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That's it -- business still conducted, but memorial tributes held.<br><br>What a terrible, terrible day, and its anniversary is, to me, all the more sobering given the ugly rhetoric flying about these days. Which makes Doug Wilson's Blog and Mablog post yesterday even more lamentable and less pastoral than usual. That's saying a lot, sadly. <br><br>Wilson says that our government's authority is unrighteous and God-denying and says there is no need "grounded in conscience" to honor that authority, and he refers to Obama's governance as "plundering" -- on the heels of his ten-point mandate last month calling for Christian men to resist the chains of "tyranny" he sees coming from Obama. There's no circumstance imaginable under which Wilson's counsel in this would qualify as mature and pastoral; in the political and social atmosphere swirling around us now, it's reckless, hateful, and utterly irresponsible. Timothy McVeigh wasn't born a terrorist; long before he blew up the
Federal Building in Oklahoma City, he was merely angry and alienated.
Then he chose to immerse himself in ugly, crazy, hate talk, talk that pastors used to condemn from the pulpit, and it became clear to McVeigh that he was a soldier in the war against tyranny. And soldiers fight against the enemy. Rhetoric, his and others', became action, and, unfortunately, anti-government extremism then contributed to his going
off the evil deep end. I'm afraid the same is entirely possible,
even likely, now. I pray America's far-right would breed truth and righteousness and not terrorism and rioting, but people will do what people will do. May God have mercy.<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>> Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:28:49 -0700<br>> From: jeanc38@gmail.com<br>> To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Flags at Half Staff?<br>> <br>> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Wayne Price <bear@moscow.com> wrote:<br>> > Any one know why the flags at the Federal Building and at City Hall<br>> > were at half staff today?<br>> ><br>> > Wayne<br>> <br>> Only thing I can think of today is the 15th anniversary of the<br>> Oklahoma City bombing.<br>> <br>> Jean C<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> <br /><hr />The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. <a href='http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3' target='_new'>Get started.</a></body>
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