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Doug Wilson’s Use of Insults and Derision

Analysis of Wilson’s frequent use of insult, ridicule, and derision as rhetorical tools, and whether such speech aligns with biblical instruction.

“…what they are trying to resuscitate is dismissed by Saul in the next breath after his so-called ‘blamelessness’ as being so much dog s*** (skubalon)… This is the divinely inspired assessment (Phil. 3:8)… So I cheerfully grant that the Pharisees were not merit legalists. They were a different kind of legalist. And what they offered up to God to get Him to receive them was a different kind of s*** than the medieval s***.” — Doug Wilson (original unredacted)

“The word is skubalon, and means in the first place some kind of animal excrement . . . we simply cannot imagine the lofty sentiment of this wonderful passage (e.g., the ‘excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord’) functioning in the same sentence with dog s***. But there it is—Paul has scraped all self-important, prim and proper, fussy-tidy religion off the bottom of his shoe. Why? That he might win Christ.” — Doug Wilson (original unredacted)

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