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Instances of Racial Insensitivity in Doug Wilson’s Writing

Articles addressing Wilson’s racialized rhetoric, jokes, and historical interpretations that have caused controversy or pastoral concern.

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 “Jesus was not above using ethnic humor to make His point either....Put in terms that we might be more familiar with, Jesus was white, and the disciples were white, and this black woman comes up seeking healing for her daughter. She gets ignored. The disciples ask Jesus to send her off. She comes up and beseeches Christ for healing. It's not right, He says, to give perfectly good white folk food to ‘n****rs.’” — Doug Wilson “...Jesus was white, and the disciples were white, and this black woman comes up seeking healing for her daughter. She gets ignored. The disciples ask Jesus to send her off. She comes up and beseeches Christ for healing. It's not right, He says, to give perfectly good white folk food to ‘n****rs.’....If this understanding is right, then Jesus was using a racial insult to make a point. If it is not correct, then He was simply using a racial insult.” — Doug Wilson
Was Jesus Racist?

Doug Wilson Says If ‘Jesus Was White' and the Canaanite Woman Was ‘Black,’ He Would Have Said ‘It's Not Right’ ‘to Give Perfectly Good White Folk Food to ‘N****rs’’

(Updated on ) | Opinion by Nathan Wells

Doug Wilson retold the story of Jesus and the Canaanite woman using a racial slur. Read his exact words and the biblical case against this rhetoric.

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