[Vision2020] The Community of the Insensitive

[nickgier at adelphia.net]

Greetings:

Inspired by Douglas Call's recent letter about Ed Iverson's column, I've sent the letter below to the Daily News.

As I was checking the back issues of Credenda Agenda I noticed that Volumes 3-6 are missing.  Is this the equivalent of Wilson's pulling the slavery booklet from the shelves? One of Dickison's articles can still be found at http://www.credenda.org/old/issues/vol3/magi3-9.htm.

Note to Tony:  I challenge you to read the links on my Wilson page at http://users.adelphia.net/~nickgier/wilson.htm and still honestly conclude that Wilson's garners your admiration.  Start with "The Doug Wilson Story: A Personal Account" and go from there. The best conservative on this list (the now deceased Phil Nisbet) had to admit that I did my best to constructively engage this bunch before the slavery booklet affair made it impossible for me to respect them any more. 

To the Editor:

I appreciated Douglas Call's critique (Opinion, 4/6) of Ed Iverson's column (3/25&26).  I think he is right to infer that Iverson, a new congregant of Douglas Wilson's Christ Church, has also joined the "Community of the Insensitive."

In two articles in Wilson's Credenda Agenda (vol. 3: 9, 11), Greg Dickison, Christ Church's attorney, defines the nature of such a community quite well. 

Dickison proclaims 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 that support slavery as "ordained and regulated by God," death for apostasy, and cutting off a woman’s hand for touching a strange man's genitals.  

Iverson implies that those in the "Community of the Sensitive" are so selective in their concern that they allegedly have no sympathy for the Afghani Christian who was recently charged with the capital crime of apostasy.

I'm certain that most sensitive people are just as concerned about this man's fate as they would be about a person who chooses not to be a Christian in Wilson's theocracy. According to Dickison, a true Christian magistrate would have order this person's execution.  

The title of Dickison's first article is "Your Eye Should Not Pity." According to his reading of Scripture, it is a sin to pity the poor soul that must suffer death for these crimes. He also insists that there can be no mitigating circumstances in carrying out divine justice.

Once Wilson did allow some flexibility when he told this newspaper that homosexuals could be banished rather than executed.  How sensitive of him!

It is difficult for me to imagine a more insensitive community for Iverson to join.  It is also inconceivable that such a community could call itself "Christian."

Nick Gier, Moscow