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Doug Wilson’s Interaction with Paleo-Confederate Thought

Posts analyzing Wilson’s self-identification as a paleo-Confederate, with attention to his historical interpretations, cultural nostalgia, and revisionist framing of the American South.

Christians who owned slaves were on firm scriptural ground

Doug Wilson Says ‘The Christians Who Owned Slaves in the South Were on Firm Scriptural Ground’

(Updated on ) | Opinion by Nathan Wells

Doug Wilson says Southern slaveholders stood on 'firm scriptural ground.' We examine his claims against what the Bible actually teaches about slavery in America.

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“When the Confederate States of America surrendered at Appomatox [sic], the last nation of the older order fell. So, because historians like to have set dates on which to hang their hats, we may say the first Christendom died there, in 1865. The American South was the last nation of the first Christendom.” — Doug Wilson “...on the slavery issue the drums of war were being beaten by the abolitionists, who were in turn driven by a zealous hatred of the Word....to the extent that slavery was an issue, the radical abolitionists were in conflict with the teaching of the New Testament.” — Doug Wilson “I am not a neo-Confederate; I am a paleo-Confederate.” — Doug Wilson “The radical abolitionists maintained that slave-owning was inherently immoral under any circumstance. But in this matter, the Christians who owned slaves in the South were on firm scriptural ground. May a Christian own slaves, even when this makes him a part of a larger pagan system which is not fully scriptural, or perhaps not scriptural at all? Provided he owns them in conformity to Christ’s laws governing such situations, the Bible is clear that under such conditions Christians may own slaves...” — Doug Wilson

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