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I don't require everyone to be correct on everything to have influence on me. I would have to ignore most Catholics, many Baptists, and all Churches with women pastors and homosexual marriage. Beck is just an insightful entertainer. His "schtick" is that he uses peoples own words to make his points. As far as his "spiritual" influence, I watch carefully when he tries to turn me to Mormonism,.....which is never so far. I haven't heard one statement from him that was purely "Mormon" and I DVR his program daily. As far as his "people are basically good" statements, there are many that make that sort of tripe. If I judged everyone by them believing that people are "good", I couldn't listen to anyone. Most people seem to have missed the Biblical definition of an evil heart, and many preachers seem loathe to preach it because they may seem "Calvinistic". The Bible says what it says and many are disappointed when they find out the people they look up to are human too.

Beck is a "good" man, IMHO, and has "good" intentions. There are good Catholics, Baptists, Mormons, Methodists, ect, but I don't have to walk lockstep with anyone. It is fine to point out people's weaknesses, but you must know that you will soon be alone with no friends. I am friends with many people with varying beliefs, but I just have spirited discussions with them and don't abandon them. If my arguments can't hold up, maybe I need to re evaluate my arguments. It's called "learnin something". I think everyone would agree that starting a fight over what the Bible says is easy. The writers of the article believe they are the Bible experts that everyone must follow or they are following the devil. I may agree more with them than Beck Biblically, but to act like that only separates Christians. If you argue over salvation issues, that would be enough to anger a friend, but there are many arguments we could have amongst ourselves that have no bearing whether we go to heaven or not. One might be whether the Founders were Christians or not. I submit, as a group, they were more "Christian" than many pastors today.

On the whole, I think Beck is a treasure and will continue to watch and listen. I will never consider Mormonism as a plan of salvation. The two don't have to be mutually inclusive.