Dobson vs. Obama – The Bible Wars

So James Dobson thinks that Barack Obama has distorted the Bible. Obama responded saying that Dobson was “just making stuff up.” Dobson has also received some surprising Christian resistance in the likes of “Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell, a Methodist pastor from Texas and longtime supporter of President Bush who has endorsed Obama” and set up a site that compares the statements of Dobson and Obama called www.jamesdobsondoesntspeakforme.com.

Here’s the deal. You can hand out 20 Bibles to 20 different people, ask them to all read the same passage, and you will then get 20 completely different interpretations of what the passage was trying to convey. To think that either Dobson or Obama have a monopoly on the Bible is ludicrous. To point out the historical and sociological facts surrounding the time in which the Bible was written is one thing. Claiming complete ownership over Biblical interpretation (which Dobson has done in at the very least a round-a-bout kind of way) is ignorance, arrogance, and folly.

All the while, poor John McCain struggles to reach out to evangelicals. Is it possible that for once, the evangelical vote could be up for grabs? For some reason I doubt it, but I’m sure that Obama will bring some to his fold. The bigger question is whether or not the evangelicals will stay home in November.