[Vision2020] the amusement of southern slaveyr

[Austin Storm]

keely,

You misread me quite a bit, and I hope you'll let me clarify. When the
Southern Slavery flap started some people called 'kinists' got very excited
(they don't like interracial marriage). "People who understand us," they
thought (about Doug Wilson and CC). Then they realized that we are not
racists, and it made them mad. That made me happy, because when creepy
people like you you start to question yourself.

The point of relating my minor disagreement with Pastor Wilson was that he
does not dictate everything I believe, and we are both quite happy with
that. This is not a cult, he is not a rich and powerful cultmaster, serious!
I *hate* slavery. Which is why I'm glad my pastor does, too. This quote was
from a few posts down when I typed "slavery" into Blog and Mablog:

"Despite our published record and debates against racism and white
supremacist hideousness . . ." "It's ridiculous to have to say the obvious
-- that slavery has always been an evil needing to be abolished. But that
has been our position from the start. Christ Church has a deep hatred of
war, and our comments against the butchery of 600,000 persons in the Civil
War have been opportunistically twisted into a defense of the hell of
slavery. Christianity has long been a leader in ridding slavery from the
West, but it prefers nonviolent means (like Wilberforce in England) rather
than the savagery of warfare . . . They can side with war. We side with
nonviolent abolitionism."

I hope you don't think this is a cultish move, but I agree with everything
in that quote. Where do you get Doug Wilson saying "Jesus Christ affirmed
the owning of another human being and the permanent social structure of
bigotry and hate that made it possible?"

I'm *happy* that people who initially thought the book aligned with their
bigotry were wrong and got mad at us. That's the opposite of what you
thought I said.

Thanks,

-Austin

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Austin Storm
Sky Cow Books
P.O. Box 9128 Moscow, Idaho 83843
208.596.5752 work | 678.550.5503 fax
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