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