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.
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I think God would approve of Beck’s work today, regardless of what religion he is.
I grew up in a Mormon community and I am not Mormon. I have come to appreciate their family values and they tend to be conservative Republicans. Nothing wrong with that in my book. I don’t feel it is my responsibility to judge their faith or religious practices. That is up to God.
Nice post.
Well lets just say you are wrong in your accessment of LDS. However Beck has certainly informed the people of History and how gov. works. But his religion, LDS, is a counterfeit if one looks into their practices and beliefs they will see that very clearly...and most all Christian churches do recognize that is the case. But in time he will walk away from it.
Wow! It’s the God police! Quick somebody call the NY Times and condemn everyone at the rally because the organizer is part of a faith that offends you to the point of getting your panties in a wad. If you can’t enjoy the SPIRIT of the day (the same spirit that blessed our founders) which included such arcane ideas as a 1st Amendment, you know, that whole freedom of religion thing, then maybe this is the wrong thread for you. But what do I know, I’m not a Catholic, either.
Cindie
"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."
Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and others all stood together with Glenn Beck today.
They chose not to focus on religious differences, but on the things we have in common. I think we can learn something from them.
Correction... Joseph Smith called the modern CREEDS of Christianity an abomination.
Really, is it all that different from what Thomas Jefferson called modern Christianity? And he was elected President.
“The religion builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticisms, fancies, and falsehoods, have caricatured them into forms so inconceivable, as to shock reasonable thinkers....Happy in the prospect of a restoration of primitive Christianity, I must leave to younger persons to encounter and lop off the false branches which have been engrafted into it by the mythologists of the middle and modern ages.”
(Jefferson’s Complete Works, vol 7, pp 210, 257)
I echo your thoughts.
This battle certainly is about conservatism and the restoration of God in our country. YES!!!!
Nope, Glenn and Tonya were converted to Mormonism at the same time. She wanted religion, they found it together.
I don't believe in the authenticity The Book Of Mormon, and I even believe it to be blasphemy, but I'm pretty sure Joe Smith had nothing against biblical scripture other than that he perhaps felt it incomplete somehow. Like O'Bunga wanting to flesh out the inadequate Constitution via presidential fiat.
:-)
Well, Mormonism is a pretty radical departure from traditional Christianity, and it totally denies its validity. Furthermore all this is based on the testimony of one man, who went on to test the limits of American toleration by proposing polygamy.
I respectfully disagree.
Government gets its power from people. People get their power from God.
Obama wants to turn everything on its head.
Founders view:
God
/People\
/Government\
Obama's view:
\Government/
\People/
\God/
Yes indeed; you are right. Govt gets its power from the people, who view God, not government, as supreme.
Is there an aerial shot of Sharlaton’s get-together?
The Gospels only speak of one Church. As for Jesus, traditional Judaism—that is rabbinical Judaism, did not see Jesus or his followers as faithful to the law of Moses.
Whatever their theology, Mormons are culturally VERY American.
Actually, there were many witnesses to the plates and the angel. Even some who left the church later, but never denied their own testimonies of those events, reaffirming it on their deathbeds.
Oretty right on. The Constitution is a legal instrument, a charter of government. It’s purpose is to describe, empower government and define its limits.
I can’t find a single “crowd shot” from the event — whatever it was.
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