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<DIV>Visionaries:</DIV>
<DIV>Warren Hayman alerted Visionaries to the June 2005, <EM>Harper's
Magazine</EM> reference to Moscow. (Please check with BookPeople or the
Co-op if you would like your own copy.) I would like to share the first
three paragraphs of the article --which consists entirely of text from
<EM>Southern Slavery As It Was.</EM> There are no editorial comments, no
historic evaluation, just selections from the book. It speaks for
itself. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>"Sodomites parade in the streets, claiming that if we do not appropriate
more money to study why people with foul sexual habits get sick, we are somehow
violating their civil rights. Feminists, in rebellion against God, invert
the order of the home established by God. They do so in a way that seeks
to rob women of their beauty in submissions and their security in being
loved. How did we get here, and what is the way out? The question
cannot be answered fully without careful study of the War Between the States and
the controversies surround it. Slavery was one of those
controversies.</DIV>
<DIV>May a Christian own slaves, even when this makes him part of a larger pagan
system that is not fully scriptural, or perhaps not scriptural at all?
Provided that he owns them in conformity to Christ's laws for such situations,
the Bible is clear that Christians may own slaves.</DIV>
<DIV>Slavery as it existed in the South was a relationship based upon mutual
affection and confidence. There has never been a multiracial society that
has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the
world. The gospel enabled men who were distinct in nearly every way to
live and work together, to be friends and often intimates. This happened
to such an extent that moderns indoctrinated by "civil rights" propaganda would
be thunderstruck to know the half of it."</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><EM>Southern Slavery As It Was</EM>, 1996, Canon Press, Moscow, Idaho</DIV>
<DIV>by Douglas J. Wilson, Pastor of Christ Church, Moscow, Idaho and
Steve Wilkins, Pastor of Auburn Avenue Church, Monroe, Louisiana.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Keely Mix expressed a wish that evangelical Christians would denounce the
unChristian behavior of Christ Church. Dr. Tracy McKenzie, Professor
of History and Director of the Honors Program at University of Washington, has
done just that. Dr. McKenzie, is a member of an evangelical church in the
Seattle area, a church which happens to belong to Doug Wilson's own
federation of churches, Confederation of Reformed Evangelical Churches aka
CREF, <A
href="http://www.crechurches.org/index.html">http://www.crechurches.org/index.html</A>.
Dr. McKenzie teaches Civil War history and instantly recognized the huge chunks
of plagiarized text (or "sloppy un-attributed citations", pick your
poison) in <EM>SSAIW</EM>. Recently, Dr. McKenzie posted the following
letter to the editor of World Magazine, a leading Evangelical periodical.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18px; COLOR: rgb(153,0,0); FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><B>Far
more serious</B></SPAN></DIV>
<P
style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; COLOR: #000000; TEXT-INDENT: 1.5em; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; FONT-FAMILY: Times, Times new roman, serif"><FONT
face=Georgia>In fairness to Doug Wilson and Steve Wilkins ("Doug Wilson and
slavery," April 30), the two dozen occurrences of plagiarism in their
controversial booklet on Southern slavery were obviously unintentional—evidence
of sloppiness rather than deceit. Far more serious are the booklet's other
errors. Its numerous logical errors, factual mistakes, misreading of evidence,
and ad hominem attacks falsely model what it means to love God with our minds
and its unsubstantiated defense of Southern slavery as a "pleasant . . .
experience for the majority" will constitute a stumbling block of monumental
proportions for many sincere seekers.</FONT></P>
<P
style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; COLOR: #000000; TEXT-INDENT: 1.5em; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; FONT-FAMILY: Times, Times new roman, serif"><FONT
face=Georgia><FONT size=3>—Robert Tracy McKenzie; Seattle,
Wash</FONT><BR></FONT><A
href="http://www.worldmag.com/displayarticle.cfm?id=10655"><FONT face=Georgia
size=3>http://www.worldmag.com/displayarticle.cfm?id=10655</FONT></A></P>
<DIV>Dr. McKenzie's letter to the editor of <EM>World Magazine</EM> perfectly
addresses Ms. Mix's wish. As, for the authors of SSAIW, please remember
this. Doug Wilson finally admitted to sloppy editing, but, to date, has
absolutely refused to retract a single word of the text. Steve Wilkins, as
a founder and continuing Board Member of the League of the South, will live and
die by the sentiments expressed in the book.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Rose (and Doug has the gall to call <U>me</U> an Intolerista?) Huskey</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
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