So James Dobson, of Focus on the Family fame, has conceded defeat in the culture wars. And the principle reason for this? A President who has been out of power for more than eight years.
This is surely wonderful news for Christians and the Church. Freed of Constantinian theocratic pretensions, we are much freer to be what we were always meant to be: the presence of Christ in the world -- not the United States at prayer and not a wing of the Republican Party and not neo-pharisees.
Dobson's strategy in the so-called culture wars has always seemed to me to be one of judgment and hatred couched in Orwellian newspeak. It seemed diametrically opposed to the love and acceptance preached and lived by Jesus in his life, death and resurrection and by the early Church. Christ did not judge sinners, but rather those who judged sinners themselves. The Pharisees, the most righteous of people, were his principle target. One wonders how kindly He would judge Dr. Dobson.
Dobson believes that the Church and Christians must fight on. But perhaps God's message here is that we have been fundamentally misguided and that we need to radically redirect our efforts.
Anyways, here it is from the horse's mouth, so to speak
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