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How on earth did he end up getting profiled on CNN and featured in The New York Times? The same way Trump became president. Wielding power, abusing power, convincing others that he’d wield power on their behalf and that they could get a little bit of that power for themselves. Power over others. Power to do harm, and call it righteous. Or, he’d use that power against him.
False prophets without clothes
No matter how conservative you are, if you start speaking against men like Doug Wilson, against the abuse of women, against extremist theologies, guess what happens? You get labeled a progressive. A liberal. An enemy of the church.
Kristen DuMez
Wilson’s controversial theology has gained strong support in politics, especially from figures like Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, and Fox News's, sorry, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Johnson, a long-time advocate of conservative Christian principles, has openly endorsed Wilson’s views, particularly regarding male leadership, gender roles, and Christian nationalism. He has often referenced Wilson as a key authority on family and societal issues, linking Wilson’s patriarchal ideas to his political goals.
The Cultivation of Predators
And how we got here
On issues of race, Wilson’s views were similarly extreme. In the 1990s, Wilson had coauthored Southern Slavery: As It Was, which questioned the supposed “brutalities, immoralities, and cruelties” of slavery. The slave trade might have been unbiblical, he allowed, but slavery most certainly was not. To the contrary, the radical abolitionists were the ones “driven by a zealous hatred of the Word of God.” Horrific descriptions of slavery were nothing more than abolitionist propaganda. The life of a slave had been a life of plenty, of ample food, good medical care, and simple pleasures, marked by “a degree of mutual affection between the races” that could never be achieved through coercive federal legislation. In 2005 he published Black and Tan, a sequel that presented Robert E. Lee as “a gracious Chrisitan gentleman, a brother in Christ,” and claimed that Christian slave owners were “on firm scriptural ground.”
Atheism has no moral standards therefore they are unable to make a moral argument based on their atheistic world view, what Christopher Hitchens was trying to base his moral argument on was by popular opinion, well I don’t need to tell you why that’s a bad argument. Hitchens is dead now and even more tragic than death is dying without Christ, I want to believe that Hitchens converted on his death bad but based on what his brother Peter Hitchens said it doesn’t look like that’s what happened. #christopherhitchens #DougWilson #atheist #atheism https://www.instagram.com/p/B_avxqxFPVb/?igshid=144npvjebjn6d
Legend.
(Here I Stand)
For Everyone Except the CHOMOs...
Douglas Wilson hit his stride and is showing no signs of fatigue. Today’s post, The Only Kind of Gospel There Is, is pointed but still worthy of note. In fact, we would say that the last five posts (including this one) are some of the best that we have ever seen from Doug. We encourage you to pause now, click on the hyperlink above and read it, soak it in and go and do likewise.
Toby Sumpter has weighed in on Lynch Mobs. His post is brilliant also. Fantastic! Typical Toby, measured and thorough, yet soaked in pastoral expediency, as are his other reflections that you can read here and here (in chronological order for your benefit).
Why does all this matter?
First: Social justice is more than soup kitchens, agrarian missions, radical tithing and simplistic living. Social justice is loving the sick, the genuinely sick and helping them lean into the Gospel in all of life, even the awkward less savory parts.
Second: It speaks to the lunacy of our culture in general and the American church in particular to execute trial by internet and the propensity to judge without having all the facts first.
Lastly: it addresses, squarely the dual standard of what a victim is and how pseudo-gospels give birth to further victimization, perpetuate a victim mindset and prevent genuine Gospel growth and healing.
Read, reflect, read again and share… then, if necessary, change… and live out the Gospel to all who need healing, redemption and restoration. What Doug and Toby are saying is the real deal. It's all or nothing.
Christ did not come to minister to the healthy - but the sick. And as much as we might not like it, the church is the body of Christ, the context (the hospital) in which he administers his healing. Apart from the church there is no salvation, no healing, no means of grace. Why would we exclude anyone from it?
