Re: Militant Jerry (Jerry & Till)
Ian Dorion (dorioni@intellinet.com)
Wed, 02 Apr 1997 09:49:51 -0600
Farrell Till wrote:
>
> (Christ-Ian 4/1) You're a liar McDonald. The only reason you won't come after
> us to kill us is because you don't have the balls to do it. You will sit there
> like so many others waiting for a leader with the charisma to lead you into
> battle and slaughter all the non-believers.
>
> TILL
> I'm not in the habit of defending Jerry McDonald. He and I have been
> long-time debating adversaries, and I consider his fundamentalist views
> absurd (just as mine were). However, as a former Church-of-Christ preacher,
> I think I know what this church stands for, unless it has taken an abrupt
> doctrinal detour since the days of my affiliation with it, so I don't
> believe at all that it has any reconstructionist leanings. I just don't
> think that Jerry or any Church-of-Christ preacher or member I know--and I
> know many of them--has any plans or desires to exterminate skeptics.
> I would personally feel secure around them in any situation where they might
> have the opportunity to harm me with physical violence. Perhaps the
> reconstructionists we have had on the list have left with some of us the
> impression that all Christians are like them.
>
> Farrell Till
> Skepticism, Inc.
> jftill@midwest.net
(Christ-Ian 4/2) Farrill, I have the greatest respect for you so maybe I owe
Jerry an apology. Perhaps I don't know what the Church-of-Christ doctrines
are. For example. do they strive to get laws passed that reflect their
religious beliefs? Prayer in school? Anti-abortion? Prohibition? Censureship?
My feelings are that like all other fundamentalists, they do.
Perhaps Jerry and the Church-of-Christers are not militant now but what
happens if some reconstructionalist fundamentalist gets in power? I don't
think the German people could have been called militants in the religious
sense. Look what Hitler did with them. Then we have the former Yogoslavia
where Christians and Muslims lived together in peace as neighbors only to have
some charismatic leader rise up and have them kill each other off.
Do I owe Jerry an apology, not in my book. He spoke of me as an enemy. He says
he can find no scriptual evidence for any holy day except having Sunday, the
first day of the week as the sabbath. He has substituted his INTERPRETATIONS
of NT writings for what his god has allegedly WRITTEN IN STONE.
Any fundamentalist, be they Christian, Jew, Muslim, Bhuddist and even Atheist
are in my opinion, dangerous people.