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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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Can any reader that follows Glenn Beck give me a reason for doing so and why?
The guy is an idiot
Well, the storm is past. So the loony tunes had better start handing out their stores to the poor pretty soon or it will rot in their basements. Either that or they'll all be eating beans for three months – which will produce almost as much hot air as Glenn Beck himself. I can't believe anyone gives airtime to this fool.
America's immorality makes everyone thinks that calamities upon America is a blessing to America. Secular Americans should get that point. They are slow, as usual.
You sound like one of those liberals who love to live off of someone else's efforts, rather than preparing yourself and then being able to help others...
http://mormonchurch.org/
This is not an official Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints web site.
Right wingers don't share, that's socialist!
GB is looking for attention where he could get it , desperate souls. GB you are a loser.
And you should be blessed you live in a country with freedom of speech because 240 years ago you would've been detained for being such a swindler and a loudmouth.
the bottom line is...........CNN gave this creep a national voice.............
they dumped him to FOX, who dumped him to radio. But in the big picture, it was CNN who started this nighmare
A blessing?
May Glen Elmer-Gantry-Tartuffe-Pinchbeck be truly this blessed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FefWp_4B0k
when Glenn was young he look like you dum a...s go to USA SOME IDIOT WILL LIKE YOU...LOL
God wants you to stop using his name. You are a discrace to him and to those that are real Christians.
Glenn is a geek who support him they all looser.why some Americans are sooo stupid.
Why do you think he is a geek? Why are people who listen to him loosers?
Instead of telling others to do it, why wouldn't mormons give out this stockpile to people in return for conversion? I would convert to mormonism or MORONism for 3 months. To keep me a MORON they would have to pay me every three months in terms of filling up my stock pile. ROFL... Idiots and they actually have followers!?!?!?!?!
And you sound like you're 6 years old.
People who believe in the supernatural are REALLY creepy
People who don't believe are missing out on so much because they have only experienced life through their five senses. "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." (1 Corinthians 2:14)
who cares about GB? The guy is a loser.
So if the crap hits the fan, who will be a tools then always thinking the government is going to save you! Anyone know the fable of the ant and the grasshopper. (I.e. Conservatives are the ants and liberals are the grasshoppers) Always needing to be handheld and saved. Whether its someone elses money through taxes, blaming the rich for your problems, or from a natural disaster. You all come crying for help because none of you plan to take care of yourself.
Has he been tested for pain killers lately? He was probably tripping balls when he said all this.
Nope, not buying it. Had Hurricane Irene destroyed D.C. and spared every other place, though, that would be a different story.
How much spiritual growth do we go through when we're coasting on Easy Street? If you're honest with yourself, you'll realize that the times of real growth in your life (as a human being, as a family member, and, if you're a believer, in your faith) came in times of trial and tribulation, not when you hadn't a care in the world. I believe, when we get to that review of our lives, that we'll recognize that it was the trials and tribulations that helped us grow and learn the lessons of life and that because of that, they were truly blessings in our life. Likewise, for most of us, our times of ease and comfort will have done little for us as human beings. Unfortunately from our puritanical background, we say that if someone is really wealthy and prospering, God must be blessing him/her immensely. And if someone is really going through a rough patch we say, "Oh, they must have done something really bad that God is punishing them for." WRONG! This life was never intended to be a Garden of Eden. We're here to learn and grow and we don't do that very well cruising on Easy Street.
As a (non-mormon) resident of SLC, UT, I have seen the basements full of food. Frankly, I would rather die than spend a year eating grains, pulses and ramen noodles. Then there is the aftermath to consider – all the reasonable humans have starved and you're left with Beck and his cronies.
I prefer to have the house well stocked with booze – is there a calculator online to help with that?
Glenn Beck thinks he is a prophet and gets upset when no one follows his orders. what an idiot
I'm no biblical scholar, but I'm pretty sure that he is infering the end of the world and if that's what he is getting at, 3 months of supplies isn't gonna do it.
Wrong. He's not inferring the end of the world. He's teaching preparation and self-reliance.
Lord, please protect me from your followers!