[Vision2020] the shrill get shriller

[Saundra Lund]

Ben Merkle wrote:
"How does one respond to Mr. Fox?"

Well, my suggestion is that you follow the long-standing tradition of your
Christ Church/Wilson World compatriots:  why don't you just boycott Mr.
Fox's posts if you find them objectionable?

There you go:  a project!  You folks have organized and participated in more
boycotts than any other local group I'm aware of, so that should be right up
your alley  ;-)

Ben Merkle also wrote:
"Try humor Wayne. Try irony. . . Where's the wit? . . . Of course this isn't
surprising, since secularism always goes shrill when you poke it. But in the
Heart of the Arts we expected a little creativity or cleverness to go with
the shrill."

I guess I could say the same thing about your sad little Hate Splotch.
Where *is* the humor?  I had such high hopes because I know some of you
scoundrels do have some real wit.  Then, I checked it out and was so
disappointed.  And, to show the optimistic fool(!) I am, I've kept checking
back hoping against hope . . . to no avail.  So sad, so very very sad.

As for cleverness & creativity, those, too, are lacking in your Hate
Splotch.  But, I don't guess I should expect creativity from a cult that
trots out the same old tired phrases and examples time & time again.  They
didn't work -- and weren't cleaver or creative -- the first time around, and
they've simply become more shrill each time they are trotted out again.

But, in the interest of trying to provide you with some humor, which you
seem to be craving and are so clearly lacking yourself, I'll leave you with
this.

During the London/Wilson debate, one of the questions (I'm paraphrasing)
asked was what each would like Moscow to look like 30-50 years from now.
Douglas Wilson's response (again, I'm paraphrasing) was that he'd like
Moscow to be like it was 10 years ago.

Now, here's the humor:  a decade ago, Wilson wasn't happy with our
community, either!  He & his followers were the Kings and Queens of the
Boycott.  Feminism was a "reigning error."  Legal abortion was an
abomination.  Idaho needed a third political party, and Wilson tried his
best to start one.  Prop 1 (the anti-gay rights initiative) received his
outspoken support because he viewed it as a "preventative measure."  He was
insulting the way others chose to worship and named the UI Campus Christian
Center as a culprit.  And, he was no happier with the UI (which he termed as
"a regionally known dumping ground for your tax dollars") then than now.

Then:
- "I bring you tidings from the strange land of the University of Idaho,
which is a regionally known dumping ground for your tax dollars."
AND
- The UI "Thought Police" were running a Christian out of his job.
AND
- "A few weeks ago, I wrote about *another* outbreak of liberal "tolerance"
at the University of Idaho."
[Note: emphasis is mine.  SL]

Now:
- "I am sure you are very busy men, and that you have better things to do
than put out fires that have been started by your own diversity office."
AND
-"A controversy has been boiling here in Moscow for the last several months,
a good deal of it resting on the back of inaccurate and defamatory material
that is being circulated against us and out ministries here in Moscow.  Some
of this is the result of the incompetence of the Daily News, but the driving
force behind the controversy is coming from certain offices at the
University of Idaho.  What it boils down to is that the diversity police are
after us. . . in the current climate, for anyone up there at the University
of Enron to set themselves up as moral arbiters is a bit thick. . . But I am
asking that the UI be removed as the base from which they launch their
mortar rounds.  I am also asking that the Office of Diversity apologize to
us and to the public for this gross misuse of the resources of a public
university."

So, why does Wilson want Moscow to go back a decade?!?!  He wasn't any
happier with our community or the UI then than he is now.

The only genuine difference I can think of (other than the size of the flock
worshiping a wolf in sheep's clothing) is that he was still sneaky enough to
be flying below the radar of most, so we didn't know what his political
agenda was.  We didn't know that his religious agenda included a burning
desire for a theocratic government; we didn't know he wanted to have his
followers on the City Council, County Commissioners, and school board; we
didn't know he'd have his theocratic minion "defending" indigent criminals
on the taxpayer's dime, thus further lining the church's coffers; we didn't
know that he would attack local businesses and authorities in the
furtherance of his overriding desire for theocracy.

And, we *sure* didn't know that he was going to write an absolutely
nauseating defense of Southern slavery!

Nor did we know he was going to successfully (by his own account) & actively
recruit people from outside this community to move to this community to set
up their own particular flavor of a Christian community where they could try
to have a de facto theocracy.

Oh . . . wait . . . I get it!  Wilson & his peculiar revisionism are at it
again!

ROTFLOL!

Dig it!


Saundra Lund
Moscow, ID

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
nothing.
-Edmund Burke  
 

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Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 10:34 AM
To: vision2020@moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] the shrill get shriller


Visonistas,



I apologize for falling behind in my duties of late. I do hope to get
another post on the Hate Splotch shortly and have been chiding myself
nonstop for my internet slothfulness. I thought I would do a post denouncing
Doug Jones' article on the Trinity. I had been hesitant before to speak out,
since I'm not much of a Trinitarian scholar. But apparently that isn't
stopping anyone else right now. Enough of those Cappadocians and who gives a
rip about perichoresis. Jones is a heretic and we don't need to read a book
to intuitively feel it. Sheesh.

            But on to more important matters. This is the question that I
ask myself, and you must admit it is perplexing. How does one respond to Mr.
Fox? His obsession with the pornographic is a bit troubling and not
something I care to get too intimate with. He has, as another described him
to me, "potty fingers." But even more frightening is how he begins to
fulfill the predictions made in the ads that Christ Church put in the paper
at the beginning of the local controversy. After pointing out how boring the
"Not in our town" campaign is, the ad comments "We worry that this dullness
of life will spread throughout our region. Without a check on this, infants,
too, will soon wag their fingers like prairie school marms, and high
schoolers will fail to get punch lines." Behold with horror, it has already
begun! The very dullness predicted is parading before us.

            I think the only thing I can say to Mr. Fox, is quit being so
serious. Try humor Wayne. Try irony. Your current trajectory only takes you
fouler and fouler. All you can do is turn up the volume of the profanity.
What is next? Cuss words? Or maybe more sexual innuendo? Those are so
predictable. Where's the wit? The shrillness of the Intoleristas has gotten
so piercing of late that it would seem the noon siren has been stuck in the
on position. You are even driving off your fellow liberals.

            Of course this isn't surprising, since secularism always goes
shrill when you poke it. But in the Heart of the Arts we expected a little
creativity or cleverness to go with the shrill. But let me leave you with
some comedy, since it's so rare on this list these days. Wilson leaves the
list and it is chocked up to Rose's castrating wit. That is humor. There is
hope. Wayne told a funny.



Dig it.

Ben Merkle



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