Not trying to pick a fight -
Have you or have you not heard leftists use that shortened version to justify not judging behaviors as right and wrong, productive or destructive? That’s the biggest (and only) sin to a leftist - judging someone’s behaviorial choices, though they don’t seem to think it’s a sin to hate conservative/traditional values.
Bott radio had a speaker on about a month ago that brought up the fact that the most oft-quoted bible verse used to be John 3:16, and now it is the “judge not” (without the “same measure”) verse.
Yes, I have heard liberals use it, they are notorious for picking and choosing which parts of the Bible they will use. You can take lots of things out of context in the Bible - that’s been going on forever.
I responded to what Dobson said because it makes me sick to hear people say someone is not a Christian. Yes, there are those who it is as obvious as the light of day that they are not Christians - usually those individuals will loudly proclaim they are anti-Christian. But I don’t see anything in Fred Thompson’s past to make me think that what Dobson is attributed to having said about him is even remotely true.
If a person says they are Christian, I will take them at their word & give them the benefit of the doubt - I’ll let the Lord handle that for all of us. Dobson messed up & he should be very public in clarifying his statements - he hasn’t done that, so I tend to believe that he really said that. I think he has a little ego problem himself where he thinks he is in a position to state who is “Christian enough” or not - according to him. That really turns me off.
I’m not picking a fight either - I understand where you were coming from. I just didn’t want to leave the impression that I was a liberal - far, far from it. I must go to work now - have a nice day. :-)