Doug Wilson and his schtick

[JohnH]

A better debate premise would simply be Augustine vs Pelagius, which was the original debate between just war and nonresistance. It is essentially two streams of Christianity.

[Judas Maccabeus]

An acquaintance of mine ended up relocating to Doug Wilson's church. It has been good for her family as the social atmosphere / church expectations are that her husband actually hold down a job. He is also very pro-Calvinist and had been using that as an excuse to not really attend church before because no local churches were Calvinist enough for him, and, well, the expectations are now that he attend church regularly as Doug Wilson's church is sufficiently Calvinist.

So Doug Wilson and his church aren't all bad, including for women.

If I posted some of the stuff he has written, Robert would RIGHTLY remove me from this board.

[Ernie]

If I posted some of the stuff he has written, Robert would RIGHTLY remove me from this board.

Can you point us to it, without posting it on this forum?

[joshuabgood]

If I posted some of the stuff he has written, Robert would RIGHTLY remove me from this board.

Can you point us to it, without posting it on this forum?

Click on the links in the article cited. That should do it...the language is profane at times.

[Praxis+Theodicy]

If I posted some of the stuff he has written, Robert would RIGHTLY remove me from this board.

Can you point us to it, without posting it on this forum?

His blog is the place where he regularly dips into very uncharitable speech (well, writing). It is called "Blog and Mablog" and you can google that and dip into the backlog.

The article posted by Ken includes stuff that would hopefully get a user removed here. Scan the article for the paragraph on what Wilson has called women in the past. The article is tame, level-headed, and does not advocate for vulgar or uncharitable language, but if you have a filtering software like CovenantEyes, it will likely trigger with some of the words on that page where they quote from Wilson.

[ken_sylvania]

I'm scratching my head, wondering why these "godly" men are wanting to read garbage....

[JohnH]

I thought in 2020 that Wilson is the most dangerous Christian influencer out there, and each year since, my mind has not been changed. My biggest hope is that, since he is loud enough about his vulgar and pugilistic style, he will not attract anabaptists into his ecosystem. In my opinion, it is too much trouble to spit out the bones just to get at whatever mean there might be in Wilson's rhetoric.

I would hope that Anabaptists wouldn't be attracted to any Calvinist theologian/preacher/writer.

[joshuabgood]

I thought in 2020 that Wilson is the most dangerous Christian influencer out there, and each year since, my mind has not been changed. My biggest hope is that, since he is loud enough about his vulgar and pugilistic style, he will not attract anabaptists into his ecosystem. In my opinion, it is too much trouble to spit out the bones just to get at whatever mean there might be in Wilson's rhetoric.

I would hope that Anabaptists wouldn't be attracted to any Calvinist theologian/preacher/writer.

You would be wrong. I personally know CA families that are very sympathetic to Doug Wilson, and others that have actually moved to Moscow to join the movement and have their children baptized.

[Praxis+Theodicy]

I thought in 2020 that Wilson is the most dangerous Christian influencer out there, and each year since, my mind has not been changed. My biggest hope is that, since he is loud enough about his vulgar and pugilistic style, he will not attract anabaptists into his ecosystem. In my opinion, it is too much trouble to spit out the bones just to get at whatever mean there might be in Wilson's rhetoric.

I would hope that Anabaptists wouldn't be attracted to any Calvinist theologian/preacher/writer.

Theology, as separated from praxis, I try not to get too worked up for/against. If an anabaptist was quite taken with John Piper or Francis Chan, I'd be less opposed to that than theonomists like Doug Wilson, Abraham Kuyper, or Francis Schaefer.

[Ken]

Seems like there is a pattern here that ties all of these men together:

Bill Gothard
Doug Wilson
Bill Johnson (Bethel Church who we discussed last month)
Kenneth Copeland
Pat Robertson
Joel Osteen
Sean Feucht
Franklin Graham
Jerry Falwell (Jr. and Sr.)
etc. etc.

While they differ theologically, they are all dedicated to building kingdoms of wealth and power here on earth at which they all (coincidentally!) sit at the top as autocrats, wielding all of the power and absorbing much of the wealth.

I don't know about the rest of you, but my Bible doesn't call for the disciples of Christ to fly in private jets and live in mansions that would put Roman emperors to shame.