GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAD RUBBISH!!! #JamesDobson, influential founder of conservative Christian group #FocusOnTheFamily, has died

By MIKE CATALINI and HOLLY MEYER
Updated 10:33 AM EDT, August 21, 2025

"Dr. James Dobson, a politically influential child psychologist who started a radio show counseling Christians on how to be good parents, founded the conservative ministry Focus on the Family and was long a campaigner against #abortion and #LGBTQ+ rights, died on Thursday. He was 89.

"His death was confirmed by the Dr. James Dobson Family Institute.

"Dobson started Focus on the Family in 1977, which had more than 1,000 employees at its peak and gave him a platform to weigh in on legislation, advise White House panels and advocate against laws to ban #ConversionTherapy to 'cure' gay people.

"He became a force in the 1980s for pushing conservative Christian ideals in American politics alongside fundamentalist giants like #JerryFalwell and #PatRobertson. He campaigned for bringing religious conservatives into the political mainstream, and in 1989, Falwell called Dobson a rising star. Decades later, he served on President #DonaldTrump ’s Evangelical Executive Advisory Board."

https://apnews.com/article/james-dobson-obituary-focus-on-family-51a9dbf50e26eaee2ac01d457e9d46aa

#ChristianCoalition #ChristianNationalists #Homphobes #ProBirth #ChristianRight #Fundamentalist #HandmaidsTale #MAGADeathCult #ChristoFascists #ChristoFascism

What do #VanceBoelter and #ErikPrince have in common? Quite a bit! But Prince prefers to farm out #Assassinations to his minions!

#Theocratic #Mercenary Erik Prince and the #ChristianRight

by Mike Kuhlenbeck • 19 June 2018

"Erik Dean Prince was born in Holland, Michigan, on June 6, 1969, the youngest child and only son of Edgar and Elsa Prince, who also had daughters Betsy, Emilie, and Eileen. As documented by author Suzanne Simons in her 2009 book Master of War: #Blackwater USA’s Erik Prince and the Business of War, Prince grew up in a religious household and attended Christian schools; the Princes were members of the Reformed Church in America, a conservative Christian sect that follows the philosophical template of theologian John Calvin.

"Edgar Prince worked as a die caster and then chief engineer for the die cast machine manufacturing outfit Buss Machine Works after serving in the US Air Force. In 1965 he and two co-workers struck out on their own to establish Prince Manufacturing. By the 1970s the company expanded its operations and became financially successful, as did the Prince family. Edgar Prince died of heart failure in 1995, and the company was sold to Johnson Controls for over $1 billion.

"Surrounded by those who share their belief in Christian-based politics, the Prince family has used its fortune to help build the #ConservativeChristian movement. Focus on the Family founder James Dobson and Richard Nixon’s disgraced former special counsel Charles Colson (who became a born-again Christian after serving seven months in prison for his role in the Watergate scandal) were family friends. Edgar and Elsa Prince were major contributors to the Family Research Council and founded the nonprofit Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation in 1979, substantial funds from which have gone toward the effort to abolish the legal wall separating church and state. The Prince family also has deep ties to the Council for National Policy (#CNP) which, according to its vision statement, supports “a united conservative movement to assure, by 2020, policy leadership and governance that restores religious and economic freedom, a strong national defense, and #JudeoChristian values under the Constitution.”

"From Reverend #BillyGraham’s “spiritual counsel” to twelve US presidents, to Reverend #JerryFalwell’s #MoralMajority movement of the 1970s and ’80s, to Marion Gordon #PatRobertson’s #ChristianCoalition (now the #ChristianCoalitionOfAmerica), the movement to push a #fundamentalist “Judeo-Christian” agenda into the public sphere has been an ongoing crusade. Keeping with family tradition, Erik Prince’s sister Betsy married fellow Christian right figure Dick DeVos, whose father is the founder of Amway and the past president of the CNP from 1990-1993. Betsy DeVos served as the chair of the Michigan Republican Party and now serves as US Secretary of Education under Donald Trump. The DeVos dynasty, labelled a “family of extremists” by the Center for American Progress, is undoubtedly having an influence on the Trump White House."

Read more:
https://thehumanist.com/magazine/july-august-2018/features/theocratic-mercenary-erik-prince-christian-right

#ChristoFascists #ChristoFascism #Mercenaries #PrivateSecurity #MAGA #MAGADeathCult #RightWing #ViolentExtremists

So, many years ago (the mid 1990s), I collaborated with my friends to create one of the first online magazines -- What? Magazine Online. One of my feature stories was, "Who Is The Antichrist?". It was mostly tongue-in-cheek except when it came to one "candidate" -- #RalphReed of the #ChristianCoalition. Rancid Ralph and his ilk (#JerryFalwell, #PatRobertson) have been my mortal enemies for many years. As a NB, Pagan, Environmentalist, Green Socialist, who stood up for the rights of others, I saw them as being the polar opposite of everything I believed in -- like having a living #Biosphere, being in harmony with #Nature, sharing with others, and respecting the rights of non-white and Indigenous folks.

I also had a nightmare vision of the world we're close to living in now, and we're at the crossroads between good and evil (good being that which unites us with God, Nature, each other, and evil being that which separates us from God, Nature, each other. Something I distilled from reading too much #Jung and #Nietzche). Stand up against Fascism (including #CorporateColonialism). It's all about power, abuse of Nature and people, and making a buck. We know better than that (I hope).

For those that were exposed to the "700 Club" and Pat Robertson back in the day, you may not have realized that he wasn't exactly a paragon of virtue. This article (and the film it references) were published before he died. Of course this sort of thing still goes on. Personally I would not ever trust any preacher, but especialliy not one that has a television show. Those charlatans are not in their business to serve a deity, they are in it to make money and to gain power and influence.

‘Mission Congo’ Alleges Pat Robertson Exploited Post-Genocide Rwandans For Diamonds
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mission-congo-alleges-pat-robertson-exploited-post-genocide-rwandans-for-diamonds

#exploitation #exvangelical #christian #christianity #christians #fundie #scandal #religion #ReligiousTrauma #patrobertson

Remember when #PatRobertson died?

I do.

It was a good day.

There was dancing in the streets.

New English-language pages created on #RationalWiki in July (Part 1 of 2):

Pat Robertson's book "The New World Order" #patrobertson #newworldorder
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_New_World_Order_(book)

#Nebula (cosmos)
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nebula

#HeartMath Institute (New Age)
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/HeartMath_Institute

#Polyvagal theory
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Polyvagal_theory

Ann Coulter's book "Treason" #anncoulter
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Treason:_Liberal_Treachery_from_the_Cold_War_to_the_War_on_Terrorism

Bernard Goldberg #BernardGoldberg
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Bernard_Goldberg

Richard A. Passwater #richardpasswater
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Richard_A._Passwater

Nayirah testimony #Kuwait #iraqwar
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony

Ambassador Baptist College #AmbassadorBaptistCollege
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ambassador_Baptist_College

Harvey Weinstein #HarveyWeinstein
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Harvey_Weinstein

Apollo Quiboloy #ApolloQuiboloy
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Apollo_Quiboloy

Large language model #Largelanguagemodel #AI
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Large_language_model

#Stolzmonat #altright
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Stolzmonat

Razib Khan #RazibKhan
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Razib_Khan

#DeSantis #lawsuit over US #DeptofEDU #college accreditation process stems in part from when #FSU status was looked at after his handpicked #RWNJ #Edu Commissioner Dick Corcoran (who got his law degree from #PatRobertson's Christian Broadcasting Network University) was found in conflict of interest attempting to take top role at FSU while holding state's top govt Edu job

https://apnews.com/article/desantis-lawsuit-education-department-accreditation-agencies-1fdf2f4a90511fd7011325282e969162