Without a doubt, one of the most controversial Christian pastors alive today is Douglas Wilson hailing from the little college burg of Moscow, Idaho. Wilson is the kind of man who is dedicated completely to the God of the Scriptures, putting Christ first and foremost in his life and has made it his life’s mission to seek to not only engage in the culture at large, but to preach the gospel faithfully, apply it to the realms of entertainment, politics, and everything in between, to establish the kingdom of God, starting in his own backyard in Moscow.
Needless to say, this approach has earned him a whole lot of ire from liberals, which is how you know he’s likely telling the truth and doing all the right things. You can tell just about everything you need to know about the biblical faithfulness of a man by who it is that hates him and how intensely they do so.
In a recent interview with former Fox News pundit Tucker Carlson, Wilson went on to reveal that he believes there is no political solution to the sickness — figuratively speaking — plaguing our country before making a defense of Christian nationalism, a phrase that has caused the weak drama queens on the left to throw massive temper tantrums and scream accusations of Nazism at the top of their lungs. In other words, it’s just another day that ends in “Y.”
via The Christian Post:
Wilson, who pastors Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, also maintained that many of America’s current rulers have satanic ambitions to be like God, and that prominent Evangelicals like Russell Moore and David French are serving as tools of the radical Left because they care too much about placating the cultural elite.
Pastor Doug Wilson is the Christian nationalist they warned you about. pic.twitter.com/E92V7OMLTS
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) April 15, 2024
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During a one-hour conversation that aired Monday on Carlson’s online platform, the two opened their discussion by addressing the cultural firestorm over so-called “Christian nationalism,” which the former Fox News host asked him to define.
Wilson observed how progressive secularists are broadening the definition of Christian nationalism to encompass even those who simply believe their rights come from God, which he noted is a label that would apply to Thomas Jefferson. He remembered that Politico journalist Heidi Przybyla defined the term earlier this year as anyone who believes “that our rights as Americans, as all human beings, don’t come from any earthly authority.”
Wilson then provided an explanation for the roots of the leftist hootenanny over Christian nationalism back to the same kind of attitude that has been prevalent ever since the time believers in Christ were being tossed to the lions in ancient Rome for affirming the claims that only Jesus was Lord and not Caesar.
Christianity, contrary to the popular belief of many modern-day spineless evangellyfish — a term Wilson tosses about often — has always been political. You cannot say Christ is King, Jesus is Lord, without that being a political statement.
America’s current rulers “don’t believe in God,” they believe in the devil, Wilson claimed, adding that they exhibit Satan’s same ambition to assume God-like power, which was the temptation he offered in the Garden of Eden.
“If there is no God above the state, the state is god. The state becomes god, and it assumes the prerogatives of deity,” Wilson stated, pointing out how government authorities increasingly spy on their own citizens as a means of attempting to assert complete control over them.
“They want to control absolutely everything, every keystroke,” he added. “They want to control everything because they’re aspiring to deity. The reason they’re aspiring to deity is because they don’t recognize any god above them.”
Wilson says that someone who identifies as a Christian nationalist is a person who, just like their brothers and sisters in ancient Rome, is not afraid to stand up and answer the question about who is truly in control of all things. Hint: It’s Jesus.
“The Christian nationalist is the one who’s willing to answer that question, and speaking into the microphone: the true God, the living God, the one who exists,” he stated.
Wilson also characterized a Christian nationalist as someone who rejects both tribalism and globalism, and believes that a nation’s structure and laws — which are, by definition, “imposed morality” — should “conform to the things that God wants and not the things that man wants.”
He also discerned there is no political road to restoring a system based on Christian presuppositions in a nation that is no longer Christian, and that because America is suffering from a disease that is both “radical” and “spiritual,” there can only be a spiritual remedy.
“Basically, we’re in such a mess that there is no political solution, alright? We’re beyond hope. There is no political solution. The next election, however happy it might make us for 10 minutes, is not going to fix everything,” The Moscow pastor continued.
He then stated that restoring America to its former roots in a Christian worldview is a responsibility for preachers “who will stop being ashamed of the name of Jesus, and preach the Gospel as though it’s supposed to spread out into the streets after the service.”
The pastor then explained that America needs to repent of its arrogance, which he says shows itself as “the radical disease of secularism,” which he says contains the idea “that we can establish agnosticism or atheism as the official faith of the country and govern ourselves decently without reference to God.”
“That is radically false,” he said.
Wilson told Carlson during the interview that the “grand secular experiment” has been such an absolute failure that we’ve reached “a point where they don’t know what a girl is.”
While he stated clearly he believes there’s “no political hope,” he then added, “that doesn’t mean there’s no hope.”
And he’s right. Our world has seen some truly dark times in the past. Empires have fallen. New ones have been built on their ashes. We witnessed the COVID pandemic and the tyranny that came along with it. God was in charge through it all. And it was the Lord, working through faithful men and women of God, that we fought back against the absurdity of the time and are now bouncing back.
Wilson’s own church made national headlines when three parishioners were arrested during an outdoor psalm sing protest outside Moscow City Hall in September 2020. They were cuffed and taken to county jail for allegedly not adequately distancing themselves on the small yellow dots authorities placed on the ground for them as guidance. The three sued the city and received a $300,000 settlement last summer.
Carlson later brought up Russell Moore and David French, noting that they seemingly “go out of their way” to attack Wilson, to which he replied by claiming that they and Christians like them are allowing themselves to be used by their secularist enemies.
“What they want to do is they want to operate in the secular republic, and they want a place at the table; they want to be treated with respect,” he remarked. “And in return, they say, ‘We will treat all opposing views with respect, and what we ask is you treat us with respect, and we would like a place at the table, please.'”
“I don’t have any illusions about this. When we’re all rounded up and taken off in cattle cars to the camps, David French and Russell Moore are going to be in the next car over there,” Wilson went on to say, to which Carlson responded, “I think they’ll be guarding you.”
Wilson then revealed that the source of his continual optimism comes from his eschatological view. He’s a postmillennialist which essentially means he believes the Bible teaches that Christ will triumph over the kingdom of this world in the hear and now through the Church, before He returns for the final judgment.
Acknowledging how many individual Christians grow discouraged, observing with their limited perspective what appears to be a losing battle, he likened them to a soldier on D-Day who feels hopelessly trapped in a sand dune under heavy enemy fire, unaware of the larger victory taking place around him.
“He could be mightily discouraged because of his position, while at the same moment, General Eisenhower is looking at the map with satisfaction,” Wilson explained to Tucker. “So we have great hope that the Gospel in its potency is going to be proclaimed and is going to take root and flourish. So, we might lose our lives. You know, you can lose your life in a winning battle, right? A soldier on the winning side can lose in his little segment. But that’s all right, because Christ is Lord.”
Pray for Pastor Wilson and his ministry in Moscow to continue bearing fruit for the Kingdom of God.