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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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Glenn Beck do us all a favor and shut up, if I want to be scared of ordinary natural phenomena, I'll watch "The Day After Tomorrow". Don't bother me about Hurricanes unless they are category three or above.
Maybe God meant for it to be a Category 3, but our man-made preparations (global warming) helped take away some of that control and reduced it to a category 1?
Why is he on CNN? Just ignore him, and maybe he'll go away. Folks, get off of this CNN crap and go to the New York Times, for very unbiased reporting...this CNN website is fluff, crappy journalism. And, no, I don't work for the New York Times.
And yet you are here.
Completely agree! CNN is amateur hour. They don't report the news, they create silly stories that are meant to draw viewers. Their hosts are not biased; they are simply incompetent. Nice people but not very proficient. The problem I see with these "anchors" is that they really think they understand the background behind the events they report while in reality they have no idea. Sad state of affairs.
GLENN BECK IS A TOTAL 100% IDIOT!!! Pleeese-don't give him any space on any kind of media-that's ridiculous!!!!
What, and miss out on all the fun. Beck amuses me. A lot.
So far, 5 deaths have already been attributed to this hurricane. Go ahead, Glen, keep talking about your 'God', 'religion', and 'faith'.
Who's a bigger blowhard, Glenn or Irene?
As crazy as he may sound....an earthquake and a hurricane on the east coast in the same weeks sounds like a legit warning to me too.
2 nuts is not so uncommon.
There is an old adage: Great minds think alike. It is apparently also true of minds that are not so great.
Yes. You are now warned that the plate tectonics are still a factor in shaping the planet, and that weather systems exist. I hope you will use this knowledge wisely.
*sigh* Matthew 7:15 Beware of false prophets , Beck has finally gone completely crazy, Irene is a natural phenomena, my prayers go out to everyone in the path of this storm.
bullcrap makes the grass grow and glen beck makes it overflow.
blessing# 1.
glenn will be conducting mormon "baptims"on the 75th floor of his n.y. office building if irene cooperates.
Blessing # 2
glenn can sell way more of his "food hoarder" sponsors product if he can generate enough fear
Blessing # 3
glenn can surf 5th ave.
The REAL blessing
If Irene gets nasty enough , she could knock glenns show right off the radio. alley oop
Ladies and gentlemen, the Antichrist.
He needs to start drinking again...
preferably the waves of irene.
What a Muppet!!!
Compared to Glenn Beck, Hurricane Irene is a blessing ...
"Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.” – Heinrich Heine (1797 – 1856)
Ahh, you are so right LouAz... Brilliant!
If the hurricane is a blessing, so what a Tsunami would be?
nothing his sponsors don't work the pacific
loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool to the reply
Leave it to conservative christians to describe a possibly major natural disaster as a blessing.
beck isn't a Christian.
This guy has nade idiots look good.
It's a pretty tame warning. Again, the fear mongering over this glorified tropical storm is absurd!!
Dear Nutbag, please tighten that tinfoil hat of yours, take your meds and return to the loony farm where you escaped
What a horrible man. What God would kill an 11 year old just to give us the message that we need to stockpile food? How can he be so out of touch with reality?
What God would kill his only Son to save you from for your sins? One that is more merciful than I.
if there was a spiffy i might agree with him on this one.
You are a god? That is interesting and blasphemous. You defiantly sound like Beck's crowd.
But anyway God is being merciful by killing children? Please explain that one.