Glenn Beck Restroing America - 2010 Pretty darn evangelical

[Stary Hickory]

I went for about an hour. It was eerily similar to Sunday school or a church gathering. There were LOTS of people there, I would say at least 300k or so, maybe 500k I can't say. It never struck me just how many people where there until I walked back towards the Washington Monument and looked back at the Lincoln Memorial. Lawn up to the Washignton Monument very well covered for the most part and packed after that up to and on top of the Lincoln Memorial plus ample crowds around the edges...basically all over.

It was interesting although Beck was not speaking much substance but mostly evangelical religious krap which I did not care for. I saw some people with Gadsen Flags, saw some Oathkeepers, and a girl with a Schiff for Senate 2010 shirt at a spontaneous Tea Party gathering.

Michelle Bachman put up a "town hall" Tea party gathering so people leaving Becks event after 1:00 would pass right by it. I stayed listened for awhile. Had some entertaining speakers, mostly good because they focused on out of control spending, the HC bill, and obeying the Constitution. That guy Tito(the Hispanic from the Hannity show) spoke at Bachman's tea party rally. He was pretty funny, although his limited English made for some terrible sounding soundbites, Like we must destroy them (socialists) and their philosophy. This was of course not exactly what he meant to say or wanted to say but it was funny.

Anyways. A little Neoconish at the Beck rally, but mostly just really really kreepily religious.

 

[RM918]

I went for about an hour. It was eerily similar to Sunday school or a church gathering. There were LOTS of people there, I would say at least 300k or so, maybe 500k I can't say. It never struck me just how many people where there until I walked back towards the Washington Monument and looked back at the Lincoln Memorial. Lawn up to the Washignton Monument very well covered for the most part and packed after that up to and on top of the Lincoln Memorial plus ample crowds around the edges...basically all over.

It was interesting although Beck was not speaking much substance but mostly evangelical religious krap which I did not care for. I saw some people with Gadsen Flags, saw some Oathkeepers, and a girl with a Schiff for Senate 2010 shirt at a spontaneous Tea Party gathering.

Michelle Bachman put up a "town hall" Tea party gathering so people leaving Becks event after 1:00 would pass right by it. I stayed listened for awhile. Had some entertaining speakers, mostly good because they focused on out of control spending, the HC bill, and obeying the Constitution. That guy Tito(the Hispanic from the Hannity show) spoke at Bachman's tea party rally. He was pretty funny, although his limited English made for some terrible sounding soundbites, Like we must destroy them (socialists) and their philosophy. This was of course not exactly what he meant to say or wanted to say but it was funny.

Anyways. A little Neoconish at the Beck rally, but mostly just really really kreepily religious.

I imagine that's why Huckabee polls so high.

 

[Cowlesy]

Thanks for the report, Hickory.

 

[Jeremy]

FYI, Glenn Beck isn't even a Christian.

 

[erowe1]

Anyways. A little Neoconish at the Beck rally, but mostly just really really kreepily religious.

But it was billed as a religiously themed event all along. Right?

At least that was the impression I had based on what little I heard Beck and others say about it over the past few weeks.

 

[low preference guy]

FYI, Glenn Beck isn't even a Christian.

yeah, neither are evangelicals.

 

[Dr.3D]

FYI, Glenn Beck isn't even a Christian.

I'll bet he thinks he is. What qualifies you to determine if he is or isn't.

 

[low preference guy]

I'll bet he thinks he is. What qualifies you to determine if he is or isn't.

jeremy is just trying to start a religious flame war.

 

[erowe1]

I'll bet he thinks he is. What qualifies you to determine if he is or isn't.

What qualifications does he need to have in order to be able to have that opinion?

 

[speciallyblend]

thanks for update but nothing out of the ordinary!! hopefully some were converted by our Liberty Movment.The rest might not be saveable

 

[NewFederalist]

Beck not a Christian?? I am shocked... SHOCKED!! OMG WTF?

 

[Dr.3D]

What qualifications does he need to have in order to be able to have that opinion?

That's just what it is, an opinion.

 

[erowe1]

That's just what it is, an opinion.

And since it's obviously just an opinion, and nobody could confuse it for anything else, how could he not be qualified to say that?

FWIW, there may be different ways to use the word "Christian," some of which include Mormons in the definition. But he was certainly not using the word in some idiosyncratic way by excluding them from it. Most Christians themselves would agree with him.

 

[Dr.3D]

And since it's obviously just an opinion, and nobody could confuse it for anything else, how could he not be qualified to say that?

FWIW, there may be different ways to use the word "Christian," some of which include Mormons in the definition. But he was certainly not using the word in some idiosyncratic way by excluding them from it. Most Christians themselves would agree with him.

Why you are absolutely correct. So when someone says Catholics, Baptists and others are not really Christian, we should just consider that to be their opinion and brush it off as such.

What was I thinking?

Carry on.

 

[low preference guy]

jeremy is just trying to start a religious flame war.

And since it's obviously just an opinion, and nobody could confuse it for anything else, how could he not be qualified to say that?

FWIW, there may be different ways to use the word "Christian," some of which include Mormons in the definition. But he was certainly not using the word in some idiosyncratic way by excluding them from it. Most Christians themselves would agree with him.

Why you are absolutely correct. So when someone says Catholics, Baptists and others are not really Christian, we should just consider that to be their opinion and brush it off as such.

What was I thinking?

Carry on.

success

 

[Jeremy]

Point is that Beck is not leading some evangelical Christian movement. I'm not trying to start a religious discussion. The OP claimed that Beck's event was an evangelical event, which is false.

 

[awake]

So what did I miss do we have a new leader?

 

[LDA]

So what did I miss do we have a new leader?

Hell no. Glenn Beck is the leader of the passive media outlet watchers that'll accept whatever canned news story is fed to them. Ron Paul is the leader of people that can think for themselves. Choose your camp wisely.

 

[Stary Hickory]

mods, it's about time this thread is moved to religion to be with all the other crap threads on that forum.

Yeah guess should have seen this coming. I don't care that the event was "faith" oriented or what have you. Religion doesn't bother me. I don't like it when people replace rational reasoning with blind religious faith however. It's dangerous even if religion often teaches the correct and moral approaches to life's issues...the masses can be manipulated easier when they don't question and stop thinking.

The fact of the matter is God(whether you believe in his existence or not) would want people to question the world and use the facilities he gave us to understand the reasoning behind morality. Otherwise you run the risk of being overrun by charlatans and demagogues before people wake up and figure it out.

I guess in a sense Relgion can serve as an excuse to be intellectually lazy, something I don't think God would want at all.

 

[Kotin]

Please continue this discussion in the split thread:


http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=258739

Stop derailing threads.. Just make a new one.. It would save me a lot of time.