It doesn't matter. Your refusal to comment on his cancer claim is noted.
It actually does matter when asking for a recess.
I'll comment on his cancer claim now. It's irrelevant to the point of substantiating intent to defraud by Hovind by his acquiring a perfectly legal degree from an institution of higher learning that is sanctioned by the legal authority of the State of Colorado.
Now to the point you made about the distinction of education and 'christian' education...
- By the way, I laughed out loud when you compared the accredited and prestigious Harvard and Yale to Patriot University. The issue here isn't religion, its fraud and accreditation. Even if Hovind had an accredited degree in Christian Education leaving out Christian presents his "degree" as something its not.
You notice that it was the legal authority of a court that
established Harvard. That established court acknowledge '
the good hand of God upon them'; they acknowledged that moral authority they derived their authority from. That very court delegates authority to the President of Harvard. That can be seen in the phrase
have full power and authority. So to what end did this recognized authority (the court) delegate authority to the President? The purpose and motivation is seen in the expressions
for the instituting, guiding, and furthering of the said College, and the several members thereof, from time to time, in piety, morality, and learning; the motivation of the President seen in the expression
as they shall see necessary.
The Act establishing the Overseers of Harvard College.
At a General Court held at Boston in the year 1642.
Whereas, through the good hand of God upon us, there is a College founded in Cambridge,
in the county of Middlesex, called Harvard College, for the encouragement whereof this Court has given the sum of four hundred pounds, and also the revenue of the ferry betwixt Charlestown and Boston, and that the well ordering and managing of the said College is of great concernment:
It is therefore ordered by this Court, and the authority thereof, that the Governor and Deputy Governor for the time being, and all the Magistrates of this jurisdiction, together with the teaching Elders of the six next adjoining towns, viz. Cambridge, Watertown, Charlestown, Boston, Roxbury, and Dorchester, and the President of the said College for the time being, shall, from time to time, have full power and authority to make and establish all such orders, statutes, and constitutions, as they shall see necessary for the instituting, guiding, and furthering of the said College, and the several members thereof, from time to time, in piety, morality, and learning:
As also to dispose order, and manage to the use and behoof of the said College, and the members thereof, all gifts, legacies, bequeaths, ....
- At a General Court held at Boston in the year 1642
- It is therefore ordered by this Court, and the authority thereof,
- Whereas, through the good hand of God upon us, there is a College founded in Cambridge
- and the President of the said College for the time being, shall, from time to time, have full power and authority
- as they shall see necessary for the instituting, guiding, and furthering of the said College, and the several members thereof, from time to time, in piety, morality, and learning
The similarities between Harvard and Patriot Bible University are
- They both had meager beginnings
- Those beginnings were by acts of duly authorized authorities
- Their purpose and motivations are education in morality and piety and as they see necessary
Now by what authority do you suppose you have to question the purpose and motivation of the duly appointed executioner of power and authority of Harvard or Patriot Bible University to issue degrees? How is it, do you suppose, you have the right to accuse someone having a degree from Patriot Bible University to have a fake degree. You can only do that if you cross the lines of reason, meaning and the established legal authorities of the day. As far as I know there hasn't been a decree that anarchy is legal.
Further you haven't established intent to defraud with your claim there is a difference between 'education' and 'christian education' much less that it is fraud by nondisclosure. The very mention of having a degree from Patriot
Bible University discloses it in the same manner that it used to when you said you had a Harvard degree. In time that may change as it has with Harvard.
Gene
