[Vision2020] letter to the editor

[Douglas]

Visionaries,

Bill has found what he thinks is a contradiction. I am sorry for him that 
this controversy isn't turning out as he had hoped.

1. The slave trade was an abomination, as argued in Southern Slavery.
2. Ante-bellum slavery as an institution was unbiblical, as argued in 
Southern Slavery.
3. Without the violent abolitionists, slavery in the US would have ended 
peacefully, as argued in Southern Slavery.
4. In that context, it was possible for a Christian to own slaves (or to be 
a slave) without sin, provided they followed the requirements of the New 
Testament for those in such positions. As argued in Southern Slavery.

Better luck next time. I would give page numbers for each of the above but 
refusing to do so might encourage some folks to read the whole thing.

Cordially,

Douglas Wilson


At 02:44 PM 11/15/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>    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
>
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