Topic: Dobson Says...
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Sun 04/12/09 09:59 AM
Interesting...

So, whatcha think folks? Is the country awash in evil?

Have the evangelicals "lost the culture wars"?

Are only church goers capable of being "good"?

In a farewell address to the staff of Focus on the Family, James Dobson conceded that evangelical conservatives had lost most of the recent so-called “culture war” battles. Attributing the right’s recent failures to the “internet” and the election of Bill Clinton, Dobson said, “Humanly speaking, we can say that we have lost.” He added that the nation is now “absolutely awash in evil“:

The battles that we fought in the Eighties now, we were victorious in many of those conflicts with the culture, trying to defend righteousness, trying to defend the unborn child, trying to preserve the dignity of the family and the definition of marriage. We fought all those battles and really it was a holding action. […]

[W]e made a lot of progress through the Eighties but then we turned into the Nineties and the internet came along and a new president came along and all of that went away and now we are absolutely awash in evil. And we are right now in the most discouraging period of that long conflict. Humanly speaking, we can say that we have lost all those battles, but God is in control and we are not going to give up now, right?

Steve Benen writes, “[W]hether Dobson and his cohorts give up now or not, his assessment about their lack of success is nevertheless accurate.”
From Think Progress

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Sun 04/12/09 11:29 AM

Interesting...

So, whatcha think folks? Is the country awash in evil?

Have the evangelicals "lost the culture wars"?

Are only church goers capable of being "good"?

In a farewell address to the staff of Focus on the Family, James Dobson conceded that evangelical conservatives had lost most of the recent so-called “culture war” battles. Attributing the right’s recent failures to the “internet” and the election of Bill Clinton, Dobson said, “Humanly speaking, we can say that we have lost.” He added that the nation is now “absolutely awash in evil“:

The battles that we fought in the Eighties now, we were victorious in many of those conflicts with the culture, trying to defend righteousness, trying to defend the unborn child, trying to preserve the dignity of the family and the definition of marriage. We fought all those battles and really it was a holding action. […]

[W]e made a lot of progress through the Eighties but then we turned into the Nineties and the internet came along and a new president came along and all of that went away and now we are absolutely awash in evil. And we are right now in the most discouraging period of that long conflict. Humanly speaking, we can say that we have lost all those battles, but God is in control and we are not going to give up now, right?

Steve Benen writes, “[W]hether Dobson and his cohorts give up now or not, his assessment about their lack of success is nevertheless accurate.”
From Think Progress

waving Good riddance to James Dobsonwaving

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Sun 04/12/09 11:31 AM
evil godless heathens

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Sun 04/12/09 11:32 AM
I find it sad that religion has such a face in politics, I'll be glad when it seperates itself from our country...personally, I think religion is evil but that's just me and I have my reasons.

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Sun 04/12/09 12:02 PM
I think that those pastors who have a bad habit of chasing limelight harder than they do applying their faith in their own lives have by far, more problems to worry about than Bill Clinton and the Internet.

I also would add, that any of those pastors that have joined the Clergy Response Teams, have a special hell waiting for them.

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Sun 04/12/09 12:07 PM

I think that those pastors who have a bad habit of chasing limelight harder than they do applying their faith in their own lives have by far, more problems to worry about than Bill Clinton and the Internet.

I also would add, that any of those pastors that have joined the Clergy Response Teams, have a special hell waiting for them.
bigsmile I agree WM.bigsmile I hope they burndrinker

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Sun 04/12/09 08:09 PM
Oh my, poor James... It's all about control and poor thing has lost that control, but I am sure he'll keep trying.