Cowardice

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The leaders of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches have, at every juncture proved themselves to be unable to do or say anything about Douglas Wilson.  They elected him Moderator of the denomination (by one vote), and, when they had a chance to actually investigate what was happening in Moscow, they formed an internal committee, headed by Douglas’ co-author Randy Booth. Since Mr. Booth has stepped down post-plagiarism, what is  being done?

Nothing.

For Lent, the CREC should give up cowardice.

The CREC

Organized

Doug Wilson almost didn’t receive the 2/3rds majority that he required to be elected minister of presbytery.

Due to increased scrutiny, the CREC could no longer ignore what was happening in Moscow, so instead of commissioning an outside investigation, they started an internal investigation, calling into question the legitimacy of the results before they were released.

Numerous issues were raised with Randy Booth as the leader of the investigation. Multiple members of the committee were notified of Booth’s past close relationship with Wilson, the fact that Booth had just authored a book with Wilson, or that Doug had helped Booth make an unpleasant situation go away in the past. The committee did nothing, and Booth rejected all suggestions that he was unqualified to chair the investigation.

Randy Booth was found to have plagiarized multiple sections of the book that he co-authored with Doug Wilson. Wilson accepts 0 blame. Randy resigns.

All of this proves that the CREC is an organization of men who despise authority attempting to act as if they possessed it. They are disorganized, poor communicators, and ridiculously lousy at paying attention to the situation at hand.

I made this!

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Rachel Miller at “A Daughter of the Reformation” posted a brilliant article today where she exposed numerous instances of plagiarism in Doug Wilson and Randy Booth’s book, “A Justice Primer“.

The question is, will the Kirk do anything? Will the CREC do anything?

Comic taken from Nedroid Comics