The truth is, that this thread is projecting everything about Mormonism in someone’s mind onto a person, that person is Glen Beck
He hasn’t declared these things that you ascribe to him and therefore are baring false witness against him.
Like I said, ask him ... you set as judge jury and executioner, can you at least question the accused?
Beck ascribes mormonISM everyday and in everything he does. However, if you don’t know what mormonISM is you wont see it.
When you throw the word hate around like some talisman, you expose your lack of discernment. When you accuse 'you set as ...' you establish a high bar indeed under which you dance, not over which you rise.
Sadly, my friend Glen is dangerously too close to, too friendly toward, and too accepting of ecumenism. Jesus was not in any way shape or form for ecumenism. There is only one way to God, through Jesus 'the Door' the Way, the Life'. Glen wants so desperately to be a peacemaker among all cultures that he misses the very reason Christ live and allowed Himself to be crucified. In His own words He came ... well, if you read your Bible, you know what Jesus said of His mission among us.
Ian Thomas used to make the following connection:
Many are called but few are chosen
Faithful is He that calleth you, for He will also do it
Of the many who are called, why are so few chosen?...
Because so few will let Him do it.
Mormonism teaches and inculcates the followers that they must do that which God has already declared a human cannot do. God's Grace is the only answer to our weakness toward sin. No matter how much an LDS leader or 'prophet' proclaims to the faithful that they must make themselves right with God so that in the end they will deserve salvation, it will never be so, because God has already explained it cannot be so.
Found prominent in Mormonism is the phrase 'after all that you can do' ... that is a great lie and we know whom is the father of lies, a murderer from the start.
Smith declared himself a prophet. If you really want to apply the 'fruit' measure, look at the fruit of that man's life, the peepstone fakery in 'translating the so called 'Book of Mormon', the sexual predation of married women, the exploitation of followers and the deceits he preached to them, and the fabricated passages (tens of thousands of words added) added to the King James Bible in the euphemistically called 'Joseph Smith Translation of the King James Bible' INTO KING JAMES ENGLISH NO LESS.
Smith's fruit proved him a false prophet, a servant of the father of lies. I would be no real Christian friend to leave someone captured by such a cult of lies. Do you expect such a false religion is leading people to salvation, just because you believe they behave nicely? And not one of his prophecies ... well, I suspect that's about as far as you will read, so I'll leave it there.
Hey, don't confuse people with the facts !
'Sides, you're disrupting Tuesday's Three Minutes Hate, don'tcha know.