“Of course a healthy society has nothing to fear from immigrants. A free society is therefore one with open borders.”
Doug Wilson
The Camp of the Saints – 2015 Article
People are suggesting that only within the last few years has Doug Wilson shifted from a trustworthy brand to a malignant brand. I would say that this quote above demonstrates that Doug has had the devil in him for over a decade now.
1.) This quote demonstrates that before Wilson is Libertarian before he is theonomic.
2.) This kind of statement requires the person making the statement to affirm his prior belief in propositional nationhood. With this statement Wilson reveals his belief that a nation is NOT comprised by a people of a core ethnicity. No wonder Wilson hated Kinism from the very beginning.
3.) If a nation does not have borders it is not a nation. Borders are what designate what people the respective Government of said society is required to prioritize in protection and the distributing of justice and what people it does not have those immediate obligations.
4.) Families can be healthy societies also. Is it also the case that families, as healthy societies, should also likewise have open borders when it comes to who does and who does not belong to their family?
5.) Did Laken Riley, Molly Tibbetts, Rachel Morin, and Kate Steinle have nothing to fear from the immigrants who murdered them Doug?
6.) When Doug writes about “free society” here he is using “free” in the sense of malignantly free, or recklessly free or libertine free. He is not using free in the sense of “ordered liberty.”
Doug has been very bad in his reasoning for a very long time. That is what Libertarianism will do to people.
Author: jetbrane
I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling.
I am postmillennial in my eschatology.
Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity
Reformed in my Soteriology
Presuppositional in my apologetics
Familialist in my family theology
Agrarian in my regional community social order belief
Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief
Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic
Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern
Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview
One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics
Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place
Some of my favorite authors,
Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc.
My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture.
Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him.
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