Yeah, Dr. D and I are in agreement on some aspects of theology, I’ll give him that.

And thanks for the help on my boilerplate. I’ll make the adjustment.

Don’t be a dick. Really.

Dobson believes that Jesus is the Son of God. You don’t agree with him on that?

Oh, and the phrase is “I couldn’t really care less” not “I could really care less.”

I’m just here to help.

This is a boilerplate response to e-mails I have received about my Fred Thompson blog post that was cited on WorldNetDaily:

The post from my blog should be read in its original context. I believe that any reasonable person could read my post and see that it is satirical and not meant to be taken seriously.

http://www.markaelrod.net/2007/03/29/the-i-saw-fred-thompson-at-a-church-of-christ-challenge

This is reflected in an article in the Christian Chronicle about my blog post on Thompson as well.

http://www.christianchronicle.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=662

As the CC article suggests, the purpose of my post was to have some fun James Dobson’s assertion that Fred Thompson was not “Christian” enough. To suggest that I agree with Dobson about Fred Thompson, or anything else for that matter, is absurd.

The “journalists” at WND obviously do not fall into the category of reasonable people – nobody at that online publication or anywhere else has asked me to comment on what I wrote on my blog back in March. To me, this is like taking something from The Onion as gospel and publishing it as fact. Real journalists check their facts – faux journalists believe everything they read on the Interwebs.

The bottom line is I could really care less about where Fred Thompson or anyone else goes to church.

And as a Harding employee, I certainly can’t afford to give away $100 for something as shallow as this.

But the great irony of this is that I have been characterized as an intolerant Christian fundamentalist. A careful reading of my blog and other things I have written would clearly demonstrate that this is not the case.