140: Doug Wilson talks to Ross Douthat (Bad Faith Discussion, Part 2)
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🗓️ 6 February 2026
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Summary
Sinister Christian Nationalist pastor Doug Wilson gets interviewed by chunky conservative media lolcow Ross Douthat. Amazingly, the person who comes out of this horrifying development looking worst is... Sam Harris?
CONTENT WARNINGS. BECAUSE DOUG WILSON SAYING STUFF.
EPISODE NOTES:
Christian Nationalism vs Clown World | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAYWbbSeIhE
Dogma, Tribe, and Truth (Sam Harris, Making Sense Ep. 449)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmtTAlbGv_M
I Don't Speak German: 139: Bad Faith Discussion; Doug Wilson talks to Sam Harris
https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/139-bad-faith-discussion-doug-wilson-talks-to-sam-harris
EXTRA NOTES re WILSON:
Sons of Patriarchy Podcast - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/@SonsofPatriarchy
Inside the Church That Preaches 'Wives Need to Be Led with a Firm Hand'
https://www.vice.com/en/article/inside-the-church-that-preaches-wives-need-to-be-led-with-a-firm-hand/
At Doug Wilson's DC Church Plant, 'Worship Is Warfare' - Christianity Today https://www.christianitytoday.com/2025/07/christ-church-dc-doug-wilson-pete-hegseth/
Doug Wilson: The New Right's Favorite Pastor - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/05/23/doug-wilson-new-right-pastor-hegseth-trump-officials-00355376
Examining Doug Wilson & Moscow - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/@ExaminingMoscow
Sexual Abuse is Inevitable in Christian Patriarchy; Just Take a Look at Doug Wilson's Christ Church, and its New 'Documentary' 'Eve in Exile: The Restoration of Femininity' | Religion Dispatches
https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/31/sexual-abuse-inevitable-christian-patriarchy-just-take-look-doug-wilsons-christ-church
Culture war and the evangelical church: Doug Wilson's "No Quarter November" hit the mainstream this year.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/12/evangelical-church-doug-wilson-idaho-culture-war-no-quarter-november.html
Doug Wilson Says
https://dougwilsonsays.com/
5 Part interview with Doug Wilson at Darren Doane's podcast / channel
https://www.youtube.com/@allmyfriendsareheretics1354/featured
Doug Wilson's Religious Empire Expanding in the Northwest
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/doug-wilsons-religious-empire-expanding-northwest/
Rachel Shubin: Analyzing Douglas Wilson's Handling of the Steven Sitler and Jamin Wight Cases
https://www.moscowid.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Analyzing-DWs-Response-to-Sitler-and-Wight-Cases.pdf
Doug Wilson Archive | Champion of child rapists, Attacker of victims, Pastor of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, Presiding Minister of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC)
https://dougwilsonarchive.wordpress.com/
Doug Wilson Believes - Quotes from the Moscow, Idaho Pastor
https://dougwilsonbelieves.com/
Fundie Fridays: Doug Wilson, the Final Boss of Christian Nationalism
https://youtu.be/6dhaNeJ9UDw?si=SbAJoNEqnhOg8ckF
Confronting Doug Wilson - by Kristin Du Mez
https://kristindumez.substack.com/p/confronting-doug-wilson
In an Idaho college town, Doug Wilson envisions an American theocracy : Up First from NPR : NPR
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1224382120
Bible Experts React To Viral CNN Christian Segment | HuffPost UK Life
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/doug-wilson-pete-hegseth_l_689a2042e4b0be3f5edc4799
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| 0:00.0 | So I've written millions of words, and you can go through and pick out all the jalapenos, |
| 0:05.9 | and you can make them into a jalapeno paste, and you can put them all into one cracker, |
| 0:09.8 | and get a completely different effect than what is happening in real time in these real battles. Okay, and welcome back to I do not speak German, the podcast about not speaking German. |
| 0:35.4 | It's been, it's been a while, |
| 0:37.9 | uh, |
| 0:38.3 | but, |
| 0:38.7 | uh, |
| 0:39.0 | I have been horribly ill. |
| 0:55.6 | And, uh, Daniel's also been up to one thing and another. So, uh, sorry about the delay. Well, the holidays happened and we always got to take, was that as well, wasn't there? Yeah. We do a, we do a little bit of a we kind of go light on the holidays and then like like, I got sick and you got sick and then, you know, some personal life stuff happened. Anyway, good things mostly. Well, we're both healthy now. So that's the good part, you know. But when one of us is uncontrollably ill, it's very difficult to record a podcast. So we typically do not do so. So apologies for the delay. |
| 1:11.6 | I've had, I've had a case of what we in Britain with our customary elegance called the winter |
| 1:16.4 | pukes. So, you know, it would have been hard to record with me stopping the conversation every |
| 1:21.5 | two minutes to go and vomit. So, yeah, I thought I'd better get that over with before we restart the recording schedule. |
| 1:31.2 | Professional that I am, that was my thought. |
| 1:33.1 | Well, I mean, sometimes it's more professional to not show up for work. |
| 1:35.9 | That's what we call work-life balance and, you know. |
| 1:40.4 | I totally agree. |
| 1:41.6 | Absolutely. |
| 1:43.2 | What are we doing today? |
| 1:44.0 | It's a bit of a follow-up on the last one, because the last one was, of course, the episode |
| 1:48.4 | where we looked at some clips from Sam Harris's conversation with Christian nationalist |
| 1:55.3 | pastor Doug Wilson. |
| 1:57.1 | Yes. |
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