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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>WOW, Nick! Is that Doug Wilson?
Or is it Memorex?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>In either case, it looks like they are
still trying to put those horse reins on the same old jackass.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Tom “49er” Hansen<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>We could learn a lot from crayons: some are
sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are
different colors....but they all exist very nicely in the same box. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Nick Gier<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, December 14, 2004
3:11 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">vision2020@moscow.com</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Vision2020] The Cary,
NC--<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">ID</st1:State></st1:place> link</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Greetings:<br>
<br>
Larry Stephenson, now principal of Cary Christian School (CCS) in <st1:City
w:st="on">Cary</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">NC</st1:State>, was once
employed at <st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City>'s <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Logos</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.
Here is CCS's position on slavery. Does this language remind you of
anyone?<br>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Position Statement</span></b> <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Preamble:<br>
</span></b>This statement is intended to provide direction to any CCS
schoolteacher who in the course of his or her duties at CCS is addressing the
subject of slavery. In the course of directing class discussion, we would like
the teachers to bring the students to the following conclusions. <br>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Purpose:<br>
</span></b>The students should be taught that the reason for studying this
issue is to remain faithful to the teaching of scripture. By seeing how
obedience to scripture could quite possibly have protected our fathers (both
North and South) from a costly and bloody war, had they only obeyed, we may be
assured of the importance of submitting to the scriptures when it comes to our
controversies (e.g. abortion, homosexuality), whatever the unbelieving world
may say about them. <br>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Slave Trade:<br>
</span></b>Students should learn that the slave trade was an abomination, and
that those evangelicals in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">England</st1:place></st1:country-region>
who led the fight against it are rightly considered heroes of the faith. The
Bible clearly rejects the practice of slave trading (1 Timothy 1:10, Ex.
21:16). In a just social order, slave trading could rightly be punished with
death. <br>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Hebrew Slavery and Pagan Slavery:<br>
</span></b>The students should recognize the difference between slavery
regulated by the Mosaic Law, that is, a slavery that was little more than an
indentured servant-hood, and slavery as it existed in a pagan empire such as <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Rome</st1:place></st1:City>. In ancient <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region>, it was
the duty of those who feared God to simply obey the law as God gave it. But
when the existing law was that of an unbelieving pagan order, it was the duty
of Christians living within that system to follow biblical instructions
carefully so that the Word of God would not be blasphemed (1 Timothy 6:1). <br>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Racism:<br>
</span></b>The students should know that as a matter of biblical principle, and
as an integral part of our official school position, we denounce every form of
racism, racial animosity or racial vainglory. God created man in His own image,
and has made from one blood all the nations of the earth (Acts 17:26). We
believe firmly that in the gospel God has reversed the curse of Babel, and that
in Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek, male or female, slave or free, black
or white, Asian or Hispanic (Galatians 3:28). <br>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Slavery as an Institution:<br>
</span></b>Christ died on the cross to set all men free from their sins, and
all forms of external slavery build on the bedrock of slavery to sin.
Therefore, the logic of the Great Commission requires the eventual death of
slavery as an institution in every place where it might still exist. While
Christian slaves were commanded to work hard for their masters, Christian
slaves were also told to take any lawful opportunity for freedom (1 Cor.
7:20-24). This indicates that slavery as an institution is inconsistent with
the fundamental spirit of the gospel, and as such it should be considered a
sinful institution generally, one that invited the judgment of God. <br>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Reformation or Revolution:<br>
</span></b>The godly pattern of social renewal is never revolution. The
revolutionary insists on immediate action, through coercive, bloody, and
political means. In contrast, the work of the gospel is done as silently as
yeast working through the loaf, and the end result is liberation from sin, love
for God, and love for ones neighbor. This love for neighbor necessitates
the recognition that in Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave or free,
male or female, white or black (Galatians 3:28). But those revolutionaries who
are impatient in their spirits always refuse Gods teaching in such
matters. They are proud and ignorant, loving verbal strife, envy, railing, and
perverse disputes (1 Timothy 6: 3-5). <br>
<br>
Just one of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wilson</st1:place></st1:City>'s
banshees,<br>
<br>
Nick Gier<br>
<br>
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