Dr. Dobson's View of Our World Revealed

From incoming correspondence:

Another email circulating Dr. James Dobson going before some govt. agency to fight against the movement to remove Christian "stuff" from the airwaves. Subject: A VERY SERIOUS PETITION FOR OUR CHRISTIAN FAITH.

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Note: Yeah, Dobson is one of those special people who deserve their own special place in the hereafter. I would be thrilled to be able to fashion it for him! It would be a world where everything was random. Not "bad" or "good", just random. He would probably call it Hell.

He has taken over from Faldwell, Robertson, Reed, et al as a "evangelical leader from the right" using the same tactics as they did: a radio/TV "ministry", articles in newspapers/books/magazines. Unfortunately he expouses social ideas to the right of Attilla the Hun !! Spank children, women need to "allow and support" males as the head of the family, homosexuals are evil, Christians have a special obligation to "save others", etc, etc. Although as a professional man, he generally reserves his more intolerant ideas for his radio program, chosing to be somewhat more controlled when his comments can be transcribed or put in print.

I don't know if there is an email message emanating from him, or one the intolerant ninnies who support him; but it would not be a surprise that select email broadcasters would send around some propaganda favoring his worldview. Here's some more info on the guy:

He is the founder of "Focus on the Family"...(insert George Orwell's warning about misappropriation of the civil language)...a 21st Century recreation of life as seen by 15th Century English noblemen. Here's a choice transcription of a talk he gave on 07 February 1998 before the Council for National Policy that shows where he is coming from:
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[Full Text of Dr. Dobson's Address]

"What this is saying, in other words, is that the moral law of the universe antedated the physical universe, it came first. It was not as though the children of Israel wandered into the wilderness and the Lord looked at their behavior, and they're worshipping idols and they're doing all these wrong things, and he says, "Hmmm. Those folks need some rules," and so he calls Moses up into the hills and said, "Here are the Ten Commandments. This will help those people do better."

It is not that way at all. That moral foundation, that moral law, is eternal because it's an expression of God's own nature and it pre-dates the universe and it will outlast the physical laws. You can no more defy that moral law than you can jump off a ten-story building, because if anything, the moral law outranks the physical law. The physical law is going to pass away. His book says, "The heavens and the earth shall be rolled up like a scroll, and there will be a new heaven and a new earth, there'll be new physical laws, but the moral law is eternal."

He said his Word shall live forever. So that moral law has great significance and it says in the end of that chapter, "For whoever finds me, finds life and receives favor from the Lord. But whoever fails to find me harms himself and all who hate me, love death." The moral law of the universe.

What this is saying to me, and I hope to you, is that the universe has a boss. It has a boss and he has very clear ideas of what is right and what is wrong. It doesn't matter a whole lot what you think or what I think. What matters is what he thinks, because that moral law has been there from eternity and will be there to eternity, and if that is true, then we have an obligation to understand it and to respect it.

Now, I'm not talking today about dogma. I'm not talking about denominations. I'm not talking about churches. I'm talking about a law that's written on the heart of every human being. And this is the end of the Sunday School lesson. Romans 2:14 says ­­I'm going to paraphrase this ­­it says: "When the Gentiles," the non-Jews, "act in accordance with the law, having not heard the law, it shows that they have a law in themselves, written on their hearts, for their consciences either condemn or approve their behavior.

Now you can override that law and you can sear that conscience, and you can get beyond it, but it is there. It is there in all of us. It is programmed into the human spirit. You do not have to be taught that it is wrong to murder. You don't have to be taught that it's wrong to steal and to lie and to extort and to bribe and to oppress the poor and to express racial hatred and to be promiscuous, both homosexually and heterosexually. There's no difference between those two. Promiscuity is immoral. It's wrong, as is adultery. That law is eternal and it is written on the heart of man.

Now, the world doesn't accept that view. I want to tell you, that understanding that I just gave you ­­and forgive me for kind of being in a didactic mode, but that understanding provides the basis for my whole life, my whole world view, my understanding of where we are as a nation and what's going on in Washington and all the state houses of government. That's the foundation.

But as you know, there are many people that don't accept it today. We have already heard from David Noble and others who talked about other world views, primarily post-modernism. Post-modernism essentially rejects that explanation I just gave you. Post-modernism says there is no God and there is no eternal standard, there are no rules. You make them up as you go along, and what seems right is right.

There are no transcendent values that will stand from time to time. When human life becomes inconvenient, you can get rid of it, because it was not created by God, because there is no God, and it's all subjective and whimsical and you make up your ideas as the circumstances arise. And that post-modern notion, that there is no moral law to the universe, has taken hold and taken hold root like a cancer that's spread through this entire nation, and it continues to spread."
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