Glenn Beck, Constantine and the Dead Sea Scrolls – Idiocracy
Glenn Beck is an complete idiot:
… the Dead Sea Scrolls, you know what they are? … So here’s what happened. When Constantine decided that he was going to cobble uh together an army, he did the um Council of Nicaea, right, Pat? (Pat: Yea.) The Council of Nicaea, and what they did is brought all of the religious figures uhh together, all the Christians and they said, “Ok, let’s put together the Apostles’ Creed, let’s you know, you guys do it.” So they brought all their religious scripture together, that’s when the Bible was first bound and everything else. And then they said, “Anybody who disagrees with this is a heretic and off with their head!” Well, that’s what the Dead Sea Scrolls are. They are those scriptures that people had at the time that and they said, “They are destroying all of this truth.” Whether it’s truth or not is up to the individual, but at that time those people thought that this was something that needed to be preserved and so they rolled up the scrolls and put them in clay pots and they, they put them in the back of caves where no one could find them. They were hidden scripture because everything was being destroyed that disagreed with the Council of Nicaea and Constantine. That’s what those things are.
Take a gander at Michael’s post as well.
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on May 28, 2010 at 10:46 am
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on May 28, 2010 at 11:09 am
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[...] Glenn Beck is a Complete Idiot Posted: Friday May 28th | Author: JohnO | Filed under: In the News | View Comments … the Dead Sea Scrolls, you know what they are? … So here’s what happened. When Constantine decided that he was going to cobble uh together an army, he did the um Council of Nicaea, right, Pat? (Pat: Yea.) The Council of Nicaea, and what they did is brought all of the religious figures uhh together, all the Christians and they said, “Ok, let’s put together the Apostles’ Creed, let’s you know, you guys do it.” So they brought all their religious scripture together, that’s when the Bible was first bound and everything else. And then they said, “Anybody who disagrees with this is a heretic and off with their head!” Well, that’s what the Dead Sea Scrolls are. They are those scriptures that people had at the time that and they said, “They are destroying all of this truth.” Whether it’s truth or not is up to the individual, but at that time those people thought that this was something that needed to be preserved and so they rolled up the scrolls and put them in clay pots and they, they put them in the back of caves where no one could find them. They were hidden scripture because everything was being destroyed that disagreed with the Council of Nicaea and Constantine. That’s what those things are. [HT] [...]
on May 28, 2010 at 12:01 pm
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Astonishingly ignorant rant.
on May 28, 2010 at 12:47 pm
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Completely agree, Phillip, but is there anything else which cometh from Beck?
on May 28, 2010 at 2:36 pm
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I think the only nugget of truth in that entire rant was that Constantine called the First Council of Nicaea.
on May 28, 2010 at 4:28 pm
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You are correct, but I wouldn't press him too far on just who he thinks Constantine was, or anything else about Nicaea, except, you know know, it was to suppress Conservatives and replace Capitalism.