tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5780216905224068835.post4682058215408551351..comments2023-05-19T07:30:00.903-05:00Comments on Lost in the Underground: Another reason why Focus on the Family is not just annoying, but dangerous.WordKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13155725542014595709noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5780216905224068835.post-84417675027668131802007-05-08T19:42:00.000-05:002007-05-08T19:42:00.000-05:00I actually have heard a FEW things out of Focus on...I actually have heard a FEW things out of Focus on the Family that I almost liked. But overall, I find nothing particularly useful and plenty flat out pointless. It is a bunch of fluff. And when I was a kid, it was one of the only commonalities I could see between "thinking" Church of Christers and "thinking" Baptists & Methodists. We could not get together on "doctrine" but we could all agree on spanking kids.<BR/><BR/>What a load of crap to get together on. I have words for it, but I don't use them blogging! And that was the SUBSTANCE this ministry had to offer.<BR/><BR/>Actually, I did hear a missionary who fascinated me on the radio program one time. I even taped it. Loaned the tape and now it is gone. That tape is the only evidence I HAD that FOTF ever offered anything worthwhile! Sorry it is gone.<BR/><BR/>I remember hearing another time a story that brought me to tears about a bomber fighter in WWII flying home from a mission crippled from the fight. The belly gunner was stuck in the turret and the pilot told everyone to bale out. The belly gunner could not get free though and when the last man prepared to jump, he turned and watched the pilot kneel and take the bellygunners hand and tell him "We will ride this one down together!" <BR/><BR/>Flat out busted me up! I was so taken with this story that I had heard on the Focus Radio program as gospel truth that I literaly cried like an idiot. A couple years later, I recited this story to a classmate in college. And I cried again telling it! <BR/><BR/>Then a couple years after that I read a fascinating book called THE MYTH OF REPRESSED MEMORY by Elizabeth Loftus. In that book Loftus describes how President Reagan once told this same story at a press conference. The Pres had thought he had heard it from a war hero. It turns out it was a scene in a movie he had acted in! The whole thing was FICTION! Good fiction, but still FICTION!!!! This means Focus was promoting the story falsely too! <BR/><BR/>My God. Now I cry from the embarrassement. <BR/><BR/>I guess I don't actively hate Focus on the Family, but I really have no use for them. Dobson really does at least as much harm as good in my estimation. I never promote him or his ministry.<BR/><BR/>Jesus is Lord!Agent Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17797031158032033042noreply@blogger.com