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OK, first of all, this letter is a parody. The Wittenburg Door promotes
itself as offering "Spirited Satire Since 1517," although the magazine is
in fact only about 30 years old. It was founded by the late Mike
Yaconelli, and is currently maintained by the Trinity Foundation in
Dallas Texas.

Dobson IS an open critic of almost any kind of environmental
conservation. The parody is a close approximation of the truth. Like Pat
Robertson, whose "Christian Voters Guide" for Nov 2000 devoted more
attention to taxing energy (bad) than faith and family issues, and like
the late Jerry Falwell, Dobson has a real problem with recycling,
decreasing emissions, conserving forests, cutting down on carbon dioxide.
Dr. Dobson called for the resignation of the Rev. Richard Cizik,
president for the National Association of Evangelicals, some months ago,
because he believed that Cizik was spending too much time worrying about
global warming and not enough time spent on “core” issues, such as
abortion and same-sex marriages. In this respect, Dobson is at odds with
pastors such as Rick Warren, and other members of The Evangelical Climate
Initiative (www.Christiansandclimate.org), who view these things as
Christian stewardship. Dobson views the whole subject through a
Dispensationalist view that, we might as well use up whatever is around,
because soon the rapture is coming anyway. (James Watt pronounced this
view when he was Reagan's secretary of the Interior.)

So, yes, it is a joke, but a joke with some real meaning.

Siarlys

P.S. Sorry your funny bone wasn't striken by this one Jeanene. You're
missing out on some good laughs. Robert E. Lee would have loved it.

P.P.S. It is not accurate that the Door is ONLY about satire. It also has
some top quality interviews with some fascinating real people, clergy and
otherwise, and the published, Ole Anthony, gets a "last word" column at
the end that is always very serious, and which I only about half agree
with, on average.

On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 18:28:29 -0700 "Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies
List" <gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net> writes:
You're joking right?? He's not really looking to stop recycling and
increasing emissions?? That doesn't make any sense. Or is that the joke?
I'm confused.
~Lance



On 11/3/07, Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List
<gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net> wrote: 
This isn't ready for prime-time (aka appearance as an official GCFL
joke), but I just read the funniest James Dobson fundraising letter in
the Nov/Dec issue of the Wittenburg Door. I won't take your time with the
full text, but here are some of key excerpts:

In all my years in the ministry, I have never seen a threat like the one
facing us now!

We will need money, and lots of it.
That's where you come in.
We need you to give sacrificially. We need you to give like you've never
given before.

<So, what is all this building up to? Prepare yourself, gentle reader...>

We are now facing a Gay-Green threat: Homosexual activists who also seek
to limit carbon emissions and promote recycling, as well as a sustainable
lifestyle!

Even as I write this, publishing companies are printing propaganda which
will be forced upon our elementary school children; books with titles
like Heather's Two Mommies Join the Sierra Club, Daddy's Roommate Buys a
Prius, and Help! Holy Breeders are Killing my Planet.

As a form of protest, I encourage Christians all across the United States
to set fire to their green recycling trash bins on the first day of
December.

Also, and more importantly, please call us today, to contribute to this
vital fight for truth. Please be sure to have your credit card ready when
you call.

As our special gift to you, when you donate today, I would like to send
you a free, charmingly illustrated book, called I Drive a Big Car Because
I serve a Big God. And rest assured, it is NOT printed on recycled paper.

<Disclosures. Personally, I believe that there is no better way for a
parent to raise children than to read Dobson's Focus on the Family
Bulletin and Dr. Benjamin Spock's Baby and Child Care. They are a great
pair of resources that complement each other very well. But I have no
idea how a man who wrote Dobson's sound advice on child rearing could
make such a godawful fool of himself in public.>

Siarlys

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