End of an Era: James Dobson Departs Focus on the Family

Life Site News ^ | 2-25-10 | Peter J. Smith

[mlizzy]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, February 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After 33 years at Focus on the Family, psychologist Dr. James Dobson bids farewell on Friday to the Christian ministry he founded, and brings his radio presence at the organization to an end. But the famous Christian commentator is not finished with the airwaves, as he has announced plans for a new, independent radio ministry following his departure.

Focus on the Family CEO and President Jim Daly told listeners of Focus on the Family’s radio program Wednesday that "this week marks the completion of a transition period that probably started more than 10 years ago."

Dobson stated that his intention in stepping down was to give responsibility to the younger generation, and ensure FOTF's future success by not inadvertently leaving it leaderless. Focus on the Family’s Citizenlink reports that Dobson, 73, will join Daly on the radio program later in the week “to discuss memories, his future and Focus on the Family's future.”

For decades, friends and foes have known Dobson - a signer of the recent Manhattan Declaration - as an outspoken champion of the right to life for the unborn, and tireless defender of the family and the institution of marriage.

Dobson's Focus on the Family radio program brought in an estimated 1.5 million listeners in the United States and over 220 million followers across the globe. There, Dobson made his voice a clarion call to pro-life and pro-family action through political involvement no less than prayer and ministry.

“If people of faith - the so-called values voters - don’t come out and let their voices be heard, there are going to be some major implications for this country,” Dobson warned his listeners in October 2006.

[LomanBill]

>>You’re rather that Christians don’t talk about money?

 

Nothing wrong talking about this...  (though so few religionists ever do):

Hos 12:7-8
7 The merchant uses dishonest scales;he loves to defraud.
8 Ephraim boasts, "I am very rich; I have become wealthy.
With all my wealth they will not find in me any iniquity or sin."
NIV

Talk about - or focused upon / obsessed with obtaining?  Big difference.   Do the Debt Industry's  commercials support "Christian" radio or is it vice versa?

 

Someone once asked me - If the love of money is the root of all evil, then why do religious institutions spend so much time focused upon, and begging for, it?

 

Good, reasonable, question.

 

And what did the spiritual gurus at FOF have to say about the monkey bidness that was built upon this unbalanced scale/McHouse of sand...

"...fraud, you probably think there should be rules against it, I think the market will figure it out."

--Alan "The Wizard" Greenspan

...??  Not much, evidently:

 

 

So much for protecting the sheeple from the wolves.

 

 

[LomanBill]

>>I have no idea what you’re talking about

 

How's that workin' for ya?

Braack! "I have no idea what you’re talking about"
Braack! "I have no idea what you’re talking about"
Braack! "I have no idea what you’re talking about"
Braack! "I have no idea what you’re talking about"
Braack! "I have no idea what you’re talking about"

Do Parrot feathers itch beneath the wool?

 

When's FOF going to run a series on the Roman-Syncretic, un-Christian, origins of Ishtar/Easter?

"The right to search for truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true."
--Albert Einstein

Seems to me FOF's antics are more demonstrative of an interest in mucking about with temporal governance than an interest in leading folks to the Truth - spiritual or otherwise.

[Theo]

You are one angry man.

Maybe search “Sub-prime mortgage” instead of “Subprime mortgage.” You’ll find a nice collection of articles.

You are so opinionated for one so ignorant.

[LomanBill]

>>You are one angry man.

So was He:

John 2:13-16
 14 In the temple courts he found men selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. 15 So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 16 To those who sold doves he said, "Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Father's house into a market!"
NIV

>>Maybe search “Sub-prime mortgage”...You’ll find a nice collection of articles.

Ok.... let's see:

 

One article on "Giving in tough times" (note the Focus, again) - that's your idea of a "nice collection"?  

 

Well yes, evidently Sup-prime Fraud certainly DID result in a nice collection... for the predators, and their enablers (spiritual and otherwise), on top of the Ponzi scheme.

 

 

And given The Debt Distress Industry's commercials on "Christian" radio there's evidently still bits of fleece Left Behind.... for further collection.