[Vision2020] Open Letter to Doug Wilson

[J Ford]

Wow!  Cool letter.  Too bad Dougie doesn't know how to read what he 
considers to be written by his enemies - which, in fact, constitutes the 
entire world outside of his puppets.

Dougie admonishes others to heed warnings and repent...wonder if its in him 
to do likewise?  Or are we ALL non-christian when going up against you, 
Dougie?

J  :]




>From: second plank <secondplank at yahoo.com>
>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: [Vision2020] Open Letter to Doug Wilson
>Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:36:51 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Doug Wilson's pedophile scandal seems to be a story
>that's caught the interest of some from outside of
>Moscow, including even among some who've been his
>"admirers." It looks like it's just not "Intoleristas"
>who Doug "annoys." From:
>http://rc-sproul-jr.blogspot.com/2006/06/open-letter-to-crec-pastor-doug-wilson.html
>
>Dear Doug,
>
>I've been an admirer of your writings (at least some
>of them) for some time. I've read a number of your
>books and found some merit in them, including:
>
>     * Reforming Marriage
>     * Future Men
>     * Federal Husband
>     * My Life For Yours: A Walk Through The Christian
>   Home
>     * Standing On The Promises : A Handbook Of
>Biblical Childrearing
>
>In the past I've been blessed by your writing. Not
>that you've really taught me much of anything. Much of
>what you've said in these books are things that I've
>practiced for years anyway. It's just a blessing to
>find a writer who supports my own worldview (well, at
>least I used to think that maybe we had similar
>worldviews). I've been able to recommend your books to
>others as a means of recommending a worldview which is
>tragically lacking in the church today.
>
>Sadly, I can no longer recommend your books. It's not
>that some of your books aren't good and useful. The
>big problem is one of "guilt by association."
>Recommending your books is too easily misconstrued as
>a recommendation of Doug Wilson himself, not just Doug
>Wilson the author, but also Doug Wilson the Pastor.
> >From what I've been learning about you, you're one of
>the last men that I should be recommending as an
>example of godly Christian character. I'm even less
>able to recommend you as an example of a godly pastor.
>It's the same problem I now have in being able to
>recommend RC Sproul Jr's books. It's not that his
>books aren't good, it's that the man who wrote them
>isn't good. Like you he doesn't practice what he
>preaches.
>
>I used to regularly read Credenda Agenda, until the
>"serrated edge" started slicing the wrong way.
>Furthermore, your "enemy theology" is the last kind of
>influence I need in my life when I sometimes already
>struggle with forgiveness. It's the same problem all
>over again with my not being able to continue
>recommending RC Sproul Jr's Highlands Study Center
>periodical, Every Thought Captive. RC Jr has tried to
>imitate you in his writing. He long ago acknowledged
>that he wanted ETC to emulate Credenda Agenda. Bad
>choice. Reading ETC is every bit as tedious and
>annoying as reading Credenda Agenda.
>
>In some ways, Doug, you remind me of a man who enjoys
>petting a cat's fur the wrong way -- the cat know's
>she's being petted, and she knows she should enjoy
>being petted. But this isn't nice petting, it's
>malicious petting, so she doesn't enjoy it one bit.
>It's annoying.
>
>It's come to the point, Doug, where you've become far
>less of a blessing and far more an annoyance. I can no
>longer read Credenda Agenda, and I haven't for at
>least two years. I've got the same problem with
>reading RC Jr's ETC and RC Jr's blog. I can't read
>your blog either, Doug. Your books I can understand
>because they're written in such a way that the brains
>of normal human beings can readily understand them.
>You must have a good book editor because all your
>other writing, especially your blog, causes me to
>wonder if you were smoking pot. My neurons just aren't
>wired in that Wilsonian alternate universe sort of
>way, so trying to comprehend your blog is just a
>further annoyance. Life is already so full of so much
>annoyance and noise pollution. You shouldn't be just
>further contributing to the insanity.
>
>What little blessing that might come from reading your
>books is more than offset by the curse of your
>self-righteous, obnoxious, sarcastic, puerile Blog and
>MaBlog and Credenda Agenda articles masquerading as
>intellectual mysticism.
>
>On the other hand, reading Blog and MaBlog (or as some
>call it "Blah and MoreBlah") has provided some folks
>(who must have better perception than me) with some
>valuable insight into Dougsworld. For example,
>Hammerman predicted an imminent sex scandal based on
>reading between the lines of one of your recent blog
>articles. Hammer's annoyance-tolerance must be a whole
>lot higher than mine if he can stomach regularly
>perusing your blog. Then Hammer's predictions were
>confirmed when your Christ Church/New Saint Andrews
>pedophilia scandal was outed by Pooh.
>
>That's not one pedophile, but two, two pedophiles
>molesting the children of your church members under
>your pastoral care over virtually the same period of
>time, and out of a tiny college with barely over 100
>students. So what is it about your infrastructure,
>what is it about what you and your college teaches
>that serves as a magnet for perverts?
>
>Has it happened in secular colleges? Probably, but we
>expect secular Christ-denying institutions to attract
>those sorts. Has it happened in other churches?
>Occasionally, but I can't say as I've ever heard of it
>happening twice at virtually the same time in the same
>Christian college and the same church. One has to
>wonder if you're actually teaching a biblical
>worldview at all, or just Dougview. Parents would have
>to be just plain ignorant or out of their minds to now
>entrust their kids to you and send them to New Saint
>Andrews College.
>
>What kind of a shepherd are you, Doug? Shepherds
>protect sheep, and if a predator, like a wolf, attacks
>the sheep, the shepherd goes after the wolf and kills
>it. This point bears repeating, so I'll come back to
>it again later.
>
>When I first heard about your pedophile scandal, Doug,
>I felt sorry for you. What an awful terrible thing for
>a pastor to have to deal with -- ministering to
>families whose lives have been shattered and forever
>changed by a pervert who preyed right in their church
>upon their most vulnerable -- their dear little ones.
>I'm not exactly sure what you've done to minister to
>those families. Few will probably ever know that. No
>one wants to know who those families are. They're
>entitled to their privacy and no one should encroach
>on that, and I seriously doubt anyone will.
>
>But what we do know of is your "ministry" to NSA
>student and child molester Steven Sitler, a predatory
>pervert who molested multiple children over several
>years in several states, including in your own church.
>Your "ministry" to Steven Sitler included writing
>Judge John Stegner and asking the judge for a light
>sentence:
>
>     "I would urge that the civil penalties applied
>would be measured and limited. I have a good hope that
>Steven has genuinely repented, and that he will
>continue to deal with this to become a productive and
>contributing member of society."
>
>What kind of humanistic claptrap is this, Doug? Who
>really cares if Sitler ever does "become a productive
>and contributing member of society" through what you
>have termed "secular therapy"? Show us where you got
>that vernacular from. Is it biblical? Freudianism?
>Skinnerism?
>
>Oh, and let's not forget that you've equated Sitler's
>crimes to a mere violation of the 7th Commandment!
>Molesting 2-12 year old children is adultery? Are you
>really that stupid Doug, or are you obstructing
>justice by your perverse interpretation of Scripture?
>Molesting children isn't adultery, it's rape, and as
>you well know serial rapists warrant something a whole
>lot more onerous than a one year slap on the wrist in
>the Latah County Jail (commonly referred to as the
>"Latah Hilton"), say like the death penalty. You have
>in no way aided in the process of obtaining justice --
>particularly biblical justice. All you've done is
>derail and pervert justice.
>
>As if pleading to the judge for a light sentence on
>behalf of a confessed serial child molester weren't
>bad enough, you obtained for Steven Sitler's legal
>defense your NSA college's own attorney! What are you
>thinking, Doug? What possible personal interest could
>you have in defending Sitler and protecting him from
>what he biblically deserves? Why are you using
>Freudian psychobabble to get him off the hook?
>
>What kind of a shepherd are you, Doug? Shepherds
>protect sheep, and if a predator, like a wolf, attacks
>the sheep, the shepherd goes after the wolf and kills
>it. At the very least a real shepherd doesn't plead
>for light jail sentences. Shepherds don't protect
>wolves. That's what hirelings do:
>
>     But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd,
>whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming,
>and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf
>catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. The hireling
>fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for
>the sheep. John 10:12-13
>
>You claim to be concerned for your sheep, Doug,
>concerned for the victims. But all you're doing is
>hiding behind them, using them as human shields, in a
>vain effort to dissuade your critics from a thorough
>examination of your dubious actions. Over and over
>again you and your toadies have cried, "Stop talking
>about it. Stop. Talking about it hurts the victims.
>It's just dragging up the past. They don't want anyone
>talking about it." I wish I could believe you, Doug,
>but I've seen more than enough evidence of your life
>to know how much you just use people for your own
>agenda.
>
>I realize Doug, everyone realizes, that you'd much
>prefer it if everyone were to just stop talking about
>the fact that you had two child molesters preying on
>little children in your little college and church at
>the same time. Ordinarily you'd enjoy being the center
>of attention, but being under this kind of spotlight
>isn't pleasant, and you don't like being held
>accountable. This is a very volatile subject in Moscow
>Idaho. It doesn't get any more volative than child
>molestation. The only thing that could make it more
>volatile is if there were some appearance of a cover
>up (which there is). Whether you like it or not it
>will be talked about, and all your sanctimonious
>pontificating about how any talk will hurt the victims
>lacks credibility.
>
>What's even more absurd is how you and your followers
>have claimed that any talk risks exposing the
>identities of the victims. Please Doug! Can't you do
>any better than that? Most of the court record is
>sealed specifically to protect the identities of the
>victims, and if anyone besides you were to know the
>identities of the victims why would they be so foolish
>as to disclose them? Tragically, if victim identities
>are known they were disclosed by Steven Sitler himself
>when he posted all those pictures of so many kids on
>his family's web site. Thankfully now that site has
>been password protected, but I have to wonder how many
>people were able to see it, or maybe even download all
>the pictures, before public access was blocked.
>
>Doug, did you know that Sitler was operating a "trophy
>site" of his victims? Did you know that he had
>uploaded hundreds of photos of little children, many
>of which were uploaded after he had been arrested,
>after he had confessed to his crimes, and right before
>he had been sentenced? You've vouched for Sitler's
>character, Doug. You told the judge and you've told
>all of us that Sitler "repented." Yet, he was still
>uploading kiddie pictures to his trophy site after
>he'd "repented." Still standing by your story, Doug?
>Do you still "have a good hope that Steven has
>genuinely repented"? Are you still willing to go on
>the record that Silter will "become a productive and
>contributing member of society"?
>
>If you were genuinely concerned for your sheep you
>wouldn't have concealed Sitler's actions for eight
>months. You wouldn't have just expelled Sitler from
>NSA for some unspecified "criminal" conduct. You would
>have exposed Sitler publicly as a serial pedophile and
>admonished parents to speak to their children. You
>would have been forthright in taking steps to
>determine if any other children had been molested, and
>the fact is that it's a very real possibility that
>others were molested. Instead, in true hireling
>fashion, you kept it all a secret, no doubt hoping the
>Sitler affair would never see the light of day.
>
>Now your neighbors in the Moscow community in which
>you reside are outraged, and justifiably so. They're
>taking you to task, including on the community
>listserve Vision 2020, and what has been your
>response? You mock them as "Intoleristas" with you
>"serrated edge" sarcasm. You ridicule their just
>concerns over your negligence at best, or your cover
>up at worst. They make reasonable inquiries about what
>you knew and when you knew it and who you told when.
>Rather than being forthright your smart aleck
>responses only tend to confirm what appears to be a
>cover up. I have never witnessed a pastor who is so
>inept at community relations as you are Doug.
>
>Your latest response is to justify your actions under
>the guise of "I am a pastor. And I cover up sins for a
>living." Unbelievable! And all the while you continue
>justifying your actions with your self-righteous
>Scripture-twisting subterfuge. You've just become too
>predictable, Doug.
>
>You're a liar, Doug Wilson, a very big liar. You lie
>to your church members. You lie to the greater Moscow
>community. You're a dishonest, contentious, lying
>annoyance, and you're an embarrassment to those who
>name the name of Jesus Christ.
>
>It's all starting to make sense now why you'd be so
>interested in "clearing the name" of a dishonest
>tyrannical defrocked tax cheat like RC Sproul Jr. You
>two are peas in a pod. Birds of a feather. You deserve
>each other, and now I'm actually quite pleased that RC
>Sproul Jr has found a home with you in your
>fly-by-night CREC "confederation." Since RC Jr refuses
>to take the hint of being defrocked and leave the
>pastoral profession for which he so obviously lacks
>any qualifications, let him be "considered ordained"
>in the one and only phony denomination where being
>defrocked means nothing. Let him carry the title
>"pastor" in an organization that has no pastoral
>standards and "considers" men to be "ordained" to the
>ministry who shouldn't be in the ministry -- men such
>as yourself, for example.
>
>In spite of the few good and non-annoying books that
>you've written, I've recently come to much more deeply
>appreciate how a man's personal honesty and integrity,
>or a lack thereof, has a profound impact on his
>theology and doctrinal innovations, and thus, on what
>he espouses and writes. It's caused me to take a
>second and more critical look at your "Federal Vison."
>Though you claim to be "Reformed," though you claim to
>be a "Presbyterian," it's become all too apparent what
>a hoax your claims really are. A dishonest man is
>unlikely to expound honest theology.
>
>For this I can thank you. Your dubious character has
>compelled me to return to the Bible and to the faith
>of my Reformed fathers. It's caused me to return to
>the Westminster Confession and the five solas -- pure
>and unadulterated by the perverse innovations of
>dishonest men like yourself.
>
>Doug Wilson, repent of your sins and beg forgiveness
>of your congregation for having conducted yourself as
>a self-serving hireling, rather than a sacrificial shepherd.
>
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