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The Lord supplies our needs, but not our selfishness

R.J. Rushdoony

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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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All religions segregate also...every religion asserts an order of truth and every other order is regarded as a lie.
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Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic it is committed to spiritual aristocracy.
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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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To control the future requires the control of education and of the child. Hence, for Christians to tolerate statist education, or to allow their children to be trained thereby, means to renounce power in society, to renounce their children, and to deny Christ's Lordship over all of life.
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Humanistic law aims at saving man and remaking society. For Humanism, salvation is an act of the state.
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Man lives in time but his life transcends time.
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God in His law requires the death penalty for homosexuals.
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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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Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.
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