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RJ Rushdoony Faith for All of Life September/October 2005 Publisher & Chalcedon President Rev. Mark R. Rushdoony Chalcedon Vice-President Chalcedon Report No. 5 .........................................................................2 Martin Selbrede R.J. Rushdoony Editor Rev. Christopher J. Ortiz My Recollection of Chalcedon’s First Forty Years ...................................4 Mark R. Rushdoony Managing Editor Susan Burns The Story of an Idea ...............................................................................6 Contributing Editors Christopher J. Ortiz Lee Duigon Walter & Megan Lindsay A Daughter’s Memories.........................................................................12 Chalcedon Founder Rebecca Rushdoony Rouse Rev. R. J. Rushdoony (1916-2001) How Rushdoony Changed My Family..................................................14 was the founder of Chalcedon Andrea Schwartz and a leading theologian, church/ state expert, and author of numer- A Great Reformed Defender of the Faith..............................................15 ous works on the application of Biblical Law to society. Chris Strevel Receiving Faith for All of Life: This mag- Rushdoony as Prophet...........................................................................16 azine will be sent to those who request Lee Duigon it. At least once a year we ask that you return a response card if you wish to remain on the mailing list. Contributors Examining the Agenda of Secularism....................................................17 are kept on our mailing list. Suggested Martin Selbrede Donation: $35 per year ($45 for all foreign — U.S. funds only). 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The editors are not responsible for the return of unsolicited manuscripts which become the property of Chalcedon unless other arrangements are made. Opinions expressed in this magazine do not necessarily reflect the views of Chalcedon. It provides a For circulation and data management forum for views in accord with a relevant, active, historic Christianity, though those views may on occasion differ somewhat contact Rebecca Rouse. from Chalcedon’s and from each other. Chalcedon depends on the contributions of its readers, and all gifts to Chalcedon are Contact her at (209) 736-4365 ext. 10 tax-deductible. ©2005 Chalcedon. All rights reserved. Permission to reprint granted on written request only. Editorial Board: Rev. Mark R. Rushdoony, President/Editor-in-Chief; Chris Ortiz, Editor; Susan Burns, Managing Editor and Executive Assistant. or [email protected] Chalcedon, P.O. Box 158, Vallecito, CA 95251, Telephone Circulation (8a.m. - 4p.m., Pacific): (209)736-4365 or Fax (209) 736-0536; email: [email protected]; www.chalcedon.edu; Circulation:Rebecca Rouse. Founder’s Column Faith for All of Life R.J. Rushdoony Chalcedon Report No. 5 February 1, 1966 (Reprinted from The Roots of Reconstruction [Vallecito, CA: Ross House Books, 1991], 550-553). ne of the unhappy facts of our not be encouraged to interfere. intercourse with foreign States,” 3) the Oday is the gap between evangeli- He went on to condemn the idea issue of money and its protection from cal Christianity and political action. We that “master minds” or a brain-trust counterfeiting, regulation of weights have, on the one hand, those whose re- could be trusted with the powers of and measures, foreign commerce, pro- ligion is politics; they expect more than decision or regulation: tection of patents and copyrights, postal justice from the political order: they ex- The doctrine of regulation and leg- offices, and minor Federal tribunals in pect salvation. A political cause becomes islation by “master minds” in whose the states, and 4) the power to collect their religion. On the other hand, we judgment and will all the people may taxes, duties and imposts, to pay the have those who say that, because Christ gladly and quietly acquiesce, has been debts for the common defense and gen- is their Savior, they are not interested too glaringly apparent at Washington eral welfare of the U. S. The Governor in the “dirty business” of politics. Both during these past years. Were it possible added: attitudes are clearly wrong and danger- to find “master minds” so unselfish, so On such a small foundation have we ous as well. For the Christian to sepa- willing to decide unhesitatingly against erected the whole enormous fabric of their own personal interests or private rate himself from political action is to Federal Government which costs us prejudices, men almost god-like in $3,500,000,000 every year, and if we separate himself from responsibility, and their ability to hold the scales of Justice to separate himself from responsibility is do not hold this steady process of build- with an even hand, such a govern- ing commissions and regulatory bodies to separate himself from God. ment might be to the interest of the and special legislation like huge inverted country, but there are none such in our pyramids over every one of the simple political horizon, and we cannot expect Constitutional provisions, we shall soon be a complete reversal of all the teachings of spending many billions of dollars more. history. Now to bring about government by oligarchy masquerading as democ- What was absolutely necessary, the racy, it is fundamentally essential that Governor declared, was a return to basic practically all authority and control be principles: centralized in our National Govern- But what are the underlying principles ment. The individual sovereignty of our on which this Government is founded? States must first be destroyed, except in There is, first and foremost, the new Cornelius Van Til and R. J. Rushdoony mere minor matters of legislation. We thought that every citizen is entitled to live his own life in his own way as long What we have seen in U.S. politics are safe from the danger of any such departure from the principles on which as his conduct does not injure any of his is a departure from Christian American this country was founded just so long as fellowmen. constitutionalism. In a very important the individual home rule of the States is Who was this speaker? It was speech, delivered on March 2, 1930, a scrupulously preserved and fought for Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt of prominent American declared that the whenever it seems in danger. New York, criticizing the leftward drift Constitution gave the federal govern- The Governor went on to cite the of the Hoover administration! ment no right to interfere in the conduct limited “powers delegated to the United Let us glance briefly at another of public utilities, of banks, of insurance, States by the Constitution.” They speech, delivered in Austin, Texas, on of business, of agriculture, of education, of are, briefly, 1) the military power for May 22, 1948, by Lyndon B. Johnson: social welfare, and of a dozen other impor- the purposes of defense, 2) the treaty- The civil rights program, about which tant features. In these, Washington must making power, “and the sole right of you have heard so much, is a farce and a 2 Faith for All of Life September/October 2005 September/October 2005 Faith for All of Life 3 Faith for All of Life sham…an effort to set up a police state political decay and collapse. Christianity in the guise of liberty. I am opposed has an obligation to train a people in the to that program. I fought it in the fundamentals of God’s grace and law, Congress. It is the province of the state and to make them active and able cham- to run its own elections. pions of true political liberty and order. Both men were right the first time. In 1776, in a letter to John Scollay, They sinned with knowledge against Samuel Adams wrote, “I have long been knowledge. And this is not surpris- convinced that our Enemies have made ing. When men are without Christian it an Object, to eradicate from the Minds character, they will choose the way of of the People in general a Sense of the power rather than of truth and integrity. Dorothy Rushdoony true Religion and Virtue, in hopes there- Where there is a moral disintegration, There is thus little assurance that an by the more easily to carry their Point of there is no assurance that an elected election will gain any results, if there enslaving them.” How much more true candidate will maintain a professed is no assured faith and character in the this is now of every subversive agency, position. The number of elected con- elected man. And politics cannot produce and how tragic and desperately wicked servatives who have switched sides is character: Christianity must. The decline that the churches are themselves a major legion; they crumbled under pressure of faith is a decline of character and a force in working for this eradication of and under the temptations of power. decline of character is the forerunner of continued on page 30 Reclaiming America some foreign power or catastrophic disaster,” edge God as the true source of law and civil In the Courtroom Moore said, “but by the most sinister and government,” Judge Moore said. “I serve destructive of all enemies — our own courts. as chairman of the foundation, which files Public display of the Ten Command- For nearly half a century our federal courts amicus curae [friend of the court] briefs in ments.
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