Holly Berkley Fletcher, whose parents were Southern Baptist missionaries in Africa, remembers James Dobson. As devout evangelicals, her parents followed his advice and beat her as a child. She says,
"You could argue easily that he is directly responsible for 80%+ of the white evangelical community following an authoritarian because they were brought up to follow an authoritarian."
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"They were brought up to follow authoritarian parents and authoritarian religious leaders, authoritarian view of scriptures and he had a lot to do with that. …
He was mentored by a eugenicist. He at one point discouraged interracial marriage. Focus on the Family, it's really the white family and getting the white nice Christian families to have lots of children."
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"This man caused enormous damage to millions of people who grew up in this culture and his influence continues to be felt in the Trump era because, again, he helped build and sustain an authoritarian culture in white evangelicalism. Children that responded to that, adults who continued to respond to that, were conditioned to respond to that."
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"And it is no wonder that over 80% of white evangelicals have gone along with an authoritarian because that is how they were raised.
And James Dobson is a big reason um for that. He also built a millions of dollars empire there in Colorado Springs with focus on the family and I think died a very wealthy man. So I don't like to speak ill of the dead most of the time."
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"But in this case I feel compelled to do so because of the damage that this person has caused. I do not purport to know what happens after we die. That is something that I abandoned when I left white evangelicalism. So I will not speculate as to the destination or low current location of his soul."
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"But I do hope that there's some justice and that somehow somewhere wherever his soul may be he might be confronted with the damage that he has done, all in the name of Jesus."
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