[Vision2020] [Bulk] in a better world ...

[Bill London]

I side with Keely on this issue.
Doug Wilson has a political agenda.  He wants to remake Moscow and this 
region into his own theocratic fiefdom.
Exposing Wilson's agenda and his ideas is what will counter and ultimately 
derail his plan.
BL





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Rumelhart" <godshatter at yahoo.com>
To: "keely emerinemix" <kjajmix1 at msn.com>
Cc: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2008 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] [Bulk] in a better world ...


> I've said it before, but I'll go ahead and say it one more time.  You're
> giving him too much power.  The proper response, in my opinion, is to
> just point at him and laugh when he makes a comment like that in the 
> future.
>
> I respect what you're doing, but every blog post you make will just give
> him credibility to those who already think he walks on water.
>
> Paul
>
> keely emerinemix wrote:
>>
>> Visionaires,
>>
>> Never would I have thought that I would live in a community whose most
>> well-known and powerful pastor, one who claims to be a Trinitarian
>> Christian and a Bible teacher, would behave in the  hostile, hateful,
>> and horrendous manner that Douglas Wilson of Christ Church has.
>> During my six and a half years of living in Moscow and loving it, I
>> have been beyond dismayed at his theology, teaching, and engagement
>> with the community, and I've learned not to be surprised
>> img20080726183626428at what comes from his pen or out of his mouth.
>> But I find that he yet has the ability to shock me, owing more to his
>> crass conduct than to my naivete, and this morning offers another 
>> example.
>>
>> In a column bashing Pastor Greg Boyd's new book on the idolatry of
>> Christians in claiming the United States as a "Christian nation," and
>> throwing themselves into politics in an attempt to make the kingdom of
>> God right here, right now, Wilson complains that Boyd has no basis,
>> then, for judging anything to be wrong.  His serrated edge flashing,
>> he says that, for example, if he told Boyd his church spent last night
>> "lynching homos -- you shoulda been there!", Boyd couldn't reasonably
>> object.
>>
>> Boyd won't, because Wilson's pontificating has, thankfully, a limited
>> audience.  But I can, and I do.  In fact, my 15-year-old son
>> Jimg20080726183626428onah and I both responded to Wilson on his Blog
>> and Mablog, and while my son responded to the church/state issue, I'm
>> as proud of him as I am embarrassed, once again, by the man who would
>> like to be thought of as the Bishop of the Palouse.  I invite you to
>> read my comments there.  If not, let me state in the most concrete way
>> that I can:
>>
>> For a pastor to make a point, any point, by using "lynching homos" as
>> an example, one of hyperbole and excess, is despicable, particularly
>> given the virulent homophobia Wilson has espoused.  And for none of
>> his readers to complain is, while predictable, most disappointing.  In
>> a perfect world, or even a mildly better one, other Christians would
>> howl in protest, rebuking Wilson immediately and publicly.  It ain't
>> that kind of world, though.  And, hesitant church leadership
>> notwithstanding, it's frankly just as sad to me that many of you don't
>> want to comment, object, or even know -- and wish I would just shut up
>> about the whole thing.
>>
>> Sorry, but I can't do it.  What I can and will do, however, is begin
>> my own very publicized, very pointed blog devoted to defending the
>> Gospel by correcting bad theology both within the Kirk and from other
>> sources.  I don't know what to call it yet, and I don't know how to
>> design it, but I intend to never let up 'til the day I die . . .
>>
>> The stakes for our community are high, higher than most Moscow
>> residents realize.  But the stakes are even higher for the message of
>> peace and reconciliation, justice and love, spoken and lived by the
>> Lord Jesus Christ and sullied by Wilson, et al.  If Christ means
>> anything to me,  I can certainly endure the scorn of my neighbors and
>> the mocking of the boys at the Kirk by writing against them.  I'll
>> still write on Vision, and still write about Christ Church as relevant
>> to the discussion, but the content of my blog will be theology, gender
>> and peace-and-justice issues, and scathing critique of those who spew
>> bigotry in the name of Christ.
>>
>> As a stay-at-home mom with a fairly useless BA from a quarter-century
>> ago, I may be "just a housewife" to some at the Kirk -- but if I am a
>> housewife, I am a thundering one, and I can't be silent.
>>
>> Keely
>>
>>
>>
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