[Vision2020] Additions to Two Articles

[Saundra Lund]

In responding to requests for more information, Professor Gier shared with
us:
"Dickison also quotes biblical passages (without qualification) that call
for . . . and cutting off a woman's hand for touching her husband's genitals
(Deut. 25.11,12). Behold, the Moscow Taliban!"

Uh-oh . . . I'm in trouble . . . I'm in big, Big trouble.

<gulp>

Saundra Lund
(typing with her nose while trying to hide her hands by sitting on them)
Moscow, ID

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

-----Original Message-----
From: vision2020-admin@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-admin@moscow.com] On
Behalf Of Nicholas Gier
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 10:31 AM
To: vision2020@moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Additions to Two Articles


Dear Visionaries:

Steve Wells asked me to document Wilson's positions on capitalism and
women's suffrage and I have now done that at
www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/patrislav.htm.

Also Ben Merkle has asked me to document my most recent remarks about
Dickisonian theocracy. Steve Wells had already diligently posted this
monstrous stuff, but I went back to check Credenda Agenda.  Here is how that
one paragraph now reads.

Another parallel between Christian and Islamic fundamentalism is a
theocratic form of government in which religious laws become the laws of the
land. In his regular column in Wilson's "Credenda Agenda" (vol. 3: nos. 9,
11), Greg Dickison, member of Wilson's Christ Church and a Moscow public
defender, states that "if we could have it our way," then there would be
capital punishment for "kidnapping, sorcery, bestiality, adultery,
homosexuality, and cursing one's parents."  Dickison also quotes biblical
passages (without qualification) that call for death for apostasy (Deut.
13.6-9), and cutting off a woman's hand for touching her husband's genitals
(Deut. 25.11,12). Behold, the Moscow Taliban!

The entire piece "Chilling Parallels: Christian and Islamic Fundamentalists"
can be found at www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/parallels.htm

Thanks Ben!  This gave me a chance to add the death penalty for apostasy.
That and dismemberment of criminals are two horrors that repluse us about
Islamic fundamentalist jurisprudence.

Nick