[Vision2020] One Specific Apology and Retraction

[Ralph Nielsen]

Nick,

I don't think you need to feel too apologetic about your remark.

I have on file a recent podcast interview with an oldtimer in Ireland  
who said, "In 1961, when the Taliban was still in control of  
Ireland ...", meaning the Catholic Church. This was on RTE (Radio  
Televisuon Eirann?), the government radio out of Dublin.

I was 10 days in Ireland myself a year ago. It was not a bit like  
what I had read and heard it was like in the old days. I carry a  
pocket radio when I travel, and I didn't hear one single word about  
religion and not a single religious radio station. Not a bit like  
back home. And I didn't see a single priest, brother or nun, either.

Ralph Nielsen



nickgier at adelphia.net nickgier at adelphia.net

Fri May 9 16:30:30 PDT 2008

Greetings:

Thinking back through my long debate with Doug Wilson and his  
associates, there is one specific deletion that I have just now made  
on one of my columns.  In "Chilling Parallels between Muslim and  
Christian Fundamentalists," I called Christ Church "The Moscow Taliban."

I now apologize for that insult and I have removed that sentence from  
the web version.  I stand by everything else in this piece that one  
can read at

www.home.roadrunner.com/~nickgier/parallels.htm.

Nick Gier