James Dobson Meets His Maker. (It Is The Devil.)

[erronis]

https://www.wonkette.com/p/james-dobson-meets-his-maker-it-is
Erik Loomis

Get the f*ck out, Dobson, goodbye!

James Dobson is dead. Finally. This awful homophobe made the world a significantly worse place by his living in it. His brand of hate was tremendously influential in the modern Republican Party. Future Americans should look at Dobson with contempt and disgust, much like the racist scum of our collective past and of the Trump administration today.

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Much, much more....

[MayReasonRule]

1. Happy Dance

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[Jerry2144]

2. Great news!

A little less hate in the world today.

When will the Korrupt, Kopper-Kolored, Korpulent Koprolite kroak? Soon, we hope

[LearnedHand]

3. You totally win the thread with that nickname

[Jerry2144]

6. I meant Kroak, not crush

dang auto correct rounded my apt alliteration

[Ocelot II]

4. Thanks, God! The world became just a bit less evil today.

Now do Trump.

[Farmer-Rick]

69. His death is truly a happy time.

Not only was he a horrible homophobe and hell fire and brimstone advocate. He believed in beating little children and small dogs with belts and god knows what else. And he wrote books instructing others to do the same.

"In a follow-up book, The Strong-Willed Child, which also advocated beating the hell out of the brats, Dobson stated about how long the beating should go on: “Yes, I believe there should be a limit. As long as the tears represent a genuine release of emotion, they should be permitted to fall. But crying quickly changes from inner sobbing to an expression of protest. […] Real crying usually lasts two minutes or less but may continue for five. After that point, the child is merely complaining, and the change can be recognized in the tone and intensity of his voice. I would require him to stop the protest crying, usually by offering him a little more of whatever caused the original tears.” Ah yes, keep hitting the child until their will gives up. What can go wrong?

And it wasn’t just kids that he urged hitting. It was also the family dog! What is it with right wingers and abusing dogs? He described his dachshund — named Sigmund Freud — not wanting to go into its enclosure. So he got the belt. Here’s the relevant passage in The Strong-Willed Child: “I had seen this defiant mood before and knew there was only one way to deal with it. The only way to make Siggie obey is to threaten him with destruction. Nothing else works. I turned and went to my closet and got a small belt to help me ‘reason’ with Mr. Freud. […] “I hit him again and he tried to bite me . . . That tiny dog and I had the most vicious fight ever staged between man and beast. I fought him up one wall and down the other, with both of us scratching and clawing and growling and swinging the belt.”

A dachshund is a small dog and has a strong temperament because they were bred to hunt badgers.

[Coventina]

5. Thank Godzilla!!

May she chomp on his soul for eternity!!

[underpants]

7. When someone dies you're supposed to say something good.

James Dobson is dead. Good.

Stole that from someone at DU when Falwell died.

[Just_Vote_Dem]

11. Supposedly originated with Bette Davis about Joan Crawford n/t

[calimary]

24. This.

That one is an oldie but a goodie.

[Escurumbele]

36. Still funny...thank you for the laugh.

[Heidi]

8. A little mood music for the occasion:

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[Blue Owl]

9. Hey Grim Reaper, now do tRump

[4TheArts]

10. After reading Wonkette's article

I was reminded that all our good Xtian wingers have at hand the story of Jesus declaring the appropriate punishment for false (therefore evil) teachers. Tie a mill stone around their neck and throw them in the sea.
Not the blood and gore of the infamous guillotine but I could gladly list enough pseudo righteous politicians to at least clog up an Olympic size pool.

[Blue Full Moon]

12. Good riddance to bad rubbish

[Aristus]

13. Almost certainly a pedophile, too.

How else to explain his bizarre and revolting "gay preventive" he related to fathers in one of his vile books. Paraphrase: "The best way to ensure that your little boy won't grow up to a be hommasexshul is to take a shower with him. That way, he can see that Daddy has a penis, and he has a penis, and that means he won't become a hommasexshul."



The world is a slightly better place without this squalid monster.

[popsdenver]

54. Don't forget

Daddies that shower with their daughters, or help them bathe from toddlers to teens......there are a lot of those too.......

[Ray Bruns]

14. You should always say something good about the dead.

James Dobson is dead. Good!

[AllaN01Bear]

15. happ y happ y joy joy. raises pinky finger for victory dance.

[Chi67]

16. Good!

One last douchebag goes to hell.

[pfitz59]

17. which circle of hell will he inhabit?

I say ice

[MineralMan]

18. I never wish ill on the dead.

There's no point to it. They're dead. They have ceased to exist, so nothing can affect them any longer. They no longer have any relevance.

No doubt Dobson thought he'd be sitting on the right side of Jesus after he died. He's not doing that, either. Dobson does not exist ay longer in any form whatsoever. He is simply gone.

[Ligyron]

31. Exactly.

People still have this idea of an afterlife where departed souls get whatever it is they deserve even though many here are just doing so and waxing metaphorically.

Some superstitions die hard, especially that one.

[czarjak]

48. His time here fomented hate, anger and resentment.

Lest we forget. Fuck James Dobson. Period.

[lastlib]

55. Well, Mark Twain famously said (to paraphrase) he never wished death....

...for anyone, but there were some obituaries he read with great satisfaction. For me, Dobson's is one.

I wish him Satan-speed....

[Paladin]

19. Adios, motherfucker. (nt)

[NNadir]

20. Now if only we could get Orrex to a consumation... n/t

[Jean Genie]

21. RIV(enom)

May he "rest" in a pool of the venom he extruded during his lifetime. And then be reborn as a LGBTQ supporter!

[Wild blueberry]

22. Good riddance

RIH.
Rot in hell.

[Lonestarblue]

23. The devil welcomes his own.

[JHB]

25. Where is he buried, just in case I'm in the area and need to relieve myself

[Warpy]

26. If there are future Americans, they'll look at the whole crooked TV preacher phenomenon wi5h dismay

and likely won' tunderstand the power the changing of the millennial prefix had on a certain type of Christian. Future generations might also be wise enough to see Revelations, the only book that movement ever bothered with, as a blueprint for the eventual destruction of Nero's Rome.

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here" pretty much sums up the Age of the Fundagelical, those woman hating, homophobic, rigidly hierarchical and dictatorial men who were the perfect setup to the nut job currently occupying the White House.

So Dobson is finally dead. Let;s hope he stays that way. Amen.

[LeftInTX]

34. It seems to be "dying out", but it will be replaced by something else.

"Trump cults" or something...

[Warpy]

44. There will always be sreekers and power mad men who start cults to snare them

but it's not going to be at the same intensity it was before the calendar changed. We're on the down slope now, the scions of the toothy televangelist just not being up to the job since they lack the old man's charisma.

The good thing about political cults of personality is the mortality of their leaders, also. Once Fearless Leader gets old, sick, and weak, people tend to drift away. If he's killed off by an ambitious sycophant, that sycophant usually finds himself at the wrong end of a firing squad, but that's just for old time's sake, political cultists actively searching for Fearless Leader's replacement, anyway.

We're still on the flip side of all of this shit because once again, we have survived the change of a calendar prefix.While cults of personality will still arise when some charismatic goofball appears and uses his boundless optimism to sucker the gullible. However, the standards will be higher and the free floating anxiety will be lessened and fewer of them will succeed.

[niyad]

27. Thank Goddess that piece of human filth is no longer wasting oxygen.

Two nicknames for his organization here locally: fungus on the family, or focus on fascism. And we have been using both for over 30 years.

[Submariner]

28. His cadaver should be donated to

hungry zoo carnivores to dismember, consume, and defecate out into gold-leafed Tupper Ware containers for sale in the White House Trump Gift Shop.

[Figarosmom]

29. Too bad Focus on Family didn't die with him...nt

[Demovictory9]

30. Celebrations on reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1mwdfat/james_dobson_influential_founder_of_conservative/

Not the obituary I'm waiting for, but one I will accept.


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I have I think three years of left over fireworks for the big one.



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Not enough fireworks in the world to do justice the joy and relief that day will bring

[Initech]

32. And nothing of value was lost!

[yankee87]

33. Burning 🔥

He and that guy in Virginia destroyed any semblance of Xtianity in this country for three generations.
My undying hate is with them.

[Blue Owl]

35. Now we just need to add TSF to the pile of the damed and get some grease on that fire!

[2naSalit]

37. About fucking time!

That sack of evil has wasted many years' worth of good air.

Fuck him, where's he gonna be buried? I'll have to go piss on that one.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

38. Burn baby burn

[Dave Bowman]

39. He's on a highway to Hell!

[Martin Eden]

40. My mother taught me to speak only good of the dead

James Dobson is dead.

Good.

[LT Barclay]

41. He was the king of phony Christianity

He would quote one verse, pervert the context and meaning and spew out nonsense
As a Christian, I despise him.

[sprinkleeninow]

45. I don't speak these words, but they are written:

"The elect will be judged most harshly."

[mzmolly]

42. Good riddance!

[ms liberty]

43. Putting on my dancing shoes!

[Wednesdays]

46. Well...bye!

[Solly Mack]

47. Dachshunds everywhere are celebrating.

And not just the doxies.

Do a search on Dobson, discipline, and his dachshund. Repulsive and sick.

[Heidi]

68. HuffPost: James Dobson: Beat Your Dog, Spank Your Kid, Go to Heaven

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/james-dobson-beat-your-do_b_5953878/amp

[mwooldri]

49. Condolences to someone.

Anyway ...

[kairos12]

50. I hope his glued to

Limbaugh in hell fighting over the last drop of water.

[evilhime]

51. So his maker is ...

Satan? Cuz there is no way he is headed up with all the shite he stirred.

[Blue Owl]

52. Hope he's getting some 'tough love' right now

[Hassler]

53. One gigantic asshole down, many more to go

[zeusdogmom]

56. His program, Focus on the Family, was broadcasted on AFN (Armed Forces Network) in Germany

Military family in Germany 1985-1988. AFN was the only English radio in town other than Canadian Broadcasting for the Canadian groups also stationed there. CBN had much more interesting programing. Obviously pre-internet days. Dobson’s program was horrible - basically beat your child if he/she misbehaves. And wives - you must submit to your husband. Domestic abuse was rampant in the military community. FOTF also provided really sappy children’s programming. Bleh! However both were well received throughout the church going military community. I thought even then it was a weird program to have as part of the station’s broadcast. This was a government provided station - don’t remember any other religious programming. A few years later Rush Limbaugh was added to the program line up.

[flashman13]

57. Ding Dong the Witch is Dead. Which ole Witch? The Wicket Witch. Ding Dong the S O B is DEAD!

Thank you for your attention to this situation.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

58. .

[Trueblue Texan]

59. Thank. You. JEEEEZZZZUSSSSSAHHHH! nt

[Orrex]

60. Well, he's not number one on my list of fuckheads who should die

But I'll take this as a win.

[Raine]

61. Who says there's no good news! 😈 ... nt

[Jack Valentino]

62. JESUS would not do what Dobson did....

maybe he will have his "come to Jesus moment" at last !!!

[Jack Valentino]

63. "by their fruits you will know them"

Matthew 7:15-20
New King James Version
You Will Know Them by Their Fruits

15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them."

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%207%3A15-20&version=NKJV



Instructions for beating children and small dogs---- sounds like 'bad fruit' to me

[blue_jay]

64. Both of my inlaws parted ways with the Nazarene many years ago, interesting to learn more about them

I never met my father in law but heard he left ministering because he couldn't tolerate the hypocrisy. I recall story of my mother in law sharing how they were planning/ organizing this take over of our country and government for years, presumably at the churches. That's all I know. She was still devoted to God for all of her life, just not the version she was raised with. She cared more about all people including the rights of women and the welfare of the planet than most religions, and presumably that religion seem to.

[Ilsa]

65. Baruch dayan ha'emet: Blessed is the true judge,

and that ain't Dobson.

[ReRe]

66. K&R

Hallelujah!! The world really is a better place! Thanks, erronis, for the good news.

[Buddyzbuddy]

67. Hello Jimmy, we've been waiting for you down here.

You did a great job, now come get your well deserved reward. Heh, heh, heh.

What's the worst thing you can imagine happening to you, because that's what's going to happen for all of eternity.

Oh man, I'm an atheist but I could get used to this. No wonder they like to use the Bible to scare people into submission.

All of this is said with humor.