RIP James Dobson

[Votto]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/us/politics/james-dobson-dead.html

Influential religious leader.
Passed away at the age of 89.

 

[1srelluc]

Never heard tell of him.....Then again I'm an agnostic and don't pay much attention to religious leaders.

I know the new pope is US born but could not tell you his name if my life depended on it. My failing I guess.

 

[Votto]

Never heard tell of him.....Then again I'm an agnostic and don't pay much attention to religious leaders.

I know the new pope is US born but could not tell you his name if my life depended on it. My failing I guess.

A former professor of pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California and a psychologist at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Dr. Dobson began worrying about the unraveling social order in the 1960s, appalled by the impact of sexual and cultural permissiveness on people he encountered in family counseling.

In 1970, he published a child-rearing manual, “Dare to Discipline,” that advocated corporal punishment in moderation to curb disruptive behavior. It earned Dr. Dobson a name as an evangelical antithesis to Benjamin Spock, the prominent pediatrician who favored greater flexibility in raising children.

Dr. Dobson founded the nonprofit, nondenominational religious group Focus on the Family in 1977. Over three decades, it became a $140 million multimedia empire that produced radio programs hosted by Dr. Dobson, published 11 magazines, made films and videotapes and promoted his more than 70 independently published books. The output turned Dr. Dobson into a national celebrity.

Without a church or an ordained minister’s credentials, Dr. Dobson reached vast audiences daily with “Focus on the Family” broadcasts over a network that, at its peak in the 1990s, included 2,000 radio stations and several television outlets in the United States. He said his radio programs were also translated into a dozen languages and heard by 220 million people in 157 countries worldwide.

 

[1srelluc]

A former professor of pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California and a psychologist at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Dr. Dobson began worrying about the unraveling social order in the 1960s, appalled by the impact of sexual and cultural permissiveness on people he encountered in family counseling.

In 1970, he published a child-rearing manual, “Dare to Discipline,” that advocated corporal punishment in moderation to curb disruptive behavior. It earned Dr. Dobson a name as an evangelical antithesis to Benjamin Spock, the prominent pediatrician who favored greater flexibility in raising children.

Dr. Dobson founded the nonprofit, nondenominational religious group Focus on the Family in 1977. Over three decades, it became a $140 million multimedia empire that produced radio programs hosted by Dr. Dobson, published 11 magazines, made films and videotapes and promoted his more than 70 independently published books. The output turned Dr. Dobson into a national celebrity.

Without a church or an ordained minister’s credentials, Dr. Dobson reached vast audiences daily with “Focus on the Family” broadcasts over a network that, at its peak in the 1990s, included 2,000 radio stations and several television outlets in the United States. He said his radio programs were also translated into a dozen languages and heard by 220 million people in 157 countries worldwide.

Focus on the Family rings a bell, but that's about it.

 

[JoeB131]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/us/politics/james-dobson-dead.html

Passed away at the age of 89.

Not soon enough.

Now, if he can take a bunch of other sanctimonious assholes with him.

 

[TimFitz]

Never heard tell of him.....Then again I'm an agnostic and don't pay much attention to religious leaders.

I know the new pope is US born but could not tell you his name if my life depended on it. My failing I guess.

I don’t regard TV preachers as religious leaders.

They’re hucksters.

 

[1srelluc]

I don’t regard TV preachers as religious leaders.

They’re hucksters.

Meh, I'll leave that for you and the religious to hash out.

 

[Polishprince]

Dobson was a tremendous theologian, libs hated him because he always opined that Almighty God put Adam and Eve into the Garden, not Adam and Steve.

 

[konradv]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/us/politics/james-dobson-dead.html

Passed away at the age of 89.

Pseudo-religious busybody. RIP

 

[Mashmont]

A former professor of pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California and a psychologist at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Dr. Dobson began worrying about the unraveling social order in the 1960s, appalled by the impact of sexual and cultural permissiveness on people he encountered in family counseling.

In 1970, he published a child-rearing manual, “Dare to Discipline,” that advocated corporal punishment in moderation to curb disruptive behavior. It earned Dr. Dobson a name as an evangelical antithesis to Benjamin Spock, the prominent pediatrician who favored greater flexibility in raising children.

Dr. Dobson founded the nonprofit, nondenominational religious group Focus on the Family in 1977. Over three decades, it became a $140 million multimedia empire that produced radio programs hosted by Dr. Dobson, published 11 magazines, made films and videotapes and promoted his more than 70 independently published books. The output turned Dr. Dobson into a national celebrity.

Without a church or an ordained minister’s credentials, Dr. Dobson reached vast audiences daily with “Focus on the Family” broadcasts over a network that, at its peak in the 1990s, included 2,000 radio stations and several television outlets in the United States. He said his radio programs were also translated into a dozen languages and heard by 220 million people in 157 countries worldwide.

I read Dare to Discipline.

 

[Mashmont]

Dobson was a tremendous theologian, libs hated him because he always opined that Almighty God put Adam and Eve into the Garden, not Adam and Steve.

That’s one of the great all time lines

 

[JoeB131]

Dobson was a tremendous theologian, libs hated him because he always opined that Almighty God put Adam and Eve into the Garden, not Adam and Steve.

Um, yeah, because we need to use mythology to justify homophobia.

Again, another sanctimonious asshole who probably just found out there is no afterlife.

 

[Votto]

Um, yeah, because we need to use mythology to justify homophobia.

Again, another sanctimonious asshole who probably just found out there is no afterlife.

The moral decline is evident to all, he simply tried to sound the warning signal.

Today, with the gender cult being preached in public schools all across the US, gender confusion has increased some 4000%.

Trans patient used to be old middle-aged men, but today the predominant population are hormonal and emotional disturbed young adolescent girls, like this one.



She had emotional and/or psychological issues, as she was being introduced to gender theories, which led her to make the connection that what was wrong with her is maybe she was born the wrong sex.

Then her parents were brought on board with medical professionals telling them that their daughter had come to the conclusion that she was born the wrong sex, and if they did not support her in trying to change her sex, she would probably end up trying to kill herself. So, the child and her parents listened to the "experts" and had her daughter undergo hormone therapy and lopped her breasts off.

But now years later as an adult, she regrets her decision as she still has medical complications from the previous butchery. Oh, and she sometimes ruminates about killing herself.

Common sense alone tells me that if a child is too young to have sex, they are too young to try and change their sex.

 

[initforme]

Wealthy evangelists i am very wary of. I dont know much about this guy. The ones a prrson can see on tv are helping to bring downn christianity.

 

[Votto]

Dobson was a tremendous theologian, libs hated him because he always opined that Almighty God put Adam and Eve into the Garden, not Adam and Steve.

I think people naturally think that when you critique a lifestyle as being "bad", you are a hater. However, that is not necessarily the truth. A particular lifestyle may just be bad in itself for that person and for society.

For example, gay men make up under 10% of the population, but they lead all groups in passing on STD's like AIDS, upwards of about 65%.

Why is this? Because men have much higher sex drives, and a few gay men I have talked to confided in me how promiscuous their lifestyles really were.

As a rule, promiscuity is bad for society, that is, if you deem STD's and children born out of wedlock as being bad for society.

As for Lesbians, divorce rates are very high with a good many reports of those unions being abusive on many levels.

But the Left would call me hateful for bringing up these facts.

 

[Votto]

Wealthy evangelists i am very wary of. I dont know much about this guy. The ones a prrson can see on tv are helping to bring downn christianity.

No one brings down God, just themselves.

And thanks for not opining on something you have no knowledge about.

 

[Godboy]

Never heard tell of him.....Then again I'm an agnostic and don't pay much attention to religious leaders.

I know the new pope is US born but could not tell you his name if my life depended on it. My failing I guess.

Yeah, ive literally never heard of him either. Apparently he was a spiritual advisor to a bunch of presidents.

 

[initforme]

I think people naturally think that when you critique a lifestyle as being "bad", you are a hater. However, that is not necessarily the truth. A particular lifestyle may just be bad in itself for that person and for society.

For example, gay men make up under 10% of the population, but they lead all groups in passing on STD's like AIDS, upwards of about 65%.

Why is this? Because men have much higher sex drives, and a few gay men I have talked to confided in me how promiscuous their lifestyles really were.

As a rule, promiscuity is bad for society, that is, if you deem STD's and children born out of wedlock as being bad for society.

As for Lesbians, divorce rates are very high with a good many reports of those unions being abusive on many levels.

But the Left would call me hateful for bringing up these facts.

Well marriage rates are declining as well. More young people are holding off until later in life to get married, if they do at all. Half of all marriages will not make it. There is no stopping this. If i were a 25 year old today id work work work and save save save. No dating, no social fun stuff. Maybe marry at 38 to another stable lady who has done the same. This is the new america.

 

[Polishprince]

Dobson was on the forefront of promoting heterosexuality and normalcy since 1977 when he started Focus on the Family.

1977 was years before aids first became popular in the 1980's, yet this man of God was already advising young men not to take it in the caboose. A real prophet.

 

[Votto]

Well marriage rates are declining as well. More young people are holding off until later in life to get married, if they do at all. Half of all marriages will not make it. There is no stopping this. If i were a 25 year old today id work work work and save save save. No dating, no social fun stuff. Maybe marry at 38 to another stable lady who has done the same. This is the new america.

And is that good for society?

Loneliness is a pandemic in society today, and at the same time when science is discovering just how detrimental loneliness is to our health. I have seen some say that it is worse than smoking two packs of cigarettes a day.

Then there are the emotional and psychological tolls, with mental illness also being a pandemic today.

It used to be that people would marry at 15, and now it is like age 35. Is that "good" for society?

But those in government have to see this, and more than likely promoting it. Why? It probably has to do with their conviction that population levels need to be reduced in order to "save the planet". So, they promote a kinder and gentler type of genocide, in the form of such policies as abortion, birth control, sex changes, and lifestyles that promote an early demise with crime that is rampant.

Yea, that would help reduce population levels, and it is.