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The Prophet Beck

Denver

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I seem to recall that during the last presidential elections, Glenn Beck was primarily talking from a position of political parties. But lately, everything has swung religious. Since I've first heard Beck a couple years back, it always seemed to me he was mostly just an entertainer and a right-wing commentator ("A fusion of entertainment, and enlightenment").

I've caught some of his radio show a couple times this week. He now seems to be talking a lot about the old testament prophet Jeremiah and comparing himself to him. And back in April, he spoke of how God was giving him a plan.

I'm starting to see him positioning himself as a religious cult leader.

Overrreaction?
 
He's a Dominionist and a Mormon. Where's the surprise? The best way to sell Fascism is to diguise it as Christianity.
 
Beck has clued in that the socially conservative population in the U.S. is chock full of rubes who will tune in, hang on your every word, buy your books, and send you money if you dress up your act in over-the-top styles of contemporary Christianity and constantly tell them what they want to hear.

Glenn Beck is becoming the political version of Peter Popoff. Popoff sells "health & healing" through the power of Jesus, and Beck sells "good ol' fashioned American values & politics" through the power of Jesus.

And the rubes lap it up while opening their wallets.

It's about money, folks - plain & simple.
 
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MattusMaximus said:
Beck has clued in that the socially conservative population in the U.S. is chock full of rubes who will tune in, hang on your every word, buy your books, and send you money if you dress up your act in over-the-top styles of contemporary Christianity and constantly tell them what they want to hear.

Glenn Beck is becoming the political version of Peter Popoff. Popoff sells "health & healing" through the power of Jesus, and Beck sells "good ol' fashioned American values & politics" through the power of Jesus.

And the rubes lap it up while opening their wallets.

It's about money, folks - plain & simple.
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Propheteering.

You're comparison to Peter Popoff I think is pretty on target - though I don't think Beck has sold any miracle products, yet. Also, given what leftysergeant mentioned about his Mormonism, and since IRCC that religion is big into current day prophets, it also makes me wonder if Beck is using his propheteering to gain power in that church as well.

Or maybe that's taking me one too many steps toward the conspiracy forum.
 
I liked "loser" and "Where It's At", but haven't heard any of his latest stuff.
 
Denver said:
Propheteering.

You're comparison to Peter Popoff I think is pretty on target - though I don't think Beck has sold any miracle products, yet. Also, given what leftysergeant mentioned about his Mormonism, and since IRCC that religion is big into current day prophets, it also makes me wonder if Beck is using his propheteering to gain power in that church as well.

Or maybe that's taking me one too many steps toward the conspiracy forum.
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Thing is you have to be high up in the Mormon hierachy for your revealations to become "official". I don't think Beck has much of a chance of reaching the highler levels,and if begins preching his revellations are truth, he is going to be in trouble with his own church.
 
Denver said:
Propheteering.

You're comparison to Peter Popoff I think is pretty on target - though I don't think Beck has sold any miracle products, yet.
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Oh, yes he has. Goldline. You can buy antique French gold coins for double their current market value (as collector's items, it's much worse in consideration of melt value) to protect yourself against the government confiscating gold and the collapse of society.
 
hgc said:
Oh, yes he has. Goldline. You can buy antique French gold coins for double their current market value (as collector's items, it's much worse in consideration of melt value) to protect yourself against the government confiscating gold and the collapse of society.
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One of my friends runs a colletibles shop as a sideline, specialzing in coins, and he laughed his head off when someone told him about that. Most real legit dealers in collectable coins are screming rip off.
 
JoeyDonuts said:
Which is even more bizarre, considering most of his core audience believes they won't be around to see the Tribulation.
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I wonder how many of them actually are premillennial dispensationalists. There are other kinds of End Timers, you know.
 
KingMerv00 said:
I think Beck attracts the FOTL "OMG the economy will collapse" survivalists.
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He's pitching to them directly, and hard. Chances are he's no neophyte in this arena; it's a common strain in Mormon circles.
 
Ysidro said:
I wonder how many of them actually are premillennial dispensationalists. There are other kinds of End Timers, you know.
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What makes it better is the dispensationalits and the Mormons REALLY do not like each other very much.
 
hgc said:
Oh, yes he has. Goldline. You can buy antique French gold coins for double their current market value (as collector's items, it's much worse in consideration of melt value) to protect yourself against the government confiscating gold and the collapse of society.
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That's an interesting perspective. I don't think I've heard him say that the their Goldline investments will be divinely influenced, though he does seem to be implying the crash of the US will be divinely influenced, and that gold will help people during that period.

dudalb said:
What makes it better is the dispensationalits and the Mormons REALLY do not like each other very much.
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I haven't listened to Beck enough to understand his version of dispensationalism. But he is preaching a big time judgment on the horizon, and that god has given him the information and plan to survive it.

KingMerv00 said:
Don't forget he also sells "survival seeds" for the coming End Times.
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And then there's that.
 
Just to be fair, to say all Mormons are like Glenn Beck is like saying all Catholics are like Mel Gibson.
 
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