Who is that rousing the rabble?

[sophia_sadek]

Who is that man preaching vigilance in Jerusalem? Is it the Antichrist come to reclaim his throne? No, it is merely that blowtorch of ignorance: Glenn Beck.

One of my favorite aspects of his speech is that he spoke against fear, hate, and lies. He goes on to try to instill fear in the hearts of Palestinians and their supporters. He also simply

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[a_new_machine]

How can you doubt that there's love in Beck's heart? He loves his country and he just wants to see the best for it, and for the world, and you don't trust him or pay attention to his warnings, and it's all gonna go so... so wrong... excuse me for a minute...

[fizzyland]

Don't the wacko Christian types want Israel preserved so they can host the Apocalypse?

[a_new_machine]

Yeah. Mitt Romney talked a bit about how, in the Mormon view of prophecy, Jesus would return simultaneously in Jerusalem, and somewhere in the Midwestern US. So preserving Jerusalem is pretty important.

Will Glenn Beck...

[sophia_sadek]

... split the Mount of Olives in two?

The interesting thing about Romney's view of the Second Coming is that it is based on a conflation of Jesus with the Lord of Hosts. Only a hack theologian would make such a huge mistake.

[kardashev]

Mitt Romney talked a bit about how, in the Mormon view of prophecy, Jesus would return simultaneously in Jerusalem, and somewhere in the Midwestern US.

I do believe that would be at the RLDS Auditorium in Independence, Missouri. Supposedly, Jesus is going to hover down out of the clouds and land on top of it.

That video is a stretch.

[sophia_sadek]

I would be willing to bet that there are conservative Jews who agree with Beck's opposition to liberal Jews. Beck does not attack them as Jews, but as liberals. He espouses the work of anti-Semites because they are also anti-Communist. There is common cause there. One of the primary motivations for the Nazi attack on Jews was the prominent role in progressive political organizations played by Jews. More conservative Jews had the resources to escape before things got really ugly.

[underlankers]

What's a man who called a Holocaust survivor a Holocaust perpetrator doing speaking in Israel in the first place?

Perhaps...

[sophia_sadek]

... he regrets his foot-in-mouth blunder and wants to make up for it. On the other hand, perhaps he truly blames the Jews for their own persecution the way that people blame Obama for being the butt of their attacks.

[meus_ovatio]

Glenn Beck is a sterling example of someone with literally zero critical faculties. You could give him a copy of Mein Kampf, take out the title page and the cover, and he'd be enthralled and carried away by all the logics. The sort of person who responds to things that sound: good, confident and forceful. As long as you can string together some type of narrative, Beck will take it all in, because his brain just doesn't have any capacity to resist. Unless a message is clearly and negatively marred by some identification or association, he couldn't recognize whether or not something was Nazi, Communist, Socialist, Capitalist, Christian, Mormon or just plain insane.

To people like Beck, a book is a book and books are smart.

[meus_ovatio]

In conclusion, Beck is the archetypal conspiratorial thinker, possessing of a brain so under-wired that suspicion and paranoia can be inserted by a mere passing phrase or narrative. If Glenn Beck was given a copy of The DaVinci Code, and if the DaVinci Code wasn't famous, Glenn Beck would be demanding to know where the Holy Grail is.

Do you mean to say...

[sophia_sadek]

... that there is no Holy Grail?

Re: Do you mean to say...

[meus_ovatio]

Holy instruments cause immediate consecration to those who touch them, obviously. Meaning, utter annihilation and assimilation into the Divine. The second Indiana touched the true Holy Grail, we would've known, because he would've immediately died. I mean, duh.