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The Mendacious Mullah of Moscow
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<em></em><em></em><br><em></em><br><em>Proverbs 12:22 - "Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who deal truthfully are His delight."
</em><br><br>Here's a joke: How do you know Doug Wilson is lying? His fingers are typing.<br><br>The
most recent example of this is his blog post from over the weekend with
reference to the R.C. Sproul, Jr. scandal, entitled: <a href="http://dougwils.com/index.asp?Action=Anchor&CategoryID=1&BlogID=1984" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">R.C. Sproul Jr., A Justice Primer
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Now the fact that he equates his mendacity with justice is full of all
kinds of pathetic irony, but I am struck with how utterly we can become
so invested in the lie that we are forced to continue with it even when
it is in our own best interest to be truthful. Such is the case with
the Moscow Mullah.<br><br>Before I address the substance of his
obstinate obfuscation, let me just point out that Douggie can't claim
to be ignorant of the facts of the matter: his statement makes it clear
that he represents to be in the know. Also, the facts under
consideration are a matter of public record. Anyone choosing to take
fifteen seconds to do an Internet search can view practically the
entire body of evidence at issue (if you're too lazy for that, go <a href="http://hushmoney.org/RC_Sproul_Jr-defrocking-docs.htm" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">here</a>).
So this clearly is not about Douggie not understanding nor having
insufficient evidence to know what is going on as he is blog bloviating.<br><br>The Pasha of the Palouse tells us: <em>"Responsible Christians everywhere should wait patiently while these responsible adults sort this one out."
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And just who are these responsible Christians that he refers to? The
RPCGA, the former (note the qualification here) denomination of R.C.
Sproul, Jr. and his Gang of Ecclesiastical Thugs (known in the 1970s as
R.C. and the Reprobate Band). Douggie apparently puts himself in that
category of "adult" as well (LMAO!).<br><br>But the assumption that he is wanting you -- no -- is <strong>demanding</strong>
that you make, and which predicates the entirety of his statement, is
that the RPCGA is still involved in adjudicating the case of these
defrocked degenerates. If this were true, he would be entirely in the
right in terms of telling everyone to pipe down to allow these men a
fair hearing, though he would have no more authority to say it than any
other blogger. However, the assumption he is peddling is entirely and
deliberately false.<br><br>Now if you go to his blog post, it is dated "2/11/06", a full week <strong>after</strong> <a href="http://hushmoney.org/ToDeposedSession.pdf" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
the RPCGA dismissed these men</a>
from their denomination--ample time for him to get caught up on the
matter before he started slinging crap from the trees at anyone daring
to disagree with him. The simple point of fact is that following their
dismissal from the denomination the RPCGA has no further jurisdiction
over these men, and any investigation or report the RPCGA would issue
at any time would be as valid as Douggie clearing out the opium den at
the New St. Andrews men's house and convening his own ecclesiastical
show trial (not that he's discounted that option yet; that's what he
seems to be angling for). Even further, any slimeball
micro-denominational outfit willing to credential these spiritual
sodomites would equally have no jurisdiction to try or authority to
clear or convict them with reference to past charges. Douggie lectures
us all enough on the topic such that we are only left with the
conclusion that he understands presbyterian church polity (remember,
"Reformed is not enough"!). R.C. and the Gang are freelancers (putting
it charitably) and renegades (putting it more accurately) at this
point, notwithstanding what Douggie says, and not subject to any
further sanctions by the RPCGA or any cult of personality they might
happen to join down the road. This is so plainly clear that Wilson
telling the rest of us to ignore the man behind the curtain immediately
tips his hand.<br><br>What exactly is he expecting us to wait for? R.C.
and his lackeys need more time for the cover-up story to stick. This
isn't a matter of principles for Douggie; it is bare-knuckle pragmatics
and propaganda. You see, having been justly defrocked for monstrous
behavior towards members of their own congregation and other assorted
illegal activities (all of which they admitted to in writing), and then
having been reinstalled to their offices by their newly-minted
independent congregational church two days after being released by the
RPCGA, they are spinning the story that the defrocking was due to their
bizarre adherence to paedo-communion (a practice completely unknown
throughout the entire 2000 year history of the Western Church), not
because of their admitted ungodly and vicious behavior towards God's
flock.<br><br>But the <a href="http://hushmoney.org/RPCGA-judgment.pdf" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Declaratory Judgment </a>of the Westminster Presbytery tells a different story:
<br><br><br><em><blockquote><em>"The
consistent pattern of actions taken by these men are duplicitous in
nature, and demonstrate that they willingly and knowingly act in an
arbitrary fashion in violation of their vows of ordination and in
violation of our denomination's Book of Church Order. Most importantly,
their actions manifest that they lack the qualification for the
ministry (1Timothy 3:1-7). It would be unwise to allow these men to
continue to hold an office for which they are not qualified. They have
no interest to govern themselves appropriately within this Presbyterian
system of government that they vowed to submit and conform to its rules
and regulations with conduct becoming ministers of Jesus Christ."
(Declaratory Judgment, p. 11)</em></blockquote></em>According to the
unanimous decision of Westminster Presbytery of the RPCGA, these men
are morally and spiritually unfit and unqualified for the office of
church elder. As I said previously they have shown themselves to be
butchers of God's sheep, not shepherds. This rightly-rendered verdict
was <em>immediately</em> rejected by R.C. and the Gang (and apparently
by Wilson), who agreed to allow themselves to be reappointed to their
offices hours after they were free from any attachment to the RPCGA.
Furthermore, R.C. has taken his case to the Internet, first to declare
that they had been wronged by the presbytery in their deposition from
office; and then when dismissed, to claim vindication. If this isn't
thumbing their nose at the RPCGA and their lawful decisions, I don't
know what else could ever rise to that level. That is the real issue at
hand and the source of scandal.<br><br>Douggie, if this public
conversation is too adult for you, maybe it's time for you to go to
bed. This is no longer a matter of private discipline; it is a matter
of public scandal, and fair game for public comment. There's no further
waiting required by anyone at this point. Let me be crystal clear: if
anyone on the Internet is "shoveling excrement" on this matter, it is
Douggie Wilson himself. There is nothing forthcoming from the RPCGA
that means anything authoritatively, as Wilson tells us to expect. And
he knows this.<br><br>But his friends have been shown to be the knaves
that they are, and Douggie has admitted on his blog that there are
plans afoot to usher these men into the CREC, Wilson's own boutique
micro-denomination, so he has to bang his pots and pans to scare away
the presbyterian predators while these men are brought into safe
harbor. It doesn't seem the slightest bit of concern to Wilson that he
is utterly discrediting himself in the process, begging the question,
of course, that he hasn't already done so. If that's what passes for
"justice" in Moscow these days, I gladly want no part of it. And I
certainly don't need lectures on it from Douggie Wilson any more than I
need to hear sermons on effective church government and Christian
leadership from R.C. Sproul, Jr.<br><br>One final thought: having read
the comments section attached to his post, what is even more pathetic
than Wilson's lies are the plethora of mindless Wilsonistas who applaud
his brave stand for godless autonomy, falsehood and deceit. And to
those mindless Wilsonistas, let me say that when they start passing out
the Kool-Aid at the tragic but inevitable conclusion of <em>The Great Moscow Meltdown</em>, you can't say that you haven't been warned.<br><br><em><span style="font-style: italic;">P</span>osted by Patrick Poole</em>
<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><br><br>Juanita Flores<br>Advocate for the Truth from Jesus