[Vision2020] Does Phil Nisbet Practice Anti-Gentilism?

[Art Deco]

Nick writes:

"Phil joins Biblical absolutists such as Doug Wilson (his new term to describe himself) in condemning all Bible scholars who do not agree with their traditional view of Jewish or Christian doctrine."

While I do not accuse Phil of this, it is not surprising that Cultmaster Wilson should call himself a Biblical Absolutist (meaning his exclusive interpretation of the Bible).  Such aggrandizing of himself is just another instance of his out of control egomania and megalomania.

Perhaps a few remember this revealing snippet from the corrections in the Daily News:
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ACCURACY MATTERS

 

Christ Church pastor Doug Wilson was incorrectly quoted in the weekend paper due to a Daily News error.

 

In the front page article headlined, "Both sides point fingers; can there be 

a middle ground?"  Wilson was quoted as saying:

 

"I've never been in anything like this, and I've never changed my views on anything."

 

What he actually said was:

 

"I've never been in anything like this, and I've never changed.  I've never changed what I do, [sic] I've not changed anything."
_______________________________________________

When anyone says:

 

"I've never changed.  I've never changed what I do, [sic] I've not changed anything."

 

Most would take the ordinary meaning of this most curious and revealing utterance as:

 

"I have never made a mistake!!!"

 

For those Christians who believe that in some unfathomable, non-linguistically-intelligible/expressible way their alleged God, alleged Holy Ghost, and Jesus are one and the same, the only being who could assert that she/he/it has never made a mistake is an incarnations of GOD HIMSELF.

 

Hence, the above quote from Cult Master Wilson is equivalent to saying:

 

"I am God!!!"

 

Can you say "Are we dealing with severe mental health problems here?"?



In my opinion those that take or pretend to take Wilson seriously must either be economically dependent upon him, or are unwholesomely ovine, have very deep needs that beclouds their judgment, and/or have some seriously unresolved problems for which such blind, irrational faith acts as a mask.





I wonder what would happen to the Christ Church Cult if they instituted a conflict of interest by-law similar to that of many honest, adherent to basic Christianity churches:



No one shall serve as an elder or deacon who is economically dependent upon in any manner or related by blood or marriage to any paid church employee or religious professional.



Just as a far-fetched guess, if the Christ Church Cult were to implement such a policy, there would be some drastic changes both in personnel and in community relations.




Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)
deco at moscow.com




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nicholas Gier" <ngier at uidaho.edu>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 10:15 AM
Subject: [Vision2020] Does Phil Nisbet Practice Anti-Gentilism?


> Greetings:
> 
> Before making the point in the title, I have to explain the delay in 
> posting my response to Phil Nisbet's critique of my post "The 
> Deceptions of War."  I had to do a lot of fact checking, and then make 
> sure that I got in my daily ski run on the golf course and my 
> afternoon faculty union recruitment on the UI campus, which I've been 
> doing for the last two weeks.  And then there was the exhausting five 
> hour City Council meeting on Monday night. Many people left after the 
> zoning hearing but I stayed on for the ballfields debate.
> 
> In recent post Phil again charged me with the sin of anti-Semitism. By 
> the same perverse reasoning, I guess I could call his unfair attack 
> on “Deceptions of War” a case of anti-Gentilism, but I will not play a 
> silly and demeaning tit for tat game.
> 
> But I will make one comment. The implication of Phil’s charge is that 
> the many Jewish scholars in the American Academy of Religion, from 
> whom I’ve learned much about the Hebrew religion contained in the 
> Hebrew Bible, are anti-Semitic as well.  Reductio ad absurdum!
> 
> Perhaps Phil still fails to appreciate the distinction between the 
> scholarly study of texts on the one hand, and the practice of a 
> religion that includes scripture, ritual, and tradition.  For example, 
> the former study concludes that there is no evidence for an afterlife 
> in the Hebrew Bible, but the latter maintains that belief, at least in 
> the tradition of the Pharisees.  Phil must know that prior to the 
> Pharisees, the Saducees rejected life after death and the resurrection 
> of the body, views consistent with the Hebrew Bible.
> 
> Phil joins Biblical absolutists such as Doug Wilson (his new term to 
> describe himself) in condemning all Bible scholars who do not agree 
> with their traditional view of Jewish or Christian doctrine.
> 
> Nick Gier
> 
> 
> 
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