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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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proof once again that lunatics are allowed to roam free and spread their Non Christian filth on America.
What are you specifically talking about?
Being prepared makes sense no matter where people live.
After Mr. Beck has volunteered his time and talents to clear out the broken trees, picked up garbage and other debris, comfort those who have lost a loved one in the storm, and has disposed of decomposing dead animals, maybe he will remind us of how the stormhurricane was a "blessing."
what an ignoramus-or maybe, just maybe, he likes headlines.
He's out of his gourd.
THAT IS IT GLEN BECK IS CRAZY NOW
People should take time to prepare, but calling this storm a blessing is stupid and insensitive to those who have lost. When is someone going to knock him off his block, he just preaches nonsense and fear.
Hey Glenn, God told me to steer clear of you, you nimrod
While I wouldn't call this a "blessing from god" and I'm not at all a fan of Glenn Heck, people should be prepared for emergencies.
This guy has gone over the edge and he needs to go away. What gets me is that people listen to him.
Agreed. He used to be somewhat entertaining, but since joining the cult of Mormanism, he's completely gone off the deep end.
I'm not particularly religious. I'm not particularly a Glen Beck fan. I can't see anything wrong with the message " be prepared." People should be prepared. Unprepared people depend on prepared people tp bail them out. I see it as stupid selfishness. I get a pie and give you seven eights. I save my small piece for dinner. You eat all your pie up before dinner and then at dinner you want half of mine. You want more and more and more until your consumption takes everything ... because you hate the simple message "Be Prepared."
CarolB
So how many deaths is this worth? If Katrina didn't teach a lesson, how many need to die to get the message out?
it would have been a real blessing had the eye of irene hit right smack in your face.
Now go backtrack, apologize and say "it was taken out of context" you moron
The man is so self-absorbed and delusional that he has become detached from reality.
And has people drooling over ever word he says, which is extremely dangerous.
He is an 1diot and his followers are super 1diots. A person storing lots of food means he don't believe in God at all. And earth quakes, storms , hurricanes are never a blessing.
Why do we even gives someone like this the time of day?
Nowadays, anything is a story.. the entertainment keeps coming and coming......
He's a piece of crap....
With all due respect to the honorable excrement, such an important bodily function...
why don't you just go away for good glen beck
When is this moron going to go away?? Enough already!
Good one CNN ..for using his own words to make him look foolish .. that'll teach him for jumping CNN's ship!
Beck and Faux was a match made in hel^H^H err, heaven. They were made for each other. All parties involved were better off after his departure.
There is an undeniable, uninterrupted ideological line from the Nazis/Fascists all the way to the far right (today's far right). Check Generalissimo Francisco Franco, for example.
You mean Mr. Crappants is a descendant of Franco? I did not know that.
Many Nazis escaped from Germany (in submarines and whatnot) to South America, where they proceeded to establish RIGHT wing dictatorships: Vidella and all the Argentinian Generals, Pinochet, etc., etc. Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines, Somoza in Nicaragua, etc. The right should at least OWN to it, if they have intellectual honesty.