Doug Wilson’s Defense of Swearing or Cussing

Posts examining Wilson’s acceptance or use of swearing and his theological defense of coarse speech.

Doug Wilson Says Using the ‘N-Word,’ ‘C-Word,’ ‘S-Word,’ ‘B-Word,’ and ‘A-Word’ Is Justified Because ‘Godly Obscenity Exists’

October 23, 2024 (Updated on April 7, 2026 ) | Opinion by Nathan Wells

Doug Wilson argues 'godly obscenity exists' to justify profanity. Does Scripture support a pastor using slurs and vulgar language? Read his own words.

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“The reporter will come right back at you—but what about that transgender student enrolled there at Classical Christian High? To which you will request the name of said student, so that you can promptly expel his a**.” — Doug Wilson (original unredacted)

“…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)

“This is what they are saying. They are shamelessly declaring to the world that they are just a couple of c***s.” — Doug Wilson (original unredacted)

“My point is simply to show that godly obscenity exists. Certain subjects are not automatically off-limits. Of course, we are not protected by divine inspiration, as the apostles and prophets were, and so we fall short of biblical standards in many ways—and especially in an area like this, where we have so little practice and so few godly examples. However, we must become more puritanical and less Victorian—more ethical and open, and less sanctimonious and hypocritical.” — Doug Wilson

“Rest rooms, as you may recall, don’t have surveillance cameras in them, and so when North Carolina acted like a commonwealth full of people with common sense and said that folks needed to use the kind of bathroom that matched their sex on their birth certificate, the enlightened ones among us—no other phrase will do—went ape 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)

“It is not to choose women over men—it is to choose women over the rule of law. And so it is that a large army of singularly unattractive and b****y women have come to have any authority in our culture at all. How is that possible? Men go along because of fear.” — Doug Wilson (original unredacted)

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