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RE: Try to contain your excitment! Focus on the Family - 11/26/2008 10:20:57 AM
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ManimalX
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I guess we do. I listen the the radio broadcast every day, and it will be weeks in between any type of political message. FotF really DOE focus on family issues. Adoption, marriage, discipline, reconciliation, dealing with disabilities... just a few of the many topics all covered during the recent election cycle while everyone else was completely politics all of the time. There was no "transition from ministry to politics", there is only the occasional message from Focus on the Family Action. Your spite-filled title of "Dr. Self Righteous" is quite simply undeserved, and it demonstrates that your politics rule you , as you can't see the forest for the trees. If not that, then you must be mistaken as to which radio program you were listening to. I have never heard Dr. Dobson get on the air and say something like, "Listen to me people, I am so smart. Because I am so smart, you had better do XYZ or you are just a moron. Be like me and do what I do if you want to be as good as me". THAT is self-righteousness. No. Instead he is constantly pointing out that he is flawed and only a man, and approaches things with a, "this is what the Bible says, and THAT is why we need to heed it. Here is how Christ did something, how about we do the same" mentality.
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RE: Try to contain your excitment! Focus on the Family - 11/26/2008 10:43:41 AM
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cow451
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ORIGINAL: ManimalX I guess we do. I listen the the radio broadcast every day, and it will be weeks in between any type of political message. FotF really DOE focus on family issues. Adoption, marriage, discipline, reconciliation, dealing with disabilities... just a few of the many topics all covered during the recent election cycle while everyone else was completely politics all of the time. There was no "transition from ministry to politics", there is only the occasional message from Focus on the Family Action. Your spite-filled title of "Dr. Self Righteous" is quite simply undeserved, and it demonstrates that your politics rule you , as you can't see the forest for the trees. If not that, then you must be mistaken as to which radio program you were listening to. I have never heard Dr. Dobson get on the air and say something like, "Listen to me people, I am so smart. Because I am so smart, you had better do XYZ or you are just a moron. Be like me and do what I do if you want to be as good as me". THAT is self-righteousness. No. Instead he is constantly pointing out that he is flawed and only a man, and approaches things with a, "this is what the Bible says, and THAT is why we need to heed it. Here is how Christ did something, how about we do the same" mentality. Sounds like he is getting back to what the ministry was founded on. That's good. From 2004: He's already leveraging his new power. When a thank-you call came from the White House, Dobson issued the staffer a blunt warning that Bush "needs to be more aggressive" about pressing the religious right's pro-life, anti-gay rights agenda, or it would "pay a price in four years." And when the pro-choice Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter made conciliatory noises about appointing moderates to the Supreme Court, Dobson launched a fevered campaign to prevent him from assuming the chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which until then he had been expected to inherit. Dobson is now a Republican kingmaker.
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RE: Try to contain your excitment! Focus on the Family - 11/26/2008 5:25:39 PM
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ManimalX
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I guess I don't see any problem with anything in that article, except it is just some guy's opinion trying to come off as fact. Just because Michael Crowley decides to use the "kingmaker" label doesn't make it true. What is true is that Dr. Dobson represents the voices of A LOT of conservative Christians and he has the platform to get them organized. Why is it wrong or self-righteous to bring biblical Christian beliefs to bear on government? It isn't like government is immune to being subjected to Christian values, especially since for a Christian in a representative republic like the USA to NOT bring their faith into government is to seriously fail in their duty to take the light of Christ EVERYWHERE they go.
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