[Vision2020] Wilson-Nielsen debate

[J Ford]

And Dougie's reluctance to meet Miss Keely or Michael in writing (as HE 
suggests for Ralph) does that make him a yella-belly, too?  Or are you the 
only one that gets to cry that?




J  :]





>From: Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com>
>To: Ralph Nielsen <nielsen at uidaho.edu>, Vision2020 at moscow.com
>CC: Doug Farris <heirdoug at netscape.net>
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Wilson-Nielsen debate
>Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 16:01:59 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Ralph,
>
>  You are not going to debate Wilson because of a letter  he wrote back 
>1993? Boy, I hope people don't hold me accountable to the  things I said 13 
>years ago.
>
>   I also hope you know the Argonaut edits letters it gets too.
>
>   I think if you are going to attack someone in public, you need to at  
>least be willing to meet with them in public in a debate or discussion  
>format, otherwise you will rightfully earn the term of a yellow-belly.
>
>   Best,
>
>   DJA
>
>Ralph Nielsen <nielsen at uidaho.edu> wrote:   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
>
>
>
>
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