I know you don’t like it, but you own it. If you need help escaping the cult, please let us know, I have a few friends who specialize in that.

Good luck.

PS Any comparison you make to a right wing religious blog is so bogus that it could only come from a Mormon. That’s how I knew, in case you are wondering.

Harry Reid is also a Mormon. Why don’t we bash him? or wait… could Mormons be a diverse group of individuals that simply share a common Religion? No, they’re all brainwashed cultists…

I approve of your disapproval of Glenn Beck. People from all walks of life and different denominations of religion are finally finding that his vision of the world and religion in government is not what America stands for. I am putting thoughts together for a post on the backlash of 8-28 for the fall midterms. I think that moderates and independents felt revulsion at the idea of a Mormon taking the national stage and attempting to pull the slight-of-hand to pass Mormons off as a mainstream Christian faith AND tell other Christians how to run their religious and political lives.

Every once in a while we have someone come along who takes issue with our characterization of the Mormons. I would invite you to argue your points of contention, but I have found that arguing religion with Mormons is pointless. You’re hopelessly embedded with dogma that is so fantastic that it defies reason. When cornered with facts you change the subject, argue over minutia, or spout dogma. I’ve seen it time and time again.

So instead of offering you a confrontation, I am going to offer you a hand up. If you need to escape your homophobic, racist, repressive cult, there are people who can help. If you write to me at wexler@glennbeckreport.com I will put you in contact with them.

Thanks for your comment, thanks for not supporting Glenn Beck, and good luck.

And the Christian Reicht. . . opps. . . make that Christian Right get to toss bricks a Mitt Romney’s Mormonism. . .

But the teabaggers and their ilk accept Beck as the greatest thing since sliced bread?

Makes no sense whatsoever.

You’re welcome for the link. I went back to the place on the site where I posted that link about the cult thing and I found a typo, so thanks again. What I intended to say after the list was that they matched all but a couple of them. (I still haven’t fixed the typo but will try to remember to do it tomorrow). I don’t remember which ones I was thinking they DIDN’T match, but what’s a couple of cult sub-characteristics amongst friends? I think I like the word because it’s easier for most Christian fundies to grasp than the discussion we’re having right here.

But I agree with what you’ve said/are saying/will say (if I were precognitive or believed in it). The Mormons do themselves no good by hanging in with Beck. I tried, as much as I could without springing for a plane ticket and trying to see “Mr. President”, to get them to get the f*ck away from that dingleberry but they insist on hanging in there with them. Methink$ they know$ who$e putting $upper on the table, if you catch my drift.

I haven’t continued with my series on Beck VS the Xtian Fundies. I stopped a while back after the article in which I put in the link we’re talking about. I am sort of glad I did, because things haven’t turned out at all as where I was taking the articles. In fact, I was running along quite nicely when Beck went to Liberty U to do the Commencement address… I felt like a dog chasing a nice fat slow mailman and then ran out of chain. Holy shit. Mormons doing stuff at Liberty U??? That threw in the monkey wrench.

So after collecting my thoughts from that Bizarro World eventus giganticus, and watching Beck stain the National Mall with his fake pious bullshit and made-up facts, I have decided that indeed what we see here is a ginomous event. It’s epic. It’s tectonic. The Christian right and the Mormons have torn open their shirts like Superman and there’s a friggin’ DOLLAR SIGN where the “S” ought to be. Money has brazenly and openly trumped religious dogma.

Some may argue that it’s not really about money, it’s about politics. To those who say that, I say “Come closer, grasshopper, the equation is MONEY == POLITICS.” I am now suitably inspired to begin part III of the series and feel confident that I, along with anyone else who is paying attention, has figured this puppy out.

I have to get off of this box for the evening, but I thank you for your entertaining, factual, semi-strident but understandably so, post. Please return to post some more at your next earliest convenience.

-Wexler

The LDS organization and members get a solid “yes” in many categories; a “yes but. . .” in several; and a couple “not so much.”

(Nice list. Thanks.)

Other scholars see cult-like behavior more like shades of gray.

We could discuss the checklist point by point, but I would rather focus on “Beck is a tool.” LOL

Personally, I do not give a flying primate flatus what people believe—so long as they do not hurt other people. Having said that, I also hold Grand Wizards of the Ku Klux Klan in higher esteem than the Leaders of the LDS organization. Most Klan members will tell you straight up that they are racists. LDS leaders instructed LDS members to donate MILLIONS of dollars and uncounted hours of volunteer time to support a political campaign of deliberate fear-mongering LIES, while preaching their usual excrement about loving thy neighbor. Members of the Klan may be vile, disgusting racists, but at least most of them are not vile, disgusting hypocrites.

David

Paul Gregersen’s comment could not be more wrong about Glenn Beck.

Here in Utardia—The Pretty Hate State (a.k.a. Utah), many of Beck’s fellow Mormons think Beck is the exact opposite of that a “good Mormon” ought to be. Please check out the reader comments on the Salt Lake Tribute web site http://www.sltrib.com associated with articles or letters mentioning Beck.

Many of us who are not Mormon think Beck is a tool. . . but I said that already. LOL

Beck reminds me of a the late Senator Joseph R. McCarthy with overtones of the late Tammy Faye Bakker (Messner) who could turn on the water works whenever she and Jim needed another solid gold toilet (or whatever—LOL).

The PR office of the Mormon organization constantly reminds members and non-members alike to approach differences of opinion with mutual respect and civility. Beck’s fear-mongering lies and hate-spew are inconsistent with the counsel from LDS leaders.

David

I cannot agree more with your post. Thanks for posting to us.

Best,
Wexler