keely,<br><br>You misread me quite a bit, and I hope you'll let me clarify. When the Southern Slavery flap started some people called 'kinists' got very excited (they don't like interracial marriage). "People who understand us," they thought (about Doug Wilson and CC). Then they realized that we are not racists, and it made them mad. That made me happy, because when creepy people like you you start to question yourself.
<br><br>The point of relating my minor disagreement with Pastor Wilson was that he does not dictate everything I believe, and we are both quite happy with that. This is not a cult, he is not a rich and powerful cultmaster, serious! I *hate* slavery. Which is why I'm glad my pastor does, too. This quote was from a few posts down when I typed "slavery" into Blog and Mablog:
<br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">"Despite our published record and debates against racism and white
supremacist hideousness . . ." "It's ridiculous to have to say the
obvious -- that <span class="highlight">slavery</span> has always been
an evil needing to be abolished. But that has been our position from
the start. Christ Church has a deep hatred of war, and our comments
against the butchery of 600,000 persons in the Civil War have been
opportunistically twisted into a defense of the hell of <span class="highlight">slavery</span>. Christianity has long been a leader in ridding <span class="highlight">slavery</span>
from the West, but it prefers nonviolent means (like Wilberforce in
England) rather than the savagery of warfare . . . They can side with
war. We side with nonviolent abolitionism."<br><br></div>I hope you don't think this is a cultish move, but I agree with everything in that quote. Where do you get Doug Wilson saying "Jesus Christ affirmed the owning of another human being and the permanent social structure of bigotry and hate that made it possible?"
<br><br>I'm *happy* that people who initially thought the book aligned with their bigotry were wrong and got mad at us. That's the opposite of what you thought I said.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>-Austin<br><br>-- <br>Austin Storm
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