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To ramblinrose33: I don't personally know Glen Beck. I do know that he joined the LDS Church well into adulthood, and that he, as do we all, brings with him baggage, and life experience. Perhaps he was brought up in a home where this kind of language was used. Or maybe he picked up this language along the way to adulthood. But that doesn't matter, because nobody is perfect. I doubt he represents himself as a perfect person, and none of us has the right to expect him, or anyone else. for that matter, regardless of their faith, to be spotless and a "finished product", so to speak. No matter what church a person belongs to, he/she is still a PERSON. He/she has his or her own personality traits, imperfections, weaknesses, etc. To say that a person is bad, or hypocritical because they exhibit behaviors that offend us or at odds with our expectations is patently wrong. I had an aunt who was a Roman Catholic nun. Occasionaly Sr. Ann would visit my Dad and my other aunt. The three siblings would fall back into their childhood roles, and feelings would be hurt. When my sisters witnesses this, they were angry with Sr. Ann, and called her a hypocrite because she stepped out of the mold in which they had put her. They failed to realize that she was a person first, with all the feelings that every other person has. She never put herself out there as being better than us because of the vows she took, and none of her imperfections wiped out the good that she did. Likewise, we have no right to look at a member of the LDS faith and find fault with them because they are human and say or do things counter to what is expected of them by their church, or by us. In every faith there will be those who exemplify the best of their beliefs, and others whom we may find wanting. But every person is trying to do hi/her best with what they have. Glenn Beck is among them

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Posted By: mjc1925 @ 08/03/2008 9:13:47 PM

To ramblinrose33: I don't personally know Glen Beck. I do know that he joined the LDS Church well into adulthood, and that he, as do we all, brings with him baggage, and life experience. Perhaps he was brought up in a home where this kind of language was used. Or maybe he picked up this language along the way to adulthood. But that doesn't matter, because nobody is perfect. I doubt he represents himself as a perfect person, and none of us has the right to expect him, or anyone else. for that matter, regardless of their faith, to be spotless and a "finished product", so to speak. No matter what church a person belongs to, he/she is still a PERSON. He/she has his or her own personality traits, imperfections, weaknesses, etc. To say that a person is bad, or hypocritical because they exhibit behaviors that offend us or at odds with our expectations is patently wrong. I had an aunt who was a Roman Catholic nun. Occasionaly Sr. Ann would visit my Dad and my other aunt. The three siblings would fall back into their childhood roles, and feelings would be hurt. When my sisters witnesses this, they were angry with Sr. Ann, and called her a hypocrite because she stepped out of the mold in which they had put her. They failed to realize that she was a person first, with all the feelings that every other person has. She never put herself out there as being better than us because of the vows she took, and none of her imperfections wiped out the good that she did. Likewise, we have no right to look at a member of the LDS faith and find fault with them because they are human and say or do things counter to what is expected of them by their church, or by us. In every faith there will be those who exemplify the best of their beliefs, and others whom we may find wanting. But every person is trying to do hi/her best with what they have. Glenn Beck is among them
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Posted By: ramblinrose33 @ 08/03/2008 3:07:29 PM

and I have seen a family with small children shunned by the Morman church even though their "member" was a drunk. All denominations have problems. None is perfect. Not even the Mormons.
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Posted By: ramblinrose33 @ 08/03/2008 3:05:10 PM

The Bible states that "the dead know not anything". Once someone is dead, he/she will lie in the grave until Jesus comes in the Clouds of Glory. They don't go to Heaven or Hell until Christ comes to get them.
Read Your Bible.