Glenn Beck’s Conversion Story
Thanks to a post by Mike Peterson, I came across this cool conversion story from CNN host, Glenn Beck.
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I enjoyed watching this. Haven’t heard of Glenn Beck before, but I’d be interested in finding out what his program is like. Do you know who was interviewing him, and for what purpose?
27 Nov 2006 @ 11:39 | Permalink
No, I don’t sorry.
27 Nov 2006 @ 11:41 | Permalink
He has a TV talk show as well as a Radio show. google him for a station near you or go to glenbeck.com
27 Nov 2006 @ 12:11 | Permalink
Better yet, you can go to http://www.glennbeck.com/
27 Nov 2006 @ 12:14 | Permalink
Thanks for the reference to my site Kim.
Glenn’s show is quite entertaining to watch because of his style of speaking. It is also usually quite controversial. He deals mainly with current events such as immigration and the war in Iraq.
There are many other video segments from Glenn Beck’s shows on YouTube. Just do a search on their site.
27 Nov 2006 @ 18:38 | Permalink
Great video. Thanks for posting it, Kim.
27 Nov 2006 @ 22:02 | Permalink
So pardon my lack of reverence toward Brutha Beck’s conversion, but what would qualify as an UN-cool conversion story?
Doesn’t ANY story that ends up with the people joining the church a good one from the LDS perspective?
I guess I don’t have the same reaction to this video as the rest of you. I heard about an unemployed drunk who is manipulated by his fiance into joining a church, who (once he decided to get his life together) manages to get married and find a job.
I know all these stories have to end up as faith promoting anecdotes, but in this one I see a pretty routine story of gettings one’s priorities in order adn having that pay off in the long run.
28 Nov 2006 @ 10:26 | Permalink
Mine.
I prayed. and prayed. and prayed. And prayed. And prayed. And — well, you know. Finally, A feeling told me it was right. Then that’s it. No coincidences. No miracles. Just a bunch of prayers and a feeling.
28 Nov 2006 @ 10:53 | Permalink
Yeah. You’re right. Decidedly uncool. ;)
28 Nov 2006 @ 11:05 | Permalink
I just realised that Kim’s post does not shine a favourable light on you, Sally.
It’s unfortunate that you couldn’t have been more righteous and have a child with a testimony right out of the womb, like Mary.
:P
(Sally Disclaimer: This post does not in any way represent my actual feelings on the matter. It is enti siz tongue-in-cheek and was meant to be humourous.)
28 Nov 2006 @ 11:07 | Permalink
That’s because I was Catholic right out of the womb.
28 Nov 2006 @ 11:16 | Permalink
Well, I can’t say I had a testimony right out of the womb. I just don’t recall ever NOT having a testimony, I seemed to always know it was true from my first memory. Even when I tried to question, I didn’t really question, I knew it, and had it confirmed. So my conversion story is kind of boring too.
28 Nov 2006 @ 11:24 | Permalink
When I listened to this story I heard a guy with lots of problems who joined a church and a great job came along so he wants to think he is “SPECIAL” and God helped him. I did not hear anything spiritual from him.
5 Dec 2006 @ 16:53 | Permalink
rick,
It does seem that we get all excited when we draft a new player to our team.
Can you imagine the party we’d have if you ever got drafted!
:-)
6 Dec 2006 @ 08:53 | Permalink
I don’t think I’m eligible for the draft … substance abuse problems and all.
:P
6 Dec 2006 @ 09:38 | Permalink
When I listened to this story I heard a guy with lots of problems who joined a church and a great job came along so he wants to think he is “SPECIAL” and God helped him. I did not hear anything spiritual from him.
The above was George’s response. The truth of the testimony of all of all of the Prophets of the Old and new Testament has to do with this very point. Without the Spirit (The Holy Ghost) testifying, Spirit to Spirit, the natural man cannot learn of the truth of this or any other principle revealed.
28 Jan 2007 @ 21:47 | Permalink
Glen Beck has the unique ability to talk to the world about values embraced by the LDS without sounding preachy and with absolute conviction. His language is sufficiently sprinkled with worldly words that he doesn’t come across as”better than thou” or preachyl, yet not only makes his point but makes it convincingly.
The week following general conference he essentially made the points that Gordon B. Hinckley had made in the Priesthood session Saturday evening and the world listened. They wouldn’t have listened to general conference but his passion and manner of delivery reached out beyond the confines of the conference center. Needless to say I am a devoted fan.
26 Feb 2007 @ 08:00 | Permalink
Any honest person has to respect a man who is “real” enought to talk to God and do what is asked.I was moved by the sincerity and honesty shared by Glenn. Maybe we should all rid ourselves of pre-conceived bigotry towards Mormons and listen with a open mind and heart.
26 Feb 2007 @ 13:20 | Permalink
I stand in awe at the statement “a man who is “real” enought [sic] to talk to God and do what is asked”.
Have you ever considered that this statement is ‘pre-conceived bigotry’ toward those who do not believe in an Abrahmic god?
26 Feb 2007 @ 15:07 | Permalink
I think it is wonderful that Glen Beck found something which gives him a higher power to believe in.
If the Abrahmic God is the God of the whole earth, include everyone and if so, then would all mankind who prayed to any God really being praying to the Abrahmic God?
26 Feb 2007 @ 19:28 | Permalink
This is the ultimate arrogance of the Christian.
Reflect on how offensive it would be if someone assumed your beliefs meant nothing, because they knew that their god was the god of all the Earth…and told you so.
Would you think it were equally wonderful if he found a faith in a Sun-orbiting teapot – as long as it is his belief that the teapot has super-powers?
I would wager no.
26 Feb 2007 @ 21:18 | Permalink
Only if it’s herbal tea in the pot.
27 Feb 2007 @ 07:25 | Permalink
I believe it is an outtake excerpt from an interview done by KTVX channel 4 in Salt Lake City. I think it was done in early/mid 2006
6 Mar 2007 @ 22:58 | Permalink
I watch glenbeck, he is great. but for his language.on the foul side glen clean up your mind and language .
12 Mar 2007 @ 08:02 | Permalink
This is for JM. No I would not think it was wonderful if someone found slavation in a sun orbiting tea pot. But as the story was told Glen found salvation in God. For all of you who laugh and make fun of us who know Jesus all we can say is God bless you.
23 Mar 2007 @ 15:46 | Permalink
Why is it every time I am in a ‘heated’ discussion and a Christian says “God Bless You” it feels like they’d just as soon be saying “F___ You”?
It’s certainly used in the same way.
24 Mar 2007 @ 11:38 | Permalink
Of course you are right Rick! Good points throughout!
24 Mar 2007 @ 15:45 | Permalink
Dear #25,
I think you missed the joke.
26 Mar 2007 @ 05:08 | Permalink
I’m sorry but Glenn Beck should not be on CNN. CNN is a news channel. And as such should be objective. I’ve watched Glenn Beck many a times and every time, I never manage to finish watching it to the end. I feel gross, like I’ve been fondled by an old man. I ask myself: “who the hell is watching this?!” Glenn Beck is the definition of pro Bush propagenda.
He’s pro war, pro Bush, pro republican, he believes Global Warming is a natural phonomenon and as such we are worrying for nothing. He’s appauling to listen to! I don’t have a problem with his opinion per say. What I have a problem with is that he leaves no room for the flipside, or if he ever does, he quickly ridicules it.
I just hope that people watching it don’t take him seriously.
5 Apr 2007 @ 09:14 | Permalink
Kreg, most of what you said about glen is true. He is pro bush, pro republican, his stand on global warming,the midle east and a lot more. You failed to mention the other media, and their lack of total coverage regarding several of the topics that I have just mentioned. However, when it comes to the coverage of the killings at V.T. by a nut case, all you get is pictures of this demon over and over again on all the net works. Does the media take in to account the feelings of the families and friends that just had a close person killed. This nut’s picture is everywhere. No, the media has no respect for the families and frinds, they care only about ratings. I have not seen glen’s show on this subject, but I do believe that he will not take the same stand and show all the pictures that we have seen enoutght of already. You might want to watch the entire show this time
19 Apr 2007 @ 17:07 | Permalink
I realize this is an old post however I just read it and I would say that based on a lot of life success seminars I have attended that the reason it sounds like that to you is that you “choose” to hear it that way.
In most cases, (admittedly not all) yet in most cases they simply do not want to argue, they do not agree with you, and respect that you have a right to your opinion and “may God bless you even though we don’t agree”. It is supposed to be a caring respectful comment. If they mean it different that is something they should probably look at. If you take it different that might be an issue you want to look at.
Just to clarify my statement, I mean nothing rude or derogatory by this explanation. It is simply the view and opinion by the writer and should in no way offend the reader. This disclaimer is for those that are easily offended or make up what they want something to mean.
Have a nice day and “God Bless You” :)
21 May 2007 @ 06:46 | Permalink
Perception is reality.
If in their communications with me, I am taking it in the way described in #26 then that is the way it was meant. If not, they should clarify.
It’s a thought terminating statement regardless.
22 May 2007 @ 09:00 | Permalink
Glen: I can’t believe in the mighty USA that a person can have 2 impaired driving charges and possesion of cocain and your justice system gives them a day. WOW! In Alberta Canada blow over .08 and you loose your drivers licence for 6 mo. from the courts then the provincial govt. takes it away for another 6 mo. You have to take a 1 day course and write an exam to get it back at the end of the year. Your insurance goes up big time for 5 years. The second time is 3 mo. jail time and 2 or more years no licence. Throw in some coke and you’ll be in jail for a lot longer. I guess the judicial system in California really dosen’t care if you are drunk and driving, do they give cash awards if you kill somebody while you’re impaired? Is this really the same sentence for the ordinary folks or is it only for the ones with cash? Thanks! Gary in Edmonton, Alberta Canada
25 Aug 2007 @ 17:39 | Permalink
100.00 dollars. When you said 100.00 dollars a barrel of oil and $4 a gallon of gas by the summer, well yeah, of course Bush won’t be the president any more. Probably most of his cronies will be gone. too. Collect as much money as they can. Well, I could be all wrong, but it’s a thought. Ow, another thought. Collect as much as they can before we all start using ethanol as well. Gee, I wonder why we haven’t been using ethanol. Dragsters have been using it since around 1940. Something to think about. Did you know anyone could make gas with drain oil. Yeah, 68 octane; the combustible engine will run on that .
27 Oct 2007 @ 10:25 | Permalink
I don’t know, Paul, why aren’t we all using ethanol? Could it be because producing it is more expensive than producing gasoline, because we use petroleum to produce it, because vehicles that use it get lower mileage? Could it be because it doesn’t make us any less dependent on oil? Of course, you could also take notice of the fact that nearly all the gasoline sold in the US already contains ethanol–in other words we DO use it.
1 Nov 2007 @ 22:05 | Permalink
I think you need to understand what you’re saying because I’m not stupid. I know we are using ethanol. We need to use more. 50/50 would be nice. That would be almost half are glutenisum on oil. Just think about it.
I just heard on the news that the government wants car and trucks to get at least 55 miles to the gallon by 2030. Yeah right. They’re not thinking of using any other kind of fuel but gasoline because all your oil stock holders are not going to allow it. Look, this is what we need to do to send the price of oil to the bottom. If half the people in just one state didn’t get gas for one day, that would a hit to the oil industry. Then that news would get out and other states would follow. But what the hell do I know? I do know that paying 97 dollars for a barrel of oil is annihilating the poor and starving children.
Paul
7 Nov 2007 @ 11:10 | Permalink
Paul,
Read this thread to see why your idea won’t work.
7 Nov 2007 @ 11:40 | Permalink
“If half the people in just one state didn’t get gas for one day, that would a hit to the oil industry.”
Wrong.
Offsetting the purchase of a commodity for a day will do nothing to impact its’ price.
You’re going to buy it tomorrow anyway.
7 Nov 2007 @ 13:13 | Permalink
Beck,
On 12-05-07 you wanted a Frankenstein President,well lets go for it, you and I.
Beck, I am all American who wants to protect this country’s freedoms by the constitution and the love and the god we trust as Americans.
P.S. You tell me how a working class man can run for president, and I’ll show you a true American who will work for every American. Illegals will run with their tails up their asses, so all you illegals let this sick twisted freak (Beck) give this sick twisted American(CLYDE) the answer. Good job on your book.
5 Dec 2007 @ 19:30 | Permalink
Does Clyde think Glenn Beck is somehow involved in this thread? Why address a post to him here?
8 Dec 2007 @ 22:03 | Permalink
I would like a direct e mail to Glenn beck. If Beck wants to take this country back to the people I would like to talk to him.
This election in 2008 needs a person that can make decisions and keep this country moving and working together.
Now get Glenn and let’s take America back to the people, let’s close the borders, end the wars with victory, decrees our dependency on foreign oil and make America proud.
10 Dec 2007 @ 17:23 | Permalink
Try his website, Clyde.
10 Dec 2007 @ 17:57 | Permalink
“end the wars with victory”
I recall a banner saying that the mission was accomplished well over a year ago… hmmm… perhaps I was mistaken.
10 Dec 2007 @ 18:29 | Permalink
kim,
What website? There isnt a link? Can you please send it to me? kim thanks for your infomation(oh yeah!) if you know what I mean.Know that I got YOU fighting for a true AMERICA believe me I’ll know beck with one question. hey my family wants to know is you male or female? hey were we all come from we do not care as long as you are american. and proud of AMERICA as I am
11 Dec 2007 @ 17:50 | Permalink
Have you tried Google for a link to his site?
http://www.google.com/search?q=Glenn Beck
You can also read through others’ comments to see if anyone else has posted a link.
I am Canadian. For the record.
11 Dec 2007 @ 18:04 | Permalink
rick,
OH HEY you were mistaken, as for I asked for BECK and not your opinion! your mistake is costing AMERICAN BlOOD! to our brothers and sistrers over seas.IN my heart these wars will end when every one is back on AMERICAN SOIL,then ill consider the wars a victory as our brother and sister stand strong and proud.also rick I see were you from and I consider YOU all family,if banners told me the wars were over for i’ll cut them down with the steel of AMERICA and if any one person had the BALLS between thier legs to tell me these wars had ended, ILL look you nose nose and eye to eye and tell you all when my brothers and sisters are on this soil of America, and the theats to all my fellow Americans over and we stand proud to our Flag then the war is over.
PS, Rick you all are family and iam sorry about being direct but I got one hole under my nose that speaks the the cold hard truth. I love your thoughts listen to beck.
11 Dec 2007 @ 18:42 | Permalink
clyde, your syntax is an incomprehensible as your position. I’m not sure if I’ve been insulted or congratulated…
12 Dec 2007 @ 14:18 | Permalink
I love reading Clyde’s comments. He’s got such passion. I especially like reading them out loud because I get to yell the word, “AMERICA” so much! It’s like, one of teh best places on earth. And it will be even better when they close up those nasty borders.
Hail AMERICA! Hail AMERICA!
Now please excuse me, while I go practice my goose step.
13 Dec 2007 @ 22:22 | Permalink
P.S. This never happened, Rick.
13 Dec 2007 @ 22:31 | Permalink
P.P.S. Yeah, I realize my comment on 48 can be considered a fulfillment of Godwin’s law. So sue me, I thought it was funny.
13 Dec 2007 @ 22:35 | Permalink
So did I.
14 Dec 2007 @ 07:37 | Permalink
kim and jeff,
thank you all for your timeand help I know you booth and others have workered your will let me say this worked your bottoms off to locate beck well I we have him think. to all my Americans and Canadians forgive any type o”s for I has worked 16 hour day for the past 3 days.
jeff I love your coment and you make wo”t to stand up and yell at the top of my lungs
I LOVE AMERICA BECAUSE WE ARE FREE,well I canT do that because the kids are asleep. So I’ ll say God bless you booth and all others, also sorry that I have not talked to you all,you all are friends well no AMERICANS,to me.
Hey you allI got one wild Idea the kids asleep,Canada is only about 400 miles away and beck should pass over my area about 9:00 pm. So iam going to take my big mouth and attidude outside and yell I LOVE AMERICA WE ARE FREE. I hope you all hear me and I hope beck dose as he flys over, Idea to beat thois game as president HELP SPEAD THE WORD WRITE THE NAME CLYDE.
14 Dec 2007 @ 18:40 | Permalink
BECK,
why don’t your Email let me in I spent ovrer one hour typing you and stew a letter COME ON IS THIS TRUE I THOUGHT THIS WAS ONLY THE DEMOCRATES SO IF I cannot contact you BECK you contact me come on Ithought you were fighting for AMERICA.
HEY STEW give me email to beck.COME ON BECK.I send you mail I know who 08. BECK Emial the Clyde , I put carbon foot print on aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll. Gores ??????????????????
Ive burnt wood coal and cut wood for USA people who needed heat and they loved the warmth
THE CLYDE
15 Dec 2007 @ 18:26 | Permalink
clyde, you need to spend ‘ovrer one hour’ learning to use a spell checker, bro.
I really hoping that you are being intentionally out there…
15 Dec 2007 @ 19:46 | Permalink
Rick,
have you ever set infront of a compumter screen and typed while a two yearold baby lies asleep plus your wife , after working from 3:00am to 5:00pm after working 3 days of 16hours plus.
HEY RICK,
look at message# 53 CLYDE they have the canadian flag beside my name. well Iam knot mad but Iam concerened IAM AMERICA FROM OHIO.
HEY BECKS BLOG’s were to be AMERICAN will why does the canadian flag by every name? is tier an american web page ?
THANK YOU for checking my spelling. just tierd and tying to answer all EMAIL AND GET TO GLENN BECK, JUST WORKING HARD
VERY GOOD JOB RICK THANK YOU
I’ll try to slow down onthis type_O baord .
15 Dec 2007 @ 21:23 | Permalink
clyde, if you have a job that is actually impairing your ability to spell or to actually construct a sentence, I’d be amazed.
Do you work with chemicals all day? Are you somehow involved with some sort of drug testing program?
Short of those two options, I fail to see how working any length of time would allow someone to be so completely incapable of using English syntax correctly.
Unless you are actually the orangutan ‘Clyde’ from the Clint Eastwood movie ‘Every Which Way But Loose’.
If you are this orangutan, I instead, commend you on the ability to communicate on a blog at all.
16 Dec 2007 @ 12:50 | Permalink
Latter-day Saints believe in Christ as the Savior, the Redeemer, the Son of God, the Creator of the earth, and the only source of salvation. It is His love and grace that give meaning to life and hope to humanity. We believe in the Bible, which plainly teaches that Christ is our Savior and that all men must repent and come unto Christ to be saved. Some critics proclaim that Mormons are not Christians and don’t believe in Christ. I really don’t like other people telling me what I believe! As a Latter-day Saint, I have been taught, and have personally chosen, to accept Christ as my Savior. I am taught to follow Him, to rely on His love, and to feast on His word. I know that real Mormons are Christians. We worship Christ and covenant to follow Him. We are baptized in His name to follow Him, we partake of the sacrament (the holy communion) weekly to remember the sacrifice of His blood and to remember His victory over death, we pray to the Father in His name, and we strive to obey Him, knowing that it is only through His merits and grace that we are saved. He is constantly held up in our meetings as our Savior, our Redeemer, our Lord, and the author of our faith and our salvation. We believe that He stands at the head of His living Church, leading it as in days of old through revelation to His prophets and apostles. The Christ we worship is the living Christ, the Son of God, foretold in the Old Testament, revealed in the New Testament, and affirmed in The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ.
19 Feb 2008 @ 13:17 | Permalink
Paul
very thaughtful but most of all beautiful in todays world.
20 Feb 2008 @ 19:15 | Permalink
This is a lightly edited note I sent to a friend who in a fit of insanity included me on a group email to which Beck’s sincere, pathetic Mormon conversion story was attached. This is my gentle way of discouraging receipt of information of this kind.
best,
bob
Dear XXXXX,
Re. Glenn Beck’s Mormon Conversion Story
Unless you want an analytical response, don’t send me things like this. If you don’t want to read an analytical response to Beck’s sincere, uninformed, deceptive pap, stop reading here.
Every religious organization is populated by sincere people who have important social needs met by the organization, and who confuse the strong feelings that come from that experience with a divine encounter that justifies belief that their organization has “the truth”. So, you find one of those people who perceives the institution to be particularly important for him (“Without Mormonism, I would be a drunk with no family and no job”, says Beck), get him to tell his story using the usual, formulaic salvation narrative – “Things were going really bad in my life; then I fell into a crisis of some kind; then I found [insert name of religion]; then I had a powerful emotion experience [insert tears]; then some really great things started to happen in my life that are a sign from God; and now things are wonderful for me and my family”, and you have poster boy that is highly useful for marketing purposes. The more high profile the individual, the better this works.
A large part of LDS inspiration these days comes from a marketing firm named Edelman on Madison Avenue in NYC. Seriously. The Mormons are trying to catch up with the Evangelicals who for years have been using relatively sophisticated marketing tools, and largely as a result far outperform the Mormons in terms of conversions. Richard Bushman explained, in part, how this works to a crowd of well heeled Mormons at a dinner in Calgary recently. He did not name Edelman, but laid out the LDS marketing strategy in some detail. I know from other sources that this information is provided to LDS leaders, at high cost using tithing money of course, by Edelman. A Mormon who was at the Busman meeting summarized it for me. With typically naïve Mormon hubris, he was thrilled that his church was getting more sophisticated in terms of marketing and communications. That is prophetic inspiration for you. Call the gurus on Madison Avenue when you need to find out what to do. God must be leading each and every major business in North America, because they all use this strategy too. My acquaintance somehow missed this irony.
With a few minutes of goggling I could find you this kind of written or video presentation on behalf of many different religious groups. These are made with greater or lesser degrees of consciousness re. their manipulative, perspective distorting nature.
No religious (or other) group has a corner on this experience. It is a human universal.
While wishing Glenn Beck and his family well, I found his video repugnant. It presents a false picture of Mormonism, and will be used to dupe innocent people. The “true love” Beck talks about is at the root of countless religious and secular movements. That fact that this is a revelation to him says something about him, but not about how Mormonism is special or different from other religious groups. Members of Jim Jones’ and other cults say the same kind of thing about their groups as Beck does about Mormonism.
Beck’s favorites day of week is Sunday because that is a family day. That is the case at my house too, and only since leaving Mormonism. While Mormon, I was seldom at home with my kids on Sunday, and when I was I tended to be exhausted and hence far less of a father than I could have been. You, I know, were in the same position. You and I gave our energy to the Mormon institution instead of our families. Glenn Beck has not yet experienced that side of his new faith.
Beck’s fear based claim that he would be on the human trash heap without Mormonism is a pathetic, but unfortunately well-used religious claim. It is designed to scare people into the fold, and into staying in the fold. I reject life lived on the basis of fear, and want nothing to do with organizations that promote that point of view. This is a virus that weakens human beings, and makes them dependant on manmade authority.
I could break Beck’s presentation down and tear it apart sentence by sentence. It is nonsense. I have better things to do with my time today.
But in any event, Beck does not address the most important question about religious groups. That is, “How reliable is the authority of the institution that asks for our allegiance, and how much do they ask of us?” The more the institution asks, the more reliable its authority should be proven to be before we go along for the ride.
We know how much Mormonism asks. Ultimately, it wants full commitment. It is designed to push us as far in that direction as we will go. But perhaps Glenn Beck does not know that yet. This is because Mormonism uses sales pitches like his to get people in the door and on the train on the basis of attractive “milk”. Then the train starts to move, social commitments are, the forces of cognitive dissonance kick in, and the faster the train is going the harder it is to get off. The Moonies, Hare Krishna and many other cults explicitly recruit on this basis. So do the Mormons. The “hard doctrines”, the “meat”, the commitments required of those who attend the temple and become Mormon leaders, and a host of other aspects of Mormonism, are kept purposefully hidden until the convert gradually becomes “ready”, because by that time the train will be moving so fast that it will be very hard for him to get off.
There is no need to review the reliability of Mormon authority with you. You should be as familiar as I am with that. “Lying for the Lord”, “Faithful History” and other well established Mormon leadership traditions clearly indicate that the Mormon brand of authority should not be trusted as an accurate guide to reality. It is designed to further the interest of the Mormon institution at the expense of its members, or whomever else must be sacrificed in this regard. John D. Lee is a good example. Once Brigham Young needed a scapegoat to re. the Mountain Meadows Massacre, his faithful foot soldier and adopted son John was sold down the river in a heart beat. But the plight of gays, intellectuals and anyone else who stands in the Mormon way and is against its interest is the best example.
This is a bad video. If you are going to share garbage like this, keep it within your tribe. You embarrass yourself when you show things like this to well informed people who do not already share your beliefs, and you potentially abuse the less well informed. This is therefore both unwise and immoral.
My response to this video explains why you and other fine Mormons I know have had virtually no missionary success after a lifetime of trying. You have been dealing with well informed people who had enough perspective that it was easily predictable that they would not find naive tripe of this kind attractive.
You were trying to do Mormon missionary work in Canada in a mostly university community. The charts at http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org (a U. of Michigan project) as well as other sources, predict that Mormon missionary work will only be successful where magic thinking is at or above the average US level. Your community is far better than the Mormon in terms of magical thinking.
Ironically, the same youtube page I brought up to see Beck features Oprah as well. While I am not one of her fans, I agree with her on this one.
I hope you enjoy your Sabbath. I am about to start enjoying mine.
best,
bob
22 Jun 2008 @ 06:57 | Permalink
Dear Mr. Beck,
Let’s say that Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Washington, and Adams watched the Obama/McCain get together this evening; what might be their impression?
They might well have stared at each other upon realizing that after almost 250 years, the best this Nation could produce was McCain selected by almost one half of the citizenry as their choice for President. Seeing McCain stumble, mustering only a malevalant sneer, jutting chin, steely eyes and a blink rate that hit warp speed when Obama brought upFirst Amendment rights would rightly cause bewilderment at what Man, the USA Man, could achieve..
How pathetic a showing this might have seemed to the visionaries and founders of the Nation to see that the Common Man does live… he is very Common and it is very, very pathetic.
15 Oct 2008 @ 21:50 | Permalink
Paul, et al, no words can change you once you have heaped an unholy book atop the Holy Bible, for you have condemned your ownselves.
There are no tablets to confirm young Joseph Smith, unfortunately for your cult.
We should be talking about conversion from mormonism to Christianity, and by the way … the “angel” moroni if broken down appropriately, indicates “moron i”.
Does that help?
4 Aug 2009 @ 06:31 | Permalink
ah….glen beck. funny guy, sensationalist and occasionally he really hits the nail on the head. In my opinion, he had some of the most detailed and informative info available on cnn regarding radical islam.
unfortunately his other cook conspiracy theories and obvious bias got him booted. I do know that his ratings were much better than most other cnn programming.
15 Oct 2009 @ 23:22 | Permalink
hello everyone im putting this on here just becouse i sent it to glenn and i would like to know what you all think of this: you no what oboma is up to and who he is . now kissengure said [oboma is primed for the new world oder] so just tell everyone just say it : you no whats comming you no: why why dosent anyone just say whats going on WHY !! you see i have heard you allmost say it NOW i no that i sound like im out of my mind RIGHT but you no im NOT and money dont got anything to do with what im talking about its got to do with POWER the dem,s are fooling us what thar really doing is trying to make a line of power of ther party for the new world oder and you no that and its comming very soon now i no that i sound crazy BUT IM NOT AT ALL and you no it so just say it paul
26 Oct 2009 @ 21:08 | Permalink
Mr Beck is bright, articulate, and entertaining. But his “conversion” is a tragedy. LDS is pantheism at best and a poor imitation of anything mainstream Christian. I would respectfully encourage prayer for Mr Beck, that he may find his way out of the LDS cult.
4 Feb 2010 @ 07:05 | Permalink