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Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic it is committed to spiritual aristocracy.
R.J. Rushdoony
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Our basic problem today is that we have two religions in conflict, humanism and Christianity, each with its own morality and the laws of that morality.
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Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.
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The matriarchal society is thus the decadent and broken. The strongly matriarchal character of Negro life is due to the moral failure of Negro men, their failure to be responsible, to support the family, or to provide authority. The same is true of American Indian tribes which are also matriarchal today.
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Biblical law permits voluntary slavery because it recognizes that some people are not able to maintain a position of independence . . . The law is humane and also unsentimental. It recognizes that some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.
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People do not avoid the Bible because it is difficult to understand as much as because what they understand condemns their conscience and throws light on dark corners in their lives which they prefer to keep dark.
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[A] society which makes freedom its primary goal will lose it, because it has made, not responsibility, but freedom from responsibility, its purpose. When freedom is the basic emphasis, it is not responsible speech which is fostered but irresponsible speech.
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The result of becoming tolerant towards sin is that we become intolerant towards God and His Word.
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In the name of equal rights, women are being stripped of the protections of the family and given no place except the perverse competition of a sexual market in which increasingly shock, deviation, and aggressiveness command a premium . . .
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The only true order is founded on Biblical Law. All law is religious in nature, and every non-Biblical law-order represents an anti-Christian religion.
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God in His law requires the death penalty for homosexuals.
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Segregation or separation is thus a basic principle of Biblical Law with respect to religion and morality. Every attempt to destroy this principle is an effort to reduce society to its lowest common denominator.
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But integration and equality are myths they disguise a new segregation and a new equality...Every social order institutes its own program of separation or segregation. A particular faith and morality is given privileged status and all else is separated for progressive elimination.
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Few things are more commonly misunderstood than the nature and meaning of theocracy. It is commonly assumed to be a dictatorial rule by self-appointed men who claim to rule for God. In reality, theocracy in Biblical law is the closest thing to a radical libertarianism that can be had.
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All religions segregate also...every religion asserts an order of truth and every other order is regarded as a lie.
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History has never been dominated by majorities, but only by dedicated minorities who stand unconditionally on their faith.
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The University of Timbuktu never existed. The only thing that existed in Timbuktu was a small mud hut.
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We cannot use our thoughts and feelings as a standard: only God’s Word is the test.
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All too many churchmen view the undisciplined & amoral products of statist education as evidences of the failure of these schools. On the contrary, they are evidences of their success.
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Man lives in time but his life transcends time.
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