[Vision2020] Violent Rhetoric is Out of Place in Moscow

[Robert Dickow]

I see the NSA rhetoric basically as overblown metaphor, probably derived
from 'Onward Christain Soldiers' and such. It is certainly in poor taste on
the website. But the "violence" in it is a bit like similar rhetoric in
other domains: ones 'battle against cancer.', the 'war on crime', 'strike a
death blow to diabetes,' etc. I don't think I feel physically threatened.
Yet.

Bob Dickow, troublemaker

-----Original Message-----
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?

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Some may say that the recruiting language is only metaphorical, but it is
still violent rhetoric that every reasonable person should condemn.

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