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Beck's Rally: Political Pow-Wow or Religious Revival

August 30, 2010 12:10 PM

CBS News' Nancy Cordes and political commentator Charles Ellison join John Dickerson to break down Saturday's "Restoring Honor Rally". Plus; Dr. Alveda King speaks out on how her uncle, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Glenn Beck would break bread if they met.

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by squarebird September 6, 2010 6:18 AM EDT
Why is this question never asked when Rev. Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton speaks?
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by tsigili August 31, 2010 12:59 PM EDT
Religious revival.
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by cbs_tom August 31, 2010 11:27 AM EDT
? The general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principals of Christianity? I will avow that I believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.?
? ?[July 4th] ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.?
?John Adams in a letter written to Abigail on the day the Declaration was approved by Congress
?In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection. Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered? do we imagine we no longer need His assistance?? [Constitutional Convention, Thursday June 28, 1787]--Ben Franklin.
?God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift from God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that His justice cannot sleep forever.? (excerpts are inscribed on the walls of the Jefferson Memorial in the nations capital)--Thomas Jefferson
"I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus." --Thomas Jefferson
?We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We?ve staked the future of all our political institutions upon our capacity?to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.? [1778 to the General Assembly of the State of Virginia]--James Madison
? The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that of generating in the pupils a species of atheism. Instead of looking through the works of creation to the Creator himself, they stop short, and employ the knowledge they acquire to create doubts of his existence. They labour with studied ingenuity to ascribe every thing they behold to innate properties of matter, and jump over all the rest by saying, that matter is eternal.? ?The Existence of God--1810?
--Thomas Paine
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by alicerbob August 31, 2010 9:51 AM EDT
I'm one of those people who was "awakened" in this rally to ask God specifically what He would have me do to change America from the wrong course it has been going on since the 1960's. Not that I haven't been involved through prayer since the first "Washington For Jesus" rally which I believe was in the 80's. I have rarely tuned in to the primary networks since then, because there was a deliberate elimination of God from all commentary, including this one where "God Bless America" was cut out of Sarah Palin's speech. The point is, we NEED GOD to BLESS AMERICA by getting on our knees, yielding to Him, and asking for His guidance, just as our founding fathers did. That is His warning at this hour, to keep us from being the next Hitler Germany, financially and otherwise. His job assigned to me is now to comment on these blogs.
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by endurorob_5 August 31, 2010 8:28 AM EDT
I just wanted to make a comment about the photo for this story. Is this an attempt by CBS to portray Beck as a Nazi? Pretty pathetic CBS.
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by RobAla August 30, 2010 10:16 PM EDT
I would think, like Dr. King's speeches, that Becks rally was a mixture of both. So what???
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by themadre August 30, 2010 8:51 PM EDT
I used to be a faithful listener of CBS, then your network leaned so far off the map, I lost you. Now with your estimates and views on the Glenn Beck rally, I am certain of that which I once suspected. Your commentators are completely pagan, unaware of the Constitution of the United States of America, and what our country was founded on.I am proud to be American and to have been born in the only country that claims a Judeo-Christian heritage. If you wish to lean so far to the left, perhaps it is time for you to lean a little further and fall into the Pacific Ocean or even go a little farther to the Far East.
This was not a religious gathering, it was a support Americas heritage, and give the government back to the people. Wake up CBS, get real, before there is no more America to be honored.
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by larrylinn1 August 30, 2010 8:51 PM EDT
Beck keeps refering to religion in order to substitute rationality to his irrational rhetoric. My grandparents were Christians in Northern Ireland. She was Protestant, and he was Catholic. They had to flee after death threats.
I volunteered and joined the Army, and I served as an 11B Infantryman. Most of my time in the field was in squad or platoon size operations. We would have discussions about what we were fighting for. It always came back to the ?Bill of Rights?. To me the most important was ?Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof??
What did our Founding Fathers have to say about religion:
"Question with boldness even the existence of a god." - Thomas Jefferson (letter to Peter Carr, 10 August 1787):
"All natural institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit." Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason;
"Religion and government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.", John Madison;
?Lighthouses are more helpful than Churches?, Benjamin Franklin
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by wyodutch August 30, 2010 6:42 PM EDT
Everyone hates Glenn Beck except what was once referred-to as "The Great Silent Majority".
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The Times, They Are A-Changin... and We, The People are finally beginning to awake from our stupor.
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Congratulations Glenn Beck.
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by lookingupward2 August 30, 2010 6:28 PM EDT
My family and I wish to thank Glenn Beck for putting together a fantastic event. There were hundreds of thousands of people there of all different colors and religious backgrounds. The theme, "Restoring Honor", was positive and uplifting. I will pray for you, Glenn Beck, and all of thoses brave people that were there on stage with you on 8/28. God Bless America!
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