[Vision2020] The Community of the Insensitive

[Art Deco]

Can you say of Gregory Dickison and his fellow believers:  "Severe mental 
Health Problems!!!!!"


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

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <nickgier at adelphia.net>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 10:11 PM
Subject: [Vision2020] The Community of the Insensitive


> 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
>
>
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