Douglas Wilson Responds to Russell Moore
Douglas Wilson also responded to the podcast, posting an image of Moore wearing two face masks and mocking his claims of “authoritarianism.” In an Aug. 18 blog, Wilson acknowledged, “I have been seeking to speak with moral authority from outside [the Overton] window for some years now,” adding, “Speaking with authority and authoritarianism are not the same thing.”
Another factor that has allowed the window to move, Wilson wrote, is the “collapse of the moral authority that men like Russell Moore and David French used to have.” He continued:
Moore says in this interview that he was enraged by the thought that people would listen to me and think that “this is what Christianity is.” But I can assure you that there were more than a few people who looked at a vaxxed and double-masked Moore, and decided that they absolutely needed to find something different. Moore should not leave out of his calculation all of the folks he chased our way. In other words, regime theologians lost a lot of their credibility when the regime itself stepped on the COVID rake, and this rake-stepping feat was celebrated by the regime theologians as the very model of what it means to love your neighbor.
As for Moore calling the results of Wilson’s teachings “terrifying,” the Idaho pastor responded, “To backhand men who are at least attempting to structure their lives around Scripture as ‘losers’ is perhaps not a response consistent with the empathy that Moore enjoins us to have. Perhaps the contempt shown them is one of the reasons why they are not listening anymore.”
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Wilson invited Moore and other critics to visit Moscow, Idaho, to see the results for themselves. “We will pay your way. We can do this with cameras or without cameras,” he offered. “We have thousands of believers living in genuine community here, and I can assure you that the word that would not come to mind is ‘losers.’”
Decrying Moore’s “rhetoric” on the podcast, Wilson concluded, “Jesus said that when people talk about you this way, the response should be to bless them…and so I do. May God richly bless Russell Moore. Seriously. May God pour out manifold blessings, over his head and shoulders.”
