[Vision2020] Wilson-Nielsen debate

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Mr.  Arnold,

Relax, at least from my perspective. I don't hold you accountable for things you may have posted even one day ago.

Warren Hayman

---- Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> 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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