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1. Chris Enns 18 min later

   @zachleat And if you want to do a political deep dive on his (and many others) influences in American politics, reading Jesus and John Wayne by historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez is well worth the time.

   1. Zach Leatherman 22 min later

      @ichris good shout!

2. Chris Silverman 🌻 35 min later

   @zachleat Worth mentioning—which the news article did not, for some reason—that Focus on the Family was not just a "conservative ministry", it was an SPLC-designated hate group.

   Regarding Dobson's self-described Christian values, I'll defer to Matthew 7:15.

   1. Zach Leatherman 46 min later

      @csilverman good reminder. Dobson’s influence on my family growing up is one of the reasons I deconstructed

3. Tyler Sticka 49 min later

   @zachleat Good riddance

4. Private reply 2 hr later
   1. Zach Leatherman 3 hr later

      @edm00se I think you _may_ have misread that one, they’d been married for 64 years (she is not 64 years old)

      1. Eric McCormick 3 hr later

         @zachleat crap! Yeah, that’s it. Still seemed fitting. 🤔 Something something confirmation bias.

5. tripleman, a 🇨🇦 in 🇩🇪 4 hr later

   @zachleat Some people you mourn, some people you fucking don’t.

6. Jason Garber 4 hr later

   @zachleat Obligatory Keith David YouTube link:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gr0pKI-eeg

   1. Zach Leatherman 5 hr later

      @jgarber I laughed 😅

      1. Jason Garber 5 hr later

         @zachleat Making a single serving site of that clip is on my to-do list.

         1. Zach Leatherman 5 hr later

            @jgarber now this is truly doing the lord’s work

            1. Jason Garber 3 days later

               @zachleat https://hell.jgarber.cc

               1. Zach Leatherman 3 days later

                  @jgarber still got me laughing 😇

                  1. Jason Garber 3 days later

                     @zachleat I owe it to myself to watch "Tales from the Hood 2" if only to finally see this scene in context.