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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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Glen Beck is a nut, but food storage is smart. 3 months is far more than you need for a serious hurricane, but it's a really good amount to have if say you lose your job. You are able to cut your grocery bill over that period of time, while you try to get a new job and get back on your feet financial. It's less of your savings that you have to use during that period. I know LDS families that do this, and it's really easy and simple. You buy bulk non-perishables and cycle through them, so your food supply is always on the fresh side. The LDS church also has food canneries in certain cities that focus on a particular item. They're run by volunteers, and people can buy the food for cheap. Houston has a peanut butter factory, and they use this not only to service those who practice food storage, but they have teamed up with the Houston Food Bank, and volunteers can go and can peanut butter for the food bank. I think that's awesome!
This is just going to turn into a child arguement. People taking a small portion that seems idiotic out of a larger logical picture. I'm sure that you could go and take any great speech and shuffle it up to make it seem like ignorant babble. Glenn Beck is not crazy or ignorant. You people must actually seek for truth rather than believe what you told from someone whom you neither know or should trust. Don't let CNN treat you like sheeple.
No, no, he is very crazy and extremely ignorant. I have watched his show when he was still on tv. It would have almost been a comedy if I didn't know that people actually take him seriously. Let me repeat that, he is very crazy and extremely ignorant. And if you want to talk about a child argument, if you distrust CNN so much, why are you even wasting your time posting anything on here?
And you let Glenn "Babbling fool" treat you like sheeple.
I want to reply to the first post so this does not get lost. Glenn Beck is an idiot. The idea of having a supply of food is not. I have been a Latter day Saint for over 20 years. Let me explain the logic behind the food storage and a little more about our emergency preparedness. we believe in self reliance as much a possible. When a person is working they should be building a food storage as best they can. Some families can do this easily while others struggle. 3, 6, 9, or 12 month supplies of food are suggested by the church. The minimum is a 3 month supply and what is on the website.
Food storage is not for things like Irene. Food storage is for things that trap you in your home or economically make you where you cannot purchase food. Of course those that are stuck in their homes during Irene can benefit from their food storage. However, those evacuated to emergency shelters cannot. Food storage is great during winter snow and ice storms. However, the primary purpose is not for short term relief. The primary purpose for food storage is to lessen the blow of unemployment whether it is from job loss, disability, or death of the primary income earner. Food storage is to make sure you eat until your situation is afforded some kind of relief from the financial change.
What will help in a situation like Irene is a 72 hour kit. I have three kids ages 17, 10, and 8. Each small kid has one rolling bag and one backpack. The backpack has toys, books, crayons, paper, pens, and pencils. The rolling suitcase has 3 changes of clothes including socks and underwear. There is also a toiletry bag in the suitcase that holds their soap, shampoo, conditioner, toothpaste, toothbrush, comb, brush, hair ties and bows for my daughter, and a towel and washcloth. The suitcase also has 3 small water bottles and some granola bar snacks for each child.
The teenager and his dad each have a backpack. One is filled with food and water and the other is filled with their clothes and toiletries. The trade carrying these when we walk. Whoever is carrying the clothing backpack also pulls the blanket suitcase. it contains one blanket per person in space bags and one large blanket to put on the floor for everyone to sit, lay, or play on in the shelter.
I carry the important family papers like birth certificates, marriage license, church records, insurance policies, and other family papers. These go in the back pack with my laptop. I carry my clothes and toiletries in a rolling suitcase along with my son's laptop.
We have had the opportunity to use these on two different occasions in the past 8 years when we have been evacuated from our homes. The first time we could leave in the van so we loaded more of our water and food before we left but we still had to be out in under 15 minutes before the smoke cloud with the chemical in it reached our home. it took us 8 minutes and 39 seconds to pack 3 kids, our 72 hour kits,and extra food and water into the van. The kids were asleep when the officers knocked on our door and told us be out in 15 minutes before the second set of officers arrive. They tagged our home and told us that we could not remain nor could we return until the tags were removed.
Last year we had a walk out situation. A construction worker on a backhoe cut into a natural gas line in our next door neighbor's yard. We could not crank our car because of its proximity to the gas leak. It took us under 5 minutes to get everyone's 72 hour kits distributed, backpacks on, and us out the door. We walked the two blocks to our church and stayed there until the police called us with the all clear 10 hours later. We had a great time eating the goodies in our bags.
If we had needed to stay away overnight we had enough cash to get a hotel for up to two nights. We are admonished to keep some cash on us in our 72 hour kits because if the power is off so are the ATMs.
These are some basic self reliance measures in case of an emergency. If we are self reliant then we relieve the strain on an already overburdened governmental system that needs to focus on those that cannot be self reliant including members of our church. If 75% of our membership here in the US meet these basic requirements that means that 4,125,000 people will not need food stamps for at least 3 months after losing a job. It also means that those very same people would not need food or water for the first 72 hours of a disaster. Think of it. In case of a major nationwide natural disaster over 4 million people will be able to care for themselves for at least 72 hours if they are forced from their homes on foot. Over 4 million people will be able to survive for at least 3 months if they can stay in their homes. How much of a relief that will be on the charities and government agencies that have to help after natural disasters.
Glen is an idiot. I hate to even tell people I am a Latter Day Saint any more because of him. However, emergency preparedness is a good sound practice.
The real blessing was when Fox cancelled Beck's show. What a nut.
Too much of a wack-job for FNC... that speaks volumes by itself
irene....please take direct aim at this tool and finish him off once and for all. THAT would be the ultimate blessing.
Now that would be divine intervention!!
People pray to God after a disaster, never questioning why he would send them a hurricane/earthquake/tsunami in the first place. Sorry Glenn, you have no clue what God intends–it's all a myth to begin with
Not a blessing to the people who died. God must hate them!
It's one thing to have "God speak through you," it's quite another to "interpret for God."
Is it? One level of make-believe against another?
irene....please aim directly at this doosh tool and finish him off once and for all. THAT would be considered a blessing.
ROFL!!!!
As we saw with katrina, the government can't and won't save you.
Good luck with your unpreparedness and lack of self sufficiency.
Actually the government helped them very well. Some of the New Orleans Katrina survivors are still living in Houston and the government is still paying for their rent, food, etc. Epic Fail comment by you.
That's funny... FEMA is the first place the whole East Coast is turning to for help, even those Repub's who swear gov't is the problem
Exactly how is a large supply of food helpful when you have to leave it in your flooded home for weeks?
Wow, at one time I thought Glenn Beck had something worthy to say but he's getting about as nutty as Pat Robertson.
I think the label "Radical cleric" could apply here. It's hardly a term to solely denounce Muslims with.
Very sensitive to the families who have lost loved ones to the storm. Grandiose and egomaniacal...just makes me sad....he has no idea what he's doing.
I fail to see how a natural disaster is a blessing. Only a nut job would proclaim this. But for hucksters like this guy, there is no 'bad' publicity.
Glenn Beck is one sick man...the things he says are indicative of someone with a brain tumor....the way he twists things to fit his teachings...or rather...preachings...is very scary. I thought he was going blind? The sooner the better...this man needs to the see the light for one last time...
Too bad he's not going mute instead...
Man he's lost it. LOL
Did he ever have it?
This guy is an insensitive, narcissistic, crazy jerk.
Two words: Nut job
I swear to god himself I will punch glen beck in the face if I ever meet him. What a tool
I will pay money to watch you do it
I'll post your bail...lol
bravo, sister.
Nothing wrong with being self reliant and prepared for anything INCLUDING financial hardship in your own life. Shame on you for dinging him. People like you are the reason why we need FEMA> Take care of yourself and family and not rely on government agencies.
Beck is a kook and you are a kook for defending him.
Are you even able to think for yourself at all, or do you just follow everything Glenn Beck says. Do you wait to go to the bathroom until he tells you to? Get a life Leslie and learn how to think on your own. Otherwise, you're just one of the sheep.
Frankly, I see this "self-reliance" mantra as a cover for hoarding and a person like you as someone who would happily profiteer on food and water in an emergency. FEMA is simply one good tool used for the nation coming together to help each other. Community, ma'am. Something you may use when you need and spurn when you're lucky enough not to require it.
Yeah, that's easy to say when you haven't had your whole existence (including your job) taken away from you in a natural disaster. It must be nice to live without problems.
When a town gets levelled by a hurricane it's gonna take more than an individual or single family to fix that
@Leslie, I agree with you about preparedness. Everyone, Glenn will be Glenn. He was given a podium and an audience so he is using it. I don't agree with all the things he says. (free speech-the American way). However, I love him as a human being. Given a podium we all would have use it not perfectly. Remember "Pobody is Nerfect"
Sure Leslie, and when when one of these tornadoes that's being spawned from this storm levels your house and scatters your can goods stash in a 3 mile radius all in about 10 seconds, you'll be the first one in line looking for a government hand out. You give the words "human being" a bad name....
Common, CNN - Anything Glen Beck does is meaningless and self-centered. Please (Please) quit covering him. He is irrelevant to our society. He has made his money and let him sunset. His opinions or commentaries have NOT created ONE useful and meaningful job. Quit hero-worshipping this character.
Absolutely.
well said Suresh
Glen, I truly mean this...
Go screw yourself.
Right on. Beck has way overextended his 15 minutes of fame.
Too bad he wasn't limited to 15 seconds of fame.