Posted on 09/19/2007 7:14:10 PM PDT by pissant
Thanks!
Not immoral laws. But you cannot dicate with laws personal morality issues. Yes you can legislate a basic moral code like no murder, no robbery, but you cannot legislate people’s private lives from a federal level. Until you change people’s hearts and minds, you are wasting your time.
Sorry if that sounds cowardice to you but it’s cold heart reality. And how is it cowardice to change people’s hearts as opposed to simply passing legislation that most people won’t follow? Which is harder...pass a bill or get out in the community and work to change people’s hearts by telling them the truth of the gospel? Trust me, as a youth pastor in an urban church, it was far harder to change the hearts of kids who grew up in one parent homes and drug dealers on street corners than simply sit in a office on the Potomac and have an aide write a bill. I counted myself blessed when the girls in my group didn’t end up with babies themselves or the boys didn’t end up in gangs or on a slab in the morgue. I’m willing to bet that I changed more hearts and minds through the church than any politician in any legislative body.
It isn't secrecy. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints holds the Temples and the ordinances there to be sacred. So sacred that even worthy, Temple-attending members are not even supposed to discuss the details amongst themselves outside of the Temple's confines. I'm sorry if you can't understand how people can hold a place or certain things to be so holy, or sacred, that they should be protected from things or activities which would defile them.
“Dobson, I respect you, and believe you to be a decent and holy man, but please do the world a favor on this: STFU!”
I guess the right to free speech doesn’t apply to certain people? Like something straight out of Berkeley.
So you will let someone else tell you how to vote? Maybe we made a mistake in 1920.
The word “Trinity” is not mention in Scriptures either. Yet many claim Mormons are not Christian because we do not use the evangelical definition of the trinity, which evolved over time between 300 and 400 A.D. that God is “one indivisable substance in three persons.” Mormons view the godhead separately as Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost who are one in spirit and purpose, but three separate beings, as revealed in the Scriptures.
Since this evangelical definition of the Trinity was not complete until nearly 400 years after the death of Christ, then the prophets and the apostles identified in the Bible are not Christians in that sense, since the “trinity” and its definition are not found in either the scriptures or in the writings of early Christian leaders.
It doesn’t matter to me if you think I’m a Christian or not. Only God knows my heart.
I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
I respect you, and believe you to be a decent and holy man, but please do the world a favor on this...
We all have our blind spots!
Good Night and God Bless :^)
“That meant I went 8 years without missing more than 2 Sundays a year. Beat that! LOL”
You’ve got me beat....lol. You show no mercy....I give, I give.
I know many churches have rules but I’ve never heard of one that wouldn’t let nearly half the members in the church!
Social conservatism is big down here...maybe...more so in Dixie with white voters then in the mid South
just see the red state maps
My favorite thing on Dobson is that he believes in discipline....
I think he lives in California actually...
btw...I am with Fred more or less
He should at least discuss the private nature of the email on his show and clarify that it's not an endorsement by his organization, and then drop the subject. He should also find out who leaked the email and make them damn sorry they did.
“If he has no chance, why the constant bashing. Sounds like you are trying to convince yourself.
None of us, as far as I know, started bashing Hunter until Hunter supporters started bashing Fred. Get some of your more nasty supporters to lay off and I guarantee you 95% of the Fredheads who are bashing Hunter will shut up. I’m not one of them by the way. I’ve never had anything but praise for Hunter.”
Exactly. The way I see it is Thompson/Hunter ‘08
Good night, sweet prince or sweet princess.
Think Jesse Jackson, but white and evangelical.
Maybe it wasn't real funny because some of it is too close to the truth...hmmmmm.
I've always liked Dobson but he bombed on this one.
We have one of those radio evangelists in our family,,,
The best description:
Greedy!
“Think Jesse Jackson, but white and evangelical.”
Do you listen to Focus on the Family? Have you read any of Dr Dobson’s books?
As this article suggests, and you may underestimate Dobson if you wish, Fred is not palatable to the Christian Right. Will he get some to vote for him (yourself included)? Undoubtedly so, but will he be able to turn them out en-masse? I think not.
Maybe we'll find out when we see the next leaked e-mail...
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