[Vision2020] Spreading Homophobia

Thu Apr 5 18:39:48 PDT 2012

Wilson, I think, was ordained in a very small Presbyterian denomination that later had problems with his doctrinal practices, what we now know as the Federal Vision.  Now he's ordained in the CREC, the Confederation of Reformed Evangelical Churches, which he and a few cohorts began after other Reformed denominations found their theology at odds with Reformed or any other Christian expression of the Gospel.  (The "Confederation" may have been changed in 2011 to "Conference" or something else, because of what he once referred to as people's liberal-inspired discomfort with words like "Confederation").  He is a CREC teaching pastor who oversees two local CREC congregations, Christ Church and Trinity Reformed Church; the CREC has around two dozen, perhaps more, congregations, all of whose pastors are either Greyfriars/NSA grads or otherwise educated in Wilsonian theology.  

And I would disagree with Art Deco that Phelps and Wilson are both bona-fide Calvinists.  Phelps, whose theology is straightforward fundamentalist, is interested not just in hating gay people, which he does well, but also, he says, in "saving souls," at which he's, ummmmm, a little less than effective.  Like most fundamentalists and Baptists, he would likely say he's a four- or five-point Calvinist, but that declaration is commonly one defined by evangelical paraphrasers of Calvin's essential TULIP, while Calvinists use a strict, uncompromising definition for each of the five points that would be horrifying, frankly, to most soul-winning Baptist types if they examined it in depth.  The five points of Calvinism (TULIP is the acronym) must be defined by Calvinist theological writings and not by misguided attempts by evangelicals and fundamentalists who think, for example, that "Perseverance of the saints" in Calvinism is the same as the "once saved, always saved" doctrine of eternal security.  It's not, regardless of what the Baptist Calvinist-wannabe believes.

(The TULIP acronym stands for Total Depravity, Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace, and Perseverance of the Saints.  I am a zero-point Calvinism, by the way).

And so Phelps' soul-winning focus, muddled as it is by the slime-flecked filth he speaks, would be at odds  with Calvinism, which teaches that no amount of evangelism can tilt anyone toward salvation while no behavior, not even Phelps', is awful enough to keep the predestined from it.  That makes him different from uber-Calvinist Wilson, who tops Calvin by smirking that "revivalism" is distastefully "sentimental,"  something he cannot countenance, and who holds in utter disdain the idea of Christian parents evangelizing their children.

They both say they worship Jesus Christ and they both demonstrate fruit that indicates otherwise.  That they have even THAT in common is too much for me, frankly.

Keely
www.keely-prevailingwinds.com

Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 17:56:53 -0700
From: art.deco.studios at gmail.com
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Spreading Homophobia

I never understood how Cultmaster Douglas Wilson of Christ Church, Moscow, Idaho came to be ordained.

He didn't graduate and become accredited by a seminary, the usual route.  Did he purchase one of those $10 Universal Church Ordinations? 

Does anyone here know how he came to be ordained?  Does he even claim to be ordained?  Maybe one of the cult lurkers can explain, if anyone else can't.

Looking for edification.

w.

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Rosemary Huskey <donaldrose at cpcinternet.com> wrote:

Well, I wish the “u” hadn’t stuck when I typed the word “pseudo – Christian.”  On the other hand,  I am really sorry that I had to use the term at all in reference to someone who claims the gift of ordination.
Rose 
From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On Behalf Of keely emerinemix

Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 5:20 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
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Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Spreading Homophobia
 A comment from a fanboy writing on the Bayly brothers' blog, the home page photo for which has confused more than one viewer given the picture of these two handsome, tuxedoed men posing together, a glimpse of what will pass for "reasoned debate" and "learned commentary" at Wilson's talk:

"Will Doug speak to this phenomenon that homosexuality always follows ubiquitous use of contraception?"

Golly, I hope so.  

But perhaps then he can talk about how if there really WERE global warming, which Wilson insists there isn't, of course, it would be caused by homosexuality.  Then maybe he can talk about why Superman would be a great role model if only he ditched the tights.  Then he could wrap up with how "Father Hunger" is the cause of the national debt . . . leading to a discussion of how both Presidents Bush, father and son, might finally reconcile, while still blaming President Obama for any immorality he, Wilson, sniffs out around us.  

Or have we just heard this all before?

Keely
www.keely-prevailingwinds.com

From: donaldrose at cpcinternet.com

To: thansen at moscow.com; art.deco.studios at gmail.com
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 16:05:33 -0700
CC: vision2020 at moscow.com

Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Spreading HomophobiaI have to wonder if he will be stopping by for a psedo-Christian chin wag with  Rev. Fred Phelps who  lives in the general area.  Phelps and Wilson would make a dynamic duo on the evangelical speaking circuit,  while simultaneously shaming the Gospel they profess to love.   Anything-For-A-Dime Wilson has never minded slumming with debate partners (Hitchens and Dawkins) but of course there would be no debate with Phelps, since they are in profound agreement on the topic of homosexuality.  What a pair of evil-spirited gits.l

Rose Huskey

From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On Behalf Of Tom Hansen

Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 2:48 PM
To: Art Deco
Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Spreading Homophobia
 It's really simple, Wayne.
 NO CHILD IS BORN HOMOPHOBIC !
Seeya round town, Moscow. 
Tom HansenMoscow, Idaho
 "If not us, who?
If not now, when?" 
- Unknown 

On Apr 5, 2012, at 14:33, Art Deco <art.deco.studios at gmail.com> wrote:
The epitome and hero of the local ignorant continues to attempt to deny equality and human rights:  He, Christ Church Cultmaster Douglas Wilson, the self-claimed inerrant interpreter of the alleged inerrant word of some alleged god, the Bible, follows this dicta:  If facts contradict the Bible, then the facts are wrong.  

Crackpottery and con artistry rely on Barnum's "There's one [or more] born every minute."  In the meantime millions of gay people face stigma and discrimination because of ignorant, arrogant egomaniacs/megalomaniacs like Christ Church Cultmaster Douglas Wilson continue to attempt to foist their religious delusions/superstitions on all.

http://www.baylyblog.com/2012/04/sex-at-indiana-univeristy-.html

http://jesusatiu.com/sexual-design-series-lectures-doug-wilson

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