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Unfortunately, Nick, Farris seems to have learned well from his master, whose only apparent concern over Heirdoug's misdeeds is not that they're mean-spirited and immature, but that Farris, like a cobweb, has clung to all things Kirk and thus makes them look bad.<br><br>The Kirk doesn't need Farris to look bad, though. I'd say Wilson's weekend exposition of lesbians and dildoes, plus his recent pontificating over the "father hunger" that manifests itself in concern over food -- not gluttony, but food choices and their healthfulness -- makes him and his flock look a bit off to most reasonable people. In Wilson's mind, which seemingly is very fertile ground indeed, those who don't just have at the pile of biscuits and gravy in front of them are showing an immature "father hunger" that he, evidently, can both diagnose and help assuage. A platter of discernment and common sense here, slathered in butter or not, would be a welcome addition to the Bishop of Moscow's groaning board.<br><br>No pastor I know would devote nearly a dozen posts over the last week rebuking those in his flock who concern themselves about a healthy diet, and certainly none would weave a pro-Christian masculinity teaching out of an infomercial pitching phallic sex toys to lesbians. "Odd" doesn't begin to cover it, and this past week in Blog and Mablog would not, I'm guessing, prove to the outsider that a mature, stable, learned evangelical pastor was behind the wheel. At this point, it appears the Kirk train is running off the rails, and Farris is just a patch of rust on an out-of-control locomotive.<br><br>May their, after the train wreck, be a remnant of those faithful to Christ who walk away from the disaster with their allegiance to Wilson only a bad memory, duly repented of.<br><br>Keely<br><br><br><br><br><hr>Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 11:24:34 -0700<br>To: Douglas.Farris@CH2M.com<br>From: ngier@uidaho.edu<br>CC: vision2020@moscow.com<br>Subject: [Vision2020] I thought that Farris was "contained"<br><br>
Dear Doug:<br><br>
I thought that your pastor had told you to cut out the insults, but you
appear to be incorrigible.<br><br>
I have reported your most recent offense to Pastor Wilson.<br><br>
Nick Gier<br><br>
At 11:16 AM 7/7/2008, you wrote:<br><br>
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<font size="2">"Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to
human affairs."<br>
--Ralph Waldo Emerson<br><br>
"Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings
who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it."<br>
--Mohandas Gandhi<br><br>
"Modern physics has taught us that the nature of any system cannot
be discovered by dividing it into its component parts and studying each
part by itself. . . .We must keep our attention fixed on the whole and on
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intellectual life. It is impossible to make a clear cut between science,
religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its
various parts." --Ma</font><font size="1">x Planck<br><br>
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