[Vision2020] Clergy put on notice

[Art Deco]

J,

We have discussed this issue on V 2020 before.

The only Christian religious quasi-professionals who have showed concern 
about the irreconcilable disconnect between the teaching and actions of the 
Wilson & Family's Cult & Cash Machine and the teachings of Christ as found 
in the gospels so far have been the courageos Keely and Michael.

The rest?  Lying, cowardly hypocrites!!!!!  Actions are what count.  Not 
spineless dribble.

Wearing fancy costumes/uniforms, claiming loudly in numerous ways to love 
and follow Christ but unwilling to make any visible effort to correct, let 
alone expose those like the Cultmaster that putridly slander Christ and his 
message for their on selfish purposes and ego-gratification.  If the 
majority of the Christian religious professionals in this area are 
representative of the lifeblood of Christianity, then what a feeble, 
foundered, loveless, unprincipled religion Christianity as practiced is.

Such a situation makes another argument for being a non-believer:  Why would 
an alleged, all-powerful, perfectly good god allow not only the rotting 
feces spewed by Wilson in His name go unchecked, but why would such a god 
allow itself to be represented by such a pathetic, weak-willed bunch of 
dishcloths unwilling to expose such self-promoting/god obsuring heresy?

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

While I do not agree with any of the super-natural claims held by Keely 
and/or Michael, I see in them a Christ emulating integrity missing from 
those in whom one would expect it the most:  Christian religious 
professionals.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J Ford" <privatejf32 at hotmail.com>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 11:05 PM
Subject: [Vision2020] Clergy put on notice


> Well, let's see if anyone responds to this - my hope is that the silence 
> does not become deafening:
>
> Clergy remains silent
>
> It’s been a week, but Ed Iverson’s mean-spirited op-ed regarding 
> immigrants still galls me (Opinion, 6 & 7). Not because I disagree that 
> sooner or later, every country, including ours, has to have an end to 
> immigration. Iverson’s assertion that immigrants, illegal or otherwise, 
> are lazy is about as specious a claim as anyone could make. I can’t 
> imagine a fat, old librarian cutting asparagus in the fields of southern 
> Washington with a knife, a job done by illegal immigrants that is the 
> extreme of physical hardship. But Iverson already has shown that he’s the 
> village idiot in any number of columns. As an editorial writer, I’ve 
> already accepted the fact that between him and Michael O’Neal, they’ve set 
> new grounds for mean-spiritedness in any small-town paper’s op-ed section.
>
> What’s upsetting is the silence of the rest of the clergy in the rest of 
> the Pullman/Moscow community. Iverson regularly distinguishes between 
> himself and his critics as him being one with the Lord. The rest of us who 
> are not copacetic with his worldview are contemptible heathens.
>
> How does any of the malarkey written by Iverson square with anyone raised 
> with Christ as their personal savior? Christ lived in poverty. He gave his 
> cloak away. He healed the sick. He lived a life, until he was crucified, 
> that was a model of compassion, poverty and mercy that all, Christian or 
> non-Christian, could look at and aspire to emulate.
>
> The silence of the clergy in this community to the continual affronts 
> posed by Iverson and his claque are deafening. I have two questions for 
> them. First, does he represent the Christian viewpoint in our community? 
> And secondly, if his insistent mean-spiritedness does not represent you, 
> why do you not speak out? If you believe in the Lord’s judgment, how will 
> your silence be judged?
>
> Chuck Pezeshki, Pullman
>
> J  :]
>
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