Posted on 09/03/2010 4:39:23 PM PDT by greyfoxx39
Ping
How do you feel about George Washington since he was a mason?
Guess you have to watch the show to get it. He doesn’t talk about Mormanism, but he does talk about God and Christ frequently in non-denominational terms, and seems to have great respect for varied differences in methods of worship. His point in discussing it is how important judeo-christan beliefs, in general, are to the foundation of the country as a factor of national unity rather than as a missionary.
Some might have a problem with that, but I guess that’s up to them. It is probably better to be united in generality, on points on which we can agree, than it is to point out various differences and use it as tool to divide. No one group can stand alone in the fight against secular socialism and worship of the earth the elites are trying to shove down our throats. There is immense strength in numbers and I would hate to lose to that over small dividsions that can be overlooked in order to accomplish the task at hand.
I think a lot of would-be televangelists who were never able to get a show of their own have it out for Glenn and his success.
What really concerns me is a “religious” comedian he had on his show tonight who was making jokes about scaring kids and watching them “Pee themselves” or some other equally charming phrase. Yeah, I get that it was supposed to be funny. It wasn’t. It was disgusting. And even though I’m just starting to peek at Glenn, I was somehow mortified to see him smiling at it.
America was stupid enough to elect Obama.....now they continue in their stupidity to attack a simple Message that just happens to be scripturally and spiritually true.
There is only one solution for what ails America....and that is to fall on our faces and repent and call out to God.
That GB is the one that said this doesn’t negate that truth.
But Lucifer’ useful idiots can make it a lie by repeating their propaganda often enough.
Look at Obama’s game plan.
Perhaps before you write this self serving pap, you should watch his programs.... then it would be fair for you to evaluate..... but by reading what some other critic writes and draw your conclusions from that, sounds a little second or third hand.
In other words: I don't know what I'm taking about but I'm going to say it anyways.
I didn’t write the article, and I have watched and listened to Glenn and to the 8/28 rally.
He sets himself up as a “religious leader”, not I.
In matters of faith and doctrine, the former; in the spirit of rendering unto Caesar as appropriate, in matters of public policy and constitutionality in a nation with COTUS 1A, the latter.
Some say this is impossible.I say it is not only possible, but imperative.
There may be some for whom it is too difficult. I urge them to concentrate on the Heavenly. The rest of us, who can walk and chew gum at the same time, will do the other work that must be done.
In matters of faith and doctrine, the former; in the spirit of rendering unto Caesar as appropriate, in matters of public policy and constitutionality in a nation with COTUS 1A, the latter.
Some say this is impossible.I say it is not only possible, but imperative.
There may be some for whom it is too difficult. I urge them to concentrate on the Heavenly. The rest of us, who can walk and chew gum at the same time, will do the other work that must be done.
The salient point.
This article started out so well, and then........
Bingo!
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The Glenn Beck rally is confusing people.
Why?
He is aiming far beyond what most people consider to be the goalposts.
Using Boyd’s continuum for war: Material, Intellectual, Moral.
Analogously for political change: Elections, Institutions, Culture.
Beck sees correctly that the Conservative movement had only limited success because it was good at level 1, for a while, weak on level 2, and barely touched level 3. Talk Radio and the Tea Party are level 3 phenomena, popular outbreaks, which are blowing back into politics.
Someone who asks what the rally has to do with the 2010 election is missing the point.
Beck is building solidarity and cultural confidence in America, its Constitution, its military heritage, its freedom. This is a vision that is despised by the people who have long held the commanding heights of the culture. But is obviously alive and kicking.
Beck is creating positive themes of unity and patriotism and freedom and independence which are above mere political or policy choices, but not irrelevant to them. Political and policy choices rest on a foundation of philosophy, culture, self-image, ideals, religion. Change the foundation, and the rest will flow from that. Defeat the enemy on that plane, and any merely tactical defeat will always be reversible.
Beck is unabashed that God can be invoked in public places by citizens, who vote and assemble and speak and freely exercise their religion. They are supposed to be too browbeaten to do this. Gathering hundreds of thousands of them to peaceably assemble shows they are not. But showing that the people who believe in God and practice their religion are fellow-citizens who share political and economic values with majorities of Americans is a critical step. The idea that these people are an American Taliban is laughable, but showing that fact to the world — and to potential political allies who are not religious — is critical.
Beck is attacking the enemy at the foundations of their power, their claim to race as a permanent trump card, their claim to the Civil Rights movement as a permanent model to constantly be transforming a perpetually unjust society.
He is nuking out the foundations of the opposition’s moral preeminence, the very thing I proposed in this post.
Ronald Reagan said we would not defeat Communism, we would transcend it.
Beck is aiming to have America do the same thing to its decaying class of Overlords, transcend them.
Beck is prepping the battlefield for a generation-long battle.
He is that very American thing: A practical visionary.
See, simple.
Restore pride and confidence to your own side, and win the long game.
As Ronald Reagan also said, there are simple solutions, just no easy solutions.
God bless America.
Oh, come on. The man was horribly burned & his face would frighten any little child. He was making a joke at his own expense. I doubt he really scares the kiddies that way. It was just a humorous comment, and all the adults in the audience responded by laughing.
Glenn Beck is trying to guide people back to a spiritual life, not Mormonism. Give him some time. He grows on you.
Well even I at times have been positive over what Beck has had to say. But I no more agree w/him over everything than I do Hugh Hewitt, a Presbyterian Christian.
Yet when Beck presents himself as a "Christian" leader who has gathered up pastors' flock right up their noses as part of Beck's Bahai faith 2.0 version -- using a combo of old-time camp revivalism and D.C. rally politics -- I take issue.
And Beck TV-watching MHGinTN has been raising more concerns about Beck as well...(Perhaps MHG can chime in here).
Yeah, well so far I've called it Bahai 2.0. But maybe Mormo-Bahai might be more like it. Religions are increasingly becoming synchronistic. (You know like Haiti, part voodoo; part Catholicism)
Give him some time.
Yeah, it takes a bit of umption, gumption, and time to kick off a new religion.
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