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Video Review: x.com/geoffvscott/st… Original Report: pactuminst.substack.com/api/v1/file/c1… Updated Report: app.box.com/s/8xttgbn6z2cl…

Ask yourself if @WVPitt is being honest. Links to both papers and the @GeoffVScott + @pactuminstitute video where they first discuss that original paper had one false citation and false accusation. I had Claude check. 34 substantive edits. Every citation I checked, was completely fabricated. I didn't check all of them. Feel free to do so. Summary Version 1 ("10_Moderator_Committee_Kinism.pdf") — 29 pages Version 2 ("Kinism Special Committee of Synod 2026 Report.pdf") — 28 pages The second version is a later revision: footnotes have been renumbered upward (e.g. fn 2 → fn 4 in the early pages, fn 60 → fn 62 by the end), text has been re-flowed, and the page footer was changed everywhere. Two new sourcing footnotes were inserted at the top, so every later footnote slides by two. Systemic / mechanical differences Page footer text changed on every body page — "Special Committee of Synod on Kinism Index 10" → "Special Committee of Synod on Kinism Index Number XX Page Number" (a placeholder; the indexer hasn't been filled in yet). ~24 page footers affected. Total page count: 29 → 28, because text reflowed more tightly. Footnote numbering shifts by +2 through most of the paper (two new footnotes were added on p. 4). Substantive prose changes (34 distinct edits) Editorial / wording: "former U.S. based reconstructionists" → "U.S. based former reconstructionists" "in Grace Presbytery, Michael Hunter and Eric Hancox" → "in Grace Presbytery: Michael Hunter and Eric Hancox" (comma → colon) "daughter of Pharoah. The latter two being" → "daughter of Pharoah, the latter two being" (period → comma) "as Kinism is not as clear and relatable" → "as Kinism. How that is is not as clear and relatable" (sentence break + added clause) "Linnaeus is positively cited by the Kinist Pactum Institute where Michael Hunter, Bret McAtee, and Michael Spangler are fellows" → "This kind of enthno-nationalism which marks nations into ethnic silos is positively encouraged by the Kinist Pactum Institute where Michael Hunter, Bret McAtee, and Michael Spangler are fellows" "Dabney fully understood he was a target of Woodrow's pamphlet" → "Dabney had tussled with Woodrow many times" "It is also worth noting that the post-war PCUS sided with Girardeau over and against Dabney" → "Sadly the post-war PCUS did not go with the stream advocated by John Adger and others" "Robert Mackenzie takes apart the sloppy use of this letter" → "Nathan Ristuccia takes apart the sloppy use of this letter" (and "Mackenzie notes" → "Ristuccia notes") "no supporter of the segregation found in the American South" → "no supporter of the type of segregation found in the American South" "Though some demur from the idea that Morton Smith, for example, actually agreed…for their purpose." → "Though some demur from the idea that Morton Smith and others, for example, actually agreed…for their purpose and a better picture of the times is worth consulting." Deleted sentence (p. 17 of v1): "In fact, Christ had Ammonite blood as well, since Naamah, the mother of Rehoboam, was an Ammonite (1 Kings 14:21)." — removed entirely from v2. Citation / footnote source changes: Footnotes 2 and 3 (new) added, citing Pactum Institute "Christian Race Realism" Parts 2 and 3 (Nature, Scripture). Old single footnote pointed only to Part 1. Old fn 8 (Rushdoony, Institutes of Biblical Law + Ingram, The World Under God's Law, 1959) → new fn 10 (Perry Wilkins, "Rushdoony's Kinism" + Ingram, Essays On Segregation, 1960) — different book by Ingram, different year, different secondary source. Old fn 9 (three Mark R. Rushdoony Chalcedon magazine articles) → new fn 11 (Mark R. Rushdoony YouTube lecture + "Ask Chalcedon: Race" blog post) — completely different sources. Old fn 10 (Thornwell 1873 ed. + Guy Prentiss Waters + Hart) → new fn 12 (Thornwell 1850 ed. + Alan Strange instead of Waters + different Hart citation, Ordained Servant 7 no. 3 instead of 15). Linnaeus pages: "10–12" → "194ff" (fn 13/15). Old fn 14 (J. Philippe Rushton, Race, Evolution, and Behavior, 1995) → new fn 16 (Richard Lynn, Race Difference in Intelligence, 2015) — different author/book. Old fn 15 (Schlebusch, "Linnaeus and the Reality of Kind") → new fn 17 (Schlebusch, "The Particularity and Universality of Ethno-Christocracy") — different Pactum article. Old fn 16 (Dabney, "Review of 'Address on African Colonization'", SPR 1852) → new fn 18 (Dabney, A Defense of Virginia, 1867). Old fn 17 (John B. Adger, "The Unity of the Human Race", SPR 1850) → new fn 19 (Abner Addison Porter, "The Unity of the Human Race", SPR 1851) — different author and year. Old fn 20 (Dabney, "The Strategy of the Evolutionist", Jan 1885) → new fn 22 (Dabney, "The Caution Against Anti-Christian Science Criticised by Dr. Woodrow", Oct 1873). Old fn 21 (Girardeau, "Address on the Relation of the Church to the Colored Population", 1871) → new fn 23 (Girardeau, "On Ecclesiastical Relations to Freedmen", SPR 1867). Calhoun page range: 245–250 → 221–232 (fn 22 → fn 24). Old fn 23 entirely deleted: "Report on the Ecclesiastical Relations to the Colored People", 1871. New "Ibid, 231" footnote added (fn 25). Old fn 25 (Robert Tracy McKenzie, Ad Fontes, April 25, 2023) → new fn 27 (Nathan Ristuccia, Ad Fontes, November 29, 2022) — different author and date. Davis Carlton article: date "May 28, 2012" → "January 19, 2011" and URL changed accordingly (fn 26 → fn 28). Old fn 27 (Vos letter to Johannes Vos, April 24, 1893) → new fn 29 (Vos, "The Wonderful Tree", Kerux 6 no. 2, 1991) — different Vos source. Old fn 29 (Chad Van Dixhoorn, "The Westminster Assembly and the Eighth Commandment") → new fn 31 (Westminster Assembly, Annotations upon all the Books of the Old and New Testament, 1651, on Ex 21:16). Old fn 31 (Gillespie, A Treatise of Miscellany Questions, 1649) → new fn 33 (Gillespie, Wholesome Severity Reconciled with Christian Liberty, 1645) — different work. Carleton Coon page range: "655–660" → "645–656" (fn 34 → fn 36). Old fn 37 (Davis Carlton, "Aesthetics: Kinism vs. Alienism", Oct 21, 2014) → new fn 39 (Ehud Would, same title, Oct 22, 2014) — different author and date. Old fn 38 (Morton H. Smith, "The Biblical Case for Segregation", Southern Presbyterian Journal, May 1957) → new fn 40 (Morton H. Smith, "The Racial Problem Facing America", Presbyterian Guardian, Oct 1964) — different Morton Smith article. Old fn 39 (Lucas, pp. 185–190, + Joseph A. Pipa Jr., "The PCA at 40") → new fn 41 (Lucas, pp. 189–218, + Scott Cook, "Bury the Dead (Including Morton Smith) with Honor", Aquila Report, 2018) — different page range and different secondary source. In total: roughly 34 substantive content edits plus the systemic footer/page-count/footnote-numbering changes. The most consequential are the 19 citation swaps (different authors, dates, books, or articles), the one deleted sentence about Rehoboam's Ammonite mother, and the rewording about post-war PCUS / Adger vs. Girardeau. The footer placeholder ("Index Number XX Page Number") shows v2 is still pre-publication.

Ask yourself if @WVPitt is being honest. Links to both papers and the @GeoffVScott + @pactuminstitute video where they first discuss that original paper had one false citation and false accusation. I had Claude check. 34 substantive edits. Every citation I checked, was completely fabricated. I didn't check all of them. Feel free to do so. Summary Version 1 ("10_Moderator_Committee_Kinism.pdf") — 29 pages Version 2 ("Kinism Special Committee of Synod 2026 Report.pdf") — 28 pages The second version is a later revision: footnotes have been renumbered upward (e.g. fn 2 → fn 4 in the early pages, fn 60 → fn 62 by the end), text has been re-flowed, and the page footer was changed everywhere. Two new sourcing footnotes were inserted at the top, so every later footnote slides by two. Systemic / mechanical differences Page footer text changed on every body page — "Special Committee of Synod on Kinism Index 10" → "Special Committee of Synod on Kinism Index Number XX Page Number" (a placeholder; the indexer hasn't been filled in yet). ~24 page footers affected. Total page count: 29 → 28, because text reflowed more tightly. Footnote numbering shifts by +2 through most of the paper (two new footnotes were added on p. 4). Substantive prose changes (34 distinct edits) Editorial / wording: "former U.S. based reconstructionists" → "U.S. based former reconstructionists" "in Grace Presbytery, Michael Hunter and Eric Hancox" → "in Grace Presbytery: Michael Hunter and Eric Hancox" (comma → colon) "daughter of Pharoah. The latter two being" → "daughter of Pharoah, the latter two being" (period → comma) "as Kinism is not as clear and relatable" → "as Kinism. How that is is not as clear and relatable" (sentence break + added clause) "Linnaeus is positively cited by the Kinist Pactum Institute where Michael Hunter, Bret McAtee, and Michael Spangler are fellows" → "This kind of enthno-nationalism which marks nations into ethnic silos is positively encouraged by the Kinist Pactum Institute where Michael Hunter, Bret McAtee, and Michael Spangler are fellows" "Dabney fully understood he was a target of Woodrow's pamphlet" → "Dabney had tussled with Woodrow many times" "It is also worth noting that the post-war PCUS sided with Girardeau over and against Dabney" → "Sadly the post-war PCUS did not go with the stream advocated by John Adger and others" "Robert Mackenzie takes apart the sloppy use of this letter" → "Nathan Ristuccia takes apart the sloppy use of this letter" (and "Mackenzie notes" → "Ristuccia notes") "no supporter of the segregation found in the American South" → "no supporter of the type of segregation found in the American South" "Though some demur from the idea that Morton Smith, for example, actually agreed…for their purpose." → "Though some demur from the idea that Morton Smith and others, for example, actually agreed…for their purpose and a better picture of the times is worth consulting." Deleted sentence (p. 17 of v1): "In fact, Christ had Ammonite blood as well, since Naamah, the mother of Rehoboam, was an Ammonite (1 Kings 14:21)." — removed entirely from v2. Citation / footnote source changes: Footnotes 2 and 3 (new) added, citing Pactum Institute "Christian Race Realism" Parts 2 and 3 (Nature, Scripture). Old single footnote pointed only to Part 1. Old fn 8 (Rushdoony, Institutes of Biblical Law + Ingram, The World Under God's Law, 1959) → new fn 10 (Perry Wilkins, "Rushdoony's Kinism" + Ingram, Essays On Segregation, 1960) — different book by Ingram, different year, different secondary source. Old fn 9 (three Mark R. Rushdoony Chalcedon magazine articles) → new fn 11 (Mark R. Rushdoony YouTube lecture + "Ask Chalcedon: Race" blog post) — completely different sources. Old fn 10 (Thornwell 1873 ed. + Guy Prentiss Waters + Hart) → new fn 12 (Thornwell 1850 ed. + Alan Strange instead of Waters + different Hart citation, Ordained Servant 7 no. 3 instead of 15). Linnaeus pages: "10–12" → "194ff" (fn 13/15). Old fn 14 (J. Philippe Rushton, Race, Evolution, and Behavior, 1995) → new fn 16 (Richard Lynn, Race Difference in Intelligence, 2015) — different author/book. Old fn 15 (Schlebusch, "Linnaeus and the Reality of Kind") → new fn 17 (Schlebusch, "The Particularity and Universality of Ethno-Christocracy") — different Pactum article. Old fn 16 (Dabney, "Review of 'Address on African Colonization'", SPR 1852) → new fn 18 (Dabney, A Defense of Virginia, 1867). Old fn 17 (John B. Adger, "The Unity of the Human Race", SPR 1850) → new fn 19 (Abner Addison Porter, "The Unity of the Human Race", SPR 1851) — different author and year. Old fn 20 (Dabney, "The Strategy of the Evolutionist", Jan 1885) → new fn 22 (Dabney, "The Caution Against Anti-Christian Science Criticised by Dr. Woodrow", Oct 1873). Old fn 21 (Girardeau, "Address on the Relation of the Church to the Colored Population", 1871) → new fn 23 (Girardeau, "On Ecclesiastical Relations to Freedmen", SPR 1867). Calhoun page range: 245–250 → 221–232 (fn 22 → fn 24). Old fn 23 entirely deleted: "Report on the Ecclesiastical Relations to the Colored People", 1871. New "Ibid, 231" footnote added (fn 25). Old fn 25 (Robert Tracy McKenzie, Ad Fontes, April 25, 2023) → new fn 27 (Nathan Ristuccia, Ad Fontes, November 29, 2022) — different author and date. Davis Carlton article: date "May 28, 2012" → "January 19, 2011" and URL changed accordingly (fn 26 → fn 28). Old fn 27 (Vos letter to Johannes Vos, April 24, 1893) → new fn 29 (Vos, "The Wonderful Tree", Kerux 6 no. 2, 1991) — different Vos source. Old fn 29 (Chad Van Dixhoorn, "The Westminster Assembly and the Eighth Commandment") → new fn 31 (Westminster Assembly, Annotations upon all the Books of the Old and New Testament, 1651, on Ex 21:16). Old fn 31 (Gillespie, A Treatise of Miscellany Questions, 1649) → new fn 33 (Gillespie, Wholesome Severity Reconciled with Christian Liberty, 1645) — different work. Carleton Coon page range: "655–660" → "645–656" (fn 34 → fn 36). Old fn 37 (Davis Carlton, "Aesthetics: Kinism vs. Alienism", Oct 21, 2014) → new fn 39 (Ehud Would, same title, Oct 22, 2014) — different author and date. Old fn 38 (Morton H. Smith, "The Biblical Case for Segregation", Southern Presbyterian Journal, May 1957) → new fn 40 (Morton H. Smith, "The Racial Problem Facing America", Presbyterian Guardian, Oct 1964) — different Morton Smith article. Old fn 39 (Lucas, pp. 185–190, + Joseph A. Pipa Jr., "The PCA at 40") → new fn 41 (Lucas, pp. 189–218, + Scott Cook, "Bury the Dead (Including Morton Smith) with Honor", Aquila Report, 2018) — different page range and different secondary source. In total: roughly 34 substantive content edits plus the systemic footer/page-count/footnote-numbering changes. The most consequential are the 19 citation swaps (different authors, dates, books, or articles), the one deleted sentence about Rehoboam's Ammonite mother, and the rewording about post-war PCUS / Adger vs. Girardeau. The footer placeholder ("Index Number XX Page Number") shows v2 is still pre-publication.

It is highly likely that the ARP committee chaired by @WVPitt used AI to draft this document.

It is highly likely that the ARP committee chaired by @WVPitt used AI to draft this document.

As was noted weeks ago the paper isn't official until it is adopted by Synod. Changes are made, corrections are noted, and things fixed as needed. Hence why this "gotcha" is as ignorant as the poster. x.com/WVPitt/status/…

Ask yourself if @WVPitt is being honest. Links to both papers and the @GeoffVScott + @pactuminstitute video where they first discuss that original paper had one false citation and false accusation. I had Claude check. 34 substantive edits. Every citation I checked, was completely fabricated. I didn't check all of them. Feel free to do so. Summary Version 1 ("10_Moderator_Committee_Kinism.pdf") — 29 pages Version 2 ("Kinism Special Committee of Synod 2026 Report.pdf") — 28 pages The second version is a later revision: footnotes have been renumbered upward (e.g. fn 2 → fn 4 in the early pages, fn 60 → fn 62 by the end), text has been re-flowed, and the page footer was changed everywhere. Two new sourcing footnotes were inserted at the top, so every later footnote slides by two. Systemic / mechanical differences Page footer text changed on every body page — "Special Committee of Synod on Kinism Index 10" → "Special Committee of Synod on Kinism Index Number XX Page Number" (a placeholder; the indexer hasn't been filled in yet). ~24 page footers affected. Total page count: 29 → 28, because text reflowed more tightly. Footnote numbering shifts by +2 through most of the paper (two new footnotes were added on p. 4). Substantive prose changes (34 distinct edits) Editorial / wording: "former U.S. based reconstructionists" → "U.S. based former reconstructionists" "in Grace Presbytery, Michael Hunter and Eric Hancox" → "in Grace Presbytery: Michael Hunter and Eric Hancox" (comma → colon) "daughter of Pharoah. The latter two being" → "daughter of Pharoah, the latter two being" (period → comma) "as Kinism is not as clear and relatable" → "as Kinism. How that is is not as clear and relatable" (sentence break + added clause) "Linnaeus is positively cited by the Kinist Pactum Institute where Michael Hunter, Bret McAtee, and Michael Spangler are fellows" → "This kind of enthno-nationalism which marks nations into ethnic silos is positively encouraged by the Kinist Pactum Institute where Michael Hunter, Bret McAtee, and Michael Spangler are fellows" "Dabney fully understood he was a target of Woodrow's pamphlet" → "Dabney had tussled with Woodrow many times" "It is also worth noting that the post-war PCUS sided with Girardeau over and against Dabney" → "Sadly the post-war PCUS did not go with the stream advocated by John Adger and others" "Robert Mackenzie takes apart the sloppy use of this letter" → "Nathan Ristuccia takes apart the sloppy use of this letter" (and "Mackenzie notes" → "Ristuccia notes") "no supporter of the segregation found in the American South" → "no supporter of the type of segregation found in the American South" "Though some demur from the idea that Morton Smith, for example, actually agreed…for their purpose." → "Though some demur from the idea that Morton Smith and others, for example, actually agreed…for their purpose and a better picture of the times is worth consulting." Deleted sentence (p. 17 of v1): "In fact, Christ had Ammonite blood as well, since Naamah, the mother of Rehoboam, was an Ammonite (1 Kings 14:21)." — removed entirely from v2. Citation / footnote source changes: Footnotes 2 and 3 (new) added, citing Pactum Institute "Christian Race Realism" Parts 2 and 3 (Nature, Scripture). Old single footnote pointed only to Part 1. Old fn 8 (Rushdoony, Institutes of Biblical Law + Ingram, The World Under God's Law, 1959) → new fn 10 (Perry Wilkins, "Rushdoony's Kinism" + Ingram, Essays On Segregation, 1960) — different book by Ingram, different year, different secondary source. Old fn 9 (three Mark R. Rushdoony Chalcedon magazine articles) → new fn 11 (Mark R. Rushdoony YouTube lecture + "Ask Chalcedon: Race" blog post) — completely different sources. Old fn 10 (Thornwell 1873 ed. + Guy Prentiss Waters + Hart) → new fn 12 (Thornwell 1850 ed. + Alan Strange instead of Waters + different Hart citation, Ordained Servant 7 no. 3 instead of 15). Linnaeus pages: "10–12" → "194ff" (fn 13/15). Old fn 14 (J. Philippe Rushton, Race, Evolution, and Behavior, 1995) → new fn 16 (Richard Lynn, Race Difference in Intelligence, 2015) — different author/book. Old fn 15 (Schlebusch, "Linnaeus and the Reality of Kind") → new fn 17 (Schlebusch, "The Particularity and Universality of Ethno-Christocracy") — different Pactum article. Old fn 16 (Dabney, "Review of 'Address on African Colonization'", SPR 1852) → new fn 18 (Dabney, A Defense of Virginia, 1867). Old fn 17 (John B. Adger, "The Unity of the Human Race", SPR 1850) → new fn 19 (Abner Addison Porter, "The Unity of the Human Race", SPR 1851) — different author and year. Old fn 20 (Dabney, "The Strategy of the Evolutionist", Jan 1885) → new fn 22 (Dabney, "The Caution Against Anti-Christian Science Criticised by Dr. Woodrow", Oct 1873). Old fn 21 (Girardeau, "Address on the Relation of the Church to the Colored Population", 1871) → new fn 23 (Girardeau, "On Ecclesiastical Relations to Freedmen", SPR 1867). Calhoun page range: 245–250 → 221–232 (fn 22 → fn 24). Old fn 23 entirely deleted: "Report on the Ecclesiastical Relations to the Colored People", 1871. New "Ibid, 231" footnote added (fn 25). Old fn 25 (Robert Tracy McKenzie, Ad Fontes, April 25, 2023) → new fn 27 (Nathan Ristuccia, Ad Fontes, November 29, 2022) — different author and date. Davis Carlton article: date "May 28, 2012" → "January 19, 2011" and URL changed accordingly (fn 26 → fn 28). Old fn 27 (Vos letter to Johannes Vos, April 24, 1893) → new fn 29 (Vos, "The Wonderful Tree", Kerux 6 no. 2, 1991) — different Vos source. Old fn 29 (Chad Van Dixhoorn, "The Westminster Assembly and the Eighth Commandment") → new fn 31 (Westminster Assembly, Annotations upon all the Books of the Old and New Testament, 1651, on Ex 21:16). Old fn 31 (Gillespie, A Treatise of Miscellany Questions, 1649) → new fn 33 (Gillespie, Wholesome Severity Reconciled with Christian Liberty, 1645) — different work. Carleton Coon page range: "655–660" → "645–656" (fn 34 → fn 36). Old fn 37 (Davis Carlton, "Aesthetics: Kinism vs. Alienism", Oct 21, 2014) → new fn 39 (Ehud Would, same title, Oct 22, 2014) — different author and date. Old fn 38 (Morton H. Smith, "The Biblical Case for Segregation", Southern Presbyterian Journal, May 1957) → new fn 40 (Morton H. Smith, "The Racial Problem Facing America", Presbyterian Guardian, Oct 1964) — different Morton Smith article. Old fn 39 (Lucas, pp. 185–190, + Joseph A. Pipa Jr., "The PCA at 40") → new fn 41 (Lucas, pp. 189–218, + Scott Cook, "Bury the Dead (Including Morton Smith) with Honor", Aquila Report, 2018) — different page range and different secondary source. In total: roughly 34 substantive content edits plus the systemic footer/page-count/footnote-numbering changes. The most consequential are the 19 citation swaps (different authors, dates, books, or articles), the one deleted sentence about Rehoboam's Ammonite mother, and the rewording about post-war PCUS / Adger vs. Girardeau. The footer placeholder ("Index Number XX Page Number") shows v2 is still pre-publication.

@vdmlaw1 Mark, have you ever filed a brief in court that had to be refilled after a typo was found in it? The claim didn't change. You can make a mountain out of a molehill, but I'm not playing silly immature gotcha games.

It is highly likely that the ARP committee chaired by @WVPitt used AI to draft this document.