[Vision2020] Wilson-Nielsen debate

[Ralph Nielsen]

	Thanks but no thanks. I do not appreciate having my letters  
sneeringly referred to as "screeds" or being accused of "chewing on  
Christianity's ankle" as if I were a dog (Wilson's letter to the  
Argonaut, Oct. 14, 1993). Neither do I care to be categorized as  
"Debate or coward" (heirdoug's heading in yesterday's Vision2020).

	I much prefer the civilized discourse of real Bible scholars,  
whether Jewish, Catholic, Protestant, agnostic or atheist, such as  
one meets in professional organizations like the Society of Biblical  
Literature, the world's oldest and largest association of Bible  
scholars. Two years ago I attended the national convention of the  
SBL, held jointly with the American Academy of Religion, in San  
Antonio TX. There were 8,400 of us in attendance. Doug Wilson and his  
group refuse to attend even regional meetings of the Pacific  
Northwest Division of the SBL when they are held locally at the  
University of Idaho or at Gonzaga University in Spokane. It would  
seem that it is Doug and his friends who are afraid of the Bible.

Ralph Nielsen