The lawn concert on Saturday turned out to be a massive Christian revival -- complete with financial bilking (but that's a different story). And there was a lesser known event Friday night at the Kennedy Center called "America’s Divine Destiny" that was even more religious than the concert itself. At this event, Beck established what, exactly, he was selling.
“We are 12 hours away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America. It has nothing to do with this city or politics, it has everything to do with God Almighty.”
...So please give generously. Wow. That's amazing. How exactly is he expecting to do this? He might as well have said, "We're 12 hours from pooping rainbows and flying a rocket ship to the chocolate galaxy." It would have been equally as realistic. But that's the money-maker. Promising huge things to people who are vulnerable to believe. Exploiting their naiveté.
The weirdest aspect of Beck as a televangelist is that he's a Mormon. Most of the evangelical community, and many Christians, believe that Mormonism is a cult.