After Glenn Beck (a Mormon Fox News commentator) organised and led a massive rally in Washington DC recently, calling on the need for reviving America, many discerning Christian commentators were disconcerted — to say the least – to discover that evangelical Christians seemed able to embrace Beck as one of their own.
Justin Taylor has since posted a repeat of the ESV Study Bible’s teaching about what is different between Mormonism and Christianity1, and Russell Moore has opined successfully that the problem is not that Beck is an effective leader, nor that he is allowed to speak his mind in religiously free America, but that some evangelical Christians are so undiscerning.2
What has caused a situation where genuine Christians can embrace rank heresy with excitement about its positive effect on their country? Of course, putting the question like that is not perhaps entirely fair, for the feeling is that, given Beck’s conservative credentials, his movement calling the country back to moral values can only be a ‘good thing’. But that is very far from feeling, as some evangelicals seem to have done, that they heard the gospel from Beck in the nation’s capital.
