{"id":3672,"date":"2010-08-27T14:48:37","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T19:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=3672"},"modified":"2010-08-27T14:48:37","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T19:48:37","slug":"8-good-reasons-i-won%e2%80%99t-be-watching-glenn-beck%e2%80%99s-america%e2%80%99s-divine-destiny-event-on-tv-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=3672","title":{"rendered":"8 good reasons I won\u2019t be watching Glenn Beck\u2019s America\u2019s Divine Destiny event on TV tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Interfaith events almost always feature lukewarm and dumbed-down faith. This is true whether it\u2019s a progressive event put together by Unitarians and barely religious theists or a conservative event put together by a god-and-country Mormon such as Glenn Beck.<\/li>\n
  2. Interfaith is fine and good for patriotic events and to gain momentum on common causes, but Beck bills this as a time to help \u201cheal your soul,\u201d<\/span><\/a> and I can promise you that the red-meat rhetoric that highlights most Beck events won\u2019t heal anything.<\/li>\n
  3. Evangelicals don\u2019t look to Mormons for spiritual solace.<\/li>\n
  4. While I am an active conservative, I do not appreciate Glenn Beck\u2019s caustic and smirking approach to political dialogue. One evangelical leader is participating in the event because, he says, although Beck is a Mormon, he exhibits Christian \u201cfruit<\/span><\/a>.\u201d \u201cThe fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.\u201d (Gal.2:22,23) I\u2019m sorry, but that\u2019s not a list of Beck traits. He exhibits a commitment to promoting many conservative political principles, but\u2014in my view\u2014by employing unchristian means.<\/li>\n
  5. Let me give you some perspective. Most evenings during the 5 o\u2019clock hour I\u2019m on a treadmill at the local fitness club with a TV screen in front of me. Last night, rather than watch Glenn Beck I was watching the Little League World Series. The LLWS, really? That\u2019s pathetic, I know, but it should tell you all you need to know about my appetite for Glenn Beck programming.<\/li>\n
  6. I am a Republican and I think both Beck and this event are potentially harmful to improving Republican fortunes.<\/li>\n
  7. I have a date with my wife.<\/li>\n
  8. The Braves are in a pennant race and they\u2019re on TV tonight (although that is trumped by #7 above).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I could come up with several more reasons, but thinking about Glenn Beck makes my head hurt.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Interfaith events almost always feature lukewarm and dumbed-down faith. This is true whether it\u2019s a progressive event put together by Unitarians and barely religious theists or a conservative event put together by a god-and-country Mormon such as Glenn Beck. Interfaith is fine and good for patriotic events and to gain momentum on common causes, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,13,447,10,22,32,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-conservative","category-evangelicals","category-jim","category-media","category-mormonism","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}