{"id":679,"date":"2008-10-31T10:49:31","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T17:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=679"},"modified":"2008-10-31T10:49:31","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T17:49:31","slug":"obama-will-turn-the-us-into-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2008\/10\/31\/obama-will-turn-the-us-into-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Will Turn the U.S. Into China"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or at least that’s what James Dobson seems to think<\/a>. \u00a0In 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. \u00a0But this document is so over-the-top that on the whole it can only be viewed as unhinged. \u00a0This sort of thing is calculated to induce fear. \u00a0How many times does scripture encourage us not to be afraid (e.g. Rom. 8:15)? \u00a0On that basis alone, this screed is profoundly wrong. \u00a0 But even beyond this, the dramatic scope of what Dobson predicts here is surpassingly unlikely to obtain even if Obama is elected. \u00a0What a shame that so many good people will swallow this hook, line and sinker, and will live in fear as a result.<\/p>\n

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:<\/p>\n

What, then, shall we say in response to this? \u00a0If God is for us, who can be against us?\u00a0He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all\u2014how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?\u00a0Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.\u00a0Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died\u2014more than that, who was raised to life\u2014is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.\u00a0Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?\u00a0As it is written:\u00a0
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0“For your sake we face death all day long;\u00a0
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”<\/p>\n

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.\u00a0For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,\u00a0<\/span>neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,\u00a0neither 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. \u00a0Rom. 8:31-39. \u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or at least that’s what James Dobson seems to think. \u00a0In 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. \u00a0But this document is so over-the-top that on the whole it can only be viewed as unhinged. \u00a0This sort of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-and-policy","category-spirituality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-aX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}