Dobsonian Democracy

On his radio show this past Tuesday, Dr. James Dobson discussed Barack Obama. In the course of the show, he uttered the following (as reported by the New York Times):

I think he’s deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own world view, his own confused theology.

I’m confused: is Dobson recklessly shifting between first and third person as he describes his own theology? Later, Dobson complained about McCain and Obama, charging, “They don’t give a hoot about the family.” I guess that puts the two candidates in pretty good company. I recall a certain rabbi with leadership--nay, messianic!--aspirations who declared

Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and one’s foes will be members of one’s own household. Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me. (Matthew 10:34-38)

Let us thank the good Lord that we have Dr. Dobson to blow the whistle on this mischief!