If mclame can kick the Christians off the ‘truth’ bus....Fred will be different, and kick the Christians out of his ‘red’ truck.
I don’t think Thompson’s kicking anyone out.
Whatever Dobson might think Dobsonite isn’t the same thing as Christian.
At the time he asserted Thompson wasn’t a Christian, I observed that as a mere subdeacon of the Patriarchate of Antioch (where the disciples were first called Christians) I had a better claim to the name than Dobson, and to deciding who got to bear it. Neither I nor my bishop would deny the name ‘Christian’ to someone just because he was lax in their church attendance, nor even because he wasn’t in communion with us.
Quite frankly, questioning someone’s faith, as Dobson did of Thompson, unless the person is an notorious sinner who does not repent after correction or has denied a major doctrine, or the questioner is his spiritual father and knows the weakness of the person’s faith and questions it to strenghten it, is an insult for which the questioner deserves to apologize.
As Thompson is neither a notorious unrepentent sinner, nor an apostate, and Dobson has never even met him, much less gained enough insight into his spiritual state to question his faith as a means of correction, Dobson owes him a public and forthright apology.
Thompson’s attitude can hardly be characterized as kicking Christians anywhere, unless maybe you regard Dobson as your Pope, and his declaration of Thompson’s non-Christianity to be an infallible ex cathedra pronouncement.
Dobson was the one dumping on Thompson. But Dobson is just one man, who was clearly in the yank for Gingrich (what'll Dobson do now that Gingrich bailed?) and Thomson isn't going to kiss his ring.
I'm an evangelical Christian, and I have no problems with Thompson, nor is he trying to "kick" me out of anywhere.
Dobson's attitude toward Fred Thompson has been anything but "Christian". He has made false accusations against Fred Thompson and suggests that because his approach to Roe v. Wade is not the same approach that Dobson takes, that somehow Fred Thompson is going to be unacceptable to Christians like Dobson.
I used to think that Dobson was a pretty good guy. Right now he is either senile or stupid. Dobson represents the stupid wing of the Evangelical movement. I don't consider myself a member of that wing.
Dobson can go pound sand. This Christian is voting for Fred Thompson.
I’m Christian and Dobson doesn’t speak for me. I’m riding the Red Truck ..with dear rifle in hand, and I’m not alone.