[Vision2020] Violent Rhetoric is Out of Place in Moscow

[Joe Campbell]

Thanks, Nick -- and Tom! Joe



On Dec 3, 2010, at 6:14 AM, "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:

> Courtesy of today's (December 3, 2010) Moscow-Pullman Daily News with
> thanks to Nick Gier.
> 
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> 
> Violent rhetoric is out of place in Moscow
> 
> Thanks to Joe Campbell (Opinion, Nov. 29) for alerting the community to
> the violent rhetoric found on the website of Moscow's New Saint Andrews
> College (www.nsa.edu).
> 
> The blurb describes the NSA faculty as "not timid in a rumble," and they
> offer prospective students "an invitation to a brawl." I wonder how young
> Christian women will respond to this raw machismo?
> 
> Is NSA a Christ-centered liberal arts college or a fighting club? If it is
> the latter, then its conditional use permit should be reviewed.
> 
> Jim Wilson, father of NSA's founder Douglas Wilson, has written a small
> book titled "Principles of War: A Handbook on Strategic Evangelism." He
> has assured me that he is just talking about spiritual warfare.
> 
> Some may say that the recruiting language is only metaphorical, but it is
> still violent rhetoric that every reasonable person should condemn.
> 
> Logos School, I'm told, puts on some very good plays. I would like to
> propose that they do an adaptation of "West Side Story." Instead of the
> white working class Jets and the Puerto Rican Sharks, the gangs should be
> renamed the Crusaders and the Infidels.
> 
> I foresee at least one major snag in staging my version: There can be no
> truce between the gangs at the end. For Wilson and other conservative
> evangelicals, there will be bitter warfare until Christ comes to smite the
> Infidels. As I understand them, there will be nothing metaphorical about
> this violence.
> 
> In contrast to Obama, candidate Gresham Bouma was never held accountable
> for his minister's attack on the Mormon faith. I surely hope that most
> Christians of the Palouse do not consider Pastors Lloyd Knerr and Douglas
> Wilson appropriate representatives of their faith.
> 
> My weekly column on this topic for the Idaho State Journal can be read at:
> 
> http://www.home.roadrunner.com/nickgier/NSARumble.pdf
> 
> Nick Gier, Moscow
> 
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> 
> Could you imagine the fallout if such statements were posted on a public
> school website?
> 
> Heads would roll.
> 
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
> and the Realist adjusts his sails."
> 
> - Unknown
> 
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