Yeah, I hate to be the one to break it to them, but the country is *not* only christian, and even among the Christians, there are differences of opinion. Public policy cannot be made based on religious principles in a nation that encourages diversity of faiths.
I noticed that Dobson said "well, of course we shouldn't stone our kids, that's the Old Testament - Obama just isn't reading the Bible correctly" but no one has offered up exactly what criteria is used to determine which parts of the bible are to be ignored or treated as analogy and which are to be taken literally and as the basis for public policy, or how that criteria is determined.
It still boggles my mind that something like this is even considered newsworthy, or that the opinion of a showman like Dobson regarding a politician's interpretation of a book of pre-industrial fables matters to anyone.
To his credit, Obama's statements are among the most reasonable and sensible that I've heard a believer make regarding their religious text. I guess it naturally follows that a high-ranking evangelical Christian would find such even-handedness abhorrent and intolerable.
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A pox on Dobson for his anti-fruitcake propaganda!
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Yeah, I hate to be the one to break it to them, but the country is *not* only christian, and even among the Christians, there are differences of opinion. Public policy cannot be made based on religious principles in a nation that encourages diversity of faiths.
I noticed that Dobson said "well, of course we shouldn't stone our kids, that's the Old Testament - Obama just isn't reading the Bible correctly" but no one has offered up exactly what criteria is used to determine which parts of the bible are to be ignored or treated as analogy and which are to be taken literally and as the basis for public policy, or how that criteria is determined.
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To his credit, Obama's statements are among the most reasonable and sensible that I've heard a believer make regarding their religious text. I guess it naturally follows that a high-ranking evangelical Christian would find such even-handedness abhorrent and intolerable.
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