Obama Will Turn the U.S. Into China

Or at least that’s what James Dobson seems to think.  In fairness, it’s possible that some of the things Dobson fears could happen, at least to some degree, if the Supreme Court’s makeup dramatically changes.  But this document is so over-the-top that on the whole it can only be viewed as unhinged.  This sort of thing is calculated to induce fear.  How many times does scripture encourage us not to be afraid (e.g. Rom. 8:15)?  On that basis alone, this screed is profoundly wrong.   But even beyond this, the dramatic scope of what Dobson predicts here is surpassingly unlikely to obtain even if Obama is elected.  What a shame that so many good people will swallow this hook, line and sinker, and will live in fear as a result.

Friends, whatever our political views, whatever may come, let’s try to remember what St. Paul said to a rag-tag group of Christians living in the heart of imperial Rome:

What, then, shall we say in response to this?  If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: 
   “For your sake we face death all day long; 
      we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.  Rom. 8:31-39.