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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Monday, June 23, 2008

Feeling the foundations shake?

Leaving aside the great irony of James Dobson accusing someone else of "deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own worldview," take a minute to appreciate this in some context.

Obama has been in the beginning phases of an evangelical (specifically youth) outreach of christian rock concerts, electronic media, twitter, etc. Then suddenly, out of nowhere, James Dobson digs back to criticize an Obama speech from 2006.

(This comes right on the back of that big Pew study on religion which seems to show evangelicals shaking from their traditional power structures.)

I don't think Obama picks up big evangelical support, but the Dobson's of the world can't be happy that the young in their movements are looking afield.

2 Comments:

  • I don't think Obama picks up big evangelical support...

    Not white evangelicals, but Hispanics and blacks are probably giving him a second look. And his response to Dobson was pretty good. It showed that he isn't afraid to deal with Scriptural principles, and this may very well convince many evangelicals that he isn't very scary after all.
    Not that they would vote for him, but they may sit on their hands come November.

    Having said that, the latest Hindu thing (the Hanuman idol from India) may be a setback in this regard.

    By Blogger Todd Dugdale , at 8:05 PM  

  • And, I think there's some space among the young. I just wanted to make the point that I wasn't claiming he'd win the group.

    (And I've got the monkey god pictures queued up for tomorrow.)

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 10:03 PM  

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