Last week, James Dobson stopped by Glenn Beck’s television program last week to discuss his new novel “Fatherless,” a “faith-based, dystopian thriller” set in the year 2042.
Dobson warned Beck that there is something deeply wrong with a society in which more and more couples are deciding not to have children, which prompted Beck to want to know how we can change the “hardness of people’s hearts” that is at the root of this problem. After Dobson asserted, predictably, that a lack of Christian faith is the ultimate cause, Beck agreed and predicated that, just as Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” played an important role during the Civil War, Dobson’s “Fatherless” would play a similar role today because it will “wake people up”:
