Chas,<br> <br> This is most disappointing news. Thanks for all your input on Vision 2020. <br> <br> Best,<br> <br> _DJA<br><br><b><i>Chasuk <chasuk@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> I like the community that is Vision2020, and I've come to consider<br>many of you my friends. However, I just can't take it any more. The<br>childish sniping and ridiculous accusations of the minority of you<br>have polluted the forum, and polluted my soul, so it has come time to<br>bid you all adieu.<br><br>A few thoughts before I leave, for those who wish to read them.<br><br>First, Doug Wilson isn't going away. When an opponent is permanently<br>ensconced (he isn't my opponent, but he is apparently the opponent of<br>many of you), then the options are warfare, or a treaty. I'm an<br>ecumenical kind of guy. I favor treaties over never-ending strife,<br>even if I have
fundamental disagreements with my fellow signatories.<br>If Doug Wilson were Fred Phelps, or the late Richard Butler, I<br>wouldn't advocate a treaty. But Doug Wilson isn't Phelps or Butler,<br>even if you want to paint him that way.<br><br>If the opposition to Wilson were not so petulant, inane, and<br>irrational, and if it were conducted civilly, then my heart wouldn't<br>be so heavy. I've been unkind and unproductively adversarial, which<br>is part of the reason that I'm leaving. When you start to become what<br>you despise, it is time to disentangle. I'm disentangling, with my<br>apologies to everyone I've offended.<br><br>Here is a quote from one of my favorite books that explains it better<br>than I can:<br><br>"Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp,<br>drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily<br>pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every<br>funeral I meet; and especially
whenever my hypos get such an upper<br>hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me<br>from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking<br>people's hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon<br>as I can."<br><br>There's been a change in the weather. I'm going to sea.<br><br>When I say that I am ecumenical, I don't mean it in the sense of<br>merely Christian unity, as I'm not a Christian. I mean it in the<br>broader sense of worldwide unity. This starts with co-operation<br>between groups, without unity necessarily being the goal. Unity comes<br>later, if at all. Co-operation and understanding is a worthwhile goal<br>in itself.<br><br>I've conducted an interview with Douglas Wilson that I think is<br>illuminating. I'm not a Wilson fanboy, I haven't been ideologically<br>seduced by him, but I am trying to do my part in hastening that<br>treaty. I'll visit Vision2020 one final time to post the URL
where<br>that interview can be read in its unexpurgated entirety.<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Chas<br><br>=====================================================<br> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br> http://www.fsr.net <br> mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<br>====================================================<br></blockquote><br><p> 
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