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 Glenn Beck appeared to be echoing Mormon doctrine on preparing for adversity.
August 27th, 2011
09:44 PM ET
Glenn Beck: Hurricane Irene is a 'blessing'By Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor Conservative radio host Glenn Beck told listeners Friday that Hurricane Irene, the Category 1 storm that’s working its deadly way up the Eastern Seaboard, is “a blessing from God.” Beck has long urged his fans to stockpile food in their homes in anticipation of a global food disruption. He said Irene should be construed as a divine warning for those who have ignored that advice. Here’s Beck on his show Friday:
The Washington Post reports that in encouraging home stockpiling, Beck, a convert to Mormonism, is echoing Mormon church teaching. The church encourages members to build home storehouses of food that could last for at least three months. According to a website run by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the official name of the Mormon church:
The site includes a food storage calculator. To build a three-month supply of food for a family of four, the calculator recommends 300 pounds of “wheat, white rice, corn and other grains” and 60 pounds of “dry beans and other legumes.” The Post notes that food storage is one pillar of the Mormon emphasis on self-reliance. soundoff (3,354 Responses)« Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 Next »
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I can't wait until Glenn Beck dies in a crack house. What a piece of crap.
And you, will die from a lice infection caused by you addiction to getting fu cked in the a ss by a camel.
He's got more class than that. It'll be a crack villa.
Yea, an idiot that compares victims of a massacre with Hitlerjugend....GO GOP!!!!
"Self-reliance," huh? Love it. Especially coming from the Poster Boys of Unearned Privilege and Authority.
This guy Beck is a certifiable nut case. Anybody who believes anything this crazy idot says is just as nutso as he is. This guy has gone off the rails, and people should stop listening to such a lunatic.
That's the beauty of America, you speak your mind in public, with all due respect, and let the people decide for themselves.
don't insult this men, respect him, and if you have the guts to work as hard as he does, then start a tv show and speak up your mind.
there are millions of people that listen to him, and many will be glad they followed some of his advises. BE HAPPY. ARE YOU?
Whether Hurricane Irene is from God, a tropical depression, or the flap of a butterfly's wings, hopefully we can all agree that things happen and it MIGHT be a good idea to be prepared for something. Glenn Beck is a crazy person, but even a broken clock is right twice a day. Probably a good idea to be ready for the unexpected, even if it is coming from the mouth of a crazy person.
Hopefully anyone hoarding 300 lbs of dry goods has considered how much water it takes to cook all of that. A hundred pounds of pasta, for instance, is going to take a hundred gallons of water to cook it in. You might get away with less for dry beans or such, but that's a lot of water, especially when you add water needed for drinking, washing, etc. I'd say most people don't have the ability to store, say, 500+ gallons of water. Something to think about, folks. But, yeah, Beck is nuts–no reason to worry about what might not happen, right?
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Mensa IQ, college degree in science, Beck is mostly right.
You must be kidding. Wake up. You couldn't be more *wrong*. Wait & you will see.
Just another irrelevant hack trying to stay relevant. Nothing to see here folks.
Someone get a straight jacket!!!
So, Glenn, if God is in control, why bother stockpiling anything? Be prepared for what, exactly? All those foodstuffs your hillbilly, uneducated, human garbage listeners of yours have packed away won't do them any good when "God" kills them. Now all that's left is perfectly good non-perishable food items that are locked safely away from people who actually deserve to be fed. I haven't attempted to look up the metrics on the obesity rate amongst conservative talk radio/television disciples, but I will bet everything I own that the rate is considerably higher than the U.S. average. Has anyone honestly met a sane, in-shape, highly intelligent/engaging conservative in the last 10 years who admits that belief in God is really nothing more than an elaborate way of saying "I don't know". I honestly don't know why someone hasn't killed this guy yet. Ghandi gets assassinated and Glenn Beck sells millions of books for profit...something doesn't add up.
Religiousness or not, Beck has a point: we need to be prepared for the worst. I love how CNN is spinning this: he act like a moron, but he isn't a moron 24/7, no one is.
You're assuming, apparently like Beck and his disciples, that there is no food to sustain oneself after a major storm/natural disaster unless it's stockpiled industrial-mass-produced-loaded-with-chemicals-and-other-toxins crap that comes out of a can. There are well over 300,000 different species of plants on the planet, 1/3 of which are perfectly edible, nutritious, and sustaining to human life.
Charles Manson was right that the environment is important.
Adolph Hitler was right that people will benefit from affordable automobiles.
Glenn Beck is right that we should keep a food reserve.
If there is a god, why has Glenn Back not been struck by lightning? Or choked by flying spaghetti?
At what point does the reporting of this man's ever-so insightful commentary become the equivalent of going into a mental hospital to report the opinions of a disturbed mental patient? I think it happened long ago.
I'm sure Glenn is thanking God for the 9 deaths already associated with thte storm, if only to validate his unhinged, lunatic ramblings.
Agreed Lincoln, there are people writing more sense than this in their own faeces on an asylum wall.
Glenn Beck couldn't be a bigger a**hole unless he punched a homeless man while wearing a shirt that said "I'm an a**hole"
OMG thanks for giving me the best laugh I've had all day. And, you couldn't be farther from the truth!!
Crud, I meant to say that you were spot on with the truth about him being an a*hole. (brain fart)
You want me to prove Glenn Beck is an a**hole? Just listen to anything he has ever said about anything. Hurricanes are a "blessing, Obama hates white people (Obama is half white), Everything is a conspiracy, What he said about the Norway victims (Hitler Youth). In all honesty it would be easier for me come up with a list of everything he has ever said that didn't make him sound like a complete a**hole.
Baaaahahahahahahaha! Thanks, thats just perfect!
Beck has a narcisstic personality: here are DSM criteria: (i guess he fits right in on FOX news)
Symptoms
A person with narcissistic personality disorder may:
React to criticism with rage, shame, or humiliation
Take advantage of other people to achieve his or her own goals
Have excessive feelings of self-importance
Exaggerate achievements and talents
Be preoccupied with fantasies of success, power, beauty, intelligence, or ideal love
Have unreasonable expectations of favorable treatment
Need constant attention and admiration
Disregard the feelings of others, and have little ability to feel empathy
Have obsessive self-interest
Pursue mainly selfish goals
NAHHHHH!!!!! That would be Rush...
He needs to be just a drop more narcissistic. Then he will see a mirror and starve rather than stop looking at himself.
Liberal atheists...how un-American
Only your small-minded opinion.
THANK YOU!! Finally, somebody besides me agrees. Oh, wait. This is CNN.
fu ck off
Calling the deaths of innocent people a "blessing" . . . . how un-American.
Um, no I am 110% American. My religious beliefs have no bearing on my patriotism!
now THAT's a well-thought-out, educated comeback. NURSE!
Whats that got to do with being American or not ? Americans don't have the exclusivity on those kind of thoughts and words.
It's so annoying that so many Americans thinks the world ends at their shorelines and revolves around them. Just calling your President 'Leader of the free world' stinks of arrogance. Im in the free world and he's not my President. Ever heard of Europe, Australia and the 100's ot other free countries that are not America ?
The only thing that's 'un-American' is something or someone that isn't from America.
I'm not making any friends here am I ? 🙂 Well I don't hate, Im just not religious and have strong opinions about some things that go on in that vast country of yours. As beautiful as it is, some of you are off your nut.
I am appalled how natural occurrences are given special portent by attaching a deity to their meaning. These things happen no matter what you believe, so someone please shut his stupid ass up.
Thank you!!
Beck. Sigh. What an assshole. And people PAY him to say this stuff. And people listen.
We are so screwed.
Revelation is a misnomer, Beck is a FRAUD, Fox is the obvious mouthpiece for the American aristocracy and a hurricane is a hurricane. YES People are Crazy!
Beck is a text book example of a cult leader, the disconnect, the fanatical followers, the dire 'predictions', all of it points straight at it.