[Vision2020] letter to the editor

[bill london]

    Doug Wilson says his Christ Church is all about following the 
absolute unchanging Truth of the Bible, but now it looks like that Truth 
is bending to the political wind. 
    First, in the book he co-authored in 1996, "Southern Slavery, As It 
Was," Wilson directly and specifically supports slavery.  On page 17: 
"the Bible is clear that Christians may own slaves."  On page 21: 
"Owning slaves is not an abomination."
    However, in the Christ Church statement printed as an advertisement 
in the Daily News (page 3A, weekend edition, November 15-16), the 
position is completely different.  In the fourth paragraph: "slavery has 
always been an evil needing to be abolished."
    Second, Wilson explains in his book his clear opposition to the 
American abolitionist movement (the political effort to end slavery in 
the US).  On  page 10: "nothing is clearer--the New Testament opposes 
anything like the abolitionism of our country prior to the War Between 
the States."
    However, according to that Church statement published in the Daily 
News, "we side with nonviolent abolitionism."
    Third, Wilson's book does not mention the casualties and pain of the 
Civil War in the defense of slavery and the Confederacy.
    However, now the Church statement from the Daily News says that the 
real core of its position is "against the butchery of 600,000 persons in 
the Civil War."
    If Wilson's tenets and proclamations are based on  unchanging 
Biblical Truth, why have they changed so completely? 
BL