Dobson condemned Chavez's "devil" remarks but suggested "university professors," "magazines" are agents of "Satan"
Summary: Only a day before reportedly condemning Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez for calling President Bush "the devil," James Dobson asserted that Satan "uses many different means of communication," including "university professors."
On September 22 at the "Washington Briefing: Value Voters Summit 2006," a gathering of 1,700 Christian right devotees in Washington designed to energize the Republican base ahead of midterm elections, Focus on the Family founder James Dobson appeared onstage beside Family Research Council President and Summit organizer Tony Perkins. According to blogger Bruce Wilson of Talk2Action, Dobson condemned Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez for referring to President Bush at the United Nations as "el Diablo." Dobson also reportedly criticized Congress for its supposed lack of outrage at Chavez's comments, declaring:
DOBSON: I absolutely cannot believe that two days ago Hugo Chavez came to the United Nations and attacked our president viciously and called him a devil and said that -- in essence -- the platform where he stood stinks and smells like sulfur. And, there has hardly been a statement of defense out of Congress. There's been no outrage ... there's been a few little pantywaist comments. ...
However, only a day earlier, Dobson's Focus on the Family aired a broadcast titled "Overcoming Satan's Lies," during which, according to Focus on the Family's website, evangelical author "Kay Arthur challenge[d] women to examine the deceptive messages of the feminist movement." Introducing the September 21 broadcast, Dobson asserted that Satan "uses many different means of communication," including "university professors."
Dobson and his co-host, John Fuller, introduced the September 21 broadcast:
FULLER: She [Kay Arthur] is a great communicator and a wonderful, genuine individual, and today she's going to be taking somewhat of a different approach to finding the truth as she identifies and discusses some of those lies that Satan has been using to deceive women about who they are in Christ.
DOBSON: Yeah, the Bible calls Satan the father of lies, and it even goes on to say that lying is his native tongue. He uses many different means of communication -- everything from magazines to television to university professors.
—M.B.
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This should demonstrate once and for all that Dobson, Falwell and their ilk are completely beyond the bounds of rational thinking. What does this loony jesus freak think we should do, bomb Caracas? Sure Chavez is a despot, but like any other Latin American dictator, he is the government du jour. He won't last long.
I think if you read closely, he says Satan uses these authors, actors, etc., and professors. He doesn't actually call them Satan. Chavez did actually call the prez the Devil.
Dobson and his ilk sicken me, but they use these little nuances to ply their trade and defend their hate speech.
Either they have had a lot of contact with Satan to know so much about him (and that is worrisome) or they are naive and aren't aware of how a devil (Beelzebub, Satan, the Old Liar--whatever) may also want to use preachers (and that is worrisome--let's not forget Salem), especially fundamentalist preachers.
It's all so Middle Ages, just like the fundamentalist Muslim jihadists.
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