The parody of liberty is found in the libertarian image of the fornicating pot smoker — but you can get high and get laid in a 6′ × 8′ prison cell. There is one who defiantly cries out that he wants more liberty — so that he can enslave himself ever more tightly in chains he has forged himself. But no tyrant has ever been successfully resisted by cluster of lotus eaters, however big the cluster might be. Virtuous people cannot be kept as slaves, and an effete and self-indulgent people are made for slavery. It is their native habitat.
Douglas Wilson
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“Virtuous people cannot be kept as slaves, and an effete and self-indulgent people are made for slavery. It is their native habitat.”
Sometimes, indeed often in Doug’s case, he reveals far more about himself than he can ever defend. Compare the statement above with one written twenty years ago. Does he really think that chattel slaves were effete and self-indulgent people while their white owners were virtuous? His racism is so thinly veiled he should be wearing a sheet on Sunday and a pointed hood over his head.
“Slave life was to them a life of plenty, of simple pleasures, of food, clothes, and good medical care. In the narratives taken as a whole, there is no pervasive cry of rage and anguish. We see no general expression of bitterness and outrage. instead we find, on page after page, expressions of affection for a condition which, in the words of one historian, “shames the civilized world.” The overwhelmingly positive view of slavery is all the more striking when one considers that the period being remembered by these former slaves could arguably be called the most harsh years of the institution — those years when it was under fierce attack, and when slave owners had circled the wagons.”
Douglas Wilson, (heavily plagiarized by) Steven Wilkins. Southern Slavery As It Was. ( Moscow Idaho: Canon Press, 1996)
The Klan has just got to love him.
Rose Huskey
Rose,
Thank you for sharing that quotation from Wilson’s book. My first reaction was to laugh at loud at how stupid it is. There’s a reason slaves were often looking to escape, and it isn’t because their life was a life of plenty and simple pleasures.
But on the other hand, it is sickening to read such words, especially from a so-called Christian pastor. The Bible pronounces woe to those who refer to evil as good, and good as evil. And it’s become apparent by now that Doug Wilson is one of those people who keep getting things backwards.
Marrying a pedophile who can’t live with his wife and son. Good.
A seminary student who rapes a 14-year old girl. Courtship.
Kirkers who ask fair questions. Bad.
People who come to their senses and leave the church. Bitter.
Doug Wilson once said, “He who names it first, wins.” Only problem for Wilson is that God named everything first.
“Virtuous people cannot be kept as slaves…”
What an example of victim blaming. Rose already pointed out how he wrote that some people are made for slavery.
This is also in keeping with his low view of women: Women should sexually yield and surrender while men conquer – women are the slaves of male sexual desires. It must be their own fault.
But really, he just insulted every person ever enslaved in the history of the world: If they were virtuous, they would not have been kept as slaves. Instead, the New Testament says bad things of the enslaver, not the slave. (1 Tim 1:10 talks of slave traders or kidnappers- enslavers.)