What Glenn Beck is saying this morning is extremely dangerous

[freshwest]

58. It's sad. I read the same stuff as a kid. But separated it from my daily life.

This was brought back to the fore in many people's minds by the Reagan Republicans and it's only gotten worse since then. Incredibly bad.

Christians of some persuasions read Tim LeHaye's 'Left Behind' series and it has enlivened and brought those notions into their everyday life. It sets up the 'US versus THEM' mentality.

Church is nothing like it used to be when I was growing up. It's back to something more akin to the days of burning witches and slaughtering those who didn't 'believe' the things decreed by one fanatic or another.

The Founding Fathers did not want that here and spoke firmly against repeating it, but the televangelism in the eighties and the revision of American history by various preachers reduced the message of charity, forgiveness, tolerance of others and peace to something I don't want stuck under my shoe.

They are afraid, and their focus is narrow, unable to percieve anything that would take them out of it, as 'sinful.' Which makes them act like robots who are ready for whoever flips the switch.

The results have been in slow motion with the revolution at the ballot box. Some believe if they make this country like the Old Testament, we will be spared judgement for our sins. American exceptionalism falls into that belief system, too.

I say we need to pay attention. Most of the rightwing swill we see being disgorged by those who resist any lawful order and threaten killing Democrats are listening to Beck, Jones, etc. everyday. These shows are replayed, it's much stronger than the church on Sunday crowd ever was.