Here is the latest rant from the fading power base of the religious right which is represented by Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and James Dobson. Fortunately, this powerbase is waning and the old guard is changing to guys like Jim Wallis and Shane Claiborne.
JD decided to write a fear-mongering letter predicting the end of the world if Obama is elected. He basically calls all of us who would dare to vote against him (JD and the Religious Right that is) as heretics who dont care about life and have lost the biblical message. It is unfortunate that he uses fear to try to motivate people to do what he wants and fortunately he didnt succeed. Here is the link to 2012 — Hell is coming… or something like that..
http://focusfamaction.edgeboss.net/download/focusfamaction/pdfs/10-22-08_2012letter.pdf
In response I thought Jim Wallis wrote a note that gives me a little bit of hope in Christians around the world to not blindly follow vocal leaders like JD.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-wallis/james-dobsons-letter-from_b_139253.html
November 13, 2008 at 12:43 am
“Christians should be committed to the kingdom of God, not the kingdom of America,”
I think this was my favorite line from the Jim Wallis article.
February 8, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Certainly many of the things that JD said are true but even though He is wrong in the point that the future of USA doesn’t depend on Obama’s election. That is going to happen with or without Obama. In the Bible it was written, almost two thousand years ago, so it will be the world corrupted by the sin of man. So there is nothing we can do to avoid it, certainly the world will be destroyed. But not everything is bad in this story. Is true we can not do anything to prevent this corruption, but we still can escape it, and prevent our children be corrupted. How to do it? The answer is simple and you probably already know it… The solution is to approach God, ask forgiveness for our sins and let Him guide you in the midst of this lost and corrupted world. I invite you to do it and you will see is not a lie what I’m saying.