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Doug Wilson Racism Quotes

8 documented quotes on this topic

Doug Wilson has been accused of racism and racial insensitivity by critics across the theological spectrum. This page collects documented quotes — including his use of ethnic slurs, defenses of Southern slavery, and racialized humor — alongside the biblical case against this rhetoric.

“So I know that you are a black activist, and a hard-left radical, and so you have no business reading a book like this. The only reason you are reading it now is because you are obliquely acquainted with some sob sister evangelical, one of those reconciliation-mongers. . . . But the reason God arranged for all this is that He wanted you to hear the straight gospel from an admirer of Stonewall Jackson, so that you could repent of your sins, which are many, and trust in Christ, who will forgive them all.” — 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

“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

“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

“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

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