Focus on the Family: Glenn Beck’s a Mormon? Eeek!

[Stingo]

The hate-filled folks on the Christian right are engaging in a bit of infighting lately over Glenn Beck. Seems extremists Underground Apologetics have bullied Focus on the Family into abandoning a nice article of Glenn Beck’s innocent “The Christmas Sweater.” Meanwhile, heads explode at the use of “innocent” and Blenn Beck” in the same sentence.

http://allspinzone.com/wp/2008/12/28/focus-on-the-family-glenn-becks-a-mormon-eeek/

[Faygo Kid]

1. An alcoholic Mormon?

Gee, I thought Beck's religion was flaming assholism. Who knew?

[Stingo]

3. There's another cheap shot here somewhere

Please, please let me resist.

[StClone]

4. Resistance is Futile

Here's shoe throw it.

[StClone]

2. Religious Moran

[Stingo]

5. While I'm not a big Mormon fan

I'm a bit surprised at all of the animosity towards them on here.

[DavidDvorkin]

6. Proposition 8

I don't think there was such animosity before that.

[Lindsey]

7. Yea, Prop 8.

I mean that it's because of Prop 8 not Yea (as in "yes" on Prop 8).

[DavidDvorkin]

8. I figured that's what you meant

:)

[StClone]

9. And Too Beck is despicable

Really I have less against the Mormons than Beck.

[Stingo]

10. In the interest of full disclosure

A good friend and a man I respect, a police officer, worked for a long time in his off hours for Beck as a security consultant. He has only praise for Beck. I've never figured out what merited the praise.

[spiritual_gunfighter]

11. I had a lot of animosity towards the Mormons long before Prop 8

Cults are dangerous.

[DavidDvorkin]

12. I'm not saying this to start a flamewar

But I don't see any difference between any of the cults -- Mormonism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Prebyterianism, Catholicism, and so on -- beyond size and age.

[Stingo]

13. Cults is cults

No argument there

[spiritual_gunfighter]

14. I really don't either

All religions are cults. But as far as strangeness goes the Mormons are up there near the top.

[DavidDvorkin]

15. Mormonism seems very strange to me, too, and yet

how much of that is due to Mormonism's relative newness, and its founding myth being set in historical times? E.g., Moroni and the golden tablets on one hand, Moses and the tables on the other.

Magical clothing shows up in other religions in various forms; maybe the underpants connection is what makes one variety seem odd.