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Rousas John Rushdoony (April 25, 1916 – February 8, 2001) was a Calvinist philosopher, historian, and theologian and is widely credited as being the father of Christian Reconstructionism and an inspiration for the modern Christian homeschool movement. His followers and critics have argued that his thought exerts considerable influence on the evangelical Christian right.

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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.

Biblical, Men, Misunderstood, Radical, Reality, Theocracy

God in His law requires the death penalty for homosexuals.

Death Penalty, Law, Penalty, Religion, Requires

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.

Attempt, Biblical, Effort, Law, Principle

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.

Integration, Morality, Order, Program, Progressive, Separation

All religions segregate also. . . every religion asserts an order of truth and every other order is regarded as a lie.

Lying, Order, Regarded, Religion, Truth

The result of becoming tolerant towards sin is that we become intolerant towards God and His Word.

Becoming, God, Result, Results, Sin

The end of an age is always a time of turmoil, war, economic catastrophe, cynicism, lawlessness and distress. But it is also an era of heightened challenge and creativity, of issues, and their world-wide scope, never has an era faced a more demanding and exciting crisis. This then, above all else, is the great and glorious era to live in, a time of of opportunity, one requiring fresh and vigorous thinking, indeed, a glorious time to be alive.

Creativity, Economic, Thinking, Turmoil, War

It needs more than ever to be stressed that the best and truest educators are parents under God. The greatest school is the family. In learning, no act of teaching in any school or university compares to the routine task of mothers in teaching a babe who speaks no language the mother tongue in so short a time. No other task in education is equal to this. The moral training of the children, the discipline of good habits, is an inheritance from the parents to the children which surpasses all other. The family is the first and basic school of man.

Children, Language, Man, Mother, Teaching, Under

The University of Timbuktu never existed. The only thing that existed in Timbuktu was a small mud hut.

Hut, Mud, Small, Timbuktu, University

[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.

Freedom, Goal, Lose, Purpose, Responsibility, Speech

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.

Education, Products, School, Schools, Undisciplined, Views

Do we need more laws? God forbid! We need more righteousness, more freedom, and more godly men -- and fewer laws.

Forbid, God, Godly, Law, Men, Righteousness

It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society

Culture, Law, Lawyer, Recognized

Whenever freedom is made into the absolute, the result is not freedom but anarchism. Freedom must be under law, or it is not freedom.

Freedom, Law, Made, Results, Under, Whenever

The background of the Negro culture is voodoo and magic; and the purposes the magic are control and power over God, man, nature and society. Voodoo and magic was the religion and life of America's Negro.

America, Magic, Men, Nature, Society, Voodoo

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. . .

Command, Competition, Names, Premium, Rights

The matriarchal society is thus decadent or broken society. 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.

American, Broken, Character, Men, Provide, Same

History has never been dominated by majorities, but only by dedicated minorities who stand unconditionally on their faith.

Dedicated, History, Majority, Minorities, Stand

The family is the world's greatest welfare agency, and the most successful. What the federal government has done in welfare is small and trifling compared to what the families of America do daily, caring for their own, relieving family distresses, providing medical care and education for one another, and so on. No civil government could begin to finance what the families underwrite daily. The family's welfare program, for all its failures from time to time, is proportionately the world's most successful operation by an incomparable margin.

Caring, Family, Relieving, Small, Successful

Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy.

Aristocracy, Christianity, Committed, Radically, Religion, Spiritual

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