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Rather than articulating an ideal, it asks us to grade folks like Dobson on the curve: Sure, sure, he literally and explicitly taught a generation of Christian parents to "break their childrens' wills," but he was so much better than his own absentee father!

Being better than your parents is something we should all strive for. But when you build a tremendously influential religious teaching empire and sell it as both "righteousness" and "sound psychology”, then parlay it into political power…