A comment that has been frequently made by Beck admirers to unhappy critics can be repeated to this author: you don’t understand. You’re missing the point. You’re blind to the essence of the movement, which is little more than a reaction by faithful people to the secularism publicly (and to them, painfully) enforced in this country for many decades — in other words, the same essence of self-determination that impelled the settling and founding of this country, and that will someday inspire the founding of a new country if left unsatisfied.

If the author has some strange but perhaps well-intentioned goal of stifling religious people in America, he needs to realize that his efforts are doomed until he puts himself in their shoes; because until he does, his outreach will continue to come as a fist to an enemy instead of as an open palm to a friend.

My advice is this: Come to the middle, and see what you’re shooting at.

You could also review the account of captain Moroni, and explain to me how you would justify him being simultaneously as righteous as he was, and so brutally antagonistic against those of his own people who would not defend their land. Moroni puts Glenn Beck to shame on the ‘civility’ meter.

We have been commanded that “when ye shall see these things come among you that ye shall awake to a sense of your awful situation”. We’re told in the same verse “or wo be unto it, because of the blood of them who have been slain; for they cry from the dust for vengeance upon it, and also upon those who built it up”. Who do you think “built up” our current situation? We all did, with our voting. We are to blame. We better wake up. You can’t wake up without knowing the truth.

Glenn Beck is sincere in his efforts, but he’s just a man, like all of us. Why not focus on his research and conclusions, and worry less about his delivery.

He’s managed to help bring together hundreds (and counting) of religious leaders to support a common cause – that of encouraging us as a nation to return to God, however we might view Him, and whatever religion we might be. Those are results.

2) What leads you to believe your findings could be valuable to anyone else, especially the opposite sex?

3) What leads us to believe that Edward is truly mesmerized by Bella, or that Edward is focused on Bella’s eternal welfare? I always wonder how many other women has Edward seduced in this manner through the years, and what the results of those relationships were? Are we to believe that Edward is not just “gaming” Bella? If so, then why?

4) I always get a kick out of an article whose purpose is to describe what women think, presumably because of men’s misunderstanding, when in the same article we are treated to the clairvoyance of someone knowing exactly what men think. I don’t believe you know what men are thinking, though I have no doubt you expect everyone to believe you do, simply because you state it. I for one do not consider Edward (at least in the movies) handsome, or a drop-dead hunk. I do, however, consider myself quite handsome and physically strong (I pick my wife up routinely, and have been known to physically push her out of harm’s way), and at 44 years of age provide very well for my family, to the best of my ability protect them against all harm (emotional, spiritual, and physical), put up with very little b.s., while still retaining a full head of thick dark hair, dress very well, have abs that need no airbrushing, having served an honorable mission in a country arguably more civilized than my own (a debt of gratitude to all those in England who taught this once vulgar American how to dress and conduct himself in public), and am often told by my wife that I am hunky.

5) Sounds like you have some baggage to me. You didn’t really write all this stuff to pass on some ancient wisdom of women to all us ignorant men, did you? Sounds like what you really want is a real man in your life. I wish you the best of luck in finding one. My wife would read this article and say, “Yes, I agree, and I have all this…so what’s the big deal?” She has read all the books, and seen all the movies, compares and contrasts what she has read to what she has, and chooses me every time. In this I am not surprised.