[Vision2020] Violent Rhetoric is Out of Place in Moscow

[Robert Dickow]

Yep, Joe, I must agree. I don't think we can excuse the NSA website
language, and describing as being simply 'in poor taste' is probably way too
diplomatic.

Bob Dickow, troublemaker

-----Original Message-----
From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Joe Campbell

I don't feel physically threatened either, Bob. But the marketing campaign
is dependent upon a hatred, and I would say misunderstanding, of a group of
people merely because of their beliefs.

Maybe that's part of the "yet".



On Dec 3, 2010, at 12:55 PM, "Robert Dickow" <dickow at turbonet.com> wrote:

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