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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>As a child growing up in Nebraska I often heard about the Platte River. It was a mile wide, an inch deep, and treacherous to those wading in it because of the “quick sand” it flowed over. We have the human version of the Platte River right here in Moscow, Idaho.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>All the hoo-haw about being a good neighbor is baloney. From ignoring city requirements for boarding houses to mocking public education (which, by the way is what Doug received) the “real” Doug Wilson is just not all that and a bag of chips. The <i>Art of War</i> inspired the Wilsons’ (both father Jim and son Doug) plan to “take” Moscow – not really for Christ – but certainly for themselves. I’ve never run across a self-proclaimed Christian who relied on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Tzu">Sun Tzu</a> to inspire his proselytizing. Don’t be mislead by the poseur façade of an “ah shucks I’m just a humble servant of the Lord” when underneath there lurks a scheming manipulator.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>The text quotes below were sent to me by a friend, Carl Westburg. Thank you, Carl. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Rose Huskey<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h1><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>“Decisive Point: Moscow, Idaho<o:p></o:p></span></h1><p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>In the 60s, my father wrote a small but enormously influential book called <em><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The Principles of War</span></em>. In it, he applied the principles of physical warfare to what he called strategic evangelism. This idea of warfare is necessary in order to understand a central part of what is happening here, and by this I mean the concept of <em><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>the decisive point.</span></em> A decisive point is one which is simultaneously <em><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>strategic</span></em> and <em><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>feasible.</span></em> Strategic means that it would be a significant loss to the enemy if taken. Feasible means that it is possible to take. New York City is strategic but not feasible. Bovill is feasible but not strategic. But small towns with major universities (Moscow and Pullman, say) are both. <cite><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040111022425/http:/www.christkirk.com/Sermons/2003/20031228notes.asp" target="_blank">Douglas Wilson</a></span></cite><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>“To prevail in conflict is not possible without deception. Where you are weak, he should think you are strong. Where you are strong, he should believe you are weak.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Where you are present, he should believe you to be absent. Where you are absent, he should believe you to be present. When you are distant, he should believe you to be near. When you are near, he should believe you are distant. When you have no plan, he should believe you do. When you are executing a plan, he should believe you are doing nothing. Your strength is not measured by how strong you are. Your strength is measured by how strong your adversary believes you are. Weapons are no substitute for a strategy. Superior weapons do not make up for an inferior strategy. Superior weapons do not make up for inferior men. </span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The phrase “culture wars” should not be applied to mere policy differences. If one party wants to go left and the other wants to go right, there should be no culture war. If one faction wants to hollow the nation out from within, then we engage.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20150606075913/http:/dougwils.com:80/s7-engaging-the-culture/deception-and-the-culture-war.html">http://web.archive.org/web/20150606075913/http://dougwils.com:80/s7-engaging-the-culture/deception-and-the-culture-war.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.moscowid.net/2017/04/30/decisive-point-moscow-idaho/">http://www.moscowid.net/2017/04/30/decisive-point-moscow-idaho/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>7. Provide your children with the best Christian education you can find. There is no excuse for Christians giving their children over to the enemy for their education. There is no sense in giving them over for education in “the neutral parts,” for there are no neutral parts. Christian children must have a Christian education.<span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>9. Do not assume that government regulators have the authority to tell you what the true meaning of Romans 13 is. We are to submit to the governing authorities, but not in everything, and not in the ways stipulated by them. Understand the important role of civil disobedience, and realize that it can occur in areas other than worship or gospel preaching. Gideon was threshing in the wine vat because he was hiding from the tax man. The apostle Paul ran a road block at Damascus. David spent a good deal of time in the wilderness evading a man whom he acknowledged to be the Lord’s anointed.<span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>https://dougwils.com/s7-engaging-the-culture/ground-level-tactics-of-christian-resistance.html<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>