Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Here is an article in the Boston Herald on the Church.
http://news.bostonherald.com/politics/view.bg?articleid=171825&format=&page=1
Glenn Beck's Testimony of the Gospel.
I love this video, its so powerful! You should see all the negative garbage you see when you do a search of Glenn Beck in the Blogs. On youtube one of them was making fun of his testimony, saying that he was a phony because he condoned the killing of a terrorist. "Very sweet... like when Beck said about a month ago that the solution in Iraq is to have someone go and shoot Moqtada al-Sadr in the head. How sweet. How Christian. How... phoney." DEFENDING Moqtada al-Sadr? Men like this are devoted to killing as many Americans as possible! Glenn is realistic, if al-Sadr and his ilk were reasonable and really wanted to live peacefully with the west, Beck wouldn't have a problem turning the other cheek, but don't we have an obligation to defend ourselves? We've seen what extremists like this are like, "I won't rest until every Israeli and American is dead!" I saw that clip in Stewarts History class more than a decade ago. How do you turn the other cheek with that? You're kind of obliged to defend or be vaporized aren't you?
But its amazing to me how callous people can be when the spirit is manifest like this, this man spills out his soul and is obviously touched, feeling gratitude and love for God and is mocked for it! Doesn't 2 Timothy say something about traitors in the last days, lacking natural affection and despisers of those who are good? I bet he/she wouldn't have a problem with Glenn Beck getting wacked, just terrorists. I really like when he says, "cry out to the Lord". Made me think of the hymn, Redeemer of Israel. "How long we have wandered as strangers in sin."
Glenn Beck is the Man and a Mormon!
I don't know if you guys knew but Glenn Beck, who has the third most popular radio show in America, is a Mormon. He is a recovering alcoholic and recovering liberal. Pretty much the same thing, clouded judgment, out of control bar tabs and anger issues.
I just heard him on CNN, oh yeah, he also has a TV show. The guy went alcoholic to workoholic. He was talking about how he used to drink and do drugs everyday, but the LDS church helped him to quit it all and turn his life around. His family is the center of his life now. KUTV did a special on him that he has been playing in parts on CNN. Yesterday, he joked self-deprecatingly that when he went into the font, he thought it was going to start boiling, because of all his sins. I got a kick out of that.
You should all start listening to him. He is funny, he's got 'tude, hes wicked smot (sorry been out here too long) and he likes to poke fun at the left, a good combination. They're so threatened by him on the left, they've already resorted to calling him a Nazi. Wait, you don't have to be a threat, you just have to be right of Fidel Castro to be a "Nazi" in the liberal book. Some guys blog said that he had lost all faith in CNN, because they put Glenn Beck on. Why? Because CNN is finally telling it from both sides a little bit after years of no voice from the right at all? Though sometimes, I cringe a little, because he might make a comment that is a little over the line, but that's why we all sing about Glenn around the campfire!
Monday, December 11, 2006
Is Rock 'n' Roll Evil?
No, really I want to know. Were our grandparents right even though certainly wrong on a number of things? Was this a time that they were "spot on"? Sure they might have sounded fanatical, old fashioned and prudish, we have to at least consider the argument that they were right, if we don't consider every opinion then we are fools. Even if the opinion requires only seconds to consider then dismiss.
I love listening to my Beatles, Doors and all the classics as much as anyone, but the more I listen to it, the more I run across a re-occurring scriptural theme "eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die." "Live for today and don't worry 'bout tomorrow." "Rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints, the sinners are much more fun, only the good die young." "The world is your oyster so get high and get whatever you want to." It seems like they bombard their listeners with encouragement to be selfish and don't worry about anything but their own carnal appetites and people eat it up. Whatever makes us happy in the moment is acceptable, no matter whom we had to trample on to get it or if it is offensive to God.
Rap is obviously the worst example of this (except for apparently Tupac who was instrumental in my brothers conversion to the Savior). The other day, a member was moving. She is the only member of the Church in her family. Her son had head-phones on and was listening very intently. He was ignoring his fathers pleas to help load the truck and he was wandering around in daze, muttering the lyrics to a rap. It struck me so strongly that it was almost like the chants of a Monk, kind of a religious mantra. It kind of scared me, because I thought, "man this kid is really internalizing this stuff, he is having a quasi-religious experience with it or should I say irreligious experience." It begs the question, how much are we all effected by the entertainment we subject ourselves to? As was said in the last conference, Babylon effects us in ways we don't even realize.
But rap isn't the only culprit of "artists" stealing men's attention from the true God by dishonesty and cunning. Ok, this was one of the weirdest "rockumentaries" that I've ever seen, but at least it was refreshingly honest, not like the usual crap about how happy they were, "but then, tragedy struck again and their life fell into the crapper, again, but then, they were the happiest they'd ever been, again, and so on and so on". I mean, come on, if the precepts and methods to happiness that they constantly prescribe bring such stability and happiness, why is it the same story in all of them- no one, drunk, someone, drunk and stoned, no one, rehab. But I digress, the Black Sabbath Rockumentary made me think of writing this post. I think it was on VH1, but it might have been MTV, its all pops and whistles to me. I stopped because they were doing a piece on Black Sabbath and Ozzy looked so different so it piqued my interest. The drummer started going into how he used to be big into the occult and witchcraft, he had upside-down crosses and pictures of Satan hanging on all his walls. One night, he woke up with a hideous nightmare and looked down to the end of his bed to behold a "very malevolent dark form" and could feel rage and hatred and it scared him. He went and told Ozzy and the group thought it would be great to write a song about it. After that, the group felt inspiration that they should write songs in the same vein to scare people. So by their own admission their songs were inspired by a dark spirit and witchcraft! Think about that for a second. They admitted to being inspired by the devil and yet me bringing up this subject will probably make me a fanatic. I remember growing up as a young child in the 80s and religious groups accusing these bands of this very thing. In turn they were scoffed and marginalized, but it turns out, at least in this case that they were right. Maybe I'm overreaching a little, I don't know, but I would love feedback on this issue. Do you think rock musicians are the "ravening wolves in sheep's clothing" we were warned about that sing about a twisted brand of love and tolerance, or am I out to lunch on this one?
Hey why don't we ask the McLaughlin Group if they agree with you guys.
WRONG THEY WERE ALL INSPIRED BY THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS!
NEXT ISSUE!
I love listening to my Beatles, Doors and all the classics as much as anyone, but the more I listen to it, the more I run across a re-occurring scriptural theme "eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die." "Live for today and don't worry 'bout tomorrow." "Rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints, the sinners are much more fun, only the good die young." "The world is your oyster so get high and get whatever you want to." It seems like they bombard their listeners with encouragement to be selfish and don't worry about anything but their own carnal appetites and people eat it up. Whatever makes us happy in the moment is acceptable, no matter whom we had to trample on to get it or if it is offensive to God.
Rap is obviously the worst example of this (except for apparently Tupac who was instrumental in my brothers conversion to the Savior). The other day, a member was moving. She is the only member of the Church in her family. Her son had head-phones on and was listening very intently. He was ignoring his fathers pleas to help load the truck and he was wandering around in daze, muttering the lyrics to a rap. It struck me so strongly that it was almost like the chants of a Monk, kind of a religious mantra. It kind of scared me, because I thought, "man this kid is really internalizing this stuff, he is having a quasi-religious experience with it or should I say irreligious experience." It begs the question, how much are we all effected by the entertainment we subject ourselves to? As was said in the last conference, Babylon effects us in ways we don't even realize.
But rap isn't the only culprit of "artists" stealing men's attention from the true God by dishonesty and cunning. Ok, this was one of the weirdest "rockumentaries" that I've ever seen, but at least it was refreshingly honest, not like the usual crap about how happy they were, "but then, tragedy struck again and their life fell into the crapper, again, but then, they were the happiest they'd ever been, again, and so on and so on". I mean, come on, if the precepts and methods to happiness that they constantly prescribe bring such stability and happiness, why is it the same story in all of them- no one, drunk, someone, drunk and stoned, no one, rehab. But I digress, the Black Sabbath Rockumentary made me think of writing this post. I think it was on VH1, but it might have been MTV, its all pops and whistles to me. I stopped because they were doing a piece on Black Sabbath and Ozzy looked so different so it piqued my interest. The drummer started going into how he used to be big into the occult and witchcraft, he had upside-down crosses and pictures of Satan hanging on all his walls. One night, he woke up with a hideous nightmare and looked down to the end of his bed to behold a "very malevolent dark form" and could feel rage and hatred and it scared him. He went and told Ozzy and the group thought it would be great to write a song about it. After that, the group felt inspiration that they should write songs in the same vein to scare people. So by their own admission their songs were inspired by a dark spirit and witchcraft! Think about that for a second. They admitted to being inspired by the devil and yet me bringing up this subject will probably make me a fanatic. I remember growing up as a young child in the 80s and religious groups accusing these bands of this very thing. In turn they were scoffed and marginalized, but it turns out, at least in this case that they were right. Maybe I'm overreaching a little, I don't know, but I would love feedback on this issue. Do you think rock musicians are the "ravening wolves in sheep's clothing" we were warned about that sing about a twisted brand of love and tolerance, or am I out to lunch on this one?
Hey why don't we ask the McLaughlin Group if they agree with you guys.
WRONG THEY WERE ALL INSPIRED BY THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS!
NEXT ISSUE!
Sunday, December 10, 2006
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