This Month at Cross Examination
The Fundamentalist Anathema
by Wesley Strackbein, October 13, 2006
This month, through a series of articles to be released on a weekly basis, Vision Forum hopes to answer the questions of many families who have called and written us, often heartbroken, over their concern about the use of gossip, revilings, motive judging and personal attacks by Fundamentalists at SharperIron.org to discredit proponents of unity between church and home. Through at least seven widely-discussed articles and their commentary sections (often laced with acrimony and defamatory material), the Fundamentalists at SharperIron.org have targeted proponents of unity between church and home for public censure. At Vision Forum, our concern is not over legitimate, brotherly, academic discussion and criticism — which is completely fair and reasonable — but over expressly unbiblical behavior in the form of spreading false witness, bringing public charges without even contacting brothers in Christ in advance, publishing gossip and revilings, etc. — all contrary to the Word of God.
Documentation of this behavior will be presented and a charitable appeal to our brothers to reexamine the use of their site as a forum for defamation and gossip will be an ongoing theme. Next week, Vision Forum’s Cross Examination will post, “Biblical Integrity and the Fundamentalist Anathema” which examines the far-reaching charges presented on the SharperIron.org website, including a call to Christians to formally recognize proponents of church and home as false teachers and to disassociate with them. Next week, we will post the second installment of Bill Einwechter’s blow-by-blow critique of SharperIron’s three-part series opposing Vision Forum Ministries. Also coming next week is an analysis of the ethical and legal responsibility of all blog hosts for any libelous and defamatory material published through the open commentary section of their websites.
About the Author
Wesley Strackbein served as the Associate Producer of The League of Grateful Sons film project. He handles media relations for VFM and is the Managing Editor of Vision Forum Ministries’ website.
“[O]ur concern is not over legitimate, brotherly, academic discussion and criticism — which is completely fair and reasonable — but over expressly unbiblical behavior in the form of spreading false witness...”
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