[Vision2020] Questions

[Art Deco]

J Ford, et al,

Actually, Cultmaster Wilson is demonstrating quite well how to use the free 
enterprise system for personal gain.

1.    Set up a church (business).
2.    Find a flock of gullibles (customers).
3.    Make unverifiable/unfalsifible statements (products) that:
    a.    Fill father image needs.
    b.    Fill other needs including the need for some to feel punished then 
redeemed.
    c.    Fill other needs.
    d.    Convince customers to feel better, more special about themselves 
than non-customers.
4.    Collect cash/gifts (income).
5.    Pay as little tax as possible, whether legal or not (reduce expenses).
6.    Offer no enforceable warranties (reduce expenses, avoid liability).
7.    Make false statements (advertise).
8.    Use part of the cash to grow your business (re-invest profit).
9.    Live well on the remaining income [consume great quantities of fine 
and food] (enjoy profits).

A degree/certification/ordination is certainly not needed for business 
success, especially in sky piloting/huckstering.  All a flimflammer needs to 
do is to find enough non-discerning, acquiescent, needful people.

Why shouldn't the Wilson & Family's Cult & Cash Machine succeed?


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


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J Ford" <privatejf32 at hotmail.com>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 4:51 PM
Subject: [Vision2020] Questions


> Let's see how Doug sets the stage for "justifing" his non-ordination:
>
> Certification and the Ministry
> Topic: Chrestomathy
>
> "The disease has so far progressed that we now tend to assume that 
> graduate school honors are the qualifications we should look for in a 
> ministerial candidate. Paul's requirements for a godly ministry are set 
> aside, and we think that it is all right to do this because the man whose 
> marriage and family are stretcher case (and got that way while he was 
> working his guts out in seminary) nevertheless has professional 
> certification. He has the right papers on the wall, embossed and signed. 
> This is nothing less than the capitulation of the evangelical church to 
> the bureaucratic mind. Nothing good can come of it, and the sooner we find 
> the way of repentance the better" (The Paideia of God, p. 107).
>
> Posted by Douglas Wilson - 2/24/2006 11:10:20 AM"
>
> So, if you want to follow the Bible, i.e. Paul, you don't send your people 
> to seminary to gain an education and a full understanding of Religion and 
> Theology.  And the fact that "repentance" is needed implys there is sin 
> invloved in people going to school/seminary.
>
> Well, I just don't get it...why is NSA even in business if getting 
> educated and knowledgeable about your chosen field is wrong?  And if a 
> family is a "stretcher case" due to the (in this case) man's being in 
> school, what are these young people even doing being encouraged to get 
> married and start families (large onese at that) much less encouraged to 
> go to school?  And why does NSA have Greyfriers?  Isn't that a school that 
> is "... a three-year ministerial training program of  Christ Church, 
> Moscow, Idaho. We believe pastoral training is best done in the context of 
> the local church, under the care of godly elders."?  Or is it that ONLY 
> Moscow has "godly elders"?
>
> Questions, questions....
>
> J  :]
>
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