I’m sorry, this is not a story of redemption and forgiveness. This is blatent attention grabbing by Focus on the Family, exploitation of deeply grieving, stressed families and stepping across an thin line in a culture of violence that looks like it’s blaming ADHD or something ‘outside’ of a family in trouble.
I don’t care how Dobson tries to spin this for his fawning Christian audience, interviewing these families is manipulative, pandering self-interest. Compelling? A visit?
I would not use those tidied up words, I’d use voyeristic pandering.
Shame on us.
The cry of ‘why’ may be one of our deepest, but Focus on the Family thinking they have the ability to provide quick broadcast answers cheapens faith, lives and deaths.
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It’s a sad day in the world when we use other people’s loss to fund our own gain. Maybe Dobson can’t think of anything else to put out, so he focuses on the pain of others. I hope that someday we will realize that Jesus didn’t advertise His help to others, other people did that for Him. He wasn’t popular because He was focused on Himself. He was popular because He was focused on others. I hope that someday we as Christians will realize that we need to focus on others and truly love them and care for them, without getting national attention.
It does happen, people do help others in Jesus’ name and w/o advertising themselves, it’s why we don’t hear about it. The Church has it’s problems, it has its shameful issues, and it has real people serving a real God help them serve real people. Humility and Pride is the ying and yang of the Church today.
That ‘Christian’ media is as exploitative as the ‘liberal’ media they rail about isn’t a surprise anymore.
Dobson lost his way a long time ago and sensationalizing isn’t new to his modus operandi.
The families are more than equipped to meet privately and talk. There are mature believers perfectly able, willing and equipped to come along side, who understand life shattering loss doesn’t need to be celebratized and paraded.