I grew up with one parent a diehard Southern Baptist (a born-again Republican) and I remember believing that James Dobson was a kindly man who cared about people.
I read his book The New Dare to Discipline as a teen and I half bought it and half was skeptical even then. He stressed not hitting your children in anger- but told the story of, as a teenager, talking back to his mother while she was ironing, and she reached for the first thing to hand to smack him with, which turned out to be her girdle- complete with metal buckles at the ends of the straps. Dobson relays this quite lightheartedly, as though it doesn't completely contradict his entire point, and says that he never sassed her again.
I was somewhat protected from his assertions by the fact that my mother was abusive and prone to many of what he claimed were acts of good parenting, and I'd seen them work out very, very badly with my older brother. (Who was definitely strong-willed, and whom my mother sought to break, exactly as Dobson recommends.)
I had also been babysitting for a while by the time I picked up his book and I was horrified to read his recommendation of provoking, then striking, children as young as a year old by, for example, "blanket training"- putting them on a blanket and hitting them if they try to get off it. As to half-buying the rest, I thought perhaps I was wrong, or different children required different methods. I was young. But if I'd read the part about his dachshund I would have known I couldn't trust a word.
I'm older and more cynical now; I generally assume kindly people do not build and run massive business or political enterprises. Some people can sure can pretend, though. Folksy old Jim. I wish the work he did went with him.
Interesting that the Quiverful movement only requires women to bear the quiverful of young. If men had to do that, there would be no Quiverful movement.
This evil man was allowed to live a long life and influence millions of fools. That tells me love is not stronger than hate, at least some of the time. Ah well, add another to the list of "blank blank is STILL dead" people, the ones whose deaths we get to celebrate each year.
Well it isn’t nice to celebrate the death of someone, so I’ll probably just have a slight smile today. What a toxic pile of garbage he and his “ministry” was. Too bad all that mess doesn’t die with him.
Being beaten into submission in the 60s only led me to want to escape the “family values” and change parenting style to exclude physical punishment and brow beatings. I hope he meets his maker!
Too bad I'm an atheist......otherwise I could ask Dobson to save me a place at the 'Devil's BBQ' in Hell........you know the one......the place that has the nightly wiener roast, where you cut off your own dick(the one you waved in your sons face *perv much?), put it on a stick, roast it and eat it.......on Saturdays they have 'swap night' where you eat someone else's.........CAN'T WAIT........Bye asshat.....
I believe that Dr. James Dobson's corpse should be exhumed and flown to New Zealand so that Peter Jackson can slap his country's name out of that dead mouth.
He has not gone to the Devil. Even the Devil has some standards and no way he would accept this guy.
Hell is fertilized!
I grew up with one parent a diehard Southern Baptist (a born-again Republican) and I remember believing that James Dobson was a kindly man who cared about people.
I read his book The New Dare to Discipline as a teen and I half bought it and half was skeptical even then. He stressed not hitting your children in anger- but told the story of, as a teenager, talking back to his mother while she was ironing, and she reached for the first thing to hand to smack him with, which turned out to be her girdle- complete with metal buckles at the ends of the straps. Dobson relays this quite lightheartedly, as though it doesn't completely contradict his entire point, and says that he never sassed her again.
I was somewhat protected from his assertions by the fact that my mother was abusive and prone to many of what he claimed were acts of good parenting, and I'd seen them work out very, very badly with my older brother. (Who was definitely strong-willed, and whom my mother sought to break, exactly as Dobson recommends.)
I had also been babysitting for a while by the time I picked up his book and I was horrified to read his recommendation of provoking, then striking, children as young as a year old by, for example, "blanket training"- putting them on a blanket and hitting them if they try to get off it. As to half-buying the rest, I thought perhaps I was wrong, or different children required different methods. I was young. But if I'd read the part about his dachshund I would have known I couldn't trust a word.
I'm older and more cynical now; I generally assume kindly people do not build and run massive business or political enterprises. Some people can sure can pretend, though. Folksy old Jim. I wish the work he did went with him.
That "blanket training" is a big part of the Quiverful movement, which allegedly is what the Duggars are part of.
Interesting that the Quiverful movement only requires women to bear the quiverful of young. If men had to do that, there would be no Quiverful movement.
Hey! Leave New Zealand alone!
This evil man was allowed to live a long life and influence millions of fools. That tells me love is not stronger than hate, at least some of the time. Ah well, add another to the list of "blank blank is STILL dead" people, the ones whose deaths we get to celebrate each year.
Well it isn’t nice to celebrate the death of someone, so I’ll probably just have a slight smile today. What a toxic pile of garbage he and his “ministry” was. Too bad all that mess doesn’t die with him.
I won't celebrate his death, but I'm okay with being happy about his current lack of life.
I don’t believe in hell, however, I hope that fucker ends up there.
What do you have against hell?
Thanks for your insight.
Being beaten into submission in the 60s only led me to want to escape the “family values” and change parenting style to exclude physical punishment and brow beatings. I hope he meets his maker!
Too bad I'm an atheist......otherwise I could ask Dobson to save me a place at the 'Devil's BBQ' in Hell........you know the one......the place that has the nightly wiener roast, where you cut off your own dick(the one you waved in your sons face *perv much?), put it on a stick, roast it and eat it.......on Saturdays they have 'swap night' where you eat someone else's.........CAN'T WAIT........Bye asshat.....
Always an upvote for evil people dropping dead!
Dobson further proves the old adage that only the good die young.
Good riddance
Great! I have yet another place to piss. Can't have enough of those especially if they are creepy fundamentalist wackos.
Piss? Only a quart or two of ethyl mercaptan would do him the honors he deserves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanethiol
I believe that Dr. James Dobson's corpse should be exhumed and flown to New Zealand so that Peter Jackson can slap his country's name out of that dead mouth.
And I'm sure that's what God would want us to do.
Or not! How would anyone know?
More likely, everything just faded to black, and his consciousness disappeared forever.
He didn't have that much consciousness to begin with since he was fixated on control and superstition. And sheer meanness.
https://youtu.be/OdurVND-DSs?feature=shared
Another One Bites The Dust