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Hail to the Vision!<br><br>
This is a little late in the thread, but I made a note to myself (which I
just now rediscovered) that Peter Leithart, one of the few PhDs at New
St. Andrews College, is very much interested in R. J. Rushdoony, author
of <i>The Institutes of Biblical Law</i> (we must enforce all of
them). <br><br>
Rushdoony is also the Founding Father of Christian Reconstruction, the
view that the US must become, completely and totally, a Christian
nation. Relax, folks, for Wilson you just have to be baptized, you
really don't have to believe it. Some of you may recall Wilson's quip in
the <i>Lewiston Tribune</i> that the best way to avoid having a Muslim
mayor is to convert everyone to Christianity. This puts a very nice
twist on Wilson's most recent call for tolerance.<br><br>
If you look back in the archives of the <i>Daily News</i> (December,
2003) you will find a letter from Leithart defending Rushdoony against
the charge of being a Holocaust denier. Amazingly enough, he did
admit that he was a Holocaust minimizer. In the minds of many Jews,
faced with either prospect, the anxiety level does not go down
much.<br><br>
Speaking of the Jews, I just read a scary "sermonette" by an
elder in Steve Wilkins' Monroe LA church essentially proposing that the
only good Jew is a Christian Jew. He chides millions of American
evangelicals for supporting Israel, because it is clear, from his reading
of the Bible, that the only true Israel is the Christian nation that he
envisions.<br><br>
You will all recall that Steve Wilkins is Wilson's bosom buddy and will
be coming to Moscow for the Trinity Festival. <br><br>
Speaking of the Trinity, I remind all visionaries with a interest in
technical theological discussion that the debate on the Trinity (finally
finished) between Doug Jones and yours truly can be found at
<a href="http://www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/trinity.htm" eudora="autourl">www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/trinity.htm</a>.<br><br>
A Unitarian who really likes nice Trinitarians,<br><br>
Nick Gier<br>
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<font size=2>"The god you worship is the god you
deserve."<br>
~~ Joseph Campbell<br><br>
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