I actually listened to him lots when I was a kid - not through choice, but because the Zimbabwean radio service for some inexplicable reason had him scheduled just before The Goon Show, which for those unaquainted, is a surrealist 1950s era BBC radio comedy featuring Spike Milligan.
So I listened to Dobson drone on, as I impatiently waited for the real entertainment.
Given how much evangelical folks like to turn funerals and memorial services into altar calls, I’m sure that wherever Dobson is now, he’s looking up at that comment and smiling.
Now that’s a funeral protest I could get behind.
Where’s Phred Phelps when we need him?
I’m seeing lots of comments on Facebook from people who are, or have been, estranged from their parents because they followed Dobson’s rules to the letter.
How so?
So these people are estranged from their families because they followed the tenets of Focus on the Family too closely? How ironic.
Incidentally, who is the last “they” in your post referring to? The parents?
I like to imagine that Saint Peter has a little red button that triggers a springboard which propels the unwelcome arrival into an array of giant pinball bumpers to be bounced back and forth a few dozen times before being deposited onto a spiral slide to Hades.
…to a Pointer Sisters soundtrack.
1-2-3 4 5…
Awaiting the arrival of his roommate.
Things are busy! I can’t supply the names, but two fellas showed up at a Houston guy’s house with bulletproof vests, “badges”, and guns, claiming they were there to serve a warrant. When the homeowner refused to open the door, they opened fire, and he did as well and killed both of them. Iced, but in a warmer place.
Well… when fake cops trying a home invasion bang on your door to rob/kill you… you can wait until they shoot through your door ( before you shoot through your door… )
Or you can prep ahead of time and pay for a really solid hardened bullet proof re-enforced door that nobody can shoot through… or kick down.
I honestly don’t know which one is right.
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Are those an actual thing? Sounds expensive.
If you have to money, you can get anything installed… but maybe they’ll just shoot you through a window and climb in istead. A door like that would be massively heavy; I’m guessing no standard door frame could hold it… and if it sags the home ownere would be the one climbing in and out of a window.
Why do I believe it is possible? I’ve seen large old-school homes several towns away from mine that were sold when the owners died of old age. The new owners were trying to remove and sell a bank vault door (!) in the home’s basement. The funny thing is, this wasn’t the first bank vault door listed for sale.
Maybe I’m looking at it wrong, but if you can afford to install a bank vault door in your basement, you can afford to throw enough money at your fears to find someone who will sell you a bullet proof front door.
PS- This is a bank vault door. When bank branches close down and the building gets demo’d, these things need to be removed. I guess somebody buys them.
I don’t know what you consider expensive, here is a panzertür PT1 (whatever that means, probably a DIN norm or so) new for unser 5,000 €uro.
In Kleinanzeigen (formerly known as eBay) you can buy used vintage steel doors from old bunkers for 500 €uro (VB means negotiable), but only if you pick it up yourself. I’ll pass on that one, not my kind of humor. But there are several on offer, seems to be a thing.
And this one looks suitable as a front door, but is not as resistant. It’s steel, though, and only 300 €uro new.
The article is adblocker-blocked so I didn’t get whatever details may be past the lede.
Interesting that the 2 attackers had “bulletproof vests” and yet were killed. While the homeowner who was presumably a) surprised, and b) wearing whatever nontactical gear, survived. Perhaps they brought handguns to an assault-rifle fight.
I’ll be interested to learn how the local cops (and the FBI) handle this case and how much investigation there will be into the decedents’ friends and online associates. These two might well be a small part of a much larger group of wannabe RW death squads.
Always a possibility. And that’s not counting on them wearing POS bootleg TEMU armor or, hell, even Airsoft armor, because the idea was to just look like rogue ICE to cow your target into not resisting to begin with. The homeowner was smart enough to not stand directly behind the door.
A reminder that even having a hardened bunker in your home is worthless unless you use it. And it might attract the wrong crowd.
Note that while they caught the guy, the case apparently still hasn’t gone to trial.
What the hell is a “Seismic 12 earthquake”-the Earth splits in two, but the vault survives?