Obama rising!

You are an idiot. Try thinking before you open your mouth.

Our Founding Fathers discussed this over 200 years ago, and answered it. The only one's who don't think that we should use religious ideals to influence our decisions are the 14% of Americans who complain about the Pledge. The rest of us 86% need to tell them to sit down, shut up, and TAKE IT

Obama '08

Wright, Hauge, Dobson, the Catholic priest (can't remember his name) are simply showing their own radicalism, whether it is right-leaning or left. I'm not voting for a minister, I'm choosing a president – they are not one in the same.

We'd be much better off if we stopped giving the religious zealots their 15 minutes of fame.

Go Obama!

LEAVE RELIGION OUT OF POLITICS!

You can’t just pick and choose portions of the Bible and draw conclusions. You must study it within the full context of what was written.

Obama may be a man of faith. My question is what faith does he follow?

Last time I read my Bible...I vaugely remember something about loving your neighbor and not hating others...but I suppose James Dobson would tell me I am interpreting it all wrong.

Tell me what YOU have done... and not always just the perfection that you WILL do- and not always attacking others.

Obama's right when he says we don't use the bible to determine public policy. That view is not distorted. The founding fathers had a say in that a few hundred years ago.

Dobson was wrong to even make a comment or express judgment towards someone's faith.

Dobson just showed that he is distorted as a person, who doesn't know what he preaches. By criticizing, Dobson, I believe is missing the point of where he stands as a evangelical leader.

>...Sen. Barack Obama said Tuesday night evangelical leader James Dobson was “making stuff up,” when he accused the Illinois senator of distorting the Bible and taking a "fruitcake interpretation" of the U.S. Constitution.
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I agree with Senator Obama, and would like to know just which law school dobson graduated from. Answer: NONE.

Far too long, the religious leaders have taken an elitist attitude towards non-clergy types. If you are not of the fold then you do not have a voice. Rarely have we seen so much focus on religious people as we see today. Rarely have we seen people, let alone presidential candidates, address any thing religious. The topic of religion puts fear in the hearts of many people because we do not know the Bible as well as we should, so we sit quietly and take what is being fed to us. It’s like listening to a tone deaf person singing Amazing Grace!” No one would dare say the performance was awful because of the religious content; religious leaders count on that mentality.

Of course, he will be criticized and in some cases the criticisms are valid, but there is no doubt that Senator Barack Obama is opening up the floor for dialogue, intelligent dialogue.
Dex in Tex

Hopefully Barack Obama will be elected and in doing so, will bring a large majority of American's together after eight year's of division!

I'm a Christian, and for your information I believe what Jesus says in John 14:6. James Dobson gives me a feeling of uneasy, and I've attempted so many times to listen to his show.

Why won't James Dobson and all his glory meet with Obama and engage him in dialogue, rather than hiding behind his microphone, on his show, with his listeners. He appears to be a coward who talks trash as long as the authorities are present to put distance between him and the peroson(s) he’s attacking, but he is afraid to go toe to toe with the people whom he so strongly criticize.

Man up Dobson!! Meet with Obama and McCain in an in dept discussion on faith in our society. Unless you scared?

I think you scared. Yeah, I've been waiting on this.... bring it on Dobson! Let the world see how you have distorted the word of God to fulfill your personal agenda.

God allows man to determine how to administer earthly matters including political structures and systems in accordance with his true word.

James Dobson, God does not immediately smite every offender one of the 10 commandments. If and when he does, the literal, dogmatic interpretation of his true word will be very clear to you and everyone else.

Neither I nor most of America believe in that the "Old Testament" God trumps the "New Testament" God

Sorry, Dobson. Lots of us still rely on the Old Testament. And lots of us do not eat shellfish. Perhaps the word "kosher" comes to mind.

Unlike Dobson, however, we do not seek to impose our own predilictions on the rest of the nation.

For two thousand years, cherry-picking from the Christian bible has provided endless excuses and rationalisations for every imaginable evil. The document contains everything and nothing. It supports and opposes both sides of every argument. It has been used to justify and defend every conceivable act by legions of scoundrels.

The only people for whom I have more contempt than those who abuse the "authority" of the Christian bible are those who allow themselves to be abused. Wake up, people! A two thousand year old compendium of mythology, superstition, propaganda, and absurd cosmology makes a truly lousy basis for the conduct of your lives.

If I am going to argue a case against homosexuality I am not going to say it is because God said it is wrong, I may look for a sociological or legal reason.

He also said that we can't run the country by Christianity even if the country had nothing but Christians in it, because there are MANY different types of Christianity.

Dobson is full of it, and is making an argument where there is none.

If Jesus were alive today, he would sweep the temple of jerks like Dobson and his lying breed of vipers.