Excuse Me But Did Glenn Beck Say He is a Mormon!!
Sorry for throwing cold water on your Glenn Beck for President party but as an old school evangelical I need to ask my evangelicalish colleagues a few questions
Didn’t you tell me that mormons were a cult?
Doesn’t that logically mean that Glenn Beck will end up in Hell?
Has it ever occurred to you that Satan may have sent Glenn as the anti Christ?
Can you understand that many non Christians watch this and conclude that the real issue is that many evangelicals prefer a white mormon over a black evangelical?
Tim Henderson said
am September 1 2010 @ 7:43 pm
Exactly what I have been asking! We are sending very mixed messages.
Julie said
am September 1 2010 @ 10:25 pm
The evangelical leaders joined with Beck in hopes of encouraging votes for Republicans. They knew he is good at sounding like an evangelical pastor. They also know that Fox has used fear, misinformation, and lies about Obama. It is ironic considering that Beck said a few weeks ago that he is not against gay marriage.
Abortion laws were overturned for constitutional reasons in Roe vs. Wade. Gay marriage will evidently be allowed for the same reason.
Voting Republican will only continue to increase the huge gap in income between the wealthy few and the rest of us that started while Reagan was President.
Peter Milner said
am September 1 2010 @ 10:35 pm
I love what you are saying here. You remind me of Peter MAtthews, an Anglican Pastor in Kentucky. It is always good to throw cold water on a fire, especially if the fire has less strong the still small voice of the Holy One.
All poetics aside, I do agree that Beck could be another talking head that steers us further from the truth, than towards the truth.
Phil Merten said
am September 1 2010 @ 11:38 pm
I’m confused. What are you guys talking about? Beck’s Mormonism is of far less importance than his twerpism. Why are we talking about it? (Sorry, I must be coming in on this conversation late.)
Phil Reynolds said
am September 1 2010 @ 11:53 pm
The religious hypocrites sold their souls and said: “We have no king but Caesar…”
How ironic. Way to many “Christians” decry our President because they say people treat him like he is the Messiah. Glenn Beck… Messiah. Sad
Peter Milner said
am September 2 2010 @ 12:03 am
Phil Merten,
I think it is important to talk about his religious hypocrisy before his twerpishness because we are all twerps, and we are all hypocrites. But some of us, like Obama ( who I love) are simply trying to figure out a way to bridge service to the Lord with service to the culture ( whether this be in government, or whatever field you pick). I am a democrat by upbringing, but I have been trying to reconcile my heritage from my own re-birth in Christ ever since 1997.
Ultimately, that does not matter. What matters is that Christ is glorified, and often Christ recieves glory on both sides of the political fence.
Everything starts with theology. Because our culture is theologically bankrupt, we assume that our morals indicate our political party, or that our income level places us in a political party. The politically charged left, and right, are dangerous because they implicitely up-stage Jesus with their own rhetoric, bias, and philosophy. I think its worth reading some Calvin and Augustine on the fine line between religious freedom and anarchy. It is hard. Bonhoeffer realized that we must never forget that Christ died for a kingdom and His children. This sent him on his mission. Where are our modern day Bonhoeffers, leading with the word of God, like Martin Luther King, striving off into the sunset with the scripture in one hand, and the rightouesness of Christ in the other?
benjamin ady said
am September 2 2010 @ 7:43 am
who is Glenn Beck? and surely Obama isn’t an evangelical?
Doreen Mannion said
am September 2 2010 @ 5:40 pm
Exactly! One of my evangelical friends posted on her FB page that “Glenn Beck tells the truth.” I responded, “I did not know that you now believe the Book of Mormon.” I am not questioning whether LDS are Christians, I am just questioning why suddenly all those evangelicals who for years have said LDS are NOT Christians are suddenly no longer questioning that.
Brian Mashburn said
am September 3 2010 @ 5:41 pm
Wait a minute… is an Evangelical Christian a hypocrit when they support a political candidate that isn’t a Christian?
Right or wrong, I’m fairly apolitical and confess that I rarely vote, hoping that my prayers for God’s will to be done in the elections is more influential. I also admit that I struggle with Christians that seem more zealous about their politics than the Kingdom.
But still, while I would have a problem with an Evangelical Christian wanting a Mormon as thier minister, I don’t know that I would automatically fault them as hypocrits for supporting one as a political leader.
What am I not seeing here?
Naomi Wyndham said
am September 3 2010 @ 8:26 pm
Fascinating reading…politics+religion…can anyone, anywhere ever truly balance the two? Particularly in this day and age of corruption and power plays. A democratic government will never satisfy a republican mindset and a republican government will never satisfy a democratic mindset…both have virtues, both have failings; both have people of strong conviction, both have people of little conviction; ALL BELIEVE THEY ARE RIGHT!!!!
Hailey said
am September 3 2010 @ 10:44 pm
@ Brian:
What you are missing is that Glenn Beck repeatedly has said that his is a religious mission, not a political one.
Daryl said
am September 4 2010 @ 2:40 pm
Here is an interesting link on this topic. http://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=1144072 From this article: “Glenn Beck has said unequivocally that that he relies on the atonement of Jesus on the cross for forgiveness for his sins, and those are almost the exact words. Few people use the term atonement. Glenn did.” My theology differs with many like minded people of faith. Someone is right (I think it’s me), and someone is wrong. Regardless – it is faith in the atoning work of Jesus Christ that changes us from darkness into light. Some people have that faith and also pray to Mary. Some people have that faith and have beliefs about Joseph Smith.
I personally don’t care for Glenn Beck’s style or some of his politics – but I’m not going to judge his walk with Jesus Christ. I’ll leave that up to the Pharisees and Saducees.
Hailey said
am September 4 2010 @ 3:23 pm
I agree with you Daryl, but the people who are following him do not share that opinion. What results is a double standard. What about those Gay Christians who profess that same belief and are told, “No, you aren’t really a Christian, because your theology would match this and then your life would be like this.” I just want consistency.