Salt and Light

In the United States, might they see the mass conversion of Glenn Beck’s followers to his Mormonism, the only religion in which American exceptionalism and Manifest Destiny make any theological sense as anything other than an add-on and an aberration?

Beckian neo-Mormonism would be something quite different from that taught by the grand old men of Salt Lake City. That ought to be impossible, since being a Mormon means submitting to the authority of the Prophet and First President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But they already tolerate Beck himself, as the Catholic Church tolerates certain high-profile neoconservatives, including converts.

Bringing us to that which is really sought by those who seek the fullness of Christianity, which includes priesthood, a high theology of baptism, a living Teaching Office focused in a person on this earth, an intercessory relationship between those on this side of bodily death and those on the other side of it, and so much else besides.