[Vision2020] Violent Rhetoric is Out of Place in Moscow

[Sam Scripter]

Very well expressed, you "troublemaker"!   : )

Sam Scripter

Robert Dickow wrote:
> I see the NSA rhetoric basically as overblown metaphor, probably derived
> from 'Onward Christain Soldiers' and such. It is certainly in poor taste on
> the website. But the "violence" in it is a bit like similar rhetoric in
> other domains: ones 'battle against cancer.', the 'war on crime', 'strike a
> death blow to diabetes,' etc. I don't think I feel physically threatened.
> Yet.
>
> Bob Dickow, troublemaker
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Courtesy of today's (December 3, 2010) Moscow-Pullman Daily News with
> thanks to Nick Gier.
>
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>
> Violent rhetoric is out of place in Moscow
>
> Thanks to Joe Campbell (Opinion, Nov. 29) for alerting the community to
> the violent rhetoric found on the website of Moscow's New Saint Andrews
> College (www.nsa.edu).
>
> The blurb describes the NSA faculty as "not timid in a rumble," and they
> offer prospective students "an invitation to a brawl." I wonder how young
> Christian women will respond to this raw machismo?
>
> ...<snip>
>
> Some may say that the recruiting language is only metaphorical, but it is
> still violent rhetoric that every reasonable person should condemn.
>
> ...<snip>
>
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