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	Comments on: Glenn Beck&#8217;s and David Barton&#8217;s Mercury One at the Heart of Lincoln Museum History Scandal	</title>
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		By: Headless Unicorn Guy		</title>
		<link>https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/12/04/glenn-becks-and-david-bartons-mercury-one-at-the-heart-of-history-scandal-in-illinois/#comment-105547</link>

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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2019 21:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/12/04/glenn-becks-and-david-bartons-mercury-one-at-the-heart-of-history-scandal-in-illinois/#comment-105475&quot;&gt;otrotierra&lt;/a&gt;.

Like the Flat Earth Society as covered by Donna Kossy in her book &lt;i&gt;Kooks: A Field Guide to the Outer Limits of Human Belief &lt;/i&gt;(1994). Pages 72-78. It kicks off with an image of a Flat Earth Society newsletter:

* One of the secondary headlines is “TWO WITNESSES DECLARE EARTH FLAT” (note TWO Witnesses, just as in Leviticus); the “TWO Witnesses” are an old bearded man with the look of a fierce Old Testament Prophet and a woman who looks like she was baptized in battery acid.

* The text of the accompanying article includes a transcript of an interior article that PAGAN Greeks ate grease, which is why their land is called Greece.

* Other transcripts are quoted in a style familiar to anyone who remembers Jack Chick Tracts — lots of misspellings, ALL CAPS, and very nasty tone. Example (in praise of Ronald Reagan):
&lt;blockquote&gt;“So he used the same phrase as the PHONIE the Carnie ANTI-CHRISTS the slobbering foul degenerate dogs, the “astronauts” in Discovery, he said to the degenerate Anti-Christs YOU made us proud, etc… BUT he then went on to say, EARTH IS FLAT, GOD EXISTS, HE IS IN HEAVEN, A PLACE, THAT IS UP ABOVE EARTH, ABOVE THE USA. THAT HE BELIEVED AT DEATH OUR SOUL GOES TO HEAVEN ABOVE THIS FLAT EARTH.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;
* I am NOT making any of this up.

Todays Flat-Earth movement began in Victorian times under the name of &quot;Zetetic Astronomy&quot;, whose stated goal was to Defend SCRIPTURE against &quot;Vain imaginings of Men&quot; and &quot;Science falsely so-called&quot;. Yes, it was a fringe CHRISTIAN movement.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/12/04/glenn-becks-and-david-bartons-mercury-one-at-the-heart-of-history-scandal-in-illinois/#comment-105475">otrotierra</a>.</p>
<p>Like the Flat Earth Society as covered by Donna Kossy in her book <i>Kooks: A Field Guide to the Outer Limits of Human Belief </i>(1994). Pages 72-78. It kicks off with an image of a Flat Earth Society newsletter:</p>
<p>* One of the secondary headlines is “TWO WITNESSES DECLARE EARTH FLAT” (note TWO Witnesses, just as in Leviticus); the “TWO Witnesses” are an old bearded man with the look of a fierce Old Testament Prophet and a woman who looks like she was baptized in battery acid.</p>
<p>* The text of the accompanying article includes a transcript of an interior article that PAGAN Greeks ate grease, which is why their land is called Greece.</p>
<p>* Other transcripts are quoted in a style familiar to anyone who remembers Jack Chick Tracts — lots of misspellings, ALL CAPS, and very nasty tone. Example (in praise of Ronald Reagan):</p>
<blockquote><p>“So he used the same phrase as the PHONIE the Carnie ANTI-CHRISTS the slobbering foul degenerate dogs, the “astronauts” in Discovery, he said to the degenerate Anti-Christs YOU made us proud, etc… BUT he then went on to say, EARTH IS FLAT, GOD EXISTS, HE IS IN HEAVEN, A PLACE, THAT IS UP ABOVE EARTH, ABOVE THE USA. THAT HE BELIEVED AT DEATH OUR SOUL GOES TO HEAVEN ABOVE THIS FLAT EARTH.”</p></blockquote>
<p>* I am NOT making any of this up.</p>
<p>Todays Flat-Earth movement began in Victorian times under the name of &#8220;Zetetic Astronomy&#8221;, whose stated goal was to Defend SCRIPTURE against &#8220;Vain imaginings of Men&#8221; and &#8220;Science falsely so-called&#8221;. Yes, it was a fringe CHRISTIAN movement.</p>
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		By: Headless Unicorn Guy		</title>
		<link>https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/12/04/glenn-becks-and-david-bartons-mercury-one-at-the-heart-of-history-scandal-in-illinois/#comment-105549</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Headless Unicorn Guy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2019 16:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Regarding Glenn Beck in general, the guy sounds like he built his entire career as a &quot;Rush Limbaugh Celebrity Impersonator&quot;, out-Rushing Rush every step of the way. He&#039;s also Mormon (don&#039;t know what sub-group), but then Mormons ceased being a CULT(TM) when Romney became The Great White Hope for the 2012 elections.

This is a mash-up of Glenn Beck visuals with a KROQ deejay&#039;s recording of a Francis E Dec Esq kook rant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUgB1kKGesM
How well do the two go together?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Regarding Glenn Beck in general, the guy sounds like he built his entire career as a &#8220;Rush Limbaugh Celebrity Impersonator&#8221;, out-Rushing Rush every step of the way. He&#8217;s also Mormon (don&#8217;t know what sub-group), but then Mormons ceased being a CULT(TM) when Romney became The Great White Hope for the 2012 elections.</p>
<p>This is a mash-up of Glenn Beck visuals with a KROQ deejay&#8217;s recording of a Francis E Dec Esq kook rant:<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUgB1kKGesM" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUgB1kKGesM</a><br />
How well do the two go together?</p>
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		By: otrotierra		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[otrotierra]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Dec 2019 19:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/12/04/glenn-becks-and-david-bartons-mercury-one-at-the-heart-of-history-scandal-in-illinois/#comment-105470&quot;&gt;Headless Unicorn Guy&lt;/a&gt;.

Your sarcasm prompts an interesting observation. Beck and David Barton despise science just as much as they despise biblical scholarship. All forms of peer-reviewed scholarly inquiry such as history, archeology, hermeneutics, theology and translation studies are great inconveniences to Beck, Barton, and their White-Nationalist Evangelical followers.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/12/04/glenn-becks-and-david-bartons-mercury-one-at-the-heart-of-history-scandal-in-illinois/#comment-105470">Headless Unicorn Guy</a>.</p>
<p>Your sarcasm prompts an interesting observation. Beck and David Barton despise science just as much as they despise biblical scholarship. All forms of peer-reviewed scholarly inquiry such as history, archeology, hermeneutics, theology and translation studies are great inconveniences to Beck, Barton, and their White-Nationalist Evangelical followers.</p>
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		By: Headless Unicorn Guy		</title>
		<link>https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/12/04/glenn-becks-and-david-bartons-mercury-one-at-the-heart-of-history-scandal-in-illinois/#comment-105470</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Headless Unicorn Guy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Dec 2019 13:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/12/04/glenn-becks-and-david-bartons-mercury-one-at-the-heart-of-history-scandal-in-illinois/#comment-105339&quot;&gt;otrotierra&lt;/a&gt;.

&lt;blockquote&gt;Imagine if Beck and David Barton had the moral courage to enroll in an 
accredited university, declare a history major, and then actually 
educate themselves and earn a degree. &lt;/blockquote&gt;

You mean &quot;Vain Imaginings of Men&quot; and &quot;Science falsely so-called&quot; instead of &lt;b&gt;&quot;THE! WORD! OF! GAWD!&quot;&lt;/b&gt;?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/12/04/glenn-becks-and-david-bartons-mercury-one-at-the-heart-of-history-scandal-in-illinois/#comment-105339">otrotierra</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Imagine if Beck and David Barton had the moral courage to enroll in an<br />
accredited university, declare a history major, and then actually<br />
educate themselves and earn a degree. </p></blockquote>
<p>You mean &#8220;Vain Imaginings of Men&#8221; and &#8220;Science falsely so-called&#8221; instead of <b>&#8220;THE! WORD! OF! GAWD!&#8221;</b>?</p>
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		By: Mr Jesperson		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2019 18:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is a shame that people who are likely not Christians are so much wiser than many who claim to be.  This is not how Jesus told us to be.  We are supposed to test everything and only hold to what is actually true.  Too many times we hold to whatever someone says that makes us feel better about some topic, rather or not it is true.  We have created this corrupt celebrity culture of &quot;Christians&quot; like Barton selling things that are far less than true.  Only we can undo this mess!  Narcissism is not the way to Godliness.  We need to develop an appetite for what is true instead of refusing to listen to those who tell us what we do not want to hear...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is a shame that people who are likely not Christians are so much wiser than many who claim to be.  This is not how Jesus told us to be.  We are supposed to test everything and only hold to what is actually true.  Too many times we hold to whatever someone says that makes us feel better about some topic, rather or not it is true.  We have created this corrupt celebrity culture of &#8220;Christians&#8221; like Barton selling things that are far less than true.  Only we can undo this mess!  Narcissism is not the way to Godliness.  We need to develop an appetite for what is true instead of refusing to listen to those who tell us what we do not want to hear&#8230;</p>
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