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<DIV>Donovan and Visionaries:</DIV>
<DIV>The original article text, and my comments, are in black. The
kirk position is in red.</DIV>
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<DIV> "Death by stoning for atheists, adulterers, and practicing male
homosexuals..... Stoning - or possibly burning at the stake - for atheists,
heretics, religious apostates, followers of other religions who proselytize,
unmarried females who are unchaste, incorrigible juvenile delinquents, and
children who curse or strike their parents. "
<P><FONT color=#ff0000><STRONG>"The civil magistrate is the minister of God to
execute wrath on the wrongdoer (Rom. 13:4). God has not left his civil minister
without guidance on how to exercise his office. The Scriptures set forth clear
standards of judgment for many offenses. Capital crimes, for example, include
premeditated killing (murder), kidnapping, sorcery, bestiality, adultery,
homosexuality, and cursing one's parents (Ex. 21:14; 21:16; ...We must respond
to the wrongdoer biblically in both judgment and grace.
</STRONG></FONT><STRONG><FONT color=#ff0000>This means that we must return to an
obedience which confines pity within the bounds which God has established for
us. "</FONT></STRONG><BR>written by Greg Dickison, Attorney for Christ
Church, and Latah County Public Defender (your tax dollars at work),
writing in Credenda Agenda, Vol.3 Number 9 <A
href="http://www.credenda.org/old/issues/vol3/magi3-9.htm"><STRONG>http://www.credenda.org/old/issues/vol3/magi3-9.htm</STRONG></A></P>
<P>"Welcome to the United States of America as Christian Reconstructionists hope
to run it. Not as a democracy, which they see as secular heresy. But as a
reconstructed Christian nation, complete with biblically sanctioned flogging and
slavery." <BR><FONT color=#400040>See Southern Slavery As It Was</FONT></P>
<P>"The Bible rules, OK? And, in its name, a small elect of true believers are
now seeking capital-D Dominion over every aspects of our government, laws,
education, and personal lives. "<BR><FONT color=#ff0000>Christians have an
obligation, a mandate, a commission, a holy responsibility to reclaim the land
for Jesus Christ - to have dominion in the civil structures, just as in every
other aspect of life and godliness. <BR></FONT><FONT color=#ff0000>But it is
dominion that we are after. Not just a voice. <BR></FONT><FONT color=#ff0000>It
is dominion we are afier. Not just influence. <BR></FONT><FONT color=#ff0000>It
is dominion we are after. Not just equal time. <BR></FONT><FONT color=#ff0000>It
is dominion we are after. <BR></FONT><FONT color=#ff0000>World conquest. That's
what Christ has commissioned us to accomplish. We must win the world with the
power of the Gospel. And we must never settle for anything less. </FONT><FONT
color=#ff0000>If Jesus Christ is indeed Lord, as the Bible says, and if our
commission is to bring the land into subjection to His Lordship, as the Bible
says, then all our activities, all our witnessing, all our preaching, all our
craftsmanship, all our stewardship, and all our political action will aim at
nothing short of that sacred purpose. </FONT><FONT color=#ff0000>Thus, Christian
politics has as its primary intent the conquest of the land - of men, families,
institutions, bureaucracies, courts, and governments for the
<st1:place><st1:PlaceType>Kingdom</st1:PlaceType> of
<st1:PlaceName>Christ</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>. It is to reinstitute the
authority of God's Word as supreme over all judgments, over all legislation,
over all declarations, constitutions, and confederations. True Christian
political action seeks to rein the passions of men and curb the pattern of
digression under God's rule. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman"><CITE><FONT face=Georgia>George Grant, The
Changing of the Guard</FONT> (Ft. Worth, TX: Dominion Press, 1987), pp.
50-51.</CITE> </FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"><A
href="http://www.serve.com/thibodep/cr/worldcnq.htm"><FONT
color=#000000>http://www.serve.com/thibodep/cr/worldcnq.htm</FONT></A><BR></FONT>You
remember George, don't you Donovan?. He spoke at Doug's non-history
conference last year. He is also joined at the hip with Doug and several
others in the "Auburn Avenue" theological controversy. (Auburn Avenue is
the name of Steve "I'm just sloppy in my citations" Wilkins' church.) If
you believe that Doug doesn't agree with Grant's point of view, ask him for a
direct, line by line refutation. He will either do his usual side step
slide and refocus the question, or he will refuse to answer it. Grant's
followers bring dollars to Canon Press, and Doug won't be willing to take a hit
to the pocket book.</P>
<P>"He [Rushdooney] similarly opposed the secular bent of American public
schools, becoming an early proponent of Christian home-schooling, which he
defended as a First Amendment right of their parents. "<BR>I think that it is
fair to say that you are aware of Wilson's stand on public education,
Donovan. If you have any doubts please consult "Excused Absence" Doug
Wilson, [Crux Press]. <A
href="http://www.canonpress.org/pages/education.asp">http://www.canonpress.org/pages/education.asp</A><BR>The
following blurp by a leading evangelical pastor describes its content.<BR><FONT
color=#ff0000>"This new book from Crux Press asks and answers the question:
should Christian parents send their kids to public schools as “salt and light”
or should they take their kids out of public schools to form distinctively
Christian schools or home schools dedicated to holding forth Christ as Lord of
all? With all the gentility and tact of a desert prophet, Doug Wilson explains
why Christian parents must say to their educational taskmasters, “Let our
children go.” This book will convict, and I pray stop, countless parents from
rendering to Caesar the things that are God’s—their children.” </FONT></P>
<P>"Rushdoony opposed labor unions, women's equality, and civil rights laws. He
favored racial segregation and slavery, which he felt had benefited black people
because it introduced them to Christianity. "<BR></P>
<P>We already know the response to this, don't we? And, once more for the
record, I don't care what Doug believes and teaches as long as it does not
collide with the separation of church and state. But, it does. Doug
and his allies have claimed the world, which includes local, state, and city
government. Despite disclaimers against a political agenda, how else can
Doug, shape the culture in a way that it is more agreeable to him? </P>
<P>Rose</P>
<P><FONT lang=0 face=Verdana size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">"One cannot
level one's moral lance at every evil in the universe. There are just too many
of them. But you can do something, and the difference between doing something
and doing nothing is everything." Daniel Berrigan<BR></FONT><FONT lang=0
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