From: John W Burgeson (jwburgeson@juno.com)
Date: Thu Oct 09 2003 - 14:39:06 EDT
Howard asked: "Is it considered good Christian practice among YEC's to
demonize the opposition? That is, is it acceptable Christian practice to
ascribe the well-informed scientific judgments of professional scientists
(including the majority of the Christians who are professional
scientists) to the work of Satan?"
In his 9/20/03 Durango seminar, Joe Sebeny did not go QUITE that far. But
he did say, explicitly, on three separate occasions in a 1 hour and 35
minute lecture (no audience questions permitted), that:
1. A non-YEC is calling Jesus Christ a liar.
2. A non-YEC is "inconsistent."
3. A non-YEC "attacks the scriptures."
In one or two of these cases he added other commentary to flesh out the
assertion being made.
In all fairness, towards the lecture's end he did mutter (literally a
side comment unrelated to the lecture thread) that non-YECers might still
be Christians. I do not remember him ascribing a non-YEC position to
Satan specifically. And he did collect written questions submitted by
the audience after the lecture, presumably to answer them later.
I had emailed Joe prior to the seminar that, if he were to do the above,
he would at least add the statement that he was not challenging the
Christianity of non-YECers.
His reply was that he would not do that, and that he looked askance upon
persons who would do that, and that he considered the charge that
responsible YEC speakers WOULD do that to be both baseless and
slanderous.
I replied to that email from Joe citing the Tom Willis essay recently
posted here; he did not respond to that email or to several I have sent
him since that time. I am copying Joe in the hope that he will appear
here to defend his position.
Burgy
www.burgy.50megs.com
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