Mormon-obsessed Christians add their pound of hate to Glenn Beck rally

[appleannie1]

If you want to hear secular denunciations to Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor rally last Saturday in Washington D.C., you are directed to tune into MSNBC or read the New York Times editorial pages. But it’s not fair to leave out the thunder and lightening right wing condemnation and Beck, that Mormon, pretending to offer anything that might be “virtuous, lovely and of good report” (apologies to Joseph Smith)

“First, there’s evangelist Bill Keller, founder of liveprayer.com, that, in an amusing column bewailed the following: “The answers and hope they find in Glenn Beck’s “faith” will only do one thing, lead their eternal souls to the flames of hell along with anyone else who follows the lies of Mormonism and rejects faith in the Jesus of the Bible. Any pastor or Christian leader (the list from this weekend is sadly very extensive) who locked arms with Beck over the weekend is guilty of committing spritual (sic) treason, and has the blood of those lost souls who will end up in hell due to their affirmation of Beck and his satanic Mormon beliefs!”

If you picture Keller — who once said a vote for Mitt Romney was a “vote for Satan” — as being one who slobbers when talking, you’re right. The “satanic Mormon beliefs,” though has a certain Gantryish quality.

And then there’s the Christian Newswire, which offered a news release titled, “Glenn Beck promotes a false Jesus,” with this priceless opening line: “Glenn Beck promotes a false gospel. However, many of his political ideas can help America.”

The occasionally misspelled release includes, “Despite mentioning God, Beck’s Mormonism and other false religions promote a false gospel. “I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel-which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ.” (Galatians 1:6-7). He accuses President Obama of false theology. Beck is hypocritical as the Mormon church has propagated deception for years.“

So far, there’s been no comment from Christ on Beck’s rally, or the Christian Newswire.
http://blogs.standard.net/2010/08/mormon-obsessed-christians-add-their-pound-of-hate-to-glenn-beck-rally/#more-5515

There sure is enough hate to go around these days. Funny how most of it is in the name of one religion or another.

[NC_Nurse]

1. Hitchens has a great piece on Slate today:

http://www.slate.com/id/2265515/

It's about how the religious cover is being used by Beck to cloak what the issue really is - white fear of becoming a minority.

[appleannie1]

4. I honestly believe racism is the driving force behind most of what is going on in this country today

and they are grasping at every straw possible to cause hatred toward our president because of it. How dare a black person think he is good enough to be president. But they don't have the cajones to come right out and say it. Hence they have to use his birth, religion or whatever else they can cast aspersions on.

[Donnachaidh]

18. you ain't seen nothing -- when the different sects of supposed *Christianity*

start tearing each other's throats out - THAT will be when we are in deep DEEP doo doo. And Beck is going to be the cheerleader out front, egging them ALL on.

More blood has been spilled in the name of *religious beliefs* than ANYTHING else.

[kenfrequed]

2. I could care less...

If bigots, racists, lunatics, and delusional nutcases tear each other apart.

It actually might do some good...

For one thing it reveals them for the nut-jobs they are.

For another it gives the rest of us a break and reveals us dirty secularists for being the sane people.

Finally those reasonable people within those religious movements might start rejecting the most hateful of their brethren.

[izquierdista]

9. I'd like to see more of it

Maybe bus them all to South Carolina and let them have at each other. Provide them with all the ammunition they can carry on the trip down. They could get that nutbag Senate wannabe from Connecticut to referee all their disputes, I hear she's got experience in that sort of thing. But one thing you never, ever want to do with these gremlins (besides put them into water) is to let them mix with civilized people.

[tularetom]

3. I understand the Mormon religion is very similar to Islam

:evilgrin:

[KansDem]

6. You have a point...

Both believe in multiple wives and screwing them when they are young...12 years old in conservative Mormonism.

Warren Jeffs

and...

The Women of Islam
Family law in Islamic countries generally follows the prescriptions of scripture. This is so even in a country like Egypt, where much of the legal code has been secularized. In Islam, women can have only one spouse, while men are permitted four. The legal age for girls to marry tends to be very young. Muhammad's favorite wife, A'isha, according to her biographer, was six when they wed, nine when the marriage was consummated. In Iran the legal age for marriage is nine for girls, 14 for boys. The law has occasionally been exploited by pedophiles, who marry poor young girls from the provinces, use and then abandon them. In 2000 the Iranian Parliament voted to raise the minimum age for girls to 14, but this year, a legislative oversight body dominated by traditional clerics vetoed the move. An attempt by conservatives to abolish Yemen's legal minimum age of 15 for girls failed, but local experts say it is rarely enforced anyway. (The onset of puberty is considered an appropriate time for a marriage to be consummated.)

It seems the practice of screwing multiple, under-aged girls is common in both religions...

[aquart]

11. So Mohammed was someone we'd arrest?

Are you sure you don't have that girl's age wrong?

[KansDem]

12. Taken from the website provided...

Muhammad's favorite wife, A'isha, according to her biographer, was six when they wed, nine when the marriage was consummated. In Iran the legal age for marriage is nine for girls, 14 for boys.

Yeah, he'd be arrested, tried, if convicted, sentenced to prison, and, if he were to be released he'd have to register as a sex offender.

At least in an enlightened, secular society where it is understood that having sex with 9-year-old girls is not in the best interests of the community...

[blogslut]

22. Whoa

Have you read the Bible?

[KansDem]

24. I seem to recall a few times during my youth...

But not so much during the last 40 years or so...

[SpiralHawk]

7. Not only that, Mormon I slamists are probably similar to ...

Poetry I slamists.

Some people say. I think. Maybe. Could be. Whatever.

[11 Bravo]

5. The enemy of my enemy is not always my friend.

Beck is a human pustule, but Keller and others of his ilk are assholes.

[SpiralHawk]

8. Likewise, the friend of my friends is not always a Friend

[jberryhill]

10. Well... we did have a Quaker president... /nt

[KamaAina]

15. Actually, two

Hoover and Nixon, altough as you can imagine, the Quakers stronlgy disapproved of the latter's warmongering.

[jberryhill]

23. Nixon's first inaugural address is interesting

Watch it on YouTube when you have some time to kill.

I don't know that I would call Nixon a "warmonger".

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

13. I like it when they go at each other's throats. -nt

[grantcart]

14. which is why Romney had very little chance for the nomination in 08

and no chance in 12.

Evangelical Republicans in Iowa have a disproportionate impact and will do everything possible to pick anyone besides Romney.

Romney spent almost $ 10 million in 08 with hundreds of candidate and candidate family days and managed only 25% of the delegates.

[Sheepshank]

16. Letting Beck's Mormonism more widely known

will not help Mitt Very much....or vice versa. One should never let an asswipe work against an ass hole.

[ThirdChoice]

17. Mormons believe...

Mormons believe early Native Americans domesticated cows, sheep and pigs, had the wheel, steel weapons and all sorts of absolute nonsense that has been totally proven wrong by every scientific organization:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeology_and_the_Book_of_Mormon

[SpiralHawk]

20. That's right. We built all this 'crap' with magic & levitation & stuff

[Scurrilous]

19. K & R

:thumbsup:

[Steely_Dan]

21. Interesting Take On...

The Church of Christ of Latter Day Becks