christ and the plan of salvation than any who would ATTACK you."

324 posted on 08/29/2010 8:42:41 PM PDT by Elsie
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To: Rennes Templar

O...
K...


325 posted on 08/29/2010 8:43:20 PM PDT by Elsie
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To: Arizona Carolyn; Vigilanteman

Ignore the deranged pipsqueaks. They sat on their collective asses throwing stones while Beck did the heavy lifting this week. I’m not a huge Beck fan, but he’s done good. God bless him.


326 posted on 08/29/2010 8:43:20 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: maine-iac7

There are talkers and then there are doers who truly care about others. I’m just hoping none of these loose screws around here fall onto my keyboard and jam it up. :)

Always loved Maine—camped up on Mt. Desert Isle for several years. And your blueberries make the very best pies—spoiled me for anything else. Love your screen name!


327 posted on 08/29/2010 8:43:33 PM PDT by GoldwaterChick (We Snowflakes will always remember our beloved Snowman with the incandescent smile.)
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To: maine-iac7

Meant to ping you too.


328 posted on 08/29/2010 8:44:42 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: maine-iac7; Diogenes
I do not know ONE that would vote for Romney.

Have you met diogenes?

329 posted on 08/29/2010 8:44:42 PM PDT by Elsie
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To: GoldwaterChick
Does anyone else wonder how so many of these threads keep getting hijacked by Mormon-bashers? What ever happened to you celebrate your religion and I’ll celebrate mine? This mud fight is getting ridiculous! If a person wants to worship a tree—that’s his own businss!! We need to pray for these people who have nothing else to do.

Probably because the article is about a Mormon pretending to be a Christian. It is highly offensive to those who are Christians to be associated with heretics, who up until recently had the decency to insist on that separation. Somwhere recently, LDS has decided to attack the Church and target the weaker of the faith for their indoctrination.

The concept of "you celebrate your religion and I'll celebrate mine" is akin to watching your neighbor's home burn down with them in it and rationalizing to yourself that its none of your business to initiate a rescue

Dittos with the approval of people condemning themselves to eternal damnation because they are worshipping a tree. But what is most offensive is that you are suggesting that we pray so that the Gospel is quenched and does not go out.

It sounds like you are advocating the Anti-Commission, that God is somehow glad and eager to make sure that the Truth of the Gospel never gets out. To me, that is pure demonic.

I’m a Presbyterian.

I'm guessing PC-USA. Sounds like their M.O.

330 posted on 08/29/2010 8:45:13 PM PDT by The Theophilus
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To: The Theophilus

Thank you so much for your thoughtful and even-toned post. I cannot argue with a single point you make. All of your points have been rolling around in my head since before George Bush was elected the second time. I knew those four years would bring a last reprieve from judgment for our nation and if true Christians didn’t wake up and get to work, I feared the days to come. Those days are here.

When viewing this calamity from the perspective of eternal salvation, who cares, really? I mean if we are doing God’s will personally, then we have nothing to fear. I don’t fear anything at all for me. My fear is for the future of my children. That is the only thing that keeps me from forgetting the whole matter. I just pray for time to help them all be clothed in Christ before those days of misery.

Really, related to examples in the Bible, for me the closest to America is Sodom and Gomorrah. God did tell Abraham He would not destroy the city if a certain number of righteous could be found. So there is an example of a time God said He was willing to change His mind. And Ninevah would have been destroyed, had they not repented, so God changed His mind there—as you pointed out.

Of course, I never forget that this earth was not created to last forever. God has promised an end, and assured us that those who have prepared will be rewarded. No one, not even Jesus knows when that day is to come. Maybe tonight, while we sleep?

There is no argument that Romans 13 makes very clear that God can take out any nation He so chooses, and the rest of the Bible is thick with examples of Him doing just that. America is really a speck when placed next to the awesome God of creation.

I guess, truth is, the human side of me is having a hard time letting go. It’s like watching a loved one die of cancer. You want to keep believing there is a treatment that will bring life to them, but in the end, all you can do is mourn and prepare.

Glenn Beck’s rally has the potential for the administration of a type of Chemo, but real healing would truly take God’s hand. Only God knows if we are worthy of that effort. Just having someone speak of God in a visual way in front of so many caused me to believe a repentant spirit might be possible—

Anyway, thank you again for taking time to respond. I do love this country, but I love God more, and it sounds as if you do, too. God bless and keep your lamp filled!


331 posted on 08/29/2010 8:46:03 PM PDT by daisy mae for the usa
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To: maine-iac7

Amen.


332 posted on 08/29/2010 8:46:15 PM PDT by GoldwaterChick (We Snowflakes will always remember our beloved Snowman with the incandescent smile.)
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To: Rennes Templar
Another naive Christian that thinks that millions of Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists etc. are doomed to eternal damnation.

John 3:16-18

16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.

333 posted on 08/29/2010 8:47:53 PM PDT by Elsie
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To: Rennes Templar
That verse was edited by Constantine and others. What Jesus originally said was, “ The I AM THAT I AM in each of you is the Way, the Truth and the Life. No man comes unto the father except by my example”

I'm just SURE that you have SOME kind of documentation to back up this claim; right?

334 posted on 08/29/2010 8:50:41 PM PDT by Elsie
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To: maine-iac7

You have a gift!


335 posted on 08/29/2010 8:50:54 PM PDT by GoldwaterChick (We Snowflakes will always remember our beloved Snowman with the incandescent smile.)
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To: maine-iac7
they have many great artists - you may enjoy the paintings.

 
 
 

Welcome to
 
Mormonism 101
 
We'll begin in a minute.
 
 
In the mean time, you may enjoy the art that is on our walls.
 
 
 
 
 
You may think some of our doctrine a bit shifty; but if you study it real close in one area, it will be quite steady.
 
Please ignore any shifting you THINK you observe elsewhere, for if you look at THAT area; it, too, will become fixed.

336 posted on 08/29/2010 8:51:51 PM PDT by Elsie
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To: Tennessee Nana
 
Taliban Fundies meet MORMONism's Undies!
 
 

337 posted on 08/29/2010 9:01:30 PM PDT by Elsie
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To: restornu
Are you righteous fruits or contentious fruit?

Or just a plain ol' fruit BAT!


338 posted on 08/29/2010 9:04:40 PM PDT by Elsie
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To: florida red

Thank you for Post #22. I’m glad you understood and liked what Glenn Beck did. I really should not be surprised that this thread turned into a Mormon bashing session. It happens all the time.

Meanwhile, thanks to Glenn Beck who was responsible for this great rally!!! I watched the entire thing live on C-Span and was blown away. He was smart to tell people not to bring signs. He knew that the “others” were planning to crash the event pretenting to be tea party people and try to fool the media into focusing on their horrible lying signs.

Beck is a genius and I imagine this is one of the few “conservative” sites that is filled with anti Mormon comments and wasting valuable time condemning the rally.

Today’s “Fresno Bee” about the rally never even mentioned the Special Operations sponsorship. Not one word. Instead, the headline is about how mostly white people attended and they gave a lot of space to the Sharpton rally.

It doesn’t matter, though, because anyone with a brain and half a heart can see the lies and distortions. Yahoo!

I thank God for Beck and his efforts on behalf of restoring honor in our country.


339 posted on 08/29/2010 9:05:17 PM PDT by Saundra Duffy (For victory & freedom!!!)
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To: Normandy

Why engage these with welfare junkies!


340 posted on 08/29/2010 9:09:36 PM PDT by restornu
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