[the OlLine Rebel]

Please accord me a little respect. 1st by reading my posts in full, then by holding the sarcasm, which doesn’t help, even if I WAS a RevWar illiterate. I’m asking a simple question hoping to get good answers (Beck did not supply any sources in his 1st minutes - no, I haven’t yet watched beyond 15 min of it). I don’t want to pump myself up, but it IS a hobby of mine and I have read much more on the period/war than your average Joe, never mind “seen” much more.

I am NOT anti-Glenn Beck. I record his show every day and watch it. I love him, but I’m afraid he’s getting a little loose with the facts. That does not help any cause.

Started with his all-too-brief “Indian” episode the other week. He brought up startling info about Hebrew-type etchings on stones found in Indian burials, etc. I thought very interesting - I know about zilch about Indians. I went here and the Glenn Beck thread had people denouncing those stones - they’ve been discredited, found frauds, it’s a Morman thing, etc. Not good.

Now he mentions something with which I’m unfamiliar in a period I know something about. It made me question it.

[Terry Mross]

What I find sad are all the people on here condemning Beck and saying he made this up when many posts provide links to stories of churches being burned by the British or actual quotes.

I have a relative who loves to say “Beck is a liar” but refuses to give one example.

May he is a liar. But show me an example and prove it.

[TommyDale]

The way you questioned Beck in your very first comment was a clue. If you don’t want criticism or sarcasm, don’t make a charge without something to back it up. You selected a subject that you obviously follow as a “hobby” while many of us are History majors.

And I knew the Mormon thing would surface eventually. Get past the religious thing.

[TommyDale]

And no, I am not a Mormon, nor am I a Mitt Romney supporter. I am however a defender of Glenn Beck to state his points of view since no one else in the media has the backbone to take on the subjects that he does.

Glenn Beck is going to have the same effect on the 2010 mid-term elections as Rush Limbaugh did in 1994.

[Pharmboy]

Your question is totally appropriate, and the larger question about the Brits burning churches is, of course they did, and they disliked the Presbyterians immensely. John Witherspoon was a Signer, a Scot/Presbyterian minister and President of Princeton (College of NJ at the time). He ran off to fight the Brits. There were many other Presby ministers who did the same.

The point is: did they ever burn churches with people inside? As I mentioned above, I know of no evidence for this.

And have a look at this.

[Claud]

Yep, I agree. I’ve heard Glenn say some really ridiculous things about the early Church...the Constantinian period etc.

I appreciate what he’s doing, but I don’t find him very reliable historically.