I don’t watch Fox News Channel anymore as I don’t have Cable nor have any interested to have Cable again, some comments need to be made with regard to your comment ‘This is a relevant question, and one which is raised by the events in DC. In 1963, Martin Luther King gave his speech. In 1963, Martin Luther King, had he worshiped Glenn Beck’s god, could not have been ordained to the LDS priesthood. It was not until 1978 that African-Americans were eligible for that status in the LDS church, important here and more so in the afterlife.’

Given that the LDS policies with regard to Blacks has changed since then, why dwell on what happened so long ago? The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints must be judged by what they’re doing today, not what they did during the 1970s.

BTW, it has been my observation that Mormons are educated people. There are Mormon lawyers, accountants, engineers, etc. A successful Mormon nuclear physicist who must be mentioned is Kirk F. Sorensen, who has gotten accolades for his work on Thorium, which he will eventually be used in nuclear power plants to generate energy & Thorium is better than Uranium.

Mormons (esp. Mormon men) can often speak more than 1 language. There are Mormon misisonaries who speak Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Russian, German & other languages. If I’m not mistaken Mormon missionaries have also done work in Africa & you can be sure that there are Mormons who can speak an African language. Mormons often do have knowledge of other cultures.

Yes, the LDS has made bad decisions in the past, but so have other faiths. Please be just & view the LDS based on what they’re doing today, rather than discuss what they did so long ago, for the same reason as Hindus of today must not be judged for the practice of Suttee or Sati (widows committing suicide by throwing themselves on their husband’s funeral pyre) of the 17th Century. Finally, this poster isn’t Mormon & not even Christian.

Which are summarised in Matthew 22:39-40, and 1 Corinthians 13 and the four Zen vows of the Bodhisattva.

In my own words:

There’s too many sins not to commit some – but I’ll try not to anyway.

There’s too many people to help them all – but I’ll try to help them anyway.

There’s too many virtues to attain them all – but I’ll try to attain them anyway.

Perfection is impossible – But I’ll try to perfect everything anyway.

And while a single person is drowning, how can one leave the pool?

I’m also as spiritual as a brick.

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In 1963, Martin Luther King gave his speech. In 1963, Martin Luther King, had he worshiped Glenn Beck’s god, could not have been ordained to the LDS priesthood. It was not until 1978 that African-Americans were eligible for that status in the LDS church, important here and more so in the afterlife.

Not to mention the man who organized Washington DC civil rights march was Bayard Rustin, who would never be allowed into Beck’s LDS church as a out gay man. But I guess he was fine as a Quaker (I think that was his religion).

People will leave there fired up but for what? And to do what?

No doubt Beck will come up with his own voters guide for the elections in November (like he really needs one).

If you are going to take exception at Glenn about being LDS, I think he is also a recovering Alcoholic (God as you understand him….), does he attend AA. Pretty tolerant method of spiritual practice.

If you are right in your implication, that Beck and his religion are closet racists, the rally today is unforgivable.

Regarding Palin’s being bless by a 7 mountains advocate…don’t know what to say.

Any thoughts on Obama’s religious training? How sincere a follower of Rev. Wright’s beliefs do you reckon he was?

http://www.russellmoore.com/2010/08/29/god-the-gospel-and-glenn-beck/

Your comment about Obama makes my point. Is the call to god inclusive of rev. Wright’s god? I don’t think that is what Beck has in mind. Beck is saying that his new crusade is a god directed effort. Really? Is it? Again, I ask, which god?

Democrats seek to curb the immoral behavior of the majority and the powerful.

Republicans seek to curb the immoral behavior of the government and the self-indulgent….

Fairly well put 🙂

http://www.byron-harvey.com/2010/08/david-bartons-astonishingly-bad-apologetic-for-glenn-beck/

Look, I like Glenn Beck in a lot of ways, but while he claims to be a Christian, Mormonism is anything but. He certainly has every right to believe as he does; I have every right to denounce the substance of his beliefs. Put it this way: if Beck/Mormons are Christians, then I am not, and if I am, then they aren’t, because it’s impossible to believe mutually-exclusive things about Jesus and then claim that those mutually-exclusive things don’t matter (when many of them are, in fact, at the core of our faith).

The moral quality of our citizenry makes us much easier to govern. The more immoral we are, the more difficult we are to govern.

I agree. Unfortunately, there are so many different ideas about what makes a citizenry “moral”.

I would go this too: Love God and your neighbor. But sadly, too many people of all political strains have very interesting ideas about whe “loving your neighbor” means.