Glenn Beck decided to attack President Obama’s Christian faith at his latest rally. He says Obama is not the right kind of Christian. I guess that means if you don’t have the same religious beliefs as Beck, who is a Mormon, you are not the right kind of Christian either.
According to the latest statistics I could find, Mormons comprise 1.3 percent of the American people who call themselves Christians. I guess that means 97.7 percent of us are not the right kind of Christian to people like Glenn Beck.
It also verges on the comical that Beck keeps calling Obama a socialist and constantly decrying that form of government.
The Mormon Church in Utah created an almost pure socialist economy when they moved to Utah. They created a religiously dominated socialist government and society — complete with co-ops where people brought their produce and goods to be distributed to all according to their need.
Until a decade ago, the church even owned the large department store ZCMI, which stood for Zion Cooperative Mercantile Institute.
I believe one of the purposes of the 1st amendment to the U. S. Constitution is to deny anyone the opportunity to use the highly emotional and very personal choice people make about religion as a tool of division. Religion is a personal choice and should be left out of politics.
Just look at the blood baths created by the sectoral violence in Ireland. Christians killing Christians because each believed the other had the wrong religion. Don’t let that kind of perversion take hold in America. Beck and his cohorts are using every tool in the book to divide us.
How can our country remain strong if it is allowed to fill up with hate and division?
Jo Davis,
Shawnee
