Couple this with the fact that quite a few missionaries are not spiritually qualified to be out on the field in the first place, and you have a clear and obvious need to diversify the risk. I am not trying to be particularly inflammatory or cynical here, but one of the ways you can tell that a young college student is starting to struggle in his Christian walk is that he is starting to think about missions. What better way to quiet the spiritual churn within than by becoming a missionary? Missionaries are spiritual people, right?
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The hole that “Pastor” Wilson has been been continuously digging for himself has just about reached China.
“Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency in the west. Now you men will only be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost certain Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.”
I’m confused, probably due to my ignorance of the context. Is DW implying that when a college student begins to wrestle with a call to missions they are actually wrestling with their spiritual walk and mask it under the guise of missions?
Is he inadvertantly admitting that he went into ministry even though he was having spiritual doubts about the existence of God, etc., because his father was a pastor and it was what was expected of him, too?
Yes. It’s ridiculous but that’s what he wrote.
I threw the quote up this morning because of its obvious connection to Jamin Wight. Wilson disqualified JW but then began rehabbing him for ministry by using mission field. More double standard. More hypocrisy. More lying & deceit. Your observations never occurred to me. But now that you mention it, the Freudian angle — Wilson’s insatiable jealously of his father — appears in his entire corpus just as his Oedipus complex defines the marrow of his theology — boobs; women long to be raped; more boobs; women fantasize about being raped; “tits”; women affirm the propriety of rape when they reject male headship; cantaloupes; sluts ask to be raped and kinda deserve it, etc. . .
On #1: For Wilson, that’s a convenient narrative that could be applied to anyone contemplating ministry in general, not just missions. It gives Wilson a built-in truism to undermine any nascent heroes of the faith he may see as competitors to his power. King Saul might have spread such rumors about David if he had been as crafty as Wilson.
As someone with seven missionaries in my immediate family, I find Wilson’s statements bizarre and offensive. Their stirring of their call to missions (now proven in their lives for decades) was evidence of their struggling in the Christian walk? Balderdash. Yet another indication that what is true at St. Andrew’s is far, far out of the norm of Christian faith and practice. Doug Wilson continually calls good evil, and evil good.
What’s the most noteworthy connection between the Kirk and missions? They knowingly sent a child molester to Haiti. And one could readily (and rightly) conclude that it was for the sake of making Jamin look trustworthy. So the idea Doug mocked in the posted quote (“Missionaries are spiritual people, right?”) actually served him at the time. So discrediting the genuine call to missions of who knows how many people serves what? It validates a disinterest on Doug’s part in the Great Commission. As I said elsewhere, Doug leads people to Doug, not Christ. Leading the lost to the True Savior on the other side of the world (or anywhere too remote from Idaho) isn’t likely to result in many (if any) Dougians. Even local new converts might sniff out what a godless creep DW is more readily than more seasoned saints who think they stand and fail to take heed. The latter, I think, constitute the bulk of his recruiting base.
Doug is the kind of person who would burn a child’s house down to prove how dangerous it is to play with matches. And anyone questioning his commitment to fire safety or child welfare is just bitter. Including the child. And if at some point in the future feigning a zeal for missions served Doug’s twisted ambitions he wouldn’t let what he said above get in the way. His track record of self-contradiction makes that clear.