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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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Beck is a loser, crazy, lunatic, liar man, has he done something for some one in need ? the answer is not? people can have piles of food and things , but if your house is taken away for a hurricane or a earthquake all those piles of food go away with it,
And how many people showed up for your rally?
Uh, Bud? His own hometown BOYCOTTED one of his rallies. That should tell you something right there. They are not proud of him.
Ah, the Internet. Where you can always find people who will shout abuse (AKA Liberal "Tolerance") at anyone who shares an opinion that they feel threatened by. lol
Only Glenn Beck would say that a hurricane that killed 10 people, including children, was a blessing. Some holy man. Hurricanes suck, and it sucks when people die. Please don't let Glenn tell you otherwise. He's still and entertainer. A loud, opinionated, calculating, willfully ignorant entertainer.
Yessiree, Dave. Poor GB wore his tinfoil hat shiny side in.
pot, meet kettle. dude, shut up. your inane rhetoric on here makes you no different than Glenn Beck. You're spouting self-righteous nonsense simply to jag yourself off to. go drink draino and stop wasting oxygen.
And don't forget your tinfoil hats!
shiny side out or in? i never remember. don't wanna fry my brain.
Good point, thanks. Always shiny side out. If in, your brainwaves bounce back in and fry your brain, especially the prefrontal cortex, you know, the area most affected by chronic alcohol.
Oops...you must have just forgot to mention that a couple of his advertisers just happen to be a survival seed company and freeze dried food storage company...both post-apocalyptic fear mongers for his crazy listeners. I'm sure that was just an oversight.
There are going to be much worse hurricanes and earthquakes to come just by seeing the pattern that's happening around the globe.
A weird thing that author Dan Gilgoff call him "conservative" radio host. The other weird thing is you put this article in your
"Belief" Section. Glenn Beck belongs to a new section called something like "Odds and Ends" or "Loony Tunes".
Even some of previous admirers are dropping this nut job like a hot potato.
Glenn Beck's policies seem in good company of Jerry Falwell, Fred Phelps and Jim Bakker
You forgot the white salamander as well...
Glenn Beck's policies seem in good company of Jerry Falwell, Fred Phelps and Jim Baker.
will someone shoot this guy in the forehead already?
woah, mule! save the ammo for the stockpile!
And deprive us of the entertainment? For shame!
He needs a bolt of lightning up his @ss.
Primitive peoples cowered in fear at the eclipse of the sun or the rumblings of a volcano, certain it was God's punishment for their sins. We've changed so little. Rather than striving to understand the complexities of science and nature we still try to associate events with divine intervention. Religious men of every era created theology to guide the ignorant or fearful through the turmoil that has always been life. Today, as always, people live in fear of their own insignificance or an absolute mortality. This weakness we share causes strife across the globe, with religious folks killing others in the name of their own "loving" god. John Lennon's song "Imagine" said it all...
How many watched what happened when Katrina came ashore?
How many times do Americans sit around while being warned by their government to prepare for a hurricane,
then being advised to evacuate.
Then when it was too late, they complained it was the government's fault that they have nothing and need more...
Typical...
A lot of undereducated posters,
and it is obvious that many posters here do not believe in the Bible,
or if they do they seldom read it.
Nothing different than laughing at Noah for building the Ark.
Or laughing at Egypt storing up grain for 7 bad years.
Why scoff/ridicule those whose faith teach them it is important to be prepared for disasters...
so they can be better prepared to help their neighbhors?
why would I believe the bible? It's made up nonsense...
May I ask how the ark is coming along?
Preparing for natural disasters, and doing one's due diligence has nothing to do with faith in a mythical being who is said to control everything, and "has a plan for you", and in fact does NOT. Your self-righteousness is sad. Hope it makes you feel better and safe.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/05/thats-not-in-the-bible/comment-page-149/#comment-657167
Hate to rain on your parade, but most educated posters do not buy into your Noah's Ark myth. If there has been no evolution since the Flood, it would be impossible to corral up 7.7 Million species of animals, fresh water fish, birds and microbes, that would not be visible, and keep them alive for 5 months on the open sea. There would have been species from parts of the unknown world like Koala bears whose only food source is eucalypsus leaves, and anteaters that eat, uhh, only ants. I doubt that the Desert Turtle from the Mojave and the Giant Sloth from the Amazon could have "caught the boat". But the pat creationist answer is "but the Bible tells me so." You should be reading National Geographic along with your Bible.
Another BIG bowl of crazy for breakfast? One Pat (psycho) Robertson is enough.
Is this guy warming up for his version of Waco, TX? As time goes on, his manners disturb me more and more... he's out of control!!!
As a boy scout, the motto was "Be prepared". As an adult, I'm always prepared. Food, Guns, Ammo, Dogs, House on High ground, NOT a low lying flood prone area, Family, Electric Generator, Gasoline and Diesel fuel, NaturalGas wells, Water well. I do NOT live in the city, but on 75 acres in the country. I realize most people are just sheep and depend upon the government for their very life. Not my choice.
I admire your considerable stockpile, sir. Texas?
"Liberal tolerance". Noun. Definition: Wishing death and destruction on those who are not part of the Liberal left.
(Scan through the comments and try to disprove it.)
"But Glenn said..."
So? I don't care what he said, there's no excuse for your reprehensible behavior.
"Then you're just a.."
(See definition)
I'm a Democrat, by the way.
i'm not "a liberal" and i wish he'd catch a bullet between his eyes as well. the guy is a waste of oxygen and a disgrace to the conservative platform.
Your high horse, get off it before you break your neck.
He thinks he has direct contact with god. People need to know that the invisible and the nonexistent look very much alike.
Imaginary beings won't solve the world's problems. Mormons are nuts. Catholics love plaster statues, and often hate people.
This bronze age mentality must come to an end. It is delusion.
See! I told you we'd get really bad weather and should be prepared for it. See! No one listens to me. I been saying for ever that bad weather is going to happen on planet Earth and no one was listening. Now look at you. all wet! uh huh, that's what you get for not listening to me when i said that the planet Earth was going to get bad weather.
what a self-righteous fnktard.
What are we going to do with rice and grains...that is so strange. Go for canned foods that can be readily eatened. I would need water to make those items edible. Canned fruit, canned tuna, etc. would be better if at all. Storing some water is good, but my mom did something in a crisis.....took the water out of the back of the toilet and boiled it. It really is fresh water if needed.
What is a Sarav Chidambaram? And, WHERE does it come from? Obviously a country with NO FREE SPEECH. Not saying I agree with Glenn Beck, but he has a right to say what he wants.
Storing extra canned goods, etc. is not a bad idea. As long as you rotate stock. Not sure about sacks of rice and beans. I think bugs would get in that. But, overall, never hurts to be prepared for a disaster. They taught us that in Boy Scouts. So, for people making a big deal about Beck's Morman thing, they look foolish.