Land was a guest on today's All Things Considered and shot a couple of holes in Beck's Balloon. First, unlike Beck, Land DOES recognize that Obama is a Christian:
SIEGEL: Are you concerned about what Glenn Beck has said, for example, on "FOX News Sunday," yesterday, more pointedly than from the podium on Saturday, that Americans do not recognize President Obama's brand of Christianity? And you share that belief, by the way.
Dr. LAND: Oh, I recognize it. To me, he's a very typical, mainline, liberal, Protestant Christian. I know lots of people like the president and who have been deeply influenced by liberation theology.
Land then make the obvious Fundie remark about Mormonism:
SIEGEL: Glenn Beck is a Mormon. Is that brand of Christianity as distant or more so from yours than the National Council of Churches mainline Protestantism you...
Dr. LAND: Probably more so.
SIEGEL: More so.
Dr. LAND: And look, Glenn knows this. He said, look, I'm a Mormon. Most Christians don't think that I'm a Christian. And so, you know, I'll quote the pope, when he's talking about liberation theology.
I do not think Mormonism is an orthodox Christian faith, with a small O. I think perhaps the most charitable way for an evangelical Christian to look at Mormonism is to look at Mormonism as the fourth Abrahamic faith.
SIEGEL: Not a Christian faith.
Dr. LAND: Not a Christian faith.
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Glenn Beck and Obama both defended Israel's attack on the flotilla
and attack on Gaza, one in more
low key fashion than the other.
Both appear to be Christian Zionists de facto if not doctrinal de jure.
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