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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Oops.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I forgot to note one important item in Part 3.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Princess writes:</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">“[to Keely] You know that you don't know, but he doesn't know that he doesn't know. He trusts his nose's ability to administer sniff tests to claims that he encounters in cyberspace [re. RC Sproul Jr., Ligonier law suit, Doug Phillips], and to then editorialize on the basis of the outcome of his sniff tests.”</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Mr. Josh Princess,</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">I wanted to call your attention to a few things.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>First of all, pastor Wilson offered the most extreme and brash judgments about the Ligonier Law Suit made by a blog owner on the world wide web: calling one of the parties “vile” and Ligonier fully justified in filing a law suit; and he did so, self-admittedly, ONE OR TWO DAYS after publicly confessing that he had not been following any of it and knew “next to nothing” about it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now that is what I call one big sniffing snoozer.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And indeed, the public consensus was to offer curiosity (if not outrage) about the kind of sniff pastor Wilson offered with his big big pastoral snoozer, even after folks had expressed their appreciation that he had not inserted himself into the situation like he did the RC Sproul Jr. scandal before this big sniff.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">This was a fairly ironic situation, particularly after <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wilson</st1:place></st1:City> then refused to link to the primary sources. It was also ironic given the fact that I had been following the situation very closely for a number of weeks before Wilson gave his one sniff, which included debating the issue with others and researching on some of the topics (e.g. law professor Glen Reynold’s essay on blogging and freedom of speech).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And if you look at <st1:City w:st="on">Wilson</st1:City>’s discussion with me about it, you will note that <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wilson</st1:place></st1:City> didn’t know what he was talking about and did not know how to ask or answer questions on the matter. Finally, my analysis of the situation has been well received and I cannot find an opponent who is willing to further debate me on the matter on the world wide web. Perhaps it helps that I have known RC Sproul Jr., RC Sproul Senior, and attended church with them at one time; I feel a good deal more epistemic distance to Doug Phillips, which is perhaps one of the sources of my failure to predict his actions recently. I still stand by my analysis of Phillips’ teaching on patriarchy and theonomy however.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">I point all this out primarily to highlight once again the steady hypocrisy that comes from both Wilson and his defenders in the way they crticize their opponents; I could perhaps live with a good bit of hypocrisy (aren’t we all hypocrites at times and in certain ways) if it was not so brazen and so strategic.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">In conclusion, let me also point out that there are few critics of Wilson who have the personal, historical, and theological knowledge related to him and his ministry that I do. Clearly, your smear about Phillips and Ligonier do not apply to my ‘sniffing’ at Doug Wilson. And this causes me to once again pause and ask myself about the level of sincerity in this criticism and what the motivation truly is.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Would you perhaps just like me to stick on target, and not move on to other topics beyond the life and work of Douglas Wilson?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>After all, we nail it every time, as our next multi-part series illustrates. If this is your motive, perhaps you are right; perhaps I should stick to the topic of my experience and expertise.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Thank you</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Michael Metzler </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><A href="http://www.poohsthink.com/">www.poohsthink.com</A> </P></DIV><BR>
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