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Dobson: Obama distorted the Bible.

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Just turn your irony meter off. No sense blowing up a perfectly good piece of fictional equipment on this story.

James Dobson Accuses Obama Of 'Distorting' Bible
Dobson and Minnery accused Obama of wrongly equating Old Testament texts and dietary codes that no longer apply to Jesus' teachings in the New Testament.

"I think he's deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own worldview, his own confused theology," Dobson said.

"... He is dragging biblical understanding through the gutter."
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(See? Told ya.)
 
An interesting article about Americans' tolerance for other religions/views ...


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25334489/


... Among the more startling numbers in the survey, conducted last year by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life: 57 percent of evangelical church attendees said they believe many religions can lead to eternal life, in conflict with traditional evangelical teaching.

In all, 70 percent of Americans with a religious affiliation shared that view, and 68 percent said there is more than one true way to interpret the teachings of their own religion. ...
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Other than trying to stir up the the far right evangelicals, I don't see Dobson getting any traction with this. He still isn't endorsing McCain yet either.
 
Feh...

James Dobson, accuses the likely Democratic presidential nominee of distorting the Bible and pushing a "fruitcake interpretation" of the Constitution.
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Just as bad, if not worse.

Lets see... Obama taught Constitutional Law, and at one of the most conservative Law Schools in the country at that. The faculty and students spoke highly of his work there.

Dobson? Right wing ninny with no background in constitutional law besides making uneducated statements about same.
 
Wasn't Dobson the guy who said your son won't be gay if you as a father shower with him?
 
corplinx said:
Wasn't Dobson the guy who said your son won't be gay if you as a father shower with him?
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Sorta
[T]he boy's father has to do his part. He needs to mirror and affirm his son's maleness. He can play rough-and-tumble games with his son, in ways that are decidedly different from the games he would play with a little girl. He can help his son learn to throw and catch a ball. He can teach him to pound a square wooden peg into a square hole in a pegboard. He can even take his son with him into the shower, where the boy cannot help but notice that Dad has a penis, just like his, only bigger.
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He can teach him to pound a square wooden peg into a square hole in a pegboard
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Because pounding a round peg into a puckered starfish shaped hole is just too gay.
 
Upchurch said:
Just turn your irony meter off. No sense blowing up a perfectly good piece of fictional equipment on this story.

James Dobson Accuses Obama Of 'Distorting' Bible

(See? Told ya.)
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I also just saw it at CNN. So once again the MSM is going to take a look into the fantastically-sensationalistic Hogwash here - rather than going to address Obama's and Mc-Cain's stances about Americas Future... :rolleyes:

So is the Bible-Belt already upset about those "breakin' Noise"? :confused::rolleyes:
 
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Oliver said:
I also just saw it at CNN. So once again the MSM is going to take a look into the fantastically-sensationalistic Hogwash here - rather than going to address Obama's and Mc-Cain's stances about Americas Future... :rolleyes:

So is the Bible-Belt already upset about those "breakin' Noise"? :confused::rolleyes:
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Oh yes; I'm told my former KJV-onlyist Baptist church intends to do a full sermon about it in service tommorow. They fear that Obama's pull with the youth may corrupt their biblical literalist children.

ETA: From Dobson's Wiki: "James Clayton "Jim" Dobson (born April 21, 1936 in Shreveport, Louisiana) is an American evangelical Christian, nutjob and chairman of the board of Focus on the Family, a nonprofit organization he founded in 1977, from which he has never drawn a salary, but which has promoted his related books and publications, yielding him substantial royalties."

You've gotta love internet immaturity. :D
 
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I'm not a religious person myself, but Obama's point about Leviticus and slavery is sophomoric.
 
So what did Jack Abramoff, Ralph Reed and Tom DeLay do? And to think that good christian George W. Bush claimed he didn"t know Jack Abramoff.
 
Brainster said:
I'm not a religious person myself, but Obama's point about Leviticus and slavery is sophomoric.
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Agreed. Why even go there? I don't mind making the argument myself, as it's very instructive of how religious adherence to sacred texts is always expediently selective. But I prefer my politicians to stear clear of arguments related to theology. It comes across as snark, and it only stirs up the natives.

Who on Earth wants to get into a factual dispute with biblical literalists? Especially the facts that Obama picked to expound on. The whole Jesus told us to ignore some [unspecified] of that stuff ploy is always waiting.
 
This has nothing to do with Obama. Dobson's pissed because his old guard, conservative evangelism is on the wan. On the serious wan.

At one time not too many years ago he was king-maker. Bush, McCain, DeLay, et. al. paid him homage and, in return, he delivered the votes. All was good in WingNutland.

But of late many evangelicals have broadened their concerns beyond gays and guns. They worry about global warming, taking care of the poor, and the like. Dobson doesn't give a crap about these types of issues so he uses Obama as a stalking horse.

It's a classic scenario. A powerful person with access to high places finds himself increasingly irrelevant, or even worse, an embarrassement. This will be fascinating to follow no matter where you stand on the political spectrum.
 
Brainster said:
I'm not a religious person myself, but Obama's point about Leviticus and slavery is sophomoric.
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How is it sophomoric? Here is what Obama stated:

"Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK ... ?"

Leviticus 25:44-46 does describe rules for how slaves are to be treated:

44 "'As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have; of the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves. 45 Moreover of the children of the strangers who sojourn among you, of them you may buy, and of their families who are with you, which they have conceived in your land; and they will be your property. 46 You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them may you take your slaves forever: but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(World_English)/Leviticus#Chapter_25


So again, how is Obama's point sophomoric?
 
That's my understanding.

The only thing I could think is that it might be foolish to wade into theological discussions as a politician. However, that's the aspect I admire about Obama. It's one of the examples of "a break from politics as usual". I wished we saw more of that recently.

Right now, Obama is playing to win. Which is the smart thing to do, but disappointing.
 
He's just making a quick and easy jab rather than get caught up in some abstract discussion that gives the issue far too much credit.

Which satisfies suddenly's first and third laws of politics:

1) Never defend, always attack.

2) Never look like a dork.

3) The side that can express its position in the quickest and simplest terms wins.
 
Pookster said:
How is it sophomoric? Here is what Obama stated:

"Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK ... ?"
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So he's calling the Jews slavers here?

Won't AIPAC be pleased!

Obama is not a theologian, nor a preacher. His uses of the Bible and references to it, will tend to be political. (At least in public utterances.)

Duhobson might want to figure that into his thinking.

DR
 
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