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<DIV>These are times when crackpots flourish.</DIV>
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<A title=kjajmix1@msn.com href="mailto:kjajmix1@msn.com">keely emerinemix</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Flags at Half
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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
color=#8064a2><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" size=3><FONT
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>>
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