[Vision2020] Additions to Two Articles
Sunil Ramalingam
sunilramalingam@hotmail.com
Wed, 14 Jan 2004 15:40:15 -0800
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<P>Note to self:</P>
<P>Avoid shaking hands with Saundra.</P>
<P>Sunil</P></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>>From: "Saundra Lund" <SSLUND@ADELPHIA.NET>
<DIV></DIV>>To: <VISION2020@MOSCOW.COM>
<DIV></DIV>>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Additions to Two Articles
<DIV></DIV>>Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 11:58:37 -0800
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<DIV></DIV>>In responding to requests for more information, Professor Gier shared with
<DIV></DIV>>us:
<DIV></DIV>>"Dickison also quotes biblical passages (without qualification) that call
<DIV></DIV>>for . . . and cutting off a woman's hand for touching her husband's genitals
<DIV></DIV>>(Deut. 25.11,12). Behold, the Moscow Taliban!"
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<DIV></DIV>>Uh-oh . . . I'm in trouble . . . I'm in big, Big trouble.
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<DIV></DIV>><GULP>
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<DIV></DIV>>Saundra Lund
<DIV></DIV>>(typing with her nose while trying to hide her hands by sitting on them)
<DIV></DIV>>Moscow, ID
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<DIV></DIV>>The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
<DIV></DIV>>nothing.
<DIV></DIV>>-Edmund Burke
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<DIV></DIV>>-----Original Message-----
<DIV></DIV>>From: vision2020-admin@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-admin@moscow.com] On
<DIV></DIV>>Behalf Of Nicholas Gier
<DIV></DIV>>Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 10:31 AM
<DIV></DIV>>To: vision2020@moscow.com
<DIV></DIV>>Subject: [Vision2020] Additions to Two Articles
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<DIV></DIV>>Dear Visionaries:
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<DIV></DIV>>Steve Wells asked me to document Wilson's positions on capitalism and
<DIV></DIV>>women's suffrage and I have now done that at
<DIV></DIV>>www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/patrislav.htm.
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<DIV></DIV>>Also Ben Merkle has asked me to document my most recent remarks about
<DIV></DIV>>Dickisonian theocracy. Steve Wells had already diligently posted this
<DIV></DIV>>monstrous stuff, but I went back to check Credenda Agenda. Here is how that
<DIV></DIV>>one paragraph now reads.
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<DIV></DIV>>Another parallel between Christian and Islamic fundamentalism is a
<DIV></DIV>>theocratic form of government in which religious laws become the laws of the
<DIV></DIV>>land. In his regular column in Wilson's "Credenda Agenda" (vol. 3: nos. 9,
<DIV></DIV>>11), Greg Dickison, member of Wilson's Christ Church and a Moscow public
<DIV></DIV>>defender, states that "if we could have it our way," then there would be
<DIV></DIV>>capital punishment for "kidnapping, sorcery, bestiality, adultery,
<DIV></DIV>>homosexuality, and cursing one's parents." Dickison also quotes biblical
<DIV></DIV>>passages (without qualification) that call for death for apostasy (Deut.
<DIV></DIV>>13.6-9), and cutting off a woman's hand for touching her husband's genitals
<DIV></DIV>>(Deut. 25.11,12). Behold, the Moscow Taliban!
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<DIV></DIV>>The entire piece "Chilling Parallels: Christian and Islamic Fundamentalists"
<DIV></DIV>>can be found at www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/parallels.htm
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<DIV></DIV>>Thanks Ben! This gave me a chance to add the death penalty for apostasy.
<DIV></DIV>>That and dismemberment of criminals are two horrors that repluse us about
<DIV></DIV>>Islamic fundamentalist jurisprudence.
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<DIV></DIV>>Nick
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