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31. I think most people do not know this about him or his philosophical roots. Just imagine if they did?

Thu Feb 18, 2016, 07:16 AM

Feb 2016

I think most of his followers do not understand where his ideas come from, nor how much distortion they contain based on his borrowing of Skousen's paranoid ideology. But he's selling snake oil to begin with so I doubt that it matters to him or them.

"Look, I'm Mormon, and most Christians don't recognize me as a Christian." – Glenn Beck, on August 29, 2010, in an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday. (Wikipedia entry for Glenn Beck)

Wikipedia remarks that he was raised Catholic.

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