The Antioch Declaration Is Defeated

The Antioch Declaration was the crowning achievement of Doug Wilson’s “No Quarter November,” in what might go down as the worst NQN ever. The Antioch Declaration is a long-winded embarrassment packed with bad exegesis, inside baseball jargon, and a sinful partiality towards the false Jewish religion. The reason given for the Antioch Declaration from Wilson’s perspective was to protect Pete Hegseth’s nomination for Secretary of Defense, which he claims is in danger due to his connections to Doug Wilson.

Pete Hegseth’s nomination is in trouble, but the reasons have nothing to do with his association with Doug Wilson or the CREC denomination. Rather, Hegseth has a lot of baggage, politically, and is at odds with America’s Military Industrial Complex.

Just to give a recap, the Antioch Declaration was dropped the week before Thanksgiving. So, after two weeks, the world of Evangelicalism has moved on with the newscycle to Wilson’s next controversy whereby he wrongly invoked Abigail as a justification for wives not to submit to husbands for having too extreme views. This was the final act of No Quarter November after having burned bridges with the declaration.

But in the meantime, the Antioch Declaration amassed fewer than one thousand signatures. Many of these signatures are fake, comically so. With no vetting process, the system was bogged with spoofed signatures including Leo Frank, Sam Hyde, Karen Longhouse, and Toledo Gates. It was such an embarrassment that they decided to manually review signatures and still let in a plethora of fakes. Multiple Chuck Schumer from New York made it though, in reference to the Senate Majority Leader. Steve Lawson made it through, somehow. Tariq Nasheed, an actual Black nationalist, from Wauconda, Illinois, a real town, made it past manual review. Cartoon character Abe Simpson made it. Even Wei Mar and Lottie Moon made it through the review.

I did my part to delegitimize the Antioch Declaration by sending in spam submissions, but this was a decentralized grassroots effort. For instance, how many signatures will not appear for suspicion of being fraud? Moreover, they allowed so many bogus signatures through manual review, undermining the seriousness of the declaration.

Yet a further proof of embarrassment is the lack of signatures in total. Combined, Doug Wilson, James White, and Joe Boot’s ministries have easily hundreds of thousands emails and social media followers. Yet they could not convert their own audience to sign their statement. Given the names that I recognize as signatures, Twitter/X was their best resource for marketing.

The Antioch Declaration is a resounding failure, and this is a victory, as this woke statement will never be a test of orthodoxy.