Stingo
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Sun Dec-28-08 09:53 AM
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Focus on the Family: Glenn Beck’s a Mormon? Eeek! |
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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/
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Sun Dec-28-08 10:33 AM
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Gee, I thought Beck's religion was flaming assholism. Who knew?
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Sun Dec-28-08 11:10 AM
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3. There's another cheap shot here somewhere |
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Please, please let me resist.
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Sun Dec-28-08 10:05 PM
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Sun Dec-28-08 10:50 AM
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Sun Dec-28-08 10:15 PM
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5. While I'm not a big Mormon fan |
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I'm a bit surprised at all of the animosity towards them on here.
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Sun Dec-28-08 10:17 PM
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I don't think there was such animosity before that.
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Sun Dec-28-08 11:48 PM
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Edited on Sun Dec-28-08 11:49 PM by Lindsey
I mean that it's because of Prop 8 not Yea (as in "yes" on Prop 8).
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Sun Dec-28-08 11:50 PM
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8. I figured that's what you meant |
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Mon Dec-29-08 05:45 AM
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9. And Too Beck is despicable |
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Really I have less against the Mormons than Beck.
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Mon Dec-29-08 07:30 AM
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10. In the interest of full disclosure |
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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.
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Mon Dec-29-08 08:48 AM
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11. I had a lot of animosity towards the Mormons long before Prop 8 |
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Mon Dec-29-08 09:01 AM
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12. I'm not saying this to start a flamewar |
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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.
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Mon Dec-29-08 09:19 AM
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Mon Dec-29-08 09:51 AM
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14. I really don't either |
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All religions are cults. But as far as strangeness goes the Mormons are up there near the top.
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Mon Dec-29-08 10:03 AM
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15. Mormonism seems very strange to me, too, and yet |
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Edited on Mon Dec-29-08 10:03 AM by DavidD
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.
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