Beck: Help us restore traditional American values

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the_phoenix said:
If it’s anything like the bus I took to Washington, DC this past January to participate in the March for Life, the people who made the journey each chipped in their share to pay for the bus.

Interesting question. Maybe we’ll get an answer from someone who went, or from
someone who knows someone who went.

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People organized the buses on their own. Avg price was $150.00 for a seat on the bus.
 
Stjudeprayforus said:
People organized the buses on their own. Avg price was $150.00 for a seat on the bus.
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No, this cant be true. We must find out who really paid for these people to go. They are too stupid to organize to this degree on their own. There must be someone behind the scenes, some organization like Acorn, or SEIU…something.
 
bbarrick8383 said:
No, this cant be true. We must find out who really paid for these people to go. They are too stupid to organize to this degree on their own. There must be someone behind the scenes, some organization like Acorn, or SEIU…something.
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Hahahaha.

Funny.

There was a central site to check on available buses and the cost…
1100 buses… that Beck knew of came from all over the country. Awesome.

Who knows how many church buses came.
 
Via_Dolorosa said:
A friend’s father didn’t get on the bus from my part of the country, but it was all paid for. No one paid anything to go. Just wondering who foot the bill?
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Probably not the same people who bus in minorities to elections.😉
 
Feanor2 said:
Yes, the whiteness of that scene is astounding!!! Good for them!!
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Catherine_D said:
I guess my eyes are worse than I thought. I can’t determine the race of anyone in that picture. 😉
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I knew someone was going to comment on that. 😉 That line was ambiguous. I thought the same thing at first, then thought maybe they meant white t-shirts. 😛

Is there a transcript anywhere? I didn’t watch it (didn’t really know it was going on until after).

Anyway, I can just hear some family members now for the rest of the week (making fun of something Beck or Palin said). (I can just see them saying “Beck wants to institute a therocracy!”)
Lord help me to be charitible at home this week! :crossrc:
 
Via_Dolorosa said:
A friend’s father didn’t get on the bus from my part of the country, but it was all paid for. No one paid anything to go. Just wondering who foot the bill?
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Well, you would have to find out locally: maybe the Chicago Tea Party can tell you what local groups had busses (they charged, $99/seat).
 
iamrefreshed said:
From your link…

Beck’s attempt to appropriate the legacy of King, who delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech from the same marbled steps 47 years ago to the day, occurred as the Rev. Al Sharpton and other civil rights leaders organized a simultaneous event.

Oooh, sounds just like the GZM protesters you decry.
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OK, I’ll bite, why is organizing a simultaneous event like protesting the Islamic center?
 
I am a Catholic who leans right and supports the Church’s position on the five non-negotiables. I also enjoy… well, “enjoy” isn’t quite it… but I do read Glenn Beck’s posts on fox.mobi and find him energizing. He clearly advocates a return to faith-based patriotism without reversal.

Here’s what gives me pause about Glenn Back.

I believe his historical base for a return to Christian virtue is centered in The Third Great Spiritual Awakening in America, a time when preachers sought to reinvigorate their sermons with emotion. Bible centered values and even a renewed sense of patriotism became wild, theatrical calls for Christian repentance, with preachers demanding ever-increasing public displays of transformation and devotion in day to day life. Denominations leveraged charismatic pastors against not so charismatic pastors, and the messenger in whole replaced the message. Once the narcotic theatrics wore off, vast areas of eastern New York became known as “the burnt over districts”, where people were unreachable to the enthusiasm of Christian revivalists. The strenuous emotional appeals for sola fide salvation produced unintended lethargy towards Christian principles on one side and a slew of Bible-based Jesus Cults on the other. One of these is Mormonism: a new church, a restored gospel. Glenn Beck is from this tradition, a Mormon saint who now leads the country through the wilderness back to a God, a path he knows that evidently we don’t know. At times, he feels very patriarchal, very certain of that holy and moral direction he wants to lead us. It feels good to listen to someone with conviction during these uncertain days. Yet I have seen him bury the seeds of his faith in his speeches: comparing ancient Chinese burial traditions to those of Native Americans, as if to suggest a lost tribe from “somewhere over there” ended up in North America, a Mormon argument to be sure. Or, that children should watch parents pray in their bedroom with the door open. That seems a little weird. Prayer is something I prefer to do in private. The Bible advocates that approach.

Glenn Beck is two things right away:
  1. He is a recovering alcoholic. AA was co-founded by a Catholic Priest, so I imagine it’s okay for Catholics to attend. AA can deeply rededicate addicts to a life of spirituality. I know this from first-hand experience. It many ways, twelve steps are microcosms of the plurality of America, under the idea of a God you individually define. But AA can vilify traditional religions as part of the problem, “the religion they were raised with”, usually Catholicism, somehow inferior to a nebulously defined higher power. Alcoholism and his recovery through the Twelve Steps explains some of his approach to living spiritually.
  2. He is a lapsed Catholic who has quoted Pope Benedict to repudiate liberation theology. His choice to use the Pope’s words feels tactical to me. Is he catering to “Big Tent” policy in the Republican party? Or does he admire Pope Benedict? What do I make of his transformation into a Mormon? Can I trust him on spiritual values? Or is he surreptitiously driving our wagon train to Kolob?
N2M4L
 
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