Dear visionaries,
Afternoon, kids! No need to worry — I’ll keep it brief. Kudos to Robert for doing a decent job of reading/hearing what we have actually been saying.
Non-kudos to Susan for linking me to a web site I had never heard of, and for a tightly-reasoned argument that did everything but what it needed to do. The point is that our school does not teach or do what it has been falsely accused of teaching or doing. The fact that one of the board members there (me) thinks that the South was right on the constitutional issues, and (together with the North) wrong on the racial issues, does not justify the extent to which the little old ladies (of both sexes) on the progressivist side of our little town have gotten their panties in a twist. By Susan’s style of argument, three other local institutions that are necessarily neo-Confederate are the Moscow Chamber of Commerce, the University of Idaho, and Vision 20/20.
Kudos to Roberta for calming everybody down, and alerting them to our PR tricks. But getting the progressives worked up into a lather such as this is really not all that hard. All one has to do is say something sensible, like, “No, our school doesn’t teach what you insist we do.” The aftermath of such inflammatory utterances usually includes references to fascism, brainwashing, cults, and whatnot. It really is a sight to behold, and I am not quite sure how we do it either.
Non-kudos to Susan for taking jurisdiction over what constitutes true Presbyterianism. I said Christ Church was presbyterian because that is the form of church government we have, and our doctrinal convictions are ably summarized in the Westminster Confession of Faith, the historic confession of Presbyterians. The name of our particular presbytery is the Confederation of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC). Ready, set, google!
And last, let’s pretend for a minute. Let’s pretend that we really are those nasty, cultish, misogynist, neo-Confederates types that some folks so desperately need to have around. Given your relativism, anything wrong with that? Didn’t think so.
Cordially,
Douglas
“Apologetics in the Void” are repostings from an on-going electronic discussion and debate I had some time ago with members of our local community, whose names I have changed. The list serve is called Vision 20/20, and hence the name “visionaries.” Reading just these posts probably feels like listening to one half of a phone conversation, but I don’t feel at liberty to publish what others have written. But I have been editing these posts (lightly) with intelligibility in mind.