Who is Voddie Baucham?
A collection of his writings & sayings
Parenting & Family
On Infants:
“People who don’t believe in original sin don’t have children. …I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, that’s not a little angel. That’s a viper in a diaper. The angry cry happens early. The demanding cry happens early. The stiffening up of the body, that happens early. ‘It’s so cute’—no, that ain’t cute. One of the reasons God makes them so small is so that they won’t kill you. And one of the reasons he makes them so cute is so that you won’t kill them.”
– Voddie Baucham
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On spanking:
“Your children desperately, desperately need to be spanked. Amen, hallelujah, praise the Lord, and spank your kids, okay? They desperately need to be spanked. And they need to be spanked often. …unless you raised Jesus the Second, there were days when Junior needed to be spanked five times before breakfast. …You need to have an all-day session where you just wear them out.”
– Voddie Baucham
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On spanking & “rebellion”:
“So I spank [3 year old son]. Firmly. And he weeps. And that’s all he gets to do. If he goes beyond that — if he screams and yells and throws a fit — then I spank him because that is rebellion. And if I don’t, then I teach him that he can embarrass me and make me not spank him. Hello, somebody?”
– Voddie Baucham
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On spanking & shy kids:
“I have a pastor friend of mine. One of his daughters was just really defiant in this one particular area. And they had one instance where they had drawn the line and they were like, ‘This has to end today.’ And they told her, did the training, everything else. And so they were leaving and there was a deacon — there was a deacon family — and they walk out, you know, supposed to greet, say bye to the deacon, shake the deacon’s hand. She won’t do it. Pastor goes back in the office, goes through that whole process — spank the child, comes back out, child won’t do it again. Goes back again, asks the deacon, ‘Will you please wait here?’
Thirteen times.
Thirteen times.
That deacon was like, ‘Little girl, please…’
They never dealt with it again. Never dealt with it again.”
– Voddie Baucham
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Screencap from “The Return of the Daughters”
On Fathers & Daughters:
“…A lot of daughters dress the way that they do because they yearn for male affection. Because a lot of fathers, as soon as their daughters develop into women, become uncomfortable being affectionate toward them…. There’s lot of you girls in this room, your first boyfriend coincided with dad not letting you sittin’ on his lap anymore. You yearned for some male to show the kind of physical attention and affection that you used to get from your father and you went and found it — as God created you to yearn for it — but then the world lied to your daddy and told him that he couldn’t give you that which you needed anymore and instead let you run off into the arms of some irresponsible, sinful, lustful boy.”
– Voddie Baucham
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On Fathers & Daughters:
“My daughter’s 17 years old… she still sits on my lap… she absolutely loves it and so do I. A lot of men are leaving their wives for younger women because they yearn for attention from younger women. And God gave them a daughter who can give them that and instead they go find a subsitute daughter.”
– Voddie Baucham
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’On daughters & submission:
“If you find a young woman that you’re interested in and she is unsubmissive, run! Do not pass go, do not collect $200, get out now! By the way, when I say she’s unsubmissive, I don’t mean she’s unsubmissive to you, ’cause she’s not called to be submissive to you…. Watch her with her father. Why? Because that’s the only context wherein she is now commanded to submit to male headship. ‘Yeah, but you don’t know her father’s relationship with her!’ I don’t care. ‘Yeah, well you know, there’s special mitigating circumstances.’ Really? Because I don’t care. Because a daughter’s submission to her father is not based on her father’s worthiness, it’s based on God’s command.”
– Voddie Baucham
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On daughters getting married:
“Note that the father has the right of refusal in this matter. The text is unambiguous. The man who seduces the virgin must answer to her father. Moreover, he must do right by the young woman and marry her, unless the father ‘utterly refuses to give her to him.’ Note that the daughter does not give herself to the man in marriage; the father gives her to the man he deems appropriate.”
– Voddie Baucham
“What He Must Be if He Wants to Marry My Daughter” page 56
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Marriage & Gender Roles
Screenshot from the 2008 Vision Forum Catalog
On “The War Against Patriarchy”:
“There’s also the war against the patriarchy, the war against male headship, which again is an assault on the God of the Bible. The woman is made after the man — male headship. The woman is made for the man — male headship. The woman is brought to the man — male headship. The woman is named by the man twice… male headship.”
– Voddie Baucham
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On Divorce:
“We will always encourage you to stay married. Your elders here will always encourage you to stay married. In fact, when people come talking about the possibility of leaving their marriage and they want to come and give all the reasons why, you just might as well keep them to yourself because there’s nothing you could say that would bring us to a place where we would encourage you to get a divorce. Nothing. Nothing. We will always encourage you to stay married, to keep your vows. ”
– Voddie Baucham
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On Statistics:
“You would be amazed at how many of the statistics that you think you know about male violence against women were completely made up out of whole cloth.”
– Voddie Baucham
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Culture, CRT, & Current Events
On Ferguson:
“Rest assured, I do believe there are systemic issues plaguing black men. These issues are violence, criminality, and immorality, to name a few. And all of these issues are rooted in and connected to the epidemic of fatherlessness. Any truly gospel-centered response to the plight of black men must address these issues first and foremost. It does no good to change the way white police officers respond to black men if we don’t first address the fact that these men’s fathers have not responded to them appropriately.”
– Voddie Baucham
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On George Floyd:
“The George Floyd case was indeed tragic. However, it was not unique. Nor does it represent clear evidence of a particular pattern of police brutality regarding black men.”
– Voddie Baucham
“Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism’s Looming Catastrophe” page 56
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On the SBC’s Sexual Abuse Task Force:
“There are a lot of people who are coming at this and saying that the problem is not necessarily our polity, but the problem is our position on women. And that if we had more women in positions of authority, then that would mitigate this problem. And if you believe that, then I would ask you to look at the government education system, which is overwhelmingly female, at every level, and has far more sexual abuse than anything the SBC has ever seen. It is far more egalitarian, and does not hold to our positions on leadership, on male leadership. And it is a far less comfortable place, far less safe place for women, and for children, than the Southern Baptist Convention has been.”
– Voddie Baucham
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On answering the question, “Are you a Christian Nationalist?”
“It depends, okay, like I said it depends on who’s asking… When you’re reading, you know, ‘Taking America Back for God’ and you look at the list of questions, you know? I finished that and I go well, yeah! Yes of course I am… absolutely.”
– Voddie Baucham
Source | The List of Questions
Screenshot of Voddie Baucham & Doug Wilson tackling the same question
On Doug Wilson:
“Doug Wilson is a friend, he’s a friend and a brother and we, you know, disagree on things… but real friendship can handle that.”
– Voddie Baucham
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Who is Doug Wilson?
On Mental Illness:
“…When it comes to these mental illnesses, so to speak, what do we seek? ‘I just want to feel better.’ ‘I don’t feel good.’ And unfortunately we’re not talking to people who will take us by the hand and say, ‘you know what sweetheart, in light of the way you’ve been living you shouldn’t feel good. Turn to God. Because I can give you stuff to mask the way you feel but it will not deal with the underlying problem’”
– Voddie Baucham
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Voddie Baucham’s Influence
Beyond Vision Forum
Screenshot: Voddie nominated for SBC presidency
Screenshot: Voddie on the Ben Shapiro Show
Screenshot: Voddie on the Glenn Beck Podcast
