What do we make of the huge GLEN BECK rally at our nation’s capital this weekend?
It was billed as a RESTORE HONOR RALLY; we must restore America and restore her honor. What does this mean exactly? Bush sacrificed our honor on the world stage when he attacked Iraq under false pretences. How does Beck imagine we are going to get our honor back?
Before we can try to figure out what was on Beck’s mind when he called this rally, you have to examine the man and his life so far. On the one hand, it is quite remarkable that Beck made himself into a rich and popular man given his early life.
He was raised a Roman Catholic attending Jesuit schools. His parents divorced because of his mother’s alcoholism. She later drowned (suicide) and he went to live with his father. He was diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity and became an alcoholic and drug addict. He was married and divorced and admitted to being suicidal at some points in his life. He later re-married and became a Mormon.
He is a radio / TV personality and an author of some renown. He has a huge following and he readily admits that sometimes he says really stupid things. Jon Stewart of the Daily Show delights in catching him at his worst moments.
Back to the rally. Beck injected a lot of religion into this rally. He said that the country was wandering in the darkness for too long. He said faith is in short supply and we must restore ourselves before we can restore the country. He told the crowd that we must turn back to God – what do this all mean?
We are the most religious country in the West. Fundamentalists are forever trying to defy the Constitution and cram their religious views down our government’s throat so we would become a Christian theocracy using the Iranian model or even that model used by the Taliban so why does he imagine we are somehow Godless?
Here is where I start wondering about Beck’s mental stability and given his huge following, I wonder about the mental stability of many Americans.
Some are saying that this was a huge Tea Party but many attendees said it was their faith that brought them and not politics so it appears that this was a religious revival meeting but why, what is the purpose, what is the goal?
I am sorry but I have to remain very suspicious of anything Beck does and FOX NEWS supports.
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