Kristin Du Mez sums up the legacy of James Dobson:
"Dobson believed that children are born sinful and that their behavior showed that and so he mandated very strict punishment including corporal punishment for children. He gave instructions on how to spank your kids and and good Christian parents must spank their kids, how to use implements to do so."
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Jemar Tisby responds to Du Mez:
"A lot of this sounds really familiar with with what we're seeing now with white Christian nationalism and the kind of society particularly the structure and the hierarchy and the patriarchy that they envision really just echoes so much of what what Dobson was putting out there."
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"Just a steady steady drum beat of hierarchical authority, children to parents, harsh discipline to save their souls, patriarchal authority, men to women, these social hierarchies. ...
He was one of the key people responsible for directing the white evangelical movement to the place we are where we are nowwhite evangelical movement to the place we are where we are now."
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