Thursday, August 12th, 2010
What Wives Wish Their Husbands Knew About Women: While my marriage comments are inclusive of fundamentalism as a whole, Dobson is typically conservative and arrogant about what women want (all of them, mind you, not just some). He holds a pretty traditional view on women and marriage. Submission means something different to just about everyone, [...]
Tags: Christianity, Dobson, Focus on the Family
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
Dare to Discipline: This gets a little confusing. On one hand, Dobson gives tons of ammunition to parents who believe in spanking. On the other hand, he does speak out against abuse. Anyone who has ever abused a child — or has ever felt himself losing control during a spanking — should not expose the [...]
Tags: Christianity, Dare to Discipline, Dobson, Focus on the Family
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Monday, August 9th, 2010
I have talked a bit before on how Focus on the Family is deceptive, etc, but it came up on Jen’s blog comments yesterday, when I about went psycho (sorry, Jen). I love Jen’s blog, and have been reading her since long before Boobquake. However, I think I found the article kind of triggering after [...]
Tags: abuse, Dobson, Focus on the Family
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
In celebration of Dr. Dobson’s resignation from the board of executives of FotF, I thought I would say something nice about the man. Dr. Dobson, I must thank you for one thing: Without your materials on harsh discipline, conservative politics, and twisted theology and studies, I would have never become an atheist!
Tags: atheism, Dr. Dobson, Dr. Dobson resign, Focus on the Family
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Sunday, January 25th, 2009
This is the final post in a four part series on the problems I have with FOTF. The first post can be found here, the second here, and third here. 5. I don’t appreciate his fear-mongering tactics. His Letter from a Christian in 2012 is a prime example of that–taking Obama’s ideas to an extreme, [...]
Tags: Christianity, Focus on the Family, fundamentalism, Gary Alexander-Moegerle, gay, homosexuality, James Dobson, juvenile death penalty, religion
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009
Click here for part one of this post, and here for part two. 4. The amount of pride and judgment shown by FOTF is not reflective of the humility taught by Christ. You would think that the failure of Mike Huckabee to become the Republican nominee would show FOTF and the moral “majority” that their [...]
Tags: Christianity, Dobson, Focus on the Family, liberal, religion
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Saturday, January 17th, 2009
This post is a continuation of a previous post. It is part two of a three or four part series on why I don’t like Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family. 2. Dr. Dobson’s views on discipline do not reflect those of a person with training in child development. Eighteen months is the [...]
Tags: Christianity, Focus on the Family, James Dobson, parenting, religion
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
Many people know I am not a huge Dobson fan. I used to be, but saw through his tactics and fear-mongering when I went to college (note: this is the conservative Christian college I attended, not a secular or liberal school hellbent on proving his ideas wrong). Even while still a moderately conservative Christian, he [...]
Tags: Christianity, Focus on the Family, religion, religious right, right wing
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
My Dear Fellow Atheists, After Sarah Palin won the election in 2012, there have been quite a lot of changes! I can no longer proclaim my atheism without being attacked by the mob, for Sarah Palin has mandated that, as we are a Christian nation, it is time we all start going to church every [...]
Tags: atheism, Dobson, Focus on the Family, Letter from a Christian in 2012, Politics, Sarah Palin
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Sunday, November 9th, 2008
After reading Dobson’s Letter from a Christian in 2012, I wrote an email to him. Not because I thought it would do any good, but because I wanted to be one of many. I received a response from him a few days ago. It is rather long and a good chunk of it is irrelevent [...]
Tags: atheism, Christianity, Dobson, Focus on the Family, Letter from a Christian in 2008, Politics, religion
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