Beck asks listeners to pray to stave off Satan-like "perversion" of the country
From the September 1 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:
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BECK: Do the best thing that you can do for your country right now and please pray. Don't -- remember what we were like on September 12. Well, one of the reasons why we were like that on September 12 is because we knew what was important. Our families were important. Our country -- the Constitution was important to us. And God was important to us. If you believe this country was divinely inspired -- know what you believe. Was this country divinely inspired? If so, then it will be protected if we ask him to protect. If we put ourselves back into the rightful place, it will be protected.
You know, the other thing is -- and I hate to get all Jesus on you -- but if you believe in God, if you believe in light and dark, you know that God creates, and Satan perverts. He doesn't create, he perverts. He takes really, really good things and perverts them, and makes them really, really -- for instance, the Internet. The Internet is both just ama -- I mean, it's like -- it's like man, you know, being as close to God as you can get. I mean, that is -- what a great creation that is. All of the good the Internet can do. And look at the destructive power of pornography and everything else that is on the Internet. Perverts it into something that you now have to guard against.
America, if you believe that, America is not going to be destroyed by the force of darkness. America will be perverted. If we fed and freed more people, we will starve and imprison more people than any power on Earth. That would be the goal of the adversary. To distort it. To wreck the message that freedom is a good thing, that capitalism is a good thing, that a republic is a good thing. It can't be just be destroyed, it must be perverted and marked on the foreheads of everyone -- "this is really bad." That's what we're fighting against -- a perversion of this system. It's much worse than a collapse. It would almost make you hope for a collapse, if that indeed were true. I don't know what is true anymore. But get down on your knees, because you'll find it.
shaking my head
We tried that... but Dick Cheney still ended up as VP... so praying doesn't seem to work!
Truer words were never spoken
Does that mean Beck's prayers are not being answered?
For everyone, thought y'all would enjoy this simple explanation of why universal health insurance is a good thing.
YAY! Sorry, but I've heard for so many years that 'christians' (or Xians) 'hate the sin but love the sinner', yet they usually then refer to (e.g.)that Evil Saddam Hussein. Your separation of the person from their acts is an actual demonstration of the proper use of language for those who make the claim of 'love sinner/hate sin'.
The staff needs to figure out how to correct slow connection issues. I hate it when I press submit only to press it again because it doesn't look like it acknowledged my command the first time.
I have dial-up and it takes a lot of patience to post on here...but there is a good community of writers on here that makes it worth it.
Oh, and I do not think this country was divinely inspired. If it had been the Founding Fathers would not have allowed slavery to continue after the Revolution.
I still think Mr. Beck needs to grow a set and explain what he is really talking about and not dance all around it.
And again, I do not think this country was divinely inspired. If it had been the Founding Fathers would not have allowed slavery to continue after the Revolution.
Does Mr. Beck realize that a lot of his audience believe what he is saying and if you put this last thought of his with everything he has been saying over the last several months, well, heck, I will go ahead and say it. If there is an attempt on the President's life Mr. Beck is going to be at least indirectly responsible. I say indirectly responsible because he is not calling for an attempt on the Presidents life but he is fanning the flames of a very dangerous fire.
I do not think Mr. Beck wants to see the President harmed in any way but he needs to listen to what he is saying, link everything he is saying together, and make a determination on what a possible outcome could be if some disturbed person takes all of his messages to heart.
But there is one central message: Glenn is right. The perversion of America is well underway. It's not perversion by diversion from his "path of God" as he claims. It's perversion by people like himself, and Hannity, and limpaugh, and all the righty talkers and politicians who stir up the paranoid and the bigoted and the xenophobic and the greedy with their lies of "death panels" and "internment camps" and "illegal alien presidents". Those people have perverted policy discourse, they've perverted journalism, they've perverted society, and they've perverted the concept of what our government should be.
"Thall shalt not bear false witness", Glenn. Why don't you lead the charge into righteousness by adhering to the very fundamentals your campy commentaries promote?
Should we all pray for irony?
If one wants to talk about perversion: how is it, exactly, that Beck has come to present a traumatized public as the ideal citizenry?
Pray that the oligarhs [sic] don't take over!!! PRRRRAAAAYYYY!!!!!!
Please, God - Don't let me be raped by federal buccaneers. I'm allergic to fish. Amen.
He's a priest.
He's not providing education, opinion, or comedy.
He's providing sermons.
And he's not preaching my religion, so I don't listen to a word he says. That's all.
Let all those wingnuts follow his religion blindly, but I hope those people understand that he's not looking for political change as much as he's looking to renovate religious beliefs to the point that he becomes the new evangelist of the 21st century.
And he's looking for suckers.
And by asking people to pray, he's targeting the religious sheep who will do anything in the name of the Lord.
So IMO this is just another marching order for the christ-o-fascists to take the law into their own hands because it's something GOD wants them to do.
First, you're Gandalf! Fighting evil.
Now, you're the Mormon missionary, fighting Satan in America. I mean, you're not even original. This isn't the first time Obama has been equated with Satan / the Anti-christ, and I'm sure, it won't be the last.
You sir, are pathetic.
Then why are you?
Okay, I have proved time & time again. I have a deep seated hatred for Glenn Beck and his fear-mongering culture.
"the force of darkness... the adversary..."
He also mentions pornography and a perversion of the system?
I'm confused. Is it "THEY" he's talking about? The same "THEY" that's coming to get you and your guns?
Can anyone make sense of this for me?
By being vague, he lets his nutjob listeners insert their own boogeyman into the equation whether it be gays, blacks, illegal aliens, ACORN, communists, socialists, fascists, Kenyans, unions, devil-worshippers, and most of all DEMOCRATS.
Oh, one more thing Father Glenn, turn down the compression on your microphone.
Um, were these the same people who said Ted Kennedy's grandson praying for national healthcare at his funeral was a "political perversion"?