tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post2070233180828108912..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: NO SURPRISE HERE: BECK'S FANS LIKE CARSON'S THEORYSteve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-34661338271961581412015-11-06T06:56:44.507-05:002015-11-06T06:56:44.507-05:00I like the comment by the Blaze reader who invites...I like the comment by the Blaze reader who invites fellow readers to consider the cray-cray hoohoo kloud kookoo nonsense of Harry Reid, Mormonism. Glen Beck, the founder & owner of The Blaze, is himself Mormon. <br /><br />Neither Beck nor Reid was born to parents who claimed to be Mormons. Beck was born to practicing Roman Catholics, & chose LDS as his church as a fully grown adult. Reid was born to parents he's called "agnostics", & he chose LDS as his church as young adult.<br /><br />President Obama also was not born to parents who claimed the religion he now claims for himself, "Protestant Christian": he's described his mother as "detached from religion", his step-father as oblivious to religion, & his father as "a confirmed atheist".<br /><br />I suspect those 3 belong to a distinctly minority portion of American adults who claim or admit to having some religious belief with a label. IOW, I think Ben Carson is much more representative of the typical American who claims an identifiable religion.<br /><br />Carson was born to a mother who was a practicing 7th Day Adventist. That's an offshoot of Baptist Christian. Baptists get lumped in with Protestant Christians, which is the largest doctrinal religious grouping in the U.S. by far. The various groups that make up PCs are generally considered, to the extent people think about, distinct from a range of other groups each of which in their own orthodoxy accept that Jesus son of Mary is significant within their doctrine. That range encompasses all orthodox practicing Roman Catholics, Mormons, Jews & Muslims.<br /><br />The Blaze's reader's point about how nutty Mormonism is, is well-taken considered, as they say, 'in the abstract', and certainly against what's scientifically proven, likely provable, and expert historical research and journalism. However, I don't see how it's all that clear considered in context - that is, as one necessary outcome or product that comes from comparing orthodox Mormonism to any other Middle-East desert-based monotheism, whether one of the Christ as son of God monotheism, or Judaism, or the big one over their, the McDonalds or Walmart of ME religious doctrines, Islam.<br /><br />We're all guessing here, but IN THIS CONTEXT, I don't see how Steve M. makes his case that if & when Carson leaves, 'his' support in this race falls to Trump, mostly, largely or even materially. I been ponderon' on why Trump is so committed to Ben-bash; it now seems standard in his daily patter. That fulminate of mercury to anyone else in the Clown Car race. I think it's not, or not just, that Trump is oblivious or risk-takinv or holds a death wish for his campaign. IMO it's because Trump a) knows most Carson supporters will never support a pagan, b) Trump figures he knows his supporters and they eat this up, c) he caps at 25-30% of the pre-primary voting crowd, and d) it's MATERIAL for gawd's sake - in the same way Jon Stewart dropped to his knees to thank baby Jeebers for Trump entering the race.Feud Turgidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05379322096770703017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-51216905537651391572015-11-05T22:36:38.006-05:002015-11-05T22:36:38.006-05:00Now is about the time I get a big chuckle out of t...Now is about the time I get a big chuckle out of telling these less than sufficiently evolved that perhaps ten thousand years ago when the sides of the pyramids were covered with flawless virgin white marble the reflected light could be seen and used to anchor a glide path into the Sinai desert from as far away as Mars...<br /><br />Funny thing about the ancient semetic empires of the middle east, the Assyrian and Mesopotamian (Iraq, Syria), the older Egyptian and Persian (Iran) and over all that territory the far older Sumerian: we have physical evidence they existed. Massive monuments, irrigation that works to this day, ruined cities comparable to many around the world today, written records <i>lain down in stone</i>. <br /><br />Israel? Men, not so much. Couple of books of folklore, some genealogical tables. That Jesus dude (DFH)... the Romans were meticulous record keepers, recorded a census of Palistine for hundreds of years: no Jesus, Mary or Joseph. Nor mention of "Israel". Joseph Smith looked in his hat.<br /><br />Folks, if we don't get over these irrational dependencies on adolescent fairy tales, this mass delusion - <i>psychosis</i> - over whose dog has the bigger dick, we're not gonna' make it. End of the road, extinction. <br /><br />There are no gods, there will be no Rapture, and there is no Planet B.Ten Bearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06594307610015584119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-38655381419098946612015-11-05T15:49:31.482-05:002015-11-05T15:49:31.482-05:00I've been thinking Carson actually could win t...I've been thinking Carson actually could win the nomination, but I really can't imagine any plausible candidate -- well, maybe Cruz -- picking him as VP, precisely because of the nutball factor (and the "I have no freaking idea what I'm talking about" factor). Rubio wouldn't. And Trump is too secular to like him.Steve M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-47623554654704929112015-11-05T15:39:23.177-05:002015-11-05T15:39:23.177-05:00Stuff like this will not destroy Carson, but it wi...Stuff like this will not destroy Carson, but it will stop him from breaking away, and it may be all that stops him. IMO, he's always had a ceiling (call it the "nutball" ceiling, or maybe the nutshell) and I think he's close to it but he's got plenty of money and motivation to remain in it until the bitter end. I think he's the VP pick for whomever is able to pull together a plurality out of this mess of a GOP primary.mlbxxxxxxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05931351723996391533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-21080531048407953952015-11-05T14:53:23.800-05:002015-11-05T14:53:23.800-05:00"Can you imagine having the technology, the w..."Can you imagine having the technology, the wisdom, the knowledge to be able to do that? We can’t do that now. He was able to do that back then.”<br /><br />Wait, somehow over the last few thousand yrs. we've lost the technology, ability (& wisdom) to preserve grain in storehouses? <br /><br />Talk about yearning for a Golden Age that never existed.M. Bouffanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04519088858760760560noreply@blogger.com