[Vision2020] Steve Wilkins' unorthodox writing style

[Christian Burns]

I was wondering if there are any here that have actually heard very
much of what Steve Wilkins teaches?

I was reading Nick's letter here and just thinking. Are there many
people on this forum that would consider themselves libertarian?

I am sure there are some that might think I am racist just because I
have heard Steve Wilkins and thought that he made sense.

In high school I had the MLK Jr "I have a dream" poster in my room. I
read and enjoyed the Autobiography of Malcolm X, I have also recently
read "Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: His Early Life as a Slave,
His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time"

And I am looking forward to reading Doug Wilson's "Black and Tan" when
it comes out. I want to learn and understand history.

Has anyone else read Life and Times of Frederick Douglass? It was not
easy. I just had not read any books from that era. I was amazed at how
much the English language has devolved. God has been convicting me
lately on failing to see others as ourselves. On the inside we are all
human. In the eyes of God there is no color. And the work that Christ
has done transcends culture. The Kingdom of God is to bring godly
culture. Please don't shout "Theocracy" to me. I am not saying that.



(1) An arrogant proclamation of those 
who are saved and those who damned; 

I am not the one who says who is saved and who is damned, 

(2) a gleeful wish for the destruction 
of infidels on either side; 

No, not me. I think that we should only defend ourselves. 

(3) an ethnic chauvinism of the type we see in 
the League of the South; and 

not me again and yet I enjoyed Gods and Generals.

(4) a serious affirmation that the laws of God 
should be the laws of the land.

The funny thing is that you seem to have no clue that the Laws of God
are the foundation for the laws of this nation. Common law?

Thanks for letting me rant,

Christian Burns



On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 23:17:58 -0800, Nick Gier <ngier at uidaho.edu> wrote:
>  Visionaries:
> 
>  I've sent the following letter to the Daily News and the Lewiston Tribune. 
> Thanks to Tom for putting the texts on his website so quickly and
> efficiently.
> 
>  To the Editor:
> 
>  Last August Douglas Wilson, pastor of Moscow's Christ Church, reported that
> he removed his booklet "Southern Slavery As It Was" from circulation in
> January because of "some real problems with the footnotes" (Daily News
> 8/6/03).  Wilson said that he had "revised it and it is now awaiting
> republication."  A year later the title is still listed as out of print at
> Wilson's Canon Press website, so I'm wondering what the delay is.
> 
>  Is it because the principal of Carey Christian School in Carey, North
> Carolina was forced to remove the slavery booklet from his students' hands
> in December, 2004?  How many other copies of this embarrassing attempt at
> historical revisionism out there in conservative Christian schools and
> neo-Confederate bookstores across the nation?
> 
>  Or is it because Wilson realized that there were more than just citation
> problems with this outrageous little essay?  Wilson claims that the files
> that he received from his co-author Steve Wilkins were somehow messed up. 
> But it is inconceivable to me that, for example, a subheading "The Myth of
> Slave Breeding" and an entire paragraph taken from Fogel and Engerman's Time
> on the Cross could have been a simple transmission error. Twenty percent of
> the essay comes from this source.  See
> www.tomandrodna.com/notonthepalouse/Plagiarism.htm for facing pages.
> 
>  I now have more evidence about the deceptive ways in which Wilson and
> Wilkins do their "scholarly" research.  On page 144 of his book on Robert E.
> Lee Call to Duty,Wilkins copies 220 words from C. B. Bracken's book Lee:The
> Last Years before citing a short indented passage from this book.  Without
> doing any research one is left with the impression that the preceding words
> are Wilkins' own when in fact they are most definitely not his.  
> 
>  Using the same writing techniques, Wilkins has also copied passages from D.
> S. Freeman's  Robert E. Lee: A Biography for his own book on Lee.  I have
> written to both publishers to inform them of these egregious infractions. 
> Canon Press also sells another Wilkins title, and one wonders how many of
> those words are really Wilkins' own.
> 
>  The facing pages from the three texts can be viewed at
> www.tomandrodna.com/notonthepalouse/SWP.htm
> 
>  Nick Gier, Moscow 
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