Onward Christian Soldiers: The Charismatic Preacher And The Intoleristas

前进的基督教士兵:魅力传教士和不容忍者

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Doug Wilson has gone from small town preacher to a leader in America's Christian nationalist movement. Along the way he's been equally good at attracting congregants and controversy. He's never been shy about weighing in on divisive issues, but his take on slavery nearly got him chased out of town. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

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  • It's the early 1970s.

  • Doug Wilson is in his late teens and he lives with his parents in Moscow, Idaho, near downtown, right by the public high school.

  • There's a ditch that they used to call Doper's ditch because the kids would come off of the school property to smoke cigarettes and get into trouble and whatever.

  • And one morning my dad looked out and saw a cop dispersing.

  • All the kids just get a move along, move along.

  • So my dad ran out there and said to the officer, officer, can the kids smoke in my garage?

  • Cop said, well, it's your garage, okay?

  • So the cop chased them all into the garage.

  • And my dad is a very gifted evangelist, very interested in ministering to kids.

  • And so the kids who were chased into the Garage thought that Mr.

  • Wilson was the coolest thing ever.

  • Doug's dad, Jim Wilson, was an established Christian author and bookstore owner.

  • They were Southern Baptists, and Jim saw an opportunity in the kids minor vice.

  • And so they went into the garage to smoke.

  • And my dad wound up getting a pop machine.

  • And we painted the walls.

  • And it was a Jesus people type of era.

  • They called it God's Garage.