[Vision2020] Trinity Festival protest

[g. crabtree]

Mr. Gier disingenuously inquires:

"I'm very curious why Crabtree did not finish his exegesis of Greg Dickison, 
the great Christ Church magistrate and jurist, who writes that "if we could 
have it our way,” then there would be capital punishment for “kidnapping, 
sorcery, bestiality, adultery, homosexuality, and cursing one's parents.”

And in reply all I can say in is, I did. It was a short, fairly straight 
forward piece, to have gone on at any greater length would have been to risk 
becoming... lets just say that long winded and pedantic is already covered 
on this list perfectly well by *others.*

For the record taking two quotes and mashing them together to create the 
impression that someone has said something they haven't doesn't display very 
much intellectual honesty. (brief pause as I get over my surprise) Believe 
me, as often as your foolish friend hansen has cluttered up my inbox with 
the article in question, I'm quite sure that if the quoted phrase "if we 
could have it our way,” then there would be capital punishment for 
“kidnapping, sorcery, bestiality, adultery, homosexuality, and cursing one's 
parents.” was contained therein I would have noticed. It wasn't

Another case of repeat the lie often and loud. While this may be tactically 
strategic, it's morally bankrupt.

g
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <nickgier at adelphia.net>
To: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
Cc: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Trinity Festival protest


> Good Morning Visionaries:
>
> Thanks Tom for posting the long passage from Michael Hill, President of 
> the League of the South (LOS), a regular congregant at Wilkin's Louisiana 
> church, and a man who once, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, 
> called black Americans "a compliant and deadly underclass." A key word for 
> the LOS is "hierarchy," which means that white Calvinist top males are 
> divinely ordained to rule over lesser beings.
>
> On another point, I'm very curious why Crabtree did not finish his 
> exegesis of Greg Dickison, the great Christ Church magistrate and jurist, 
> who writes that "if we could have it our way,” then there would be capital 
> punishment for “kidnapping, sorcery, bestiality, adultery, homosexuality, 
> and cursing one's parents.”  Dickison also quotes biblical passages 
> (without qualification) that support slavery as "ordained and regulated by 
> God," death for apostasy (Deut. 13.6-9), and cutting off a woman’s hand 
> for touching a strange man's genitals (Deut. 25.11,12). We have asked 
> Wilson to repudiate these two articles, but he has refused.
>
> With regard to Wilson's Christian nationalism and ties to Christian 
> Reconstruction, all that we have to do is point to Peter Leithart's very 
> positive eulogy for Reconstruction's founding father and George Grant, who 
> has been present at nearly every "history" conference and Trinity fest.
>
> Here is my favorite passage from Grant: "Christian politics has as its 
> primary intent the conquest of the land--of men, families, institutions, 
> bureaucracies, courts, and governments for the Kingdom of Christ. It is to 
> reinstitute the authority of God's Word as supreme over all judgments, 
> over all legislation, over all declarations, constitutions, and 
> confederations. True Christian political action seeks to rein the passions 
> of men and curb the pattern of digression under God's rule"(The Changing 
> of the Guard [Dominion Press, 1987], pp. 50-51). Wilson has yet to 
> repudiate Grant.
>
> Finally, Wilson's Tritheism--that is, three separate gods--is showing in 
> his most recent column in which he states the "Father is the Lover, the 
> Son is the Beloved, and the Holy Spirit is the love of each for the 
> other."  The church fathers would turn over in their graves at such a 
> theological hatchet job. St. Augustine set the grounds for the orthodox 
> Trinity by saying that it has but one will, but here we have either three 
> wills, or what has so often happened in slopping Christianity, the Holy 
> Spirit is ignored or is no longer a "person" but simply the love that 
> passes between two deities.
>
> Next year I propose that they call it the Dipolar Deity Festival and then 
> I will invite all my Whiteheadian friends!
>
> Nick Gier
>
>
>
>
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