Across the hinterland this Election Eve, guess who is exciting fear and fear mongering amongst the gun owners, the religious and the exurban minded? —James Dobson.
James Dobson has backslid into a crass cynicism about America. Election Eve has become his "dark night of the soul" Dobson has gone bone-ugly, Anti-Jesus. SEE: Full Text of Dobson's Letter @
http://focusfamaction.edgeboss.net/...
UPDATE: See Kos posting: James Dobson Sends Fear Letter and I Got a Hold of It!@ http://www.dailykos.com/...
Dobson knows but doesn’t care, or doesn’t know or care, that by his playing the "religious persecution" and "fear of sinners" cards in his terse and fear laden--just published diatribe--he's unleashing a cultural war, a Pandora's box.
Much more below the fold....
Dobson hopes to rally to the polling places that same combination of fundamentalist religion and Christian Xenophobes that were so successfully rallied in the 1920’s against Al Smith and a long list of "dangerous people" by blustering ministers and segregationist politicians--who were allied with, and part of the revival of the KKK during that dark dank time.
Dobson is playing with hellfire.
Putting together 14 pages of diatribe, Dobson and whomever from the National Republican Party he taps for the official party line, Dobson has made an impassioned 11th hour plea for his followers to turn out the vote for McCain using his letter penned as though it were "a look back from 2012" where things, in Dobson’s dire view have gone to Hell in America.
This tome is one of the saddest outpourings of a man who once was held in a place of high esteem across all political lines, over the years, as a genteel and reasonable guide on family matters and child raising.
As Dobson’s speaking card has filled, and his massive publishing, Christian materials and advice giving operation (valued in the range of $150 to $200 million) has grown, and his audience across the nation on a week day basis has exceeded 7 million, Dobson has morphed from a people-centered –Jesus-person into a raging Pharisee--a self-made arbiter of all pubic morals. Dobson has now become the key element in making the GOP the "Come to Jesus Party."
A Good Summary on Dobson's rise: On The Eighth Day, Dr. Dobson Created Himself, @ http://www.5280.com/...
Dobson is now the national scold, the moral arbitrator of both what "Christian morals" should be and also as to what is and who are the real defenders of both the Christian faith, tradition, and the right kind of politics. What is so enthralling is, Dobson has continuously striven and agonized over the "lost" of principles and morals in the country . His is the deliberate attempt to co-opt, seize the reigns of political power to enforce and create Dobson’s own ideas of a Christian utopia.
Dobson has threatened the Republican Party with withdrawal and the startup of a new high morals, strict principles party. He has picked out politicians who stand in his way as "enemies of God" and even attempted to turn parents on SpongeBob. All the while, Dobson humbly claims he has little power or influence in public matters.
Quoted from: On The Eighth Day, Dr. Dobson Created Himself
"I didn’t ask for that significance," Dobson demurs. "I find myself in a position of visibility, but it’s got its liabilities."
Having failed in his own estimate, and now here in the final hours of the Bush administration amid the ruins of failed policies, some of which Dobson has championed and which Dobson has so ardently and faithfully supported and urged his audience and followers to also defend and follow, Dobson is in utter despair and fraught with palpable terror, angst, and anger. Dobson is part of a cabal of ideologues which has used the religious folk of America to enable an historic civic and economic disaster in the United States and around the world.
Without Dobson there would have been no Bush presidency.
Dobson’s letter hits all the "low" spots in his crusade to hector the country. The letter written as a prediction in the form of a revelation of the future if: Obama wins according to the Dobson Doctrine and admonitions this is what will happen:
So here is a picture of the changes that are likely or at least very possible if Senator Obama is elected and the far-left segments of the Democratic Party gain control of the White House, the Congress, and perhaps then the Supreme Court.
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This letter is not "predicting" that all of the imaginative future "events" named in this letter will happen. But it is saying that each one of these changes could happen and also that each change would be a the natural outcome of (a) published legal opinions already written by liberal judges, (b) trends already seen in states with liberal-dominated courts such as California and Massachusetts, (c) recent past promises, practices, and legislative initiatives of the current liberal leadership of the Democratic Party and (d) Senator Obama’s previous actions, previous voting record, and previous public promises to the far-left groups that won the nomination for him.
Many of these changes, if they occur, will have significant implications for Christians. This letter is addressed particularly to their concerns so they will be aware of what is at stake before the November 4 election.
The body of Dobson’s letter starts out by saying:
The 2008 election was closer than anybody expected, but Barack Obama still won. Many Christians voted for Obama – younger evangelicals actually provided him with the needed margin to defeat John McCain – but they didn’t think he would really follow through on the far left policies that had marked his entire previous career. They were wrong.
Thus throughout the letter Dobson’s "others" are the gay community, secularists, tax advocates, pro-choice advocates, far-left liberals of all stripes, anti-gun advocates, advocates for separation of church and state, supporters of anti-hate speech, non-Christian religious, peace advocates, supporters of the UN, etc.
It seems supremely important that James Dobson be on the written record as showing his prophetic skills foreseeing the utter collapse of many institutions and public entities: The Boy Scouts, Far Right Radio, Christian Broadcasting, Christian books and publishing, the integrity of Church autonomy, etc.
The harshness and the thinly disguised hatred in his writing projects outward toward Dobson’s imagined enemies. The very traits and spirit he is displaying in his Anti-Jesus rant have become his. It’s for certain what Dobson sees is not the hand of Jesus but the sword of the Lord and the vengeance of the 7 horsemen of Revelations’ apocalypse.
In one scenario Dobson paints this picture homosexuality will be forced into the national curriculum consequently:
Many Christian teachers objected to teaching first graders that homosexuality was morally neutral and equal to heterosexuality. They said it violated their consciences to have to teach something the Bible viewed as morally wrong. But state after state ruled that their refusal
to teach positively about homosexuality was the equivalent of hate speech, and they had to teach it or be fired. Tens of thousands of Christian teachers either quit or were fired, and there are
hardly any evangelical teachers in public schools any more.
Dobson also targets churchgoers with this prediction:
Church buildings (in 2012) are now considered a "public accommodation" by the United States Supreme Court and churches have no freedom to refuse to allow their buildings to be used for wedding ceremonies for homosexual couples. If they refuse, they lose their tax exempt status, and they are increasingly becoming subject to fines and anti-discrimination lawsuits.
On Terror, Dobson foresees the situation in 2012:
Since 2009 terrorist bombs have exploded in two large and two small U.S. cities, killing hundreds, and the entire country is now fearful, for no place seems safe. President Obama in each case has vowed "to pursue and arrest and prosecute those responsible," but no arrests have yet been made. However, he has also challenged the nation to increase foreign aid to the poorer nations that were the breeding grounds for terrorism, so that people could have an opportunity to escape from the cycles of poverty and violence in which generations had been trapped.
Dobson prediction on gun ownership by 2012:
It is now illegal for private citizens to own guns for self defense in eight states, and the number is growing with increasing Democratic control of state legislatures and governorships
The antidote, as the Dobson’s letter implores is: Go to the polls and save yourself, your church, your nation, your soul, by voting McCain or suffer persecution and dire consequences in 4 short years under Obama. With Dobson there is no ray of light, no hope, just hell, if those Far- Left-Liberals gain political power in this election.
Throughout, Dobson carries on his tirade about the reign of terror that could occur if McCain loses, doing so Dobson is actually spelling out--in reverse--the kinds of trauma that may afflict the country if McCain should win and McCain/Palin (with Dobson's ilk help) enforce and bring about the kinds of changes Dobson and other religiously motivated Fundamentalist politicians have long strongly advocated for. Christian dominionism is an ugly new threat to America and Dobson’s letter is based on Dominionism’s ugly gospel, its new epistle and noteworthy prophecy.
If McCain doesn’t win, it is obvious the era of powerful Dobsonian domination may well be sharply diminished.