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abbeyco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 09:28 AM
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Mormon Beck - Liberty University: Not a happy match
While a lot of the crazy conservatives love their Glenn Beck, he's not necessarily so welcome giving a commencement speech at Liberty University, that bastion of "true" Christianity.

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/05/14/glenn-beck-to-address-baptist-grads-but-his-mormonism-sparks-de/

This story brought a smile to my face and I'm sure Glenn is figuring out how to work in his chalkboard, red phone and some fake tears.

Happy Saturday, all! :hi:
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 09:38 AM
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1. this is where I think Mitt Romney will have a lot of trouble securing the Republican nomination
in a party where conservative Evangelicals now play a leading role:



A 2007 Pew Forum survey showed 25 percent of Americans would be less likely to vote for a Mormon candidate for president, with only Muslims and atheists earning higher negatives. But among white evangelicals who attend church weekly -- the GOP base and the dominant demographic of Liberty University -- the number rises to above 40 percent. In 2008, Focus on the Family, a leading lobby of the Christian right, pulled an interview with Beck over concerns that they would appear to be sanctioning his Mormon faith.

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/05/14/glenn-beck-to-address-baptist-grads-but-his-mormonism-sparks-de/
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customerserviceguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 09:54 AM
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2. You're exactly right
Fundies will NEVER vote for Romney for the Rethug nomination, and if somehow he manages to squeak it out because Caribou Barbie and Hucksterbee have split the fundie vote, then they'll just sit out the 2012 Presidential election rather than vote for either Romney or Obama.

Obama is the "devil they know", but he doesn't have missionaries going door-to-door in their communities looking to poach the flock.
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 11:40 PM
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10. mormons probably will never get a president elected. they are
just too 'other'. I say that as someone who has mormon missionaries bugging me two to three times a week because I have the fatal flaw of not being able to tell fresh-faced teenagers to fuck off. And. I cannot tell the Jehovah Witnesses to do so too because I can't be rude to old people too.
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 11:43 PM
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11. do you know what you get when you cross a Jehovah Witness with a Hells Angel??

Someone who bangs on your door on Saturday morning, wakes you up and then tells YOU to fuck off.


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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-16-10 11:02 PM
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18. that is awesome. too bad i'm too mannerly to share it with the boys.
bwahahaha!
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 09:57 AM
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3. The, um, Angles are weeping
Edited on Sat May-15-10 09:58 AM by SpiralHawk
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Moochy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 11:03 AM
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6. Weeping Angels

:scared:
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Sheepshank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 11:42 AM
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8. wow...some telepathy going on here
Fundie co worker image is caught here pretty well...but they tried to make her pretty.
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iris27 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-16-10 12:22 AM
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16. Now you've done it.
"That which holds the image of an angel becomes itself an angel"...we're all screwed! LOL
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Moochy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-10 11:01 AM
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19. Oh yeah SPOILERS!
don't look at the eyes... sorry should have mentioned that!

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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 10:06 AM
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4. Read the article.....interesting perspective
It seems that the stance among christians is that only some of them are really christians. It might be time for someone to get a definition of what a true christian is to resolve any confusion. Otherwise they might start eating each others' young.

I find it strange that three, four if you let mormans in, say they believe in the same god but all they want to do is fight and kill each other off. I find this strange that a god would want this. One wonders if this is a god someone would want to believe in.
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immoderate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 10:56 AM
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5. Can a Christian believe that anyone else is a Christian?
They're all sinners, y'know.

--imm
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tammywammy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 11:49 PM
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15. I think, that of course you can.
If someone says they're a Christian, who am I to decide if they're right or wrong? It's not my place to judge. :)
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tammywammy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 11:48 PM
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14. Evangelical Christians believe only fellow Evangelicals are "saved" and true Christians
It's very strange. I'm a Christian, and all I was taught was that you had to believe in Jesus (He's our savior, died for our sins, yadda yadda yadda). Mormons are a form of Christianity, to me I always thought it was just another sect, like Baptist, Methodist, Catholic, Mormon.

Oh and there's quite a bias against Catholics from the Protestants as well.

And I agree, Jews, Muslims, Christians (Catholics, Protestants, Moromons, all of them)...it's all the same God in the end.
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Dappleganger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 11:08 AM
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7. Positive proof that politics is more important to them than religion.
It used to not be this way but I predict they will fall down HARD because of it. They're quite willing (almost anxious) to compromise their religion in order to have the political speaker they want.
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 12:48 PM
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9. I like the part "Why does Liberty not invite a Christian?" rhetorically asked.
Edited on Sat May-15-10 12:51 PM by no_hypocrisy
I guess being a Mormon doesn't count as a Christian and only Christians can be American patriots. Therefore Glenn Beck is not an American.

FWIW, my guess is that Liberty didn't want to pay Palin's $100,000 plus Lear jet contract.
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Marr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 11:45 PM
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12. Interesting. On a side note, does anyone doubt that Beck would
have a 'religious conversion', should it be required to maintain his support (and media viability)?
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iris27 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-16-10 12:24 AM
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17. Didn't he already?
I thought I heard that he grew up Catholic and later converted to LDS.
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fishwax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 11:46 PM
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13. always fun to watch them bicker amongst themselves
:rofl:
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geardaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-10 11:11 AM
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20. So, does he wear magic underwear?
Ewww. I need brain bleach now.
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