I don’t understand at all how a Christian can drop off their 5-year-old child at a government public school. What are they thinking?
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Environmentalism Kills People
Just as the Aztecs would sacrifice humans for a good harvest, Europeans are sacrificing about 175,000 people per year for similar reasons. Environmentalism is a false religion and the god of that religion requires sacrifice. This is a short video about it, and it’s heartbreaking.
James Dobson’s Death
James Dobson died a few days ago. My mom looked up to him, read his books, listened to his radio show, etc. I have heard mixed reviews of him from people I respect, but I have no doubt that he was born again and doing his best and accomplished a lot. I kind of hate to give my personal opinion when I don’t have specific examples, but if anything, I’d say he was too milquetoast and not as bold and uncompromising as he should have been.
I’ve seen some posts on Facebook where more than half of the comments have been rejoicing over his death. That makes me think maybe he did more good than I thought. Also, if you’re facing that much hatred in death, I could see how that would wear someone down over decades. I just wanted to post some of the comments for the sake of preserving it and maybe as I think more I’ll have some more thoughts.
Here’s what Colorado’s gay governor had to say:
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It’s challenging to address the complex legacy of James Dobson, who passed this week in Colorado Springs at age 89. His life and work left a major mark on countless individuals, inspiring some to deepen their faith and strive for personal growth, while causing great pain and trauma for others due to his controversial and hurtful teachings.
Dr. Dobson was a staunch advocate for what he described as “traditional” gender roles, emphasizing a homemaker mother and a breadwinner father. In his writings, he suggested that women’s “natural sex appeal” served as their primary leverage in relationships, with men assuming responsibility for their care in exchange for affection. He wrote “The natural sex appeal of girls serves as their primary source of bargaining power in the game of life. In exchange for feminine affection and love, a man accepts a girl as his lifetime responsibility-supplying her needs and caring for her welfare. This sexual aspect of the marital agreement can hardly be denied.”
While these views often echoed a bygone era and perpetuated harmful stereotypes, they also resonated with those who searched for dignity and purpose in traditional roles. Today, we can affirm that there is honor in choosing to be a caregiver, homemaker, or provider—whether by a woman or a man—while emphasizing that such choices should be freely made, not imposed based on gender.
He also espoused incorrect and discredited views on homosexuality that caused pain and trauma for so many people: That being gay was neither a choice nor genetic, but was caused by external factors during early childhood like being too close to your mother. His views on homosexuality caused trauma for generations of LGBT youth, and also caused stress and trauma for parents who incorrectly were led to believe they they were at fault for their child being gay.
A big fan of spanking and physical punishment of children, he wrote as recently as 2015 “when spanking fails to make a child obey, the problem may be that the parent is not hitting hard enough or frequently enough.”
Yet, for all the harm caused, we cannot overlook the inspiration Dr. Dobson provided to some. Through his ministry, Focus on the Family, which he founded in Colorado Springs in 1977 and led until 2010, he reached over 200 million people worldwide at the height of his influence. Hailed by The New York Times as “the nation’s most influential evangelical leader,” his oratorical skill and charisma touched many lives, encouraging countless Coloradans and others to pursue faith, family, and personal improvement such as successfully recovering from drug and alcohol addiction.
Dr. Dobson was no doubt man of deep conviction, but his vision often excluded and even denigrated others. To have deployed his talents for love, kindness, and respect would have made an immense positive difference in the world. Sadly, any completion of his character ark of developing Christlike love for all humankind will have to occur in the afterlife, of which he was a fervent believer. So let us hope that he is in a better place, and that there is yet hope for redemption in the great beyond. How did Dr. Dobson’s legacy affect you? Did it help you in a time of need? Did it lead to suffering, shame, and repression? Share your stories below to help inform others about the complex legacy of Dr. James Dobson.
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Here are some other typical comments from other individuals. Much more than half are like these.
“I will always celebrate when the glare of hate and discrimination is dimmed. May his memory be short lived and his legacy rejected.”
“We should all be dancing in the streets. His legacy was harm and hate. I’m glad he is dead. Bad people remain bad after they die, let’s not pretend they are good just because they are dead.”
“Some men improve the world only by leaving it”
“The legacy is NOT complex. This man is responsible for trauma and abuse of thousands of children. I wish hell existed for him but I’m smart enough now to know better.”
“It’s not complex at all. He was a bigot, a misogynist and a person who negatively affected the lives of many people. Being a “person of faith” doesn’t get you off the hook for being hateful and cruel.”
“After comming out. I was offered Conversion counceling through FOF, It was an insult and a confirmation of the ignorance and Power of religion”
“There is nothing complex about it. He tried to hide his hate under a cloak of religion and the harm he caused can’t be forgiven. A legacy? Sure, but a shameful one at best.”
“He and his foundation were the reason that I left the church in the 1990s. It took me 20 years to make peace with it and find my way back.”
“He’s burning with his friend Ted Bundy”
“OMG! No parade? No dancing in the streets? Come on CO let’s PARTY”
“He will not be missed, he was a horrible, hateful person. I wish there was really a hell so he would spend all eternity there.”
You Can’t Change Just One Thing
Every Christian is opposed to abortion. In fact, I’d say every person knows that abortion is murder, it’s just that some people try to justify it, because they love their sin. Of course, it’s hard to know for sure how far away from proper doctrine a Christian can go before they reveal that they aren’t really a Christian. However, if someone defends the murder of unborn babies, it seems like a really good indication that they’re lost.
Here’s a conversation I had with someone who has told me they’re a Christian. I’ve had a few weird conversations with him over the years, but this is a good indication to me that these weird conversations are the result of him being not saved.
The article doesn’t say that Costco is opposed to abortion. I just says that they’re not selling mifepristone. How is them not selling abortion drugs ramming their religious beliefs down anyone’s throats? What about all the other things they don’t sell?
Choosing to murder a baby isn’t a personal decision. No one claims we’re free to choose to murder anyone else. Everyone knows the baby is human and killing a human is murder. He’s opposed to forcing religious beliefs on people, but it’s OK to forcibly remove a baby on the mother’s whim? Is it OK to force people to do things or not?
He’s opposed to forcing religious beliefs on someone, as if choosing not to sell something is actually using violence and coercion on other people. Does he sell mifepristone? Is he forcing his religious beliefs on everyone? If an auto parts store doesn’t sell abortion drugs, are they forcing their beliefs on anyone? Maybe only pharmacies must be forced to sell every type of medication? Pharmacists must check their conscience at the door and supply anything a customer asks regardless of their morality? That’s a novel idea. And who’s going to force them to do this, even though he’s opposed to forcing people to do things?
Every law is based on religion–not necessarily Christianity, but some religion. Whatever reason you might come up with for why murder should be illegal is religious. If you say, you shouldn’t cause damage to other people, you didn’t learn that from science. The saying is, “You can’t get an ‘ought’ from and ‘is’.” That is, you can’t derive moral principles from scientific facts. You first have to choose a goal (plucked out of thin air based solely on blind faith if you reject Christ). Some might choose human flourishing or economic prosperity as ultimate goals. If you choose those goals, there may be scientific ways to test laws to see which laws are more effective in reaching those goals. However, you didn’t get the goal because science said that’s the goal you ought to choose. A Christian’s goal for laws should be to glorify God, promote justice that can only come from God and to build God’s kingdom.
So, when you deviate from Scripture, when you pick and choose what you want to believe from it, you’re going to slip into all kinds of messes and self-contradictions. Wisdom comes from the Lord and from the Bible. Believe it, even if there’s something in it you don’t like, because Jesus Christ is Lord and the Bible is true.
Fake Conservatives
I used to consider myself a conservative because I wanted extremely small government, lower taxes and more freedom. Maybe that’s was conservatism was at one point, though, more likely I was deluded that anyone in power actually cared about that. However, Trump has definitely destroyed that wing of the Republican Party if it existed. Now, fake conservatives beg for big socialist programs where government hopes to control the labor markets and are willing to surrender a lot of the freedoms men have died for. Here’s one example from Nino, and my response to the first 5 minutes of the video.
1. 1:40 The founding fathers were lawbreakers. They committed treason against England. Being law abiding isn’t even something to aspire to if the laws are unjust. None of us are really law abiding when there are thousands of laws on the books that nobody knows about, not to mention speeding. The standard for Christian behavior isn’t U.S. law, but God’s law (Romans 13:3-4).
2. 2:03 Americans commit crimes at a higher rate than immigrants. Throwing out examples of immigrants who have committed crimes is a bad argument. By that standard, you should be in favor of deporting American citizens. “A study analyzing Texas arrest and conviction records from 2012 to 2018 found that U.S. citizens were twice as likely to be arrested for violent felonies, two-and-a-half times more likely for felony drug crimes, and over four times more likely for felony property crimes compared to undocumented immigrants.” (https://news.wisc.edu/undocumented-immigrants-far-less-likely-to-commit-crimes-in-u-s-than-citizens/).
3. 3:10 The most often persecuted people in the world are Christians. They should be free to immigrate without having to go through a years-long process and get approval from a pencil-neck, liberal bureaucrat. Also, Hispanics are more likely to be socially conservative than American citizens.
4. 3:32 “Conservatives” saying that people coming here to hang drywall constitute an invasion are retarded.
5. 3:57 Here’s a case of an American citizen being arrested by ICE: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/26/immigration-ice-raid-andrea-velez In addition to that, there are border patrol checkpoints where everyone driving has to submit to the questioning of the border patrol. Only bootlickers are OK with such government checkpoints. They are contrary to true conservatism and America’s founding principles.
6. 4:55 The Bible and the Constitution teach that government has no jurisdiction over non-criminal individuals. In most of American history, no one could be arrested unless a judge had issued an arrest warrant, or they were caught in the commission of a felony (all felonies were death penalty crimes). I’m sure I could go on, but you’re 5 minutes in and you’re 0 for 6. You’re a fake conservative who is in opposition to everything the founding fathers stood for. Those who would give up freedom for security are worthy of neither (Ben Franklin).
The Theology of Tyranny
Here’s a great comment from Bojidar Marinov:
This is the ideology of tyranny:
“But laws must be followed and enforced.”
No, Only a man who is a slave in his heart would say such a thing. In the world of free and righteous men, laws do not deserve blind obedience. Laws must first be righteous and good before they deserve to be followed and enforced. When laws are evil, then all good men must oppose them, disobey them, and sabotage their enforcement. That’s what this country was based on. That’s why the word “rebel” has such positive connotations in America: because a rebel is a person who first evaluates the morality of the law before they obey it.
What Percentage of Cops are Bad?
To sum this video up, a traffic stop led to the arrest of a passenger who refused to identify herself because she wasn’t suspected of a crime. The cops insisted that everyone in the car is required to identify themselves. In the law, which cops are paid to enforce, passengers don’t have to identify themselves if they’re not suspected of a crime. (In some states you don’t have to identify yourself unless you’re under arrest.) This passenger was arrested by four cops in person while another supervisor offered advice over the phone.
Here is my proposition. That probably at least 80% of cops are bad. (In reality my estimate would be much closer to 100%, but that would be for reasons not pertaining to this discussion.)
1. If a cop lies about the law and arrests someone for a bogus reason, they’re a bad cop (or at least incompetent).
2. If a cop shows up and assists another cop in their bogus arrest, they are also a bad cop.
3. Even police supporters acknowledge that some fraction of cops are bad. Let’s call that fraction x.
4. The odds of 5 bad cops being in the same place and participating in a bad arrest with none of them knowing the law and calling for the bad cops to stop would be x to the power of 5.
If someone said 20% of cops are bad, they’re probably not a cop supporter as that’s a high percentage. But 0.2^5 = .00032. That is 0.03% odds that 5 bad cops would participate in the arrest of this woman.
I think if you took any 5 random cops from across the country and put them in this situation, probably only about 30% to 50% of the time would this woman have been arrested, but not because there would be at least one good cop showing up to tell the other 4 that this is an illegal arrest. But just because they are too lazy to arrest someone for this, they would let her go. But I’ll be conservative and say that only 30% of the time would this woman be arrested and it is because there’s at least one good cop. What does that mean for the percentage of bad cops?
The formula for that scenario is x^5 = 0.3. If you solve for x, that means that x = 10^(log(.3)/5), or x = 79%. So that means 79% of cops are bad and/or incompetent. Of course, you can do your own math and let me know what percentage of cops you think are bad. Of course, if you get too low of a number I can show you tons of other videos of groups of cops doing evil stuff with no good cops telling them to stop. The truth is that every paycheck the vast majority of police accept is fraudulent because they don’t actually know the law to any kind of minimum standard to be performing their duty. It’s just that most of the time, people would just hand their ID over as the back-seat passenger did in this traffic stop.
Moron Cop
This conversation I had shows that someone that clearly hasn’t thought through things very deeply. I posted this initial sentence and picture in a Tea Party Facebook group. The conversation with a cop follows.
Finlay says, “This 20 year lawman is extremely offended by this outrageous propaganda.
American law enforcement officers are the best in the world.
They are not SOCIALIST! They fulfill the biblical mandates for law and order.
Before you post such foolishness, I suggest that you ride in a patrol car for awhile and learn the truth!”
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My reply: “Police fit the exact definition of socialism. It is funded by people being forced to pay for a single provider. I don’t even see how anyone could argue other than it being socialist and anyone who supports it being a socialist.”
“The biblical mandate for law enforcement is carry out God’s wrath against evildoers (Romans 13:4). The government rejects Christ so it would be impossible for them to be biblical. The most obvious example being that 60 million Americans have murdered their unborn babies and haven’t faced justice, but protection–the exact opposite of what would happen under Romans 13:4.”
“What have you done to carry out God’s wrath against those involved in murdering babies?”
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Finlay said, I’ve been publicly challenging the killing of children for over 20 years…..I spent 10 years as a national Tea Party Speaker from California to North Carolina.
Are you actually complaining because American law enforcement doesn’t execute abortionists?
Paying law enforcement via tax dollars is constitutional!
You need to tone down your nastiness and your propaganda falsehoods.
Enjoy last weeks video:
https://rumble.com/v6qwlny-the-great-war-is-here.html
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My reply:
You said that American law enforcement fulfills the biblical mandate. I pointed out that it obviously doesn’t in the case of abortion at the cost of at least 60 million dead Americans. What do you think biblical law enforcement should do with murderers? It seems like someone who claims to be biblical law enforcement would know what should happen to murderers.
The police, as we know them today, are completely against the founding fathers’ intent and the Constitution. There were no police in this country until the 1840s.
If you think I’m nasty, I’ll try to tone it down for the more sensitive audience. Maybe you’d be more comfortable with gender-neutral pronouns or something.
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You are a real ass.
I worked with many excellent men and women in law enforcement who strived to serve well and do their best.
You do NOT KNOW them….I do.
I am not going to waste time on a pathological fool like you.
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it’s hard to understand logical arguments when your paycheck and retirement depend on you not understanding.
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End of conversation.
He obviously has no good response to my arguments and I think it’s funny how he thinks I’m nasty while he’s willing to actually call me names. He said I was nasty before I even implied that he’s a snowflake.
Homeschooling Pros and Cons
There’s a Facebook group where someone considering starting to homeschool asked about the pros and cons of homeschooling. Here are a few things that caught my eye.
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This was our first year homeschooling. We just moved here from Alabama.
My daughter completed 11th grade in the first semester and is currently doing her senior year now. She will graduate highschool in may at 16. If my son keeps at it he will also graduate highschool at 15. Both will be completed with 2 years of college by 18.
Pros? – they get to decide how long they work on school work each day. Minimum 2 hours to complete all core classes. They’re allowed to do more if they choose. One kid likes to wake up and get school done by 9:30/10. The other likes to do school work at night. One does school work mon- Thursday (he does extra 
he’s my over achiever) The other does the min. at least 5 days a week.
Cons- (for me)I wish they had more social interaction with kids their own age. They’re teenagers 14 & 16. There is TONSSSSS of homeschool groups, activities, co-op groups and kids in our area. Midland/big spring Tx. I’ve tried to get my kids involved but they’re just really not into it 
but if your kids are, the library does classes for free. Coding, chess, art for examples.
I wouldn’t change anything about our decision to switch.
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No cons for us at all, we have loved every minute of it! Traveling during off season means fewer crowds and cheaper rates! Not missing out on their childhoods is a bonus as well!
My girls who have graduated through homeschooling/currently homeschooling are 20, 15 and 11.
We have been homeschooling for 7 years and have absolutely no cons!
Our pros are:
*I can teach a biblical world view
*I do not miss out on my children’s lives
*We can travel whenever we want
*I can tailor their school work to their learning needs and interest
*They get ample outside time
*We are rarely sick because we are not exposed to school germs
We’ve homeschooled for 9 years and love it. Like with anything, sometimes days are hard or long, but, for the most part, it’s great. I meet my kids where they are and we work until they master it. Could be 15 mins or weeks. We travel whenever we want and especially love yo travel in the off-season. I get to spend lots of time with my kids that I would otherwise miss out on. I used to teach public school and I felt like I spent more waking hours with other people’s children than my own.
No cons for us and I’m graduating the last of my 4 this year all done locally. Several of mine attended OC and graduated with associates degrees & high school diplomas at the same time. I wouldn’t trade the time I had with all of my kids for anything.
Beautiful Paragraph
I happened across this fantastic paragraph dripping with Scripture in a longer comment written by Matt Mannucci.
The scripture is clear: the role of the Civil government is to be a servant of God to punish evil and not good (Romans 13:3-4). Good and evil is not determined by the arbitrary imaginations of men through the use of so called “natural law”, but rather good is the very character of God (Matthew 19:17, Mark 10:18, Psalm 11:7) as revealed to us in His Law-Word (Deuteronomy 4:5-6, John 1, Psalm 119:68). Civil rulers are to judge according to God’s Law (Psalm 119:46), not adding or taking away a single dot or iota (Deteronomy 4:2, Matthew 5:18). We are not to lean on our own understanding ( 3:5, 14:12, 16:25, Psalm 119:9) in order to reach our conclusions about policies (even if we want to rebrand our own understanding as “Natural Law” as the thomists like to do), but rather we are to study and lean on God’s Word, and He will make out path’s straight ( Proverbs 3:6, Psalm 119:24).