[Vision2020] A Caution

[deb]

And please don't forget Frank Robinson (sorry, no relation) and the church 
of Psychiania. Moscow has always had its' fair share of nut job religions, 
and always will....
Debi R-S

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Nielsen" <nielsen at uidaho.edu>
To: "Vision 2020" <Vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 3:09 PM
Subject: [Vision2020] A Caution


> But Roger, that is the way Joseph Smith began his new religion. He
> condemned all Christian churches as being false. And look how
> successful his religion became.
>
> As for Christ speaking from Alberta, Canada, an old-timer in my home
> town up Hwy 95 said that when Jesus Christ comes again he will come
> to Alberta. Why? Because Alberta at that time was governed by a
> couple of fundamentalist preachers: William Aberhart and his
> understudy, E.C. Manning. This was during the late 1930s and until
> about 1970. When I was  working at the University of Alberta in 1963
> Premier Manning, who was also his own Attorney-General and Minister
> of Finance, ruled that according to the federal Lord's Day Act of
> 1910, all laundromats in Alberta had to be closed on Sundays. This
> was on top of already having just about everything else closed on
> Sundays, including most gas stations, all bowling alleys, cinemas,
> stores, etc. But Jesus still didn't show up, even in Holy Alberta.
>
> Ralph Nielsen
>
>
> lfalen lfalen at turbonet.com
> Wed Oct 10 15:34:58 PDT 2007
>
> I am not opposed to any church soliciting new members, but doing it
> by tearing down another church strikes me as not being a very
> christian way to go about it.
> Roger
>
> -----Original message-----
> From: "g. crabtree" jampot at roadrunner.com
> Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:58:47 -0700
> To: "Christ's Avengers" christs.avengers.bowness.alta at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] A Caution
>
> > Christ requires earthly avengers? And from Canada no less. Kind of
> makes me wonder and NOT in the way that "Giselle" and the "avengers"
> would probably prefer. I'd love to hear from a real representative of
> "the fastest growing church in America" and have them explain the
> effectiveness of blowing into town and having anonymous shills
> attempt to tear down their competitors ministries. Is that how you've
> managed to grow at such a prodigious rate? Or, as is far more likely
> to be the case, do we have some of the same old, same old trying yet
> again to duplicitously further their little agenda. I'm guessing the
> latter. Do you guys really think that coming up with endless
> pseudonyms and fictitious organizations is fooling anyone? sadly, I
> guess you must.
> >
> > g
> >   ----- Original Message -----
> >   From: Christ's Avengers
> >   To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> >   Cc: askreallife at reallifeministries.com
> >   Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 12:42 PM
> >   Subject: [Vision2020] A Caution
> >
> >
> >   If Giselle McCourt and the brothers and sisters at Real Life
> Ministries are really serious about rooting out ungodly pastors,
> priests, ministers, etc, they need to start with the specious,
> unordained pastor of the horribly misnamed Christ Church of Moscow,
> Idaho, to wit, Douglas Wilson.
> >
> >   Here are some links as starters that will give them some insight
> into this driven, dishonest, power-hungry, self-loving, conniver who
> dares to mock Jesus Christ by pretending to be His Messenger.
> >
> [rest snipped]
>
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