Douglas Wilson argues you have to believe in pro-slavery theology to support anti-Gay theology. Update1.
A rising star among Christians is also neo-Confederate.
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Why is what Douglas Wilson think of any importance?
He is a rising star among conservative Christians. I notice that on Academia.edu my paper on Confederate Christian nationalism has been getting a lot of attention.
My paper, “The US Civil War as a Theological War: Confederate Christian Nationalism and the League of the South,” Canadian Review of American Studies, Vol. 32, No. 3, 2002, Univ. of Toronto, can be downloaded at this link.
It became a chapter in this book for which I was a co-editor. Dec. 1, 2008, “Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction.”
https://www.amazon.com/Neo-Confederacy-Critical-Introduction-Euan-Hague/dp/0292721625/ref=sr_1_7
The Trump administration is backing Douglas Wilson’s church in a town in Idaho.
Christian Post, May 23, 2025, “DOJ sues Idaho town for religious discrimination against Evangelical church.”
This article discusses the rising influence of Douglas Wilson, even some conservative Christians are afraid.
Christian Post, Jan. 31, 2025, “The Right has a misogyny problem.”
https://www.christianpost.com/voices/nancy-mace-right-has-a-misogyny-problem.html
Christian Post, July 11, 2024, “Doug Wilson, Al Mohler discuss Christian nationalism at conservative conference.”
Christian Post, April 17, 2024, “Pastor Doug Wilson warns 'no political solution' to America's ills, defends Christian nationalism.”
https://www.christianpost.com/news/doug-wilson-warns-no-political-solution-to-americas-ills.html
Now these sources are somewhat politically partisan.
Politico, May 23, 2025, “Doug Wilson Has Spent Decades Pushing for a Christian Theocracy. In Trump’s DC, the New Right Is Listening.”
NPR, Jan. 12, 2025, “Theocrats on the Doorstep of Power.”
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1224382120
This is the Wikipedia entry for him. His network of influence is spreading across the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Wilson_(theologian)
https://www.youtube.com/@CanonPress
Douglas Wilson argues that you need to believe in pro-slavery theology to defend Christianity.
The book is, “Southern Slavery: As It Was,” by neo-Confederates Douglas Wilson and Steve Wilkins. They were two leading figures in the neo-Confederate movement.
It is available on the Internet Archive at this link.
https://archive.org/details/southern-slavery-as-it-was/page/n13/mode/2up
It is out of print. There are copies for sale on Ebay.
On the backside they have the following commentary. The neo-Confederate movement was always upset with Neil Young[‘s song, “Southern Man,” and the treatment of African Americans in the South historically and at the time of the Civil Rights movement.
So Douglas Wilson has a chapter on why Southern Slavery and slavery in general is sanctioned by the Bible.
The title of the first chapter is, “So Why Are We Writing About This?”
After they discuss how they don’t like the modern anti-abortion movement being compared to the Abolitionist movement, they get to the reason the booklet was created.
They then explain that if you don’t believe in pro-slavery theology, that the Bible supports slavery, you can’t be effective as a Christian anti-Gay person.
From Page 10.
They then gives another example on how the issue of slavery was used to undermine efforts to use the Bible to attack homosexuals.
Page 10
Page 11 - Likely this person handing out tracts was a neo-Confederate.
Wilson and Wilkins explain:
Douglas explains what paleo-Confederate is. I popularized the term neo-Confederate.
Despite what the giggly theology of liberal Christianity might tell you, the Bible is fairly solid in being pro-slavery. The alleged anti-slavery understanding of the Bible escaped detection by Christians until the 19th century when modern society decided that slavery was intolerable and suddenly, the Bible didn’t justify slavery.
Given that Christians don’t want to be pro-slavery and still want to be anti-homosexual, conservative Christians rejected Wilson and Wilkins. Religious people construct the religion they want and theology is very inventive in its rationalizations. After all, Christianity is now mostly existing outside the Western world and is strong in places like Africa, which isn’t going to be sympathetic to African slavery. In America, the declining white homophobic churches are seeing as a major ally the homophobic African American churches. The theology of Wilson and Wilkins poses significant problems.
And opportunities for us.
Update1
Christian right is worried about them.
https://julieroys.com/with-new-campus-pastor-doug-wilsons-christian-valhalla-grows-in-idaho/
“The War Between the States, Americas Uncivil War,” a homeschool book, based on the idea that it was a theological conflict was later written by Douglas Wilson, J. Steven Wilkins, George Grant, Tom Spencer, with the major author John J. Dwyer.
I reported on it here.
https://newtknight.blogspot.com/2006/06/neo-confederacy-for-homeschoolers-and.html
I own at least one editioln.
The idea of the Civil War being a theological conflict started some years ago.
It was popularized by Christian theocrats such as Otto Scott, Rushdoony and M.E. Bradford of the University of Dallas. Thomas Woods condemned the 18th century Enlighten ment.
I have a 110 page source document on the Confederate Christian nationalists. I don’t know if I will publish it. I have boxes of files.
However, over the years I never good get the mainstream media to be interested in my research. Barack Obama decided to send a wreath to the Confederate monument in the Arlington Cemetary despite a petition from the leading scholars on slavery, Civil War, Reconstruction, and African Americans.
Our opportunity.
There is an opportunity for us in the rising fortunes of Doulas Wilson to severely damage the homophobic branches of Christianity.
The opportunity is to fracture homophobic Chrisitianity into groups hostile to each other.
For starters, Wilson is part of the Reformed, Calvinistic movement. Baptists are a different type of Protestantism and the Calvinists and the Baptist have been critical of each other for generations. With Wilson gaining prominence, the Evangelicals will see him as a threat to the success of Christianity, which Wilson is.
Even African American ministers in Dallas are very unlikely to accept pro-slavery theology. So there is an opportunity for racial division among the Evangelicals and Christians.
There are Calvinist African American churches, not many, they will be divided from other Calvinistic churches.
For those African American ministers who do accept pro-slavery theology, there is the opportunity to discredit Christianity among African Americans by pointing to these ministers that align with Wilson in their theology.
The rise of Wilson and his pro-slavery theology will make American Christianity look bad to Christians outside the West.
Reform/Calvinist missionaries could face a hostile enviroment if nations outside the Western world know of his views on slavery, especially in Africa.
The very fact that pro-slavery theology still exists among Christians will make it clear that the elements of Christianity that have made it a violent religion in history and including burning people at the stake, can never be considered as permanently suppressed. Like a herpes virus, they might flare up again.
Unitarian Michael Servetus was burned at the stake for heresy On October 17, 1553.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Servetus
There are Christians that still don’t see that burning people at the stake is a great horror.
https://fortheloveofhistruth.com/2012/05/22/the-truth-about-calvin-and-servetus/
There is no horror in the Christian past that is entirely dead, instead these things in the past are merely inexpedient for the present.
So what do we do?
[1] Make Wilson’s pro-slavery theology as widely known as possible.
[2] Make it widely known when any religious, cultural, or political person of prominence is working with Wilson.
[3] Ask Christian leaders to take a stand on Wilson. Some will reject him, some will support him, and some will evade taking a stand. The those who are supporting Wilson and those who evade taking a stand on Wilson will damage the reputation of Christianity.
[4] Where possible make this a Gay versus Christian issue, so Christians reflexively agree with Douglas Wilson or keep silent.
Basically just keep stirring the pot on this issue.
