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Wow. <br><br>As I've said before, and no doubt will say again, it is astonishing to me that the evangelical world has decided to elevate Wilson to the status of spokesman for the faith. His theology is deficient, his debate skills are lacking, his character and conduct are grievous, and thousands of people across the country, a few hundred of them in Moscow, don't seem to care. In a U.S. evangelical community that's full of dedicated, brilliant, kind, humble, probing, academically sharp scholars, this is who gets the press?<br><br>And no, I don't identify myself as one of the "dedicated, brilliant . . . " But I am a Christian, and after seven years of studying Wilson's work and ministries, I can say, with full awareness of my own lack of formal education and abundant shortcomings, I would not recommend any part of any ministry, school, publication or movement that in any way originates from Anselm House to any person -- believer or atheist, man or woman, young or old. Yeah, I think it's that bad.<br><br>So, in a fallen world, I guess it makes sense that Wilson gets the microphone, but it's tragic nonetheless. <br><br><font style="" color="#8064a2"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><font style="" face="Verdana">Keely<br>www.keely-prevailingwinds.com<br></font></font></font><br><br><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">From: deco@moscow.com<br>To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:32:42 -0800<br>Subject: [Vision2020] Collision Comment<br><br>
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<h3 class="ecxentry-title"><a title="Permanent Link to "Douglas Wilson is a sleazebag…and the universe doesn’t care!"" href="http://russellandduenes.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/douglas-wilson-is-a-sleazebag-and-the-universe-doesnt-care/" rel="bookmark">Douglas Wilson is a sleazebag…and the universe
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Douglas Wilson recently wrote a piece over at <em>The Huffington Post</em>
entitled, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christopher-hitchens/collision-is-religion-abs_b_326673.html"><strong>Atheists
Suck at Being Atheists</strong></a>, wherein he chides atheists, and Christopher
Hitchens in particular, for their unwillingness to face up the the logical
conclusions of their atheism. If there is no God, then of course there is
nothing in the physical, material universe except, well, the physical, material
universe. Which means that human beings and everything else are just a composite
of chemicals that act and interact in certain ways at certain temperatures. But
atheists don’t want to face up to this reality. They thunder on like Old
Testament prophets against things like hypocrisy, homophobia, racism, human
suffering and evil, and that slimebag, Douglas Wilson.<BR>
Take the outspoken atheist, P.Z. Myers, for example, over at his blog, <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/10/doug_wilson_is_a_nasty_piece_o.php"><em>Pharyngula</em></a>.
Upon finding out who Douglas Wilson is – he being the pastor from Moscow, Idaho
and the foil for Chris Hitchens in the superb film <em>Collision</em> – he puts
the screws to him with obvious gusto…<BR>
<em>A reader wrote in to inform me of who Wilson is, and I was appalled. He
has a ministry in Idaho which has ties to the white supremacy movement!…He runs
a private school in Idaho that celebrates Robert E. Lee’s birthday; he wants a
“cultural reformation” in America, and his model, his ideal, is the antebellum
Confederacy… Here’s a <a href="http://www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/slavepage.htm">collection</a> of <a href="http://www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/Wilson.htm">links</a> that point to the
vileness of this sleazebag…<strong><font color="#ff0000" size="3">I don’t understand
at all why Hitchens would want to be associated with such a creature, unless he
was specifically seeking out the very worst that American Christianity brings to
the table.</font></strong> Unfortunately, he’s contributing to the reputation of
a monstrous blight on the Palouse, a racist, theocratic ideologue whom <a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/notonthepalouse/">people of that region
deplore</a>.</em><BR>
Did I mention that Myers is an atheist? But not a consistent one, for a
consistent atheist would know that Wilson is just a bearded, paunchy sack of
complex chemicals bouncing around and thus, Wilson’s views on race – even if
true by Myers’ account – are just a product of the chemical makeup of his brain.
Further, Myers would also know that, given atheism, there is no such thing as
racism or bigotry or “monstrous blight” or any other supposed “evil,” since
everything is just matter in motion, atoms bumping into each other and godless
evolution devouring one species after another. Myers writes as though he has
some basis, some standard, for condemning Wilson as a pile of human filth. But
I’d like to know what this standard is and where it’s written and why I or
anyone else has to follow it. Seeing as there is no God, why should Myers care?
The universe doesn’t, and when he and Wilson finally die, there will be no God
to bring either of them to account for anything. It’s about time the “new”
atheists stop writing moral checks with Christian
capital.<BR></div></font></div> <br /><hr />Windows 7: I wanted simpler, now it's simpler. <a href='http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/windows-7/default.aspx?h=myidea?ocid=PID24727::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WWL_WIN_myidea:112009' target='_new'>I'm a rock star.</a></body>
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