Faith for All of Life November/December 2005

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Elitism (Reprinted from The Roots of Reconstruction [Vallecito, CA: Ross House Books, 1991], 298-302).

t is a significant fact that Karl Marx be abolished, and childbearing must be any true sense if society is served and Ichampioned equalitarianism while regulated and strictly controlled. flourishes; to seek happiness in separa- being an elitist. The two go together. But this is not all. Basic to the ideal tion from the goals of society is subver- Honest men know the limitations of all “republic” or elitist state is the state con- sive and is not true joy. Hence in the men and that equality and inequality trol of all education. This means also the Soviet state, the workman who surpasses are myths. They are essentially math- control of books, music, and popular the work goals is the happy man, be- ematical terms which cannot do justice entertainment. cause he sees his good and joy in terms to the diversity of life. You and I may Later elitists refined the controls. Sir of social goals. Fourth, man is a rational excel in doing certain things and feel Thomas More, one of the uglier figures being who can become more systemati- totally incompetent in other areas. A of the renaissance era, a man who lived cally rational. Society will flourish as man can be a mathematical genius and badly but died well, added to Plato’s reason and science flourish. Hence, the also incompetent in simple household communism the control of money. philosopher-kings, as reason incarnate, repairs. If we were all equal, we would Gold should be used only for making must guide the state and the masses into all be omnicompetent and would not slave chains and chamber pots. Lenin the life of reason. The implication in all need each other. This is why equalitar- was pleased with the latter part of this such elitist orders is that submission to ian regimes are so murderous: they see plan by More and adopted it. Much the state and its elite is submission to all men as readily replaceable and readily later, Edward Bellamy, in Looking Back- pure reason, and revolt against the elite disposable, except for the elite few, the ward (1888), wanted state-issued credit is irrationalism. philosopher-kings. cards to replace money. (This would Thus, in every elitist social order, enable the state to starve dissidents into the elite holds this as a fixed premise: Plato’s Republic submission.) think as we do, and you are a sane and The great sourcebook for elitism is Chad Walsh, in From Utopia to rational man; if you disagree with us, Plato’s Republic. Its doctrine of justice is Nightmare (1962), cited the principle you are a social deviate with a serious humanistic to the core: “Everyone ought articles of faith held by utopians. Four mental problem. to perform the one function in the com- of these are of concern to us. First, man munity for which his nature best suited is basically good. The doctrine of origi- Rule by Elitists him. Well, I believe that principle, or nal sin is anathema to elitists, because Almost all nations are now ruled by some form of it, is justice.” This justice it places all men on common ground elitists. When men depart from Chris- means that society must be ruled by before God; it is perhaps the only valid tianity, they abandon hierarchy, which philosopher-kings. Under them are the form of equalitarianism. Second, man means sacred rule in terms of God’s law- guardians: soldiers and public officials. is plastic man; he has no fixed nature word, for man’s rule by elitists. These Most people must make up the masses; and can be readily molded to suit the elitist rulers have more in common with they are the slaves, and their virtue must goals of the philosopher-kings. The another than with their own peoples. be temperance, meaning self-restraint doctrine of evolution is an elitist myth Elitists love elitists, or at the least prefer and obedience. which “vindicates” the elitist worldview. them. Our elitists in the United States For such a “republic” to work, It means that the elite can remake man have made us allies in effect of Red Plato felt that two factors which make and the world after their image. Much China and the Soviet Union, but not of for individualism had to go: property science is devoted to such goals. Third, the Republic of South Africa. Although and the family. Private property must individual happiness is only possible in the R.S.A. has many points in common

2 Faith for All of Life November/December 2005 Faith for All of Life with them, economic controls for one, Recently, on a trip, one earnest person, professors tend to look down on those it still smacks too much of the old order who knew the Bible well, asked me in students who intend to be pastors; of Europe and must be destroyed. Red some bewilderment, “I know my Bible, the favored students are the potential China has the world’s most murderous I know Jesus Christ is my Lord and professors. For them, religion often is abortion laws, and extensive state-cre- Savior, and I try to live by God’s word, something to dissect and discuss, not ated famine, but no one proposes dis- but what are these principles our school marching orders from the Lord God. investments in Red China, except a few principal keeps talking about?” Neither For this reason, most seminaries tend to students. The Soviet Union has its slave Christ nor the Bible can be reduced to a do their students more harm than good. labor camps and planned genocide, but Greek abstraction or principle: there is It is of significance that today the fastest where are the demands for disinvest- never anything abstract about Scripture. growing churches are those which do ments in the USSR? Theft, murder, adultery, false witness not require seminary training. Elitists love other elitists; they pro- and more are forbidden, not because Colleges and universities are schools fess to love the masses and are militant of some abstract principle, but because of elitists. They are hostile often to true equalitarians in legislation and snobs God says so. Tithing is required, the scholars as well as to most students. The in person. The elitist loves “exclusive” Sabbath rest is mandatory, and short theory held by intellectuals is that their places; he will patronize with delight tem debt and more is the law of God, intelligence sets them apart and makes a fine restaurant if few know about it, not because of some abstract principle, them distinctive. However, as one pro- but, let it become too popular, and it but because we are God’s creation fessor, a true scholar, once remarked to is “spoiled.” He loves out-of-the-way and property, and He commands us. me, few places are more governed by the places to travel to and rhapsodizes over Principles lead us to another religion; mores of a wolf pack than the university. them, but let a few “common people” faithfulness leads us to the Lord. It is not intelligence that makes men begin to enjoy the same places and he Elitism takes other forms as well in strong and independent, but rather faith sees it as “commercialized” and spoiled. the church. The Bible gives us legitimate and character. The elitist hates the free market and God-ordained types and symbols As we have noted, elitism stresses because it gives in its own way a good which are specific and concrete: they education, but it is humanistic educa- form of democracy. In a free market refer to Christ, our salvation and sancti- tion. Such schooling does not breed economy, most men, if they want them, fication, and the like. Biblical typology freedom nor independence but an em- can earn enough for an automobile, is open to all believers; it is not esoteric. phasis on the group. Peer pressure then television, and their own house. In this Symbolic theology is elitism. Who but governs people. When a child begins way, they pass out of the servant class those scholars who know fertility cult to attend a state school, that child very religions and have studied under one (“It’s so hard to get good servants these soon is governed by his peer group, the or two esoteric seminary professors will days”) into the middle class, and this other students, and the directions given ever see, in the plain words of Scripture, means an independence from the elite. to the peer group come from the statist the hidden and esoteric meanings in the The great evil of Puritanism and of educators. The result is a growing breach conflict between Moses and Zipporah Cromwell to the English elite was that between the child and his home. over circumcision? And what believer, “Merry England” was “destroyed,” since Elitism is moreover very prone to reading the account of the first Passover now no large class of servitors were bow- styles, fashions, and fads. These can in Egypt, could even imagine that the ing and scraping before them. For some be with respect to clothing, foods, sides of the door represented a woman’s ever since, the restoration of such an ideas, recreations, and more. There are legs, the top of her pubic area, and the order has been a dream, whereas their continual changes in what is acceptable, blood of the lamb a woman’s hymeneal because the elite want to be different, ex-servitors in many cases want to hurt blood on her wedding night? When the and the imitating masses want to follow “the ruling class” even if it destroys the Bible tells us that Christ is God’s Pass- their trends. It is ironic that for elitism country in the process. over lamb, what believer will look for an the consent of the governed, according Elitism is common to all spheres. abstract symbol or principle? Its origins are commonly in Plato, for to Plato, is “Where the desires of the whom the true universals are abstrac- Elitism in Academe inferior multitude will be controlled tions, or ideas, or principles, not the Elitism governs the academic com- by the desires and wisdom of the few.” concrete universal, the triune God. munity of our time. In the seminaries, continued on page 30

November/December 2005 Faith for All of Life 3 Faith for All of Life The Critical Patriot By Mark R. Rushdoony

he appeal to To pray “God Bless America” today, demanded. When confronted with a Tpatriotism seems however, begs the question “why”? Ex- choice of obedience to Christ’s commis- almost ubiquitous. We actly what about America do we ask God sion or the demands of civil magistrates, even have an expression to bless? Is it America’s entertainment Peter and the apostles responded, “We to describe the abuse of culture, educational system, court sys- ought to obey God rather than men” the patriotic sentiment. tem, political, economic or diplomatic (Ac. 5:29). The loyalty of the Christian “Wrapping yourself in the flag” is to a policies which deserve God’s blessing? to his country or his government is al- political argument what “claiming the Ought not we first to cry the prayer, ways subject to his faithfulness to God’s moral high ground” is to an ethical issue. “God be merciful to America”? We law and government. It implies that opposition to anything of cannot expect God’s blessing on America Why Pray for Civil Magistrates? the nation is less patriotic, even disloyal. without acknowledging its deviation Paul exhorted the young minister Criticism of one’s country is not from faithfulness to Him. If repentance necessarily unpatriotic. Only God is be- Timothy to pray for all civil authorities, does not come before blessing, judgment “that we may lead a quiet and peaceable yond criticism. If we believe in sin, then likely will. we must expose it even on a national life in all godliness and honesty. For this Patriotism refers to a love of one’s is good and acceptable in the sight of level. Patriotism shouldn’t be a blind home, land, and people. The word love of country that accepts evil. Christ God our Savior...” (1 Tim. 2:2-3). This comes from the Greek patrios, of one’s exposed hypocrisy and false religion in represents the limited nature of what the father. To be patriotic is as natural and the religious establishment of His day Christian seeks from his government. godly as to love one’s father, one’s very and twice drove from God’s temple those The desire to “lead a peaceable life” origin. But unquestioning patriotism who violated its sanctity. Paul pro- implies protection from evildoers within becomes idolatrous. All of our loyalties nounced a curse on those in the church and without. It is reflected in the U. S. must be governed by the higher standard who perverted the gospel, citing a higher Constitution’s aim to “insure domestic of faithfulness to God. The instruction standard, “For do I now persuade men, tranquility” and “provide for the com- of the law and the prophets in the Old or God? Or do I seek to please men? For mon defense.” if I yet pleased men, I should not be the Testament was always focused on the To live in “godliness and honesty” servant of Christ” (Gal. 1:10). personal requirement to covenant faith- was a desire to be left alone to serve God fulness, never to blind loyalty to the king in faithfulness. The freedom from gov- God Bless America as the representative of the nation. Much ernment intrusion that the U. S. Con- “God Bless America” is, both as a of the work of the prophets, in fact, was stitution sought to codify was a similar slogan and a song, problematic for the critical of the kings of Israel and Judah desire to live in “godliness and honesty” Christian patriot. It goes beyond the for their failures, their sins that invited but was then, thanks to the progression expression of love and pride in America; the judgment of God. The prophets, out of Christian liberty in the West, no lon- it is a prayer to the Creator and Judge of concern for the people and the nation, ger a freedom from the law, but under it. of all. Certainly, God has blessed the never hesitated to point out the sin of The Constitution’s purpose was not just United States of America. Its founding is either. that the people of the United States be unique in human and Christian history, Christ also taught a limited obedi- left alone but that their form of govern- and it represents the high-water mark of ence to the civil magistrate: “Render ment itself would “establish justice” and human liberty and the defeat of absolut- to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, “secure the blessings of liberty to our- ist monarchies in the West, an important and to God the things that are God’s” selves and our posterity.” Paul’s prayer milestone for the furthering of God’s (Mk.12:17). Our Lord did not re- was, in effect, codified in the preamble Kingdom. quire us to give the state everything it to the U. S. Constitution.

4 Faith for All of Life November/December 2005 Faith for All of Life When men’s loyalties have no tran- power of the national government. In problem is in us. We are a statist people, scendent character, they necessarily be- denying power to government, all these comfortable with statist solutions. This come immanent. If we have no faith in documents were critical of human nature must change. We cannot judge righ- God, our patriotism is merely loyalty to and placed impediments to government teously if we are ourselves unrighteous. a nation, an ethnicity, a government, or activism. For such negativity, we can be Before we ask, presumptuously, “God a person or party that claims to embody grateful. Those Constitutional limita- Bless America,” we need to pray “Revive the essence of the nation. A patriotism tions which remain are all that keeps Us Again.” that focuses on a land or people can us from totalitarianism in the name “of Conspiracy Theories become chauvinistic or racist. In more the people.” The patriot who loves the In defending the need for critical modern times, nations have been identi- ideals of liberty and limited government patriotism, we must note that criticism fied by their borders and their govern- must be critical of those who would take alone is not enough. This is the weakness ments. This led to fascist nationalism in away liberties and centralize power in the of conspiracy thinking. Too often, it sees Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany. name of disaster relief, the war on terror, our problems as the sin of a few rather It is, of course, easier to detect the mote or any other pretext. Powers lost to gov- than the sin in all. Conspiracy theories in another’s eye, than the beam in our ernment are not easily regained. tend all too often to point to the evil work of a limited number of people. By own. It is also easier to see the excesses The Christian Patriot implication, the rest of society is merely of patriotic fervor in nations other than To be a Christian patriot in fact ignorant or deceived. our own. requires us to be critical of acts done In America, patriotism has had a Conspiracy theories are often very by the United States that are illegal in complex in their telling, but too simplis- different emphasis than in many other terms of the Constitution or unjust or nations. American patriotism has always tic in their assessment of the problem. immoral in terms of the higher law of Conspiracies do exist; they always have. focused less on its land and people than God. A Christian patriot is one who is on ideas and ideals. Even the geographic Christ was Himself a subject of a con- faithful to his country in terms of a prior spiracy (Jn. 11:47-54). Scripture makes expansion of the United States across the faithfulness to God. Christians ought continent was about the “manifest des- clear, however, that even these evil men to be both the most vocal supporters of and their designs were in the providence tiny” of the nation. America was known the ideals that made America great and of God (Ac. 2:23; 4:26-28). Conspiracy for its vision as a new kind of nation. the most outspoken critics of its failures. theories too often emphasize the evil of The Puritans described their begin- Party loyalty often pulls us down in this the few as the controlling force of his- ning in New England as “a city set on a regard. The activities of our government tory. Christians must see events in terms hill” to which people would be drawn. It must not be judged in terms of their of the evil in all men (hence the need for was not a government on “Capitol Hill.” political expediency but in terms of their a limitation on all human power) and The Puritans had a firm belief in original moral legitimacy. the Sovereign power of God. All men in sin, so their desire was to limit the power The Christian must recognize the Adam are conspirators against God and of civil magistrates in order to limit their priority of his citizenship in the King- His righteousness; Christians are called abuse of power. dom of God. Our Lord said, “But seek to obedience to God and His governing A critical part of the American sys- ye first the Kingdom of God and his law-word. tem is the mistrust of the civil power be- righteousness...” (Mt. 6:33). Righteous- Our loyalty to the Kingdom of God cause of man’s sin nature. The Declara- ness means God’s justice. Our first and His Christ must always temper our tion of Independence is a list of abuses of loyalty must be to the Kingdom of God earthly loyalties and duties. That higher power and illegal usurpations of power and His justice, which is only found loyalty involves a bond of faith in that by George III. The Articles of Confed- through submission to His law-word. which is greater than even the noblest eration provided for an extremely limited The systemic change America needs American ideals and a love to a people central government. The Constitution first is not in its politics or laws, but in that is stronger than mere ethnicity or enumerated limited powers and reserved the faith of its people. The part of our common heritage. Faithfulness to our all others to the people and the states. system that still works as intended is citizenship to the Kingdom of God The Bill of Rights, which some saw as the ability of the people to change its means we must, at times, be critical of redundant, was passed as an additional leadership and laws. The mechanism of the baser tendencies of the state and guarantee of those rights and the limited republican government is still intact. The politics.

November/December 2005 Faith for All of Life 5 Faith for All of Life The Christian and Conspiracy Theory By Christopher J. Ortiz

While the liberals may view belief in the conspiracy view of history as absurd, or even as a sign of membership in the “lunatic fringe,” the orthodox Christian must assert it to be basic to the philosophy of history.1

t the risk of being the rapid decline of our free republic. of His anointed. The “anointed” will A misunderstood: Ironically, I still find R. J. Rushdoony to ultimately be personified in Christ and We’re dedicating an be one of the more profound conspir- His church. These evil rulers perceive issue of Faith for All acy “factualists” — he was no theorist they are suffering under the bands and of Life to the subject — and his Biblical examination of the cords of God’s law, and the representa- of the Statist Agenda. problem provides the foundation to my tive body of God must be first removed To do this we must address the idea approach. to clear a path to the throne. Biblical of conspiracy. You’ll better understand The benefit of conspiracy theory history is filled with the vain attempts of our reasons for doing so when you’ve is that it places flesh and blood on an perverted despots to destroy God’s holy digested each of these pertinent articles. otherwise abstract enemy. It’s one thing seed. Shortly after Pentecost the early Many, as Rushdoony says, believe a to talk about the “state” as totalitarian church leaders recognized Psalm 2 as the conspiratorial view of history is ab- and evil. It’s quite another thing to show framework for the conspiracy to crucify surd and does not warrant the serious you how they do it! My intent is to Christ: investigation of academic professionals. provide you a brief glimpse so that your But, for the Christian, conspiracy is to pure mind is stirred and your resolve is For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, be considered, consulted, and eventually galvanized for the magnificent calling to whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the condemned. dominion. people of Israel, were gathered together, for to Conspiracy provides the back-story Biblical Conspiracy do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel deter- to Biblical history. Out of the serenity mined before to be done. (Ac. 4:27-28) of the Garden a cosmic battle ensues Since the first day of judgment in between the seed of the woman and the Genesis 3, Satan has pursued a great Men do conspire and the conspira- seed of the serpent (Gen. 3:15); and this conspiracy to destroy the seed of the cies can be massive in scale. In Acts 4 conflict continues throughout the Bibli- woman. The schemes are carried out the conspiracy involved Herod, Pilate, cal narrative at an unabated pace. It’s a through the sinful minds of evil men the Gentiles, and the people of Israel. saga that is paramount to understanding whose goal is to seize the throne of God What critics often overlook is that our present time, and recognizing it and cast away the fetters of God’s righ- complex conspiracies can be carried out is crucial to provoking indifferent teous nation. This protracted struggle without leaks because the conspiracy is Christians to embrace their Kingdom is reiterated for us in the oft-quoted satanically controlled. Without aware- responsibilities. second psalm: ness the entire nation of Israel conspired At the outset I’d like to first high- Why do the heathen rage, and the people against Christ, and that deception light an important clarification. As you imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth overlaid corporate Israel like a blanket. might imagine there are few favor- set themselves, and the rulers take counsel Propagandists would refer to this as able words spoken about conspiracy together, against the LORD, and against his “conditioning.” theorists. In preparing for this issue I anointed, saying, Let us break their bands Despite the difficulty in accepting received a few cautionary words about asunder, and cast away their cords from us. conspiracies, the orthodox Christian spending too much time investigating (Ps. 2:1-3) must see Biblical history as conspiracy the works of darkness. I acknowledge The kings and rulers “set them- from beginning to end. The Darwinian those exhortations, but I persist in this selves” against the Lord. They labor for unbeliever cannot accept such a foolish theme because it provides context to God’s throne but seek the destruction view of the world. His materialist phi-

6 Faith for All of Life November/December 2005 Faith for All of Life losophy will only permit the impersonal The New World Order World Order expired after the recent forces of nature blindly nudging history The conspiracy theory of which failure of the European Union, the along its circuitous timeline. Rushdoony most Christians are aware is what has unexpected economic rise of China, and was clear on the error of such a position, been referred to as “The New World the regional instability of radical Islam and the necessity for the Christian to Order.” The confirmed role players (see his article on page 11). Abraham embrace history as conspiracy: are such elitists as the Illuminati,3 the did admit in his Call It Conspiracy that History, therefore, is not the outwork- Council on Foreign Relations (C.F.R.),4 stopping the globalists doesn’t prohibit ing of impersonal forces but a personal and the Trilateral Commission;5 along these satanic serpents from resurrecting conflict between the forces of God with the adjunct assistance of big foun- their fiendish plots: and anti-God…. The Bible as a whole dations such as Rockefeller, Ford, and If we change the policies of the U.S. presents a view of history as conspiracy, Carnegie. The alleged politico-economic Government, both at home and abroad, with Satan and man determined to tools of this conspiracy are the United the game is over, and those “who will assert their “right” to be gods, knowing, be like God” will slither back into the or determining, good and evil for them- Nations and the Federal Reserve. darkest regions and wait to prey on selves (Genesis 3:5). From beginning to The New World Order involves man’s ignorance in some future time.6 end, this is the perspective of Scripture, a cadre of international financiers and only a willful misreading of it can that seize control of sovereign nations One would think such evil plans lead to any other position.2 through the central banking system. would also be thwarted by the death of In the United States this includes the the participants. Yet recent history dem- Conspiracy and Hyperbole Federal Reserve. By creating fiat money, onstrates that this is not so. Structural Despite the Biblical justification, these international hucksters enslave free posterity is as important to the ruling conspiracy theorists are often discounted societies via national debt. The objec- group as perpetuating the faith is to the because of their outlandish conclu- tive is to transform a free market into a church. Larry Abraham cites a portion sions. One British “specialist” teaches socialist economy of government regula- of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four that that a race of reptilians (human/reptile) tory control. Once that is achieved, describes this well: actually runs the world while others the now fettered nation can easily be A ruling group is a ruling group so long suggest aliens or a single religious leader transferred into a one-world order under as it can nominate its successors. The (antichrist?). Other theories are a bit the dictatorship of a world-government Party is not concerned with perpetuat- more down to earth and can include the headed up by the global elite. ing its blood but with perpetuating Jesuits, Freemasons, Zionists, Illuminati, Astute Christians such as Larry itself. Who wields power is not impor- and international bankers. Abraham, co-author of None Dare tant provided the hierarchical structure In the history of legend and lore, Call It Conspiracy and author of Call remains always the same.7 the heroes and villains were simply it Conspiracy, saw early on the insidi- The New “American” Order exaggerations of reality. This allowed ous truth of the New World Order and So, shall we then rest if the New the ancient world to identify with the helped expose it to millions of readers. World Order is licking its wounds? I gods because the people saw in them The New World Order became kitchen grand reflections of the material world. table discussion after the 1990 State would answer with a resounding, NO! Humor works much the same way. We of the Union Address by then Presi- What should incite our observation and laugh at what resembles us though it is dent George H. W. Bush in which he target our prayers is the rapid trans- portrayed in hyperbolic form. declared: formation of the American way of life and its relation to the post-9/11 world. Conspiracy theories can be exagger- We stand today at a unique and ex- ations of reality. Whereas you and I may traordinary moment. The crisis in the Since September of 2001 the radical chuckle at the suggestion that aliens Persian Gulf, as grave as it is, also offers changes in U.S. foreign policy, home- “rule the world,” it doesn’t preclude elite a rare opportunity to move toward an land security, and new legislation (i.e., groups from manipulating the centers of historic period of cooperation. Out of The Patriot Act) are great threats to the world power. Conspiracy theories can be these troubled times, our fifth objective foundations of our once-free republic. extreme, but to deny these exaggerations — a new world order — can emerge…. I rehearsed this first in the hearing of any correspondence to the truth is naïve Ironically, President Bush gave this those Christians who seem bent on “re- and an underestimation of man’s sinful speech on September 11, 1990. How- claiming America” from the secularists capacity. ever, Larry Abraham claims the New but seemingly march in “lock step” with

November/December 2005 Faith for All of Life 7 Faith for All of Life the present administration. The culture cians say “freedom” we can usually ex- in recent decades, the power equation wars are important, but the increasing pect more restraints upon our liberties. has shifted dramatically: When the infringement upon our civil liberties Peace Means War – In contemporary United States was weak, it practiced the may soon prohibit all social agendas. political rhetoric much is made of living strategies of indirection, the strategies of The illustration of the frog in the in peace. America is out to establish that weakness; now that the United States is powerful, it behaves as powerful nations kettle best describes the current con- peace — by force if necessary. It’s Pax do. When the European great powers ditioning imposed on the American Americana at the barrel of a gun. Much were strong, they believed in strength populace. We are being desensitized to ado about “peace” is often the prologue and martial glory. Now they see the the rapid loss of civil liberties and the to “war.” world through eyes of weaker powers. transformation of policing policies. This Patriotism Means Agreement – Patrio- These very different points of view have is all done under the guise of national tism once meant a love and support of naturally produced differing strategic security. This is the epitome of the country. Now it means agreeing with judgments, differing assessments of Orwellian order where “doublespeak” the present foreign policy. To disagree is threats and of the proper means of ad- (language deliberately constructed to considered unpatriotic and lending aid dressing them, different calculations of disguise or distort its meaning) is used to the enemy. interest, and differing perspectives on the value and meaning of international to control the mass populace. Security Means Loss of Liberty – In law and international institutions.9 In Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, 2001 America traded its liberty for secu- the character Winston Smith works rity by signing the Patriot Act. In actual- A frightening portion of this cita- at a government building (a pyramid) ity, there’s nothing patriotic about it. tion is “now that the United States is called The Ministry of Truth. Written When they say they are working to pre- powerful, it behaves as powerful nations on the building are the slogans of The serve your liberties, they mean adding do.” What powerful nations is he refer- Party: WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM more security that inhibit those liberties. ring to? Ancient Rome? Greece? Nazi IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS As Benjamin Franklin once quipped, Germany? The Soviet Union? Most STRENGTH. This form of double- “Those who are willing to trade freedom “powerful nations” were tyrannical and speak permeates Orwell’s novel in such for security deserve neither freedom nor imperialistic. Are we to mimic them? dramatic fashion that it stands as a clear security.” Kagan also alludes to addressing warning to all generations regarding the national threats. By this does he mean dangers of government control. The New Imperialism other nations that might be opposed At no stage in American history [T]he more the U.S. becomes socialis- to American hegemony? Part of ad- have we been closer to the fictional tic, the more it will require imperialism dressing these threats requires massive hyperbole of Orwell’s world. Daily we to survive. A parasite, when it destroys defense spending on a global scale. This one host body, requires another to are inundated with doublespeak, legisla- strategy was spelled out clearly in the survive.8 tion, and institutions that isolate the now famous neoconservative document undiscerning to a perpetual ignorance. Rushdoony, as always, is on target Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, Citizens are simply indifferent to the here. Although it’s difficult for Ameri- Forces, and Resources for a New Century. rapid loss of civil liberties. Here are a cans to view their country as impe- This defense strategy was prepared by few examples of New American Order rialistic, it’s the order of things when the Project for a New American Cen- doublespeak: you’re abiding in a socialistic society that tury (PNAC) and in September of 2000 Freedom Means Tyranny – We are regulates and consumes its productivity. — one year before 9/11 — suggested continually told that Islamic terrorists Most Americans see imperialism as the that in order to galvanize public support attacked us because of our freedom, and handicap of old Europe, but Robert Ka- for such massive defense spending the that the War on Terror is the primary gan, neoconservative thinker, highlights U.S. needed another “Pearl Harbor”: means to preserving that freedom. But, the role reversal between Europe and the Further, the process of transformation, ask yourself, are you more “free” since United States in what he refers to as the even if it brings revolutionary change, 9/11? The obvious answer is, no. You “New World Order”: is likely to be a long one, absent some can now be searched without a warrant, Two centuries later, Americans and catastrophic and catalyzing event frisked at airports, and monitored in Europeans have traded places — and — like a new Pearl Harbor. Domestic your daily routines. This is all for your perspectives. This is partly because in politics and industrial policy will shape protection, of course. So, when politi- those two hundred years, and especially the pace and content of transformation

8 Faith for All of Life November/December 2005 Faith for All of Life as much as the requirements of current standard of living falls due to spiraling Yet for all his labor in the camp of missions.10 debt, endless deficit spending at home the enemy he understood better than We all know what transpired a year and abroad, a declining fiat dollar, infla- any the strategy for overcoming darkness later — a “catastrophic and catalyzing tion, higher interest rates, and failing and advancing the cause of Christ. In entitlement programs. At that point event” took place that overshadowed this sense, Christianity is itself a con- attitudes toward omnipotent govern- the old wound of Pearl Harbor. And spiracy. As one Christian leader once said ment may change, but the trend toward to me, “Let us conspire together to do since then American forces are engaged authoritarianism will be difficult to in two wars in the Middle East with the reverse. Those who believe a police state good.” However, Christians can avoid possibility of more conflict as the War can’t happen here are poor students of the label “conspiracy” because our vic- on Terror unfolds. history. Every government, democratic tory in history is established on the pre- or not, is capable of tyranny. We must determined victory of the Son of God: Police State USA understand this if we hope to remain a But conspiracies can be either good Besides billions being spent on free people.12 or bad, and this is well known. The defense, a new phenomenon has altered How do you know when the police reluctance to call one’s own position the once free landscape of the American a conspiracy rests on the premise that state has fully arrived? How close are we republic. Massive bureaucratic behe- destiny cannot be conspiracy; it is to an actual tyranny? Rushdoony pro- 14 moths like the Department of Home- historical inevitability. vided the criterion for such a totalitarian land Security are clamping down on Embracing this predestined victory state: every aspect of society. Being searched is and working in terms of it is the central An attack on the local police is an at- now routine and it’s easy to see that in task of Christian Reconstruction — the tack on the right of self-defense. When the near future showing our “papers” at only remedy to international tyranny: the local police are destroyed, the totalitar- checkpoints could be the norm. ian state will have arrived in full force. [W]e must be mindful that the cause After the fiasco in New Orleans, the That great civilian army of local police, is Christian Reconstruction. We have idea of “martial law” is now embedded and a citizenry with police powers and an obligation under God to bring all in the American psyche. We’ve all seen the right to bear arms, is thus a major things into captivity to Christ, and footage of federal troops patrolling an target of subversive activity, assault, under His dominion, to establish Chris- American city brandishing automatic legislation, and propaganda.13 tian order.… We need to do this in weapons and military assault vehicles. [emphasis added] delight and anticipation of a godly or- der; we also need to do it in fear of the It seems we are moving ever closer to The subversion of our republic ne- consequences if we do not. Either we a police state as such events as natural cessitates the federalizing of local police. work to establish a godly order, or we disasters might be placed under the By creating a federal police force, the go down into the hell of total statism.15 jurisdiction of the military.11 government can homogenize policing Achieving the reconstructed social But still the majority of Americans policies to better handle the increasing order will require long-term thinking. are willing to tolerate such a federalizing threat of international terror and natural Deliverance will not come politically — of their country. After all, it makes all of disasters. When presented in such a way although civil government is a targeted us safer, right? Conservative Congress- to a frightened public, it’s easy to see sphere. Our calling is based upon godly man Ron Paul has faithfully warned the how we can easily take that next step. service as Gary North makes plain: public of the current threat of tyranny that is crouched at the door of the Our job is not to “throw the rascals The Conspiracy of the State out” in one glorious national election. United States: If I had a dollar for every time Our job is to replace them steadily by It may be true that average Ameri- Rushdoony mentioned the “state” I’d be our own competence.… It is victory cans do not feel intimidated by the a wealthy man. He knew that statism through steady, long-term replacement. encroachment of the police state. was a manifestation of the Adamic re- We need the conspirators to “mind the Americans remain tolerant of what bellion — the will to be as god. I know land” while we are preparing ourselves they see as mere nuisances because they of no other man who has dedicated for full-time, comprehensive biblical have been deluded into believing total service.16 government supervision is necessary more space to exposing the demonic and helpful, and because they still enjoy subterfuge of the prince of darkness. It The Focus of Our Fears a high level of material comfort. That can be said that “Rush” was not igno- Adolph Hitler once said, “Terrorism tolerance may wane, however, as our rant of the devil’s devices (2 Cor. 2:11). is the best political weapon for noth-

November/December 2005 Faith for All of Life 9 Faith for All of Life ing drives people harder than a fear of The view of history, as conspiracy, reins of power in neo-babylonian towers sudden death.” For Hitler terrorism was however absurd to the liberal with will only incite the fury and wrath of a tool to aggregate totalitarian power his impersonal philosophy, is a basic almighty God. It will never grant them for his Nazi party. Hitler created the aspect of the perspective of orthodox the godhood they desire. terror and used the great lie to control Christianity. As Psalm 2 presents it, the In closing it is vital to remember unGodly (sic) nations and peoples rage, his countrymen. Regarding the lies of that the victory is ours because the vic- they conspire together and imagine the party, Joseph Goebbels — Hitler’s a vain thing, the triumph of their tory is Christ’s first. Therefore resistance minister of propaganda — penned this conspiracy. Precisely because it is a vain to tyranny begins with a return to His entry in his diary: thing, the orthodox Christian’s philosophy rule and the implementation of His do- The lie can be maintained only for such of history cannot make the conspiracy, minion mandate. Let us bow the knee time as the State can shield the people however central to the stage of history, the rather than reach for the sword. from the political, economic and/or main fact of history. Believing as he must military consequences of the lie. It thus in the sovereignty and predestinating 1. R. J. Rushdoony, The Nature of the Ameri- becomes vitally important for the State power of God, the meaning of history can System (Vallecito: Ross House Books, to use all of its powers to repress dissent, is for him transcendental. The main 2001), p. 157. for the truth is the mortal enemy of the fact is the eternal decree and the certainty 2. Ibid., p. 156. lie, and thus by extension, the truth of the Son’s victory, Who shall make the 3. The Illuminati is a secret society origi- becomes the greatest enemy of the state. nations His inheritance and possess the nated by Adam Weishaupt on May 1,1776. Fear is a means of control and ends of the earth, in history and beyond Many conspiracy theorists believe this secre- history.17 [emphasis added] tive group still exists. conspirators will use fear to obtain the federal powers of totalitarianism. It is There you have it — the center of 4. The C.F.R. is an American subsidiary of a secret society known as The Round Table fear that the state desires and it is the history is the eternal decree and the as- that was controlled by international bankers surance of the Son’s victory. All conspir- lie that creates it. But the Christian committed to establishing a world govern- must never grant tyrants their coveted acies evoke a chuckle from the Almighty ment. C.F.R. documents clearly reveal their wish. Fear is precious in the sight of the (Ps. 2:4) because of the tardiness of their long-held intent of abolishing the U.S. Lord and is reserved for Himself. Isaiah plans. God declares, “Yet have I set my Constitution in favor of a one-world order. offers a telling correction to our present king upon my holy hill of Zion” (Ps. 5. The Trilateral Commission, founded by generation regarding the conspiracies of 2:6). It’s too late. The king is installed. David Rockefeller in 1973, was designed to evil men: He now bears authority both in heaven enhance political and economic cooperation and on earth (Matt. 28:18), and His between the U.S., Europe, and Japan. For the LORD spoke thus to me with a dominion is an everlasting one that shall strong hand, and instructed me that I should 6. Larry Abraham, Call It Conspiracy (Se- not walk in the way of this people, saying: “Do never pass away (Dan. 6:26). attle: Double A Publications, 1985), 231. not say, ‘A conspiracy,’ Concerning all that this The power brokers have seized the 7. Ibid., 146. people call a conspiracy. Nor be afraid of their centers of power: banking, industry, 8. R. J. Rushdoony, The Roots of Reconstruc- threats, nor be troubled. The LORD of hosts, media, and education. The conspiracies tion (Vallecito: Ross House Books, 1991), Him you shall hallow; Let Him be your fear, are manifold and often ignorant of one 664. and let Him be your dread. He will be as a another. International financiers ma- 9. Robert Kagan, Of Paradise and Power: sanctuary. (Is. 8:11-14) nipulate the money supply while secular America and Europe in the New World Order Dread is the strongest form of fear educators humanize another generation (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003), p. and must not be given to the conspira- of children. Corporate-controlled media 10-11. tors. To fear them is to declare them curtails the truth while the defense 10. Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, gods. It’s to suppose they can thwart the industry grossly profits from perpetual Forces, and Resources for a New Century, A Report of The Project for the New American sovereign decree of God. Our dread is war. They each pursue their selfish ends Century, Sept. 2000, p.51 reserved for God alone because it is a with no real regard for the other. 11. http://washingtontimes.com/nation- form of worship. In this sense the Chris- Yet together they represent the al/20050927-121122-3262r.htm tian can never exalt conspiracy theories corporate body of the first Adam who 12. Ron Paul, “It Can’t Happen Here” above the doctrines of God and the sought a shortcut to glorification. But it (Dec. 21, 2004) http://www.lewrockwell. promise of cultural victory. Rushdoony is only our conformity to Christ’s image com/paul/paul225.html states the matter with perfection: that makes us “like God.” Seizing the continued on page 31

10 Faith for All of Life November/December 2005 Faith for All of Life THE DEATH OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER … IT IS NOW OFFICIAL By Larry Abraham Insider Report “Is It Not a Cause?” June 3, 2005

o the surprise of many and the sion of WWII. The original architects The UN … What Next? Tprotestations of others, I have been are now dead, i.e., Jean Monnet, John Their “last best hope,” the UN, saying for some time that the New J. McCloy, Robert Schumann, and Col. is now exposed for what it has always World Order Gary Allen and I wrote Edward Mandel House, but their heir been, a whore house on the East River, about in None Dare Call It Conspiracy, apparent, David Rockefeller, has lived while the troops of the Peacekeeping and I concluded in the sequel Call long enough to witness the destruction Force rape, pillage, and plunder. It It Conspiracy, was dead. The official of the Twin Towers, his NWO financial won’t be long before the bureaucrats in obituary was written by the French and center, and the votes in France and the the Kofi Annan-presided-over-tower th st Dutch voters on May 29 and June 1 Netherlands. So far as I can tell, not start carting off the furniture, office of 2005. Thank God! one reporter knew enough about the machines, and paper clips. The liber- Just about the time I start to have background to even contact him for als in the Senate will probably still be doubts in the whole process of demo- an interview about his Trilateral failed filibustering, if John Bolton is “sensitive” cratic elections, somewhere, some bodies dreams. enough to help “reform” that object of renew my faith in the Jeffersonian op- The United States of Europe was their affection before an al Qaeda homi- timism of “trusting the people.” These to be a cornerstone in the New World cide bomber blasts it into smithereens. developments are huge, and as usual Order (NWO) as was Japan in the Far the American media have in large part East, completing the hand of their Tri- The Euro … What Now? missed the story. They were so preoc- lateral World. The US was the anchor, With the collapse of Eurolandia, cupied with the “Deep Throat” revela- of course. But not anymore. or should I say the “false start,” a whole tions and the opportunity to kick Nixon Even before the “no” votes in France host of new conditions arise and ques- “one more time” along with the hope of and Holland, the NWO faced the unex- tions emerge not the least of which is, comparing him to George Bush, they pected jokers in their stacked card deck “What happens to the currency without could have cared less what happened in of radical Islam and the New China, a country”? It was but a few short weeks Europe. It doesn’t help their enthusi- neither of which had been dealt into ago that many were saying how the euro asm for the story when any thoughtful their original game plan, but with these was a forgone conclusion to replace the conclusion leads to even more valida- referenda it is an unquestioned “bust dollar as the major reserve currency and tion of the US as the only world super out.” After trillions of dollars spent and the denominator for the price of oil. power. There is no nation of Europe to countless millions of hours in planning, Whoops! Even the Swiss had plans afoot carry out the Chirac wish of “challeng- the game is over. Gone! Kaput! to replace their franc with the euro. ing the US” for international leadership. The ironies of this development The insiders of the NWO felt they were Someone had better check the bars on would fill a library of tomes, none of being ever so clever by putting the new the windows of the New York Times; we currency in place before they moved wouldn’t want any bodies strewn on the which are likely to be written accurately. against the sovereignty of the nation sidewalks of Times Square. On second But I must admit, when Gary and I states, believing that people’s loyalty thought, “Never mind.” wrote our first book in 1972, and I did the sequel in 1985, I never dreamed would “follow the money.” Maggie The Plan things would turn out as they have. But Thatcher told them it wouldn’t work The dream which died this week I shouldn’t feel too bad, neither did the when she gave her now famous speech has been in the making since the Paris Wise Men, as they liked to call them- at Bruges, Belgium, which led to her be- Peace Conference following WWI and selves, and they sure had more invested ing “overthrown” by her own party. Take gained heavy momentum at the conclu- than I did. a bow, Mrs. Thatcher, you deserve it.

November/December 2005 Faith for All of Life 11 Faith for All of Life From the Urals to the North anytime soon. What will be read are Euro-rats. Old Europe is rapidly becom- Atlantic, politicians are now checking the “help wanted” ads of the European ing what Gertrude Stein once said about their hole cards, trying desperately to newspapers by the Brussels bureaucrats Oakland, “There is no there, there.” figure out how to play the next hand as they get ready to vacate the premises And now the whole world sees it. (I have been watching too much poker and try to find honest work. And speak- The New World Order is dead, long on TV lately; I just can’t seem to shake ing of “work,” that too seems to be a big live Freedom! the poker analogy). On June 3rd, Italy’s problem for people who are used to a In 1971, Larry Abraham co-authored the 35-hour work week trying to compete Welfare Minister Roberto Maroni said groundbreaking bestseller, None Dare Call It in an interview to Repubblica Daily, against the Indians and Chinese who log Conspiracy, selling over five million copies, “The country should hold a referen- that many hours in three days. which became a lightening rod for the dum to decide whether to return to One of the immediate effects of the resurgence of the Conservative Movement the lira.” Maroni cited Britain as a vote is Jacques Chirac’s and Gerhard in America. Overnight, Mr. Abraham virtuous example of a country whose Schroeder’s worst nightmare has become became a nationally known speaker and economy “grows and develops, main- a self-inflicted wound. While they were leader for the conservative revolution that taining control over its currency.” This is saying to Eastern Europe, “Shut up and was taking shape in this country. In 1985, he published his powerful and best-selling highly significant coming from a leading do as you are told,” Mr. Bush was tour- sequel, Call It Conspiracy. minister in the third largest economy ing Latvia, the Ukraine, and Georgia in Europe. It is just the start, as others saying, “Come join our model; we are He is the former publisher of Conservative will follow in their skepticism. All over with you every step of the way.” George Digest Magazine and continues to serve the Euro-states, people will turn against W. has made it very clear that he sees as the Editor and Chief writer of Larry the leaders who promised them the “pie our natural allies in the former com- Abraham’s Insider Report, in continuous publication for twenty-three years. in the sky” if they would vote to join in munist countries and not in the social- Insider ist-infected, culture-destroying, limp Report has subscribers in all fifty states and the Super-State. The current trickle will over 49 foreign countries and is one of the soon become a flood of resentment as wrists of Paris and Berlin. Adding insult most respected and quoted newsletters in the French, German, Belgium, Spanish, to injury, whom does Chirac appoint as the industry. along with the other western European Prime Minister the day after the vote? economies, continue to flounder and None other than Dominique de Vil- He is a founding member of the National Committee for Monetary Reform, a past get worse. The jealousies, resentments, lepin, the Napoleonic fantasy-monger, who is dedicated to creating a French- member of The Council for National Policy and outright prejudices, which had and the International Policy Forum. been ignored and given more cosmet- controlled Europe and who prided ics than a Gloria Swanson close-up, himself in shafting Colin Powell at the showed themselves in the French voters UN before the Iraq invasion by leaking who worried about the “Polish plumb- forged documents suggesting Niger had ers” taking away jobs and the “invasion sold yellow cake uranium to Saddam. of the Turks.” The eastern European If you were a European from virtually countries previously lined up to join the anywhere over there, that worried about EU are saying to themselves about now, the future and especially about Islamic “Ah … thanks but no thanks, don’t call terrorism, whom would you trust … us we’ll call you.” George W. Bush or the Paris, Berlin, and Brussels elites? The US influence, The Politician’s Dilemma primarily through NATO, which the The Eurocrats, led by Chirac, are French abandoned years ago, will grow insisting they will “try again” at some like tulips in the Netherlands. later time to seek voter approval for the The next move will be to relocate 400-page constitution, but that pre- the US military bases out of Germany sumes a couple of things: one of which and put them down in the more friend- is that somewhere, someone in Europe ly environs of Eastern Europe or bring will read it, and two, they will like what them home completely. Either way, the they read. I think neither will happen geopolitical balance shifts away from the

12 Faith for All of Life November/December 2005 Faith for All of Life Neoconservatism vs. Christian Reconstruction By Gary North

n 1965, R. J. Rush- saying for half a century by 1965, that tive political opinion at the University of Idoony moved his the results of government intervention California, Riverside, in 1960. family from Palo Alto, into the economy are the opposite of Nisbet had written one book, The California, to the San what the interventionists promised that Quest for Community, in 1953. In 1954, Fernando Valley. He their programs would achieve. he became the Dean of the College at had been working for Mises had made this judgment UCR, the year it opened. Thus, Pod- two years on a research grant from the based on a rigorous application of horetz and Kristol lifted Nisbet out of Center for American Studies, which was economic theory. Authors in The Public academic obscurity and opened the door in the process of being dissolved. Interest kept economic theory in the for him to become one of the leading That same year, he started what background. They reported on the intellectuals in American conservatism became Chalcedon, operating under the empirical results of the government’s by 1970. As editor of Basic Books, legal umbrella of Walter Knott’s non- welfare programs. These programs, if Kristol published Nisbet’s book, The So- profit foundation. He began publishing not total failures, at least were producing ciological Tradition, in 1966. It became a monthly newsletter, which became the highly negative side effects. Of course, an instant classic — a rare event in book Chalcedon Report. None of this attracted there is no such thing as a side effect, as publishing. any attention by the media. biologist Garett Hardin once remarked. Nisbet had the intelligence, the lit- At the other end of the country There are only effects, some of which erary skills, and the perspective in 1953. in 1965, two momentous events took people do not like. These unpleasant But he had no market. Beginning in place. First, Norman Podhoretz, editor effects are then called side effects. 1965, he gained access to a large market. of Commentary, the publication of the What was remarkable at the time As he told me in the late 1960s, “I be- American Jewish Committee, began a and also in retrospect is the fact that in came one of their in-house sociologists. major shift of editorial policy. What had 1965 there were academic authors who Jews buy a lot of books.” Yet this does been a standard though highly literate were willing to break with the prevailing not explain the existence of that market journal of conventional political liberal liberal opinion. This was in the heyday after 1964. It had not existed in 1963. opinion began a metamorphosis into of the Great Society, when Johnson Something changed in 1965. Many a much more skeptical publication. was able to pass more welfare legisla- things changed, seemingly overnight. A Podhoretz and his friends steadily lost tion than any president since Franklin new liberalism arrived, which developed confidence in Lyndon Johnson’s Great Roosevelt during his first term. Yet these into the Vietnam student protest move- Society. authors sent in their footnoted articles, ment and the domestic counterculture, indicating that they had either been commonly known as the hippie move- Second, also in New York City, Pod- closet conservatives for many years or ment. The counterculture was opposed horetz’s friend Irving Kristol launched else they had experienced a paradigm by all conservatives, but also by the The Public Interest, a quarterly scholarly shift, along with Podhoretz and Kristol. fledgling neoconservatives. We can eas- journal. This journal became the pri- In the case of sociologist-historian ily date the arrival of this new liberalism: mary intellectual outlet for what became Robert Nisbet, there had been no para- the student protest movement at the known as neoconservatism. Under digm shift. He had been a conservative University of California, Berkeley, in the Kristol’s editorial leadership, this journal for well over a decade, a conservative of fall of 1964. It caught the older liberal- began to publish articles by professors the Russell Kirk variety. It was Nisbet ism completely by surprise. By 1968, at some of America’s finest universities. who first introduced me to Kirk in 1960. it had confirmed the old adage, “The What was unique after 1965 was their I was one of two undergraduates invited Revolution is eaten by its children.” To willingness to analyze the actual results to lunch by Nisbet, where Kirk also which anti-revolutionary conservatives of the growing welfare state. They had been invited. Approximately two have always responded: “But not soon found, as Ludwig von Mises had been students were the sum total of conserva- enough.”

November/December 2005 Faith for All of Life 13 Faith for All of Life One irony here is that Nisbet and Rushdoony and I were anti-Com- With the Gulf War in early 1991, Rushdoony were both educated at munists of the Old Right. We were for- the split between the neoconservatives Berkeley in the late 1930s. Nisbet had eign policy non-interventionists, called and Christian Reconstruction became remained there as a professor. Rush- isolationists by non-interventionism’s obvious. Rushdoony and I publicly doony had gone into almost perfect critics. We rejected the idea of the state opposed the war. The neoconservatives obscurity as a missionary to the Western as savior, and Communism was the favored it. Shoshone tribe in Nevada and Utah. most intense and ruthless of the modern With the fall of the Soviet Union six There he read constantly, assembling his philosophies of salvation by civil law. months later, the neoconservatives be- now legendary personal library. There In contrast, neoconservatives had been came open advocates of a new American he also saw socialism firsthand: the anti-Communists of the conventional empire. Christian Reconstructionists Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), arguably liberal variety. Some of them, including rejoiced that the Soviet monster was the West’s oldest national experiment Kristol, had been part of a CIA-funded dead, but we had moral objections to in socialism. The system was a visible front called the Congress of Cultural the Clinton Administration’s economic failure — one which few non-BIA white Freedom, established in 1950. The CIA sanctions against Iraq. The neoconserva- men had ever witnessed at close range in had bankrolled the liberal but anti- tives went along with the sanctions. 1950. Liberalism never tempted Rush- Communist monthly British magazine, Hijacking the Christian Right doony again. Encounter, which had been a kind of Gentile version of Commentary. This The neoconservatives have had Two Kinds of Opposition CIA connection was not discovered access to millions of dollars through The neoconservatives tended to by the literati until 1967. Kristol was large foundations: Olin, Scaife, Bradley, be skeptics of the Vietnam War as the Encounter’s first co-editor. Melvin Lasky and Smith Richardson. Money talks. 1960s closed. So was Rushdoony. So edited it from 1958 to 1990. Both he In Washington, it screams. Christian was I. But there was a fundamental and Kristol had been Trotskyites in the Reconstruction has been entirely self- difference in this anti-war spirit. The 1930s.1 funded through small donations by neoconservatives had all been big sup- During the 1970s, the neoconserva- newsletter subscribers and book buyers. porters of previous American wars. tives began to be concerned about the Neoconservatism could call on Rushdoony and I were both historical build-up of Soviet missiles and nuclear high-level government figures to give revisionists regarding America’s wars. weapons. One of their organizations was speeches after Reagan’s election. Chris- We believed that the United States had the Committee on the Present Danger, tian Reconstruction could not. Neo- not fought a legitimate war since 1783. which publicized the nuclear threat. conservatives were on major university We were convinced that Wilson and In the 1980s, this outlook dovetailed faculties from the beginning. Not so Roosevelt had tricked the nation into with the work of former General Daniel with Christian Reconstruction. war, with Roosevelt deliberately provok- Graham’s work in publicizing SDI: the Neoconservatives gained influence ing Japan’s attack at Pearl Harbor. The Strategic Defense Initiative, dubbed — some would say control — over the neoconservatives were anti-war selec- “Star Wars” by the media after Reagan’s editorial page of the Wall Street Journal. tively — we might say empirically. They 1983 speech. Graham, Rushdoony, and I wrote a couple of book reviews for it in opposed the Vietnam war in much the I were all active members of the Council the early 1970s. same way that they opposed this or that for National Policy in the first half of The New Christian Right was born Great Society program: on an ad hoc the 1980s. in September, 1980, at the Reunion basis. They were visibly pragmatists. Graham was promoting national Arena in Dallas: the National Af- They were also pro-Israel. They be- defense, not the establishment of an fairs Briefing Conference. This was an lieved in the policies of the U.S. govern- American counter-empire. He and amalgam of the post-Goldwater Right ment in supporting the State of Israel retired General Albion Knight favored (Richard Viguerie’s mailing list empire), against the Arabs and in sending billions SDI because it offered a technological called the New Right, and some major of taxpayers’ dollars to the govern- nullification of MAD: Mutual Assured Protestant fundamentalist TV lead- ment of Israel. Rushdoony and I were Destruction, which was policy based on ers. I spoke, through the intervention anti-Zionists. We were also opposed to holding civilian populations captive by of Howard Phillips. In a back room of government-to-government foreign aid the threat of nuclear attacks on cities. I the Arena, Bob Billings said it best in – to Israel or any other nation. agreed. continued on page 31

14 Faith for All of Life November/December 2005 Faith for All of Life Breaking the Yardstick by which We Measure Success by Martin Selbrede

n one of my talks at gratuitously identify itself with Malachi’s catastrophically under the reign of Ze- IChalcedon’s re- storehouse to avoid the implications of dekiah. The reconstruction, particularly cent 40th Anniversary Neh. 10:38. But even if Christians did among the populace, had no abiding Conference in Georgia, tithe, the Church’s misallocation of the root. It’s as if the cultural flip-side to I alluded to a question tithe would completely undermine that “unless your righteousness exceeds that from a Bay Area atheist fact, fostering ecclesiastical bloat. If God of the Scribes and the Pharisees…” is group during a telephone interview the asserts He is robbed when individuals “unless your reconstruction exceeds that month before. The atheists were curious withhold the full tithe, will He hold of King Josiah…” But make no mistake: how I would measure the success of churches blameless that misapply 90% if we, today, were enjoying even a fifth Christian Reconstruction. From their re- of the collected tithe? Judgment begins of the progress that Josiah’s cultural pile- action to my answers, I’d guess that they at the house of God. We’d expect that driver had achieved, many Christians expected me to wax enthusiastic over the He will prosper, not the ecclesiocentric would see that as a miraculous, world- supposed impact of the Christian Right churches, but the basiliocentric (King- wide success. So we must continually on national politics and on the Repub- dom-centered) churches. remind ourselves that “these things hap- lican Party. They expected me to couch In short, when every Christian puts pened to them for ensamples: and they my reply in statist terms (a framework his money where his preachy mouth is, are written for our admonition” (I Cor. they appear to find both intelligible and and churches trust God and obey the 10:11). Only unshakeable things can credible). They were distressed when I injunction of Nehemiah 10:38, Chris- remain when God moves in history. instead proposed two goals that, if met, tian Reconstruction can acknowledge a John Peter Lange brings home the would signal the success of Christian major success. The cultural implications meaning of counting the cost before Reconstruction. I further insisted that of these two indices will be deep, lasting, building a tower (Lk. 14:28-30) in until these two goals were achieved, any and will snowball. Until that time, both words that apply both to Josiah’s reform other alleged “successes” of Christian individuals and churches are illegiti- and our own era: Reconstruction would be like “Band- mately dipping their hands into God’s The beginning signifies nothing unless Aids” applied to a compound fracture: pockets — in different ways, assuredly, it leads to the end; a good ending is superficial and ephemeral. but no less culpably. impossible without careful calculation What two things would indicate So, what is going on culturally in and continually renewed exertion of all that Christian Reconstruction has been the mean time? Christians are looking inward powers… So long as the City of successful? First, that Christians tithe all for quick political fixes, and are equating God shows so many incomplete towers the tithes commanded in the Bible: the any perceived progress on such fronts and heaps of ruins, it cannot possibly Levitical tithe, the poor tithe, and the as rip-roaring successes. It is instruc- make upon its enemies the impression 1 rejoicing tithe. All of it. Every last, de- tive, then, to consider the rip-roaring of an impregnable fortress. centralizing, state de-bloating cent of it. successes achieved by King Josiah, the By the time you read this, Mark Second, that the tithe is applied as com- greatest king of the Old Testament by Rushdoony, Chris Ortiz, and myself will manded in Scripture (e.g., Neh. 10:38), Scriptural acclamation. have (Deo volente) attended a follow-up with only a tithe of the tithe directed to The scriptures that speak of Josiah’s conference in New York (October 21- institutional worship, but 90% of the reign should bring tears of joy and 22, 2005) sponsored by secularists for tithe directed to Levitical functions (in recognition to those sympathetic to the purpose of enlightening attendees particular, education of children). Christian Reconstruction. The fact is, on the dangers of “Dominionism.” We These two things go in tandem: so notwithstanding the astonishing strides expect that secularists will once again long as Christians won’t tithe, the short- under Josiah, Israel’s reconstruction (as in April 2005’s conference) apply changed Church will be tempted to was short-lived and finally collapsed statist/political yardsticks to measure the

November/December 2005 Faith for All of Life 15 Faith for All of Life success of the Christian Right, concern- way as to be observed,” which relates “to The coming in of the kingdom shall ing which they take (to be charitable the observation of objects falling under not be by the arm of flesh, nor shall here) a dim view. As I see Christians the senses.”4 The great 19th century it be the product of the strifes and grab the exact same yardsticks to draw German exegete, H.A.W. Meyer, agrees: contests of men which are in the world, — it is not to be done by might or exultant conclusions, I find myself in “[T]he coming of the Messiah’s king- power, but by the Spirit of the Lord of dom is not so conditioned that this the ironic situation of regretting my hosts, Zech. 4:6. Certainly the striv- coming could be observed as a visible comments to the Bay Area atheists con- ings of men about this business shall development, or that it could be said, in cerning the two tithe-based yardsticks I have no influence into it. It shall be by consequence of such observation, that proposed. My change of heart isn’t based the glorious manifestation of His own here or there is the kingdom. The com- on my analysis being incorrect. Nor is it power, and that by His Spirit subduing ing… develops itself unnoticed.” 5 because I’ve come to prefer other equally the souls of men unto it; — not by the suitable yardsticks (e.g., “when conser- John Owen touches on Luke sword of man setting up a few to rule 7 vative Christian pastors no longer put 17:20 in his sermon on Daniel 7:15- over others. their own kids in public schools, creat- 16 preached on Oct. 13, 1652, taking What, precisely, is the danger? ing arguably the worst example possible up the issue of the diverse opinions on The danger is in equating short-term for their flock”). My reversal is premised the matter of Christ’s Kingdom: “This progress (which stands every chance on the fact that all such yardsticks reflect we find, by woeful experience, that all of being far more superficial than the gross presumption in light of our Lord’s who, from the spirituality of the rule progress achieved under Josiah) with words at Luke 17:20. of Christ, and delight therein, have de- the forward-motion of God’s Kingdom. When the Pharisees inquired of generated into carnal apprehensions of In fact, the great error of far too many Christ, “When comes the kingdom of the beauty and glory of it, have, for the 19th century postmillennialists was their God?”, they did not “intend to inquire most part, been given up to carnal ac- expectation of too-rapid progress. When as to the date but as to the visible signs tions, suited to such apprehensions; and these faulty expectations imploded (cf. and tangible proofs for determining that have been so dazzled with gazing after WWI, WWII), premillennialists could the kingdom has truly come” (Lenski2). temporal glory, that the kingdom which justifiably characterize the shift away The words of Christ in answer to this comes not by observation hath been vile from postmillennialism as a rout. cannot be evaded: “The kingdom of in their eyes.” In short, postmillennialists bank- God cometh not with observation.” Owen doesn’t fail to press the per- ing on what they observed (contra Luke How theologians use this idea ap- sonal component upon our souls: “Let 17:20) invariably lived to regret it. It’s pears to vary with their eschatology. not any think to set up the kingdom a hard habit to break: even postmillen- Amillennialists think it applies with of Christ in the world, while they pull nialist Dr. Loraine Boettner appealed to equal force against both premillennialists it down in their own hearts by sin and the technological/cultural strides of the and postmillennialists: the Kingdom will folly.” But the end game is still clearly Eisenhower era as evidence for postmil- never be visibly manifested this side of revealed: lennialism, a misguided tactic for which the Second Advent, being a purely spiri- Yet, this is certain, that all nations he received full-body slams in debate.8 tual phenomenon, and least of all would whatever, which in their present state It’s an error today’s Christians may be its coming be observable in the premi- and government have given their power sorely tempted to fall into. What cur- llennial sense of a sudden imposition of to the dragon and the beast to oppose rently feeds this temptation? Perhaps Dr. the Lord Christ withal, shall be shaken, millennial rule by Christ in person. Gary North’s insightful essay, “Escha- broken, translated, and turned off their Some premillennialists don’t scruple old foundations and constitutions, into tology and the New Christian Right,” to reverse the sense entirely, as if Christ which the antichristian interest hath gives us a clue when he invokes the vivid had meant it will be unnecessary to hunt been woven for a long season. God figure of those who “smell blood” in the for omens or sift through data to detect will shake the heavens and the earth of tumult of modern politics. it, because the Kingdom’s coming will be the nations round about, until all the God doesn’t appear to be particu- so explosive that no one will miss it. Rid- Babylonish rubbish, all their original larly impressed with human political derbos even adopts this perspective.3 engagements to the man of sin, be power. “All nations before Him are as 6 Godet corrects these notions in taken away. nothing; and they are counted to Him explaining the phrase used by Christ, The means of victory is ultimately less than nothing, and vanity” (Isa. meta parataraseos, meaning “in such a supernatural, as Owen clearly lays out: 40:17). They “are counted as the small

16 Faith for All of Life November/December 2005 Faith for All of Life dust of the balance” (v. 15), meaning high regard God’s people had for power struction (2 Chr. 34 & 35) was a glori- they have zero impact or influence on politics recoiled against them (v. 7-8) ous tree with shallow roots, which made what God determines to do: God’s when Isaiah drops the metaphor and in- the nation’s decline all the more precipi- balances aren’t even remotely perturbed forms the people that the nations (e.g., tous. Failure to focus on the roots, the by their actions. Accordingly, when Assyria) that they envied and courted foundations, always spells disaster down God issues moral imperatives, He has would, like a river, overflow their banks, the line, because the storms will merci- the authority and power to back them that very flood growing actual wings, lessly test them. As Shakespeare put it, up, such that He enforces many of His wings wide enough to cover the entire “When the sea was calm, all ships alike laws directly, not by human institutions covenant land. showed mastership at floating.” (the tithe laws being a prime example Isaiah was so tempted to adopt the It is not without reason that Owen’s of this). Men misread this as largesse, peoples’ viewpoint that he claims the allusion to Luke 17:20 appears on the or worse: “Because sentence against only thing that restrained him was the dust jacket of Dr. Rushdoony’s Chris- an evil work is not executed speedily, strong hand of the Lord pressing heavily tianity and the State. Hailing a political therefore the heart of the sons of men is upon him: “For the Lord spake thus to victory as visible, observable evidence fully set in them to do evil” (Eccl. 8:11). me with a strong hand, and instructed that God’s Kingdom is advancing (using Yet God sets in motion His measured me that I should not walk in the way of a standard tailored to Christians already response: “It is time for thee, Lord, to this people…” (v. 11) Now more than prone to walk by sight) is risky busi- work: for they have made void Thy law” ever, we need the strong hand of the ness in an age where the expectations (Ps. 119:126). Lord to keep us steady and fixed on the of Isaiah 2 (nations flowing to God Alignment with a political party true, unshakeable end-game, and not voluntarily; all men inviting one another is its own punishment. How many on cleverly-painted decoys. There are to go up to the house of God and learn Christians enter a voting booth with the a lot of hares racing towards supposed of His ways and walk in His paths) don’t clear mandate of 2 Samuel 23:3 govern- political finish lines, but the tortoise’s yet figure in our cultural landscape. We ing their suffrage? (“The God of Israel victory is the one predetermined. As Dr. are rightly gratified when our labor is Rushdoony put it so succinctly, “there is said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, not in vain, but breaking out yardsticks He that ruleth over men must be just, no easy way.” If a given political victory to measure the unmeasurable can only ruling in the fear of God.”) Modern by the Christian Right seems too good frustrate us down the line. 9 Christendom’s rewrite too often runs to be true, perhaps it is. Josiah’s reign However, when we take Christ’s something like this: “He that ruleth over was too good to be true, and we’ve got injunction about the unobservable com- men must be electable according to the nothing on him! Neither be seduced by ing of His Kingdom seriously, we will pollsters, lest ye throw away thy vote.” political victories (lest we be “so dazzled be immunized against gleeful reports of The associating, the equating, of God’s gazing after temporal glory, that the “progress” by God’s opponents, such as cause with any given human cause (read: Kingdom that comes not by observation atheist Jim Heldberg’s description of a party, candidate, nation) should never seems vile in our eyes”) nor derailed by Washington D.C. march held on Nov. be taken lightly. losses or setbacks (because our God is He Sad but true: we are prone to that “calleth those things which be not, 2, 2002: “The gates had been opened, despise the day of small things (Zech. as though they were” — Rom. 4:17). and the momentum had begun for 4:10), notwithstanding God’s acting But if we faithfully “raise the organized godless activism. The crowd through them. It is not surprising, then, foundations of many generations” (Is. poured out their enthusiasm. They that God’s people likewise “despised 58:12), living out a text that lifts our poured money into buckets to back up the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and thinking beyond the next election to our their enthusiasm with commitment. rejoiced in Rezin and Remaliah’s son” grandchildren’s generation and beyond, They poured cards with their names and (Is. 8:6). The low water pressure feeding contemporary Christian activism (in addresses into more buckets for future the Shiloah fountain made Jerusalem’s education, politics, economics, etc.) actions to bring a godless America to water supply look laughable next to will take deep, effective root, and will reality.” When we trust the Lord and nations that bordered the mighty hold against what future storms may throw away pointless yardsticks, we’ll Euphrates and other rivers. The “waters come. Storms discriminate between come to appreciate that Heldberg’s re- that go softly” are a metaphor for God’s trees with shallow roots and those with port is no more a sign of the retardation gentle, beneficent theocratic rule; the deep roots. Josiah’s magnificent recon- continued on page 31

November/December 2005 Faith for All of Life 17 Faith for All of Life A Christian Perspective on the Federal Reserve by Timothy D. Terrell

lthough oil, medi- show up at their doors. pressure. But the Fed’s actions have not A cal care, and a few So from 1897 onward, banks been devoid of government influence. other goods and services carried out a lobbying and public-rela- Banks benefited, at least temporar- have become signifi- tions campaign to get a central bank. ily, from the existence of the Fed. The cantly more expensive in The Panic of 1907, a brief but severe Fed’s role as lender of last resort meant recent years, it has been recession, led to louder calls for bank- larger amounts of lending, which banks quite some time since severe inflation ing reform. This was ironic, because the hoped would lead to larger profits. All has afflicted Americans. Since the infla- recession was caused by the Treasury the lending also meant a larger money tionary episodes of the 1970s and early Department functioning as a kind of supply. 1980s, the central bank of the United central bank, manipulating the money Within 15 years of the Fed’s found- States, the Federal Reserve, seems to supply. But within three years, the pow- ing, unrestrained money creation had have been rather well behaved. Reces- erful political forces pushing for bank led to a stock market bubble and set sions since the early 1980s have been centralization generated a legislative pro- the economy up for a disastrous con- short, mild, and separated by relatively posal that would fundamentally change traction. Artificially low interest rates long periods of apparent prosperity. the American monetary system. maintained during the “Roaring 20s” However, even fairly modest monetary On November 22, 1910, Sena- encouraged “mal-investment” — invest- manipulations by the Fed present a tor Nelson Aldrich and a handful of ment that was not supportable by the moral problem. And the Fed still has representatives of the large Morgan and actual amount of savings people were the potential to create serious economic Rockefeller banks left New Jersey for putting aside. A dangerous situation problems, even if recent years have a “duck hunting” trip to Jekyll Island, emerged, as companies (and their stock tended to improve the Fed’s reputation. Georgia. For the next week, at an exclu- prices) were propped up by the appear- The Origins of the Fed sive club partly owned by J.P. Morgan, ance of ample investment funding. From its inception, the Federal Re- the six men wrote a bill that was later When it became apparent to every- serve has been about the increase in the to become the Federal Reserve Act. The one that the investment funding was wealth of certain banking institutions Aldrich Bill was presented to Congress drying up, the stock market crashed. at the expense of the general public. In the following January, but the Demo- Massive government intervention under the late 1800s, the United States was cratic victories in the elections of 1910 the Hoover and Roosevelt administra- functionally on a gold standard. The had turned Aldrich’s Republicanism into tions then turned the correction into a difficulty with a gold standard, from a liability. Aldrich’s name was dropped, depression of unprecedented length and the bankers’ point of view, was that and Senator Carter Glass, a Democrat depth. Ironically, the institution that depositors could come into the bank from Virginia, took over sponsorship of triggered the disaster was granted more at any time and exchange their paper the bill. As the Glass-Steagall Bill, the power. In 1933, shortly after Franklin bank notes for gold. This meant that law creating a central bank was finally Roosevelt’s inauguration, a banking act the bank had to restrain itself when it passed on December 22, 1913, to take gave the Fed more extensive authority, came to issuing new money to borrow- effect the following year. including control over interest rates on ers. The more bank notes in circulation To head off concerns that the bank accounts. per ounce of gold, the greater the risk to Federal Reserve System would entrench The Fed became the enemy of free- the bank. So banks began looking for a large Eastern banks in the positions of market banking, and, in spite of claims kind of government “super-bank” that financial power, the bill provided for to the contrary, the enemy of economic would back them up with a standing twelve district banks to be spread over stability. In 1966, a prominent mod- offer to bail them out if they over-ex- the country. The Federal Reserve board ern banking authority recognized these tended themselves, lent too much, and members were given long (14-year) problems, and the advantages of a gold had large numbers of worried depositors terms to insulate them from political standard. He explained the problem well:

18 Faith for All of Life November/December 2005 Faith for All of Life A fully free banking system and fully The prominent modern banking increasing gold production would not consistent gold standard have not as yet authority who authored this defense be immoral, so if the state could run been achieved. But prior to World War of the gold standard? None other than gold mines, could that be extended into I, the banking system in the United Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the allowing the state to control the amount States (and in most of the world) was Federal Reserve Board. of dollars, via the Fed? In short, no. based on gold and even though govern- While gold mining produces something ments intervened occasionally, banking The Fed and the Limits good for the economy, printing more was more free than controlled…. It of the State was limited gold reserves that stopped dollars does not, and actually causes The moral problems with the Fed the unbalanced expansions of business harm. activity, before they could develop into run deep. The civil magistrate is re- Creating more bank notes does not the post-World War I type of disaster. quired to protect property rights, partly create any new good for society, because The readjustment periods were short by ensuring that parties to a contract the notes themselves are valued only for and the economies quickly reestablished hold to the weights and measures agreed their use as a medium of exchange. For a sound basis to resume expansion. upon (Lev. 19:35-36). No one can en- that purpose, the amount is irrelevant, But the process of cure was misdiag- sure that people value an ounce of gold as long as it accurately corresponds to nosed as the disease: if shortage of bank tomorrow as much as they do today, the thing of value it represents (gold). In reserves was causing a business decline and so we would expect even a dollar contrast to commodities such as gold, — argued economic interventionists based on gold to fluctuate in value. oil, computer chips, soybeans, or steel, — why not find a way of supplying When that dollar changes in value, creating more dollars merely transfers increased reserves to the banks so they some people will gain and some will wealth. By creating money, the civil never need be short! If banks can con- lose. That, by itself, is not a moral government is no longer acting as an tinue to loan money indefinitely — it problem. For example, when more gold was claimed — there need never be any impartial judge. It is instead favoring is mined, manufacturers that use gold slumps in business. And so the Federal one party to a contract over another. Reserve System was organized in 1913. win, and gold investors lose. However, For example, suppose I agree with It consisted of twelve regional Federal we would not consider the gold miners, my friend Chris today to give him 50 Reserve banks nominally owned by manufacturers, or gold investors to have gallons of gasoline in a month, at which private bankers, but in fact government committed any sin. Gold investors do time Chris will give me his collection of sponsored, controlled, and supported. not have a right to a certain price for John Wayne movies. Now, if gasoline Credit extended by these banks is in their investment, so they cannot accuse suddenly rises in price over that month, practice (though not legally) backed miners of any wrongdoing. due perhaps to a disruption in the sup- by the taxing power of the federal Dollar holders (“investors”), even if ply chain, I may regret my contract with government. they have no right to a particular “pur- Chris. But neither of us has cheated The author went on to show how chasing power” for their dollars, do have the other. However, if I successfully the Fed’s excessive money creation in a right to expect the civil government to lobby the government to unload its the late 1920s led to the economic col- stay within Biblical limits. Fundamen- Strategic Ready Reserve of gasoline onto lapse of the Great Depression. Then, he tally, the civil magistrate is charged with the market, so as to lower the price of explained, “statists argued that the gold punishing those who commit certain gasoline at the time I must pay Chris, I standard was largely to blame for the kinds of sins — those called “crimes.” have enticed the government to tip the credit debacle which led to the Great This includes using the sword to protect scales in my favor. The government, by Depression.” The motivation, he noted, citizens against aggressors both domestic working for me and against Chris, has was the understanding that “the gold and foreign, and rewarding those who overstepped its bounds and has become standard is incompatible with chronic do well in that service (Rom. 13). Creat- a player in the market, instead of a deficit spending (the hallmark of the ing or destroying dollars, as the Federal referee. welfare state).” Gold stood in the way of Reserve System does each day, does not this deficit spending, but “the aban- fit into that mandate. So What Do We Do About It? donment of the gold standard made it Suppose we had a more expan- It’s one thing to point out the possible for the welfare statists to use the sive view of the role of the civil state, immorality of the Fed and complain banking system as a means to an unlim- and wished to allow for state-run gold about the damage the Fed does to the ited expansion of credit.” mines. We have already noted that continued on page 32

November/December 2005 Faith for All of Life 19 Faith for All of Life The Dumbing Down of America By Samuel L. Blumenfeld

urricane Katrina tory Education, which was designed to later wrote that Bellamy was “imbued Hwill go down in help underclass children learn to read. with a religious faith in the democratic history as not only the Forty years later, after an expenditure of ideal…. But what distinguishes Bellamy most ferocious and de- countless billions of dollars, there is now is that he grasped the human meaning structive natural disaster more illiteracy among the underclass of democracy as an idea of equality and to hit America, but also than there was back in 1965. liberty. No one has carried through the for what it revealed about our social Is this the result of inefficient gov- idea that equality is obtainable only by underbelly. ernment bureaucracy? Or is it proof that complete equality of income more fully It uncovered the fact that an afflu- minority children in the underclass are than Bellamy.”1 ent, technologically advanced America somehow mentally defective and simply In 1894 Dewey joined the faculty has a large population of people that can’t learn to read no matter how much of the University of Chicago as Chair- can only be called an underclass. This money is spent on them? Marva Collins, man of the Department of Philosophy, underclass not only existed in New Or- a Chicago teacher who founded her own Psychology, and Pedagogy. It was there leans, but exists in every city in America. private school, took these same children that he set up his famous Laboratory These are people who live in poverty who were considered uneducable and School where the new collectivist cur- and are greatly dependent on govern- turned them into highly literate individ- riculum could be tried out. Dewey’s idea ment programs for their basic needs. uals with a future. How did she do it? was to build the curriculum not around Most of them are functionally illiterate. Simply by using teaching methods that academic subjects but occupational How can this be in a country with work. So why won’t the public schools activities, which provided maximum compulsory public education? We use these methods? opportunities for socialization. know that the road out of poverty is The Plan for Failure In his famous statement of belief, education, but apparently the Ameri- The plain truth is that there has “My Pedagogic Creed,” written in 1897, can public schools are establishing, not been in this country a deliberate plan Dewey spelled out quite clearly that the eradicating, lifetime poverty. to change the nature of education in school was to be the vehicle of America’s As we all know, the famous War on America so that the American people socialist revolution. In his Creed he Poverty was enacted during the Johnson could be easily led into a socialist sys- put forth his collectivist concepts of an administration back in 1964. Its goal tem. The story begins with John Dewey, organic society, the social individual, was to eliminate poverty in America. who became the philosophical leader of the downgrading of academics, and the Since then, several trillion dollars have the Progressive Education movement. need to use psychology in education. To been spent on the program. So how is Dewey, born in 1859, was reared Dewey, an individual was no more than it that 40 years later, poverty still exists among conservative Christians in New a cell in a larger organism. and that there may be even more of it England. At the University of Vermont In 1898, Dewey wrote his seminal today than there was in 1964? he eagerly accepted the Theory of Evo- essay, “The Primary-Education Fetich.” The answer is very simple. During lution and began his voyage from Chris- In it he attacked the traditional em- that same administration, LBJ, with the tianity to atheistic socialism. At Johns phasis on teaching basic academic skills help of the National Education Associa- Hopkins in 1881 he studied Hegel in the primary grades, particularly the tion, enacted the Elementary and Sec- and the New Psychology taught by G. teaching of reading by the phonetic or ondary Education Act of 1965 in which Stanley Hall, who had gotten his doc- phonics method. The phonics method the federal government entered public torate under Wilhelm Wundt at Leipzig. produced good fluent readers, individu- education with both feet. Politicians de- Dewey became a socialist after reading als with independent intelligence who cided to spend billions of dollars to “im- Edward Bellamy’s 1888 book, Looking could think for themselves and read prove” education. One of the programs Backward, a utopian fantasy about a anything. Dewey’s aim was to create a in that act was Title One, Compensa- socialist America in the year 2000. He curriculum that would lead to collectiv-

20 Faith for All of Life November/December 2005 Faith for All of Life ist or group-think, in which individual- Reading as a Source of Reading Dis- Language — the latest form of the ism would be replaced by socialist man. ability.” He wrote that “faulty teach- whole-word teaching method — still The first step was to change how read- ing methods may not only prevent the holds sway in our schools and teach- ing was taught. acquisition of academic education by ers’ colleges and is producing more and By 1898 Dewey had become a children of average capacity but may more students who can’t read. socialist revolutionary, determined to also give rise to far reaching damage to And that is why conservative educa- change America into a socialist state. their emotional life.” tion reform is impossible. You may get a However, he realized that the American Despite Dr. Orton’s warning, the school here and there that will respond people could not be persuaded to give educators went ahead with their plans. to conservative parental pressure, but as up capitalism, private property, and The “Dick and Jane” reading program soon as that pressure relents, the school individualism so easily. As an educator, and other look-say or sight-word pro- will return to the establishment goals. he and his socialist colleagues decided grams were put in the schools as early as That process follows the communist that the only peaceful means of reaching 1933. By 1955, these new programs had strategy of two steps forward and one their goal was to take full control of the produced so much reading disability, step backward. That’s how progressives public education system and educate that Rudolf Flesch brought out his best- make progress. children with a socialist curriculum. selling book, Why Johnny Can’t Read. In Dewey wrote in “The Primary-Educa- it he told a startled public: Conditioned Reflexes It should be noted that the pro- tion Fetich”: The teaching of reading — all over the gressives rely on teaching methods Change must come gradually. To force United States, in all the schools, in all it unduly would compromise its final the textbooks — is totally wrong and scientifically proven to be effective. success by favoring a violent reaction. flies in the face of all logic and common Edward L. Thorndike at Teachers Col- sense. lege developed the Stimulus-Response Dewey left Chicago in 1904 and (SR) technique of teaching, comparable joined the faculty at Columbia Univer- As for how the educators were able to what Ivan Pavlov and his colleagues sity and Teachers College in New York. to perpetuate such “error” without any discovered about conditioned reflexes in There he grew in stature as the moral sensible or effective reaction among their laboratories in Moscow. (A condi- interpreter of American progressivism dissenting, conservative educators, he tioned reflex is a learned habit, which we and had an enduring influence on all of wrote: automatically repeat.) the educators who passed through the It’s a foolproof system, all right. Every Thorndike, a student of William portals of Teachers College. grade-school teacher in the country has to go to a teacher’s college or school of James at Harvard, experimented with Reading, a Tool for Revolution education; every teachers’ college gives chickens and, by watching them, devel- The key to the socialist curriculum at least one course on how to teach oped his theory of how children learn. was a different way of teaching read- reading; every course on how to teach He wrote in 1928: ing that would reduce reading skills to reading is based on a textbook; every [E]xperiments on learning in the lower one of those textbooks is written by one where they could only be used to further animals have probably contributed of the high priests of the word method. socialist goals. The whole-word method, more to knowledge of education, per In the old days it was impossible to hour or per unit of intellect spent, than which teaches reading without intensive keep a good teacher from following experiments on children…. The best phonics, would be adopted for use by her own common sense and practical way with children may often be, in the the schools, and professors of education knowledge; today the phonetic system pompous words of an animal trainer, would train new teachers in how to use of teaching reading is kept out of our “to arrange everything in connection the new “sight” method. schools as effectively as if we had a dic- with the trick so that the animal will That the new method would cause tatorship with an all-powerful Ministry be compelled by the laws of his own reading problems was already known of Education. nature to perform it.” by 1929 when Dr. Samuel T. Orton, That situation still exists today. As John Watson, often referred to as a neuropathologist who specialized in the author of a very effective intensive the father of behavioral psychology, speech disorders and reading problems, phonics reading program, I have tried wrote in Behaviorism, in 1924: wrote an article published in the Journal every way to get my program adopted It is the business of behavioristic psy- of Educational Psychology entitled “The by local schools. It’s been like hitting chology to be able to predict and con- ‘Sight Reading’ Method of Teaching one’s head against a stone wall. Whole trol human activity…. Every one of the

November/December 2005 Faith for All of Life 21 Faith for All of Life printed and written 15,000 words that the sense that the reader-created mean- “breaks,” an acute disorganisation of be- a well educated individual can respond ings are a fusion of what the reader haviour, each time that the conditioned to in an organized way must be looked brings and what the text offers…. In reflexes collided, when the animal was upon as an example of a conditioned a transactional model, words do not unable to react to two mutually exclu- stimulus. have static meanings. Rather they have sive tendencies, or was incapable of That basically is the philosophy of meaning potentials and the capacity to adequately responding to any impera- communicate multiple meanings. tive problem. Behavioral Psychology, which perme- ates teaching methods in our public What parent can make sense out of And that is exactly what happens schools. The problem is, however, that that? In whole language, no intensive, in American schoolrooms. Children are while it is possible for both animals and systematic phonics is taught. What unable to react to two mutually exclu- humans to be trained, humans can also whole language does is develop in the sive tendencies (holistic and phonetic) be educated, animals cannot. American child a holistic reflex, that is, the auto- and therefore have a cognitive break- children are given lots of training, but matic tendency to look at all printed down, which is then labeled as dyslexia, very little, if any, education. words as whole configurations, like functional illiteracy, reading disability What do we mean by education? Chinese characters. This occurs when or learning disability. And the behav- Simply, the passing on to future gen- the child is taught a Sight Vocabulary. iorists know exactly how to make this erations the knowledge, wisdom, and Children can memorize a couple of condition occur. The process can be moral values of the past. That means hundred words that way, but by the easily explained: what would you do if learning to read phonetically, learning time they reach the third grade, where as a motorist you were confronted at history chronologically, and learning the a much larger reading vocabulary is an intersection with both a green and required, they hit the wall. The holistic Bible, none of which is being done in red light? Would you stop or go? Your reflex creates a block against seeing the the public schools. Wisdom cannot be tendencies would be in conflict, and phonetic structure of the words. To be acquired through SR conditioning. thus you would be paralyzed. Imagine able to read any word fluently requires this process taking place in the brain of Modern Methods that the child develop a phonetic reflex. a child paralyzed by a conflict between Meanwhile, the techniques of But it is this conflict of reflexes that cre- the holistic and the phonetic. dumbing down children have become ates the condition known as dyslexia. One of the most effective experi- much more sophisticated and complex. All of this was well expounded in a menters in this field was Kurt Lewin For example, the methodology in the book written by one of Pavlov’s col- who came to the United States in 1933 “Dick and Jane” books evolved into the leagues, Alexander Luria, The Nature of from Germany, founded the Research Whole Language approach which is Human Conflicts, Researches in Disorgan- Center for Group Dynamics at M.I.T. prevalent today. Here’s a definition of isation and Control of Human Behavior, and shortly before his death in 1947 Whole Language as given by three pro- published in 1932. It was translated founded the National Training Labora- fessors of education in a book entitled from the Russian by W. Horsley Gantt, tory at Bethel, Maine, where teachers Whole Language: What’s the Difference an American psychologist who had learn the techniques of sensitivity train- published in 1991 (p. 32): spent the years 1922 to 1929 working ing and how to become effective change Whole language represents a major shift in Professor Pavlov’s laboratories. Dr. agents. in thinking about the reading process. Luria wrote: Lewin is mentioned in Luria’s book Rather than viewing reading as “getting The researches described here are the as “one of the most prominent psycholo- the words,” whole language educators results of the experimental psychologi- gists to elucidate this question of the view reading as essentially a process of cal investigations at the State Institute artificial production of affect and of ex- creating meanings. (See the develop- of Experimental Psychology, Moscow, perimental disorganisation of behaviour.” during the period 1923-1930. The ment of this view in the writings of One of the reasons why it is so dif- chief problems of the author were an Kenneth Goodman and Frank Smith.) ficult to remediate a dyslexic is because Meaning is created through a objective and materialistic description transac- the holistic reflex is so firmly established tion with whole, meaningful texts (i.e. of the mechanisms lying at the basis of that learning to read phonetically can texts, of any length that were written the disorganisation of human behaviour with the intent to communicate mean- and an experimental approach to the become a very uncomfortable, if not ing.) It is a transaction, not an extrac- laws of its regulation…. painful, process. It requires learning the tion of the meaning from the print, in Pavlov obtained very definite affective continued on page 32

22 Faith for All of Life November/December 2005 Faith for All of Life An Evolving Police/Surveillance State? by Tom Rose

“concerned reader” has authority to tell federal agencies and fectly in accord with what is known as A who has been their SWAT teams (FBI, BATF, DEA, the principle of governmental interposi- observing the “signs IRS, and federal marshals) how they tion.2 This is God’s method of unseating of the times” makes a must conduct themselves in his county. tyrants and restoring republican govern- thoughtful comment But sadly, very few sheriffs have the ment for the benefit of the common and poses some perti- intestinal fortitude to buck the evolv- people through the process of raising up nent questions: ing police-state system because doing intermediate magistrates who inter- so might threaten their careers or their pose themselves between the offending It appears that our police forces in standing with various federal agencies America are changing and that we are tyrants and the people (1 Kin.12). developing into a Police State/Surveil- on which they have become financially This is just one example of the lance Society. What is the traditional dependent. attempt to federalize local law enforce- model for police forces in America? Are ment. Other pressures come from the Pressures to Militarize they in the process of being militarized? vast monetary resources of various feder- If so, for what reason? How can we Local Law Enforcement al agencies that share money taken from One sheriff who did have the reconstruct the American concept of citizens through government seizures police? intestinal fortitude – along with a good of money and property for distribution understanding of the U. S. Constitution The answer is yes. The orientation to local judges and law enforcement – to buck pressures from Washington, and underlying concept of police en- agencies. When these local agencies are D. C., was Richard I. Mack, who served forcement in America have been chang- “bought off,” justice is perverted (Is. as sheriff of Graham County, Arizona. ing. The change has been progressing 59:14). It takes a local or county-level In January, 1994, the federal Bureau of so quietly as to be hardly noticeable. official with an iron will and high sense Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) Throughout Americas’ history, the tradi- mailed all law enforcement administra- of integrity to resist the lure of federal tional orientation of police enforcement tors in the country a copy of its own funds that can be used to buy new guns has been local rather than national. It interpretation of local law enforcement’s and equipment, training, or other forms was the sheriff, the highest police official duties regarding the new “Brady Law,” of assistance, because needed funds at in the county, and his deputies who were which required a five-day waiting period the local level always seem to fall short without question in control of maintain- to purchase firearms. Sheriff Mack cor- of ever-pressing needs. ing peace and apprehending law break- rectly reasoned along this line: The push for continued federaliza- ers. Incorporated cities and municipali- First, the law is completely contrary to tion of local police enforcement comes ties have had the same local orientation, the U.S. Constitution,…. The Brady from various sources: but the titles change to chief of police Bill also violates the Constitution of First, the technology to accomplish and policemen on the beat. Arizona, which states, “…the rights of this has been in existence for some The traditional American concept the individual citizen to keep and bear years and has been widely accepted by of law enforcement was that it was ap- arms in his own defense or in defense the public. Think: computers, RFIDs plied by the sheriff’s deputy or police- of the state, shall not be impaired.” … (radio-frequency identification devices) Second, the Federal Government has no man, who were regarded as friends, used by merchants and other firms for jurisdictional authority to order or com- right where problems occurred. But this mand me (or any other sheriff in this inventory control, and the “black boxes” historic view has changed gradually over country) to enforce federal law…. I am that now come with new automobiles. the past half-century because of certain not a federal agent; I work for Graham If these can be used for business and political pressures and monetary influ- County and was hired by the people of personal purposes, it is only a short step ences coming from the national level of the county to do their bidding.1 for them to be used by civil authorities. government. The sheriff, as the highest- Note that Sheriff Mack’s concern For example, the National Motorists ranking police officer in the county, still about jurisdictional authority was per- Association reports every month on how

November/December 2005 Faith for All of Life 23 Faith for All of Life computer technology, linked with “red working. Tell people that they are in example of governmental interposition light cameras” and electronic chips, is danger, that they are being attacked or in action! Under the Patriot Act6 federal increasingly being used as a “revenue about to be attacked…. Tell them that agents can obtain citizens’ financial, generator” by cities and local govern- the government needs to watch every health, education, and library records ments all across our nation, over and detail of their lives to protect them…. while preventing municipal employees above the legitimate task of catching America frightens easily. We are afraid from advising citizens that their records of second-hand smoke, terrorists, plastic law-breakers.3 have been seized by the government. guns, and little boys who point their This same technology can be used fingers and say “bang.”4 Federal officials can now monitor by the federal government to build a people who have not even been identi- Third, over the last 20-30 years dossier on every American citizen in our fied as suspects of wrongdoing; they — with the combining in the 1970s of country, which is what some authorities can also secretly search citizens’ homes the “War on Drugs,” the RICO (Rack- are claiming has been happening for and offices without prior notice. The eteer Influenced and Corrupt Organiza- quite some time now. These dossiers new Patriot Act has, in effect, sabotaged tion) Act, and the new legal twist which may contain the most personal infor- the Fourth Amendment without going mation: sources of income and expen- allowed the courts to regard property, through the necessary constitutional ditures, health history, employment rather than the owner or user of property amendment process. The result is that history, the kind of books borrowed as the accused party — things changed. our historic American philosophy of from public libraries, contributions to This opened the door to the widespread republican government has been stood use of masked SWAT Teams to forcibly churches and organizations, bank and on its head: That citizens’ lives should be invade citizens’ homes and businesses in savings accounts, etc. There is no limit private, and government actions be public! to the amount of control that unbiblical search of alleged drug-related and other 5 Some years ago, Congress passed a rulers will impose on citizens! Read 1 alleged crimes. bill that allows federal authorities to col- Samuel, chapter 8. Multi-millions of dollars worth of lect and record samples of DNA from confiscated property and money then Second, Americans – who used to persons convicted of crimes. The data regard themselves as tough, indepen- started flowing into the coffers of our le- are stored at a national registry main- dent, freedom-minded, rugged indi- gal system through so-called “Joint Task tained by the FBI. Recently, the Senate viduals – are no longer so! Civil rulers, Forces” which are made up of federal, Judiciary Committee approved another who are supposed to provide law and state, and local police (but usually under bill, supported by the White House, order so that we may live our lives in control of the federal agents). Even which would allow federal authorities to peace and responsibility to our Creator though the “guilty parties” might never collect and keep DNA information on (1 Tim. 2:1-5), have systematically be formally charged or convicted by a suspects arrested or detained by federal intimidated the American people. We court of law, their seized property could authorities. If not convicted of a crime, have accepted ever-increasing invasion still be disposed of, and money from an innocent citizen would then have of our personal, family, and business sale of the booty be dispersed among to go through the process of petition- privacy at every level of civil govern- corrupt judges and their cooperating ing the government to remove his or ment. Like the cattle I raise on my cohorts. her personal DNA information from ranch, Americans now acquiesce in The majority of American people — the central data base. This step-by-step being fed, cared for (and manipulated) innocently accepting the government’s process shows how the Police/Surveil- by their overseers. Thus, power-seek- claim that they were being protected lance State grows over time and how the ing, ungodly civil rulers are helped by from evil elements in society — readily loss of citizens’ privacy occurs. a Bible-ignorant populace that focuses acquiesced in the growing totalitarian more on the promise of economic secu- phenomena of SWAT teams in action. Why? rity than on man’s individual freedom Thus, the Military/Surveillance So why are the local police forces and responsibility to God and His law. State grew in America. It was later becoming more like the federal military? As one critic of the “Surveillance capped by the misnamed “Patriot Act,” Here we leave the area of fact and make State” writes, which hundreds of local municipalities suppositions instead. [F]ear is an effective way to get people and some states have gone on record The Bible tells us that man’s heart to give up independence, privacy, and to oppose. This widespread action of is deceitful above all things, and des- freedom. It is being used, and it is local governments and states is a perfect perately wicked (Jer. 17:9). Thus, it

24 Faith for All of Life November/December 2005 Faith for All of Life is natural for men to seek power and federal government, which is a creation PA; and in many other publications. He and coercive influence over others. This is of the states. Today much of the power his wife, Ruth, raise registered Barzona cattle certainly true for unregenerate, evil in- wielded by the federal government is on a farm near Mercer, PA, where they also dividuals who seek power to fulfill their clearly unconstitutional. This central- write and publish economic textbooks for use by Christian colleges, high schools and own lust for wealth, political influence, ization of political power has occurred home educators. Rose’s latest books are: Free and the heady satisfaction of wielding as a result of the dumbing down of Enterprise Economics in America and God, dictatorial authority over others. But it the American populace, coupled with Gold and Civil Government. also holds true for regenerate, good men the government encouraging citizens who might want to impose their will on to go on the dole by accepting all sorts 1.Richard I. Mack and Timothy Robert others to accomplish in a hurry what of government aid. This invariably Walters, From My Cold Dead Fingers (Saf- ford, Arizona: Rawhide Western Publishing, they deem to be a worthwhile end. This seduces recipients of government funds 1996), 15-16. arrogation of power necessarily entails to be subservient and fearful of offend- 2.Tom Rose, Reclaiming the American ing the distributors of federal largesse. the dissolution of local power, as found Dream by Reconstructing the American in biblically oriented republics. Think One method of correcting the state Republic (Mercer, Pennsylvania: American of the evil kings in Old Testament Israel; of constitutional ignorance is through Enterprise Publications, 1996). think also of good King David, who home-based constitutional study groups. 3. http://www.motorists.org, Heidi Katch- sinned by numbering the people (1 Chr. Such needed education can’t be achieved key, “Davenport RLC Results Are Lack- 21), and think of good King Solomon through tax-supported schools, because luster,” National Motorists Association who over-taxed the people. they are part of the problem! Foundation News, September/October Forcing others to do one’s will is Second, in this essay I have men- 2005, 11. usually quicker and more efficient, tioned the principle of “governmental 4.Fred Reed, “The Surveillance State: in the short run, than having to go interposition” a number of times, Reflections on Probable Technological through the slow and sometimes labori- which is God’s method of protecting Inevitability,” www.strike-the-root.com, 14 July 2003. ous process of peaceful persuasion. Po- society by allowing a local magistrate to litical power achieved or abused through stand between the people and ungodly 5.For information about the “supply side” of authority. The people are called to rally America’s drug problem, See Daniel Hop- force is always tyrannical. That is why sicker, Barry & ‘The Boys’ – The CIA, The behind the intermediate magistrates God’s plan for the benefit of society calls MOB and America’s Secret History (Eugene, for a republican form of civil govern- to either depose the offending tyrant Oregon: Mad Cow Press, 2001. and/or to reconstruct the government ment that will protect man’s right to 6.The original Patriot Act was passed by personal property and freedom to go along biblical/constitutional lines. One Congress in October, 2001, only 45 days about his personal and business affairs hopes all of this can be accomplished after 9/11. It is noteworthy that the bill was in peace, privacy, and safety. peacefully. Christians, especially, should passed before members of Congress were study this biblical concept and decide able to read it! What Can We Do? whether or not the time has come to © 2005 by Tom Rose There is not the slightest doubt that apply it. I, obviously, believe that the power is being systematically concen- time has come to follow God’s workable trated in our country and that local law plan of dismantling and reconstructing enforcement is being brought under the our overgrown and burdensome federal control of the federal government. The government. Let us pray that God will evidence is just too obvious to escape enlighten His people and empower the attention of anyone who will take them to bring about a peaceful process the time and effort to investigate. So, of reconstruction in America. what can we do? Tom Rose is retired professor of economics, First, there is a dire need for every Grove City College, Pennsylvania. He is American to have a good working author of seven books and hundreds of knowledge of the Constitution of the articles dealing with economic and political United States and a good understand- issues. His articles have regularly appeared ing of how the Constitution and Bill of in The Christian Statesman, published by the Rights severely limit the powers of the National Reform Association, Pittsburgh,

November/December 2005 Faith for All of Life 25 Faith for All of Life Leave Us Alone By Rick Williams

“I’m for letting the slavery: “I think now that slavery is The truth is the blue states will South form its own taken care of, I’m for letting the South never secede. First of all, they would not Nation . . . I think they form its own nation.” I’ve yet to meet have the numerical military advantage ought to have their own a Southerner who wishes to reinstitute this time. Recent statistics show that a Confederacy.” Who said slavery, but thank you, Mr. Beckel, for disproportionate amount of military re- that? Robert E. Lee? Jef- that brilliant observation. I’ll make a cruits continue to come from Southern ferson Davis? George Wallace? Actually, note that you’re against slavery. states and, according to a recent article none of the above. The words are those The blue state folks got right in the Christian Science Monitor, “the of longtime Democratic gadfly Bob nasty after the last presidential election. rising generation of military leaders is Beckel,1 commenting on the “red state” Someone even came up with the notion increasingly coming from the American conservative (so-called) electoral victory that the thirty-one red states should be South.”3 And then there’s the little prob- in 2004. separate and called “Jesusland.” While lem of the South’s stockpile of 3,150 Well butter my biscuit, it seems that designation is a little too “blow- nuclear warheads. That would likely be like our dear friends in the North (and dried, evangelist” sounding for me, I a non-negotiable. other blue state areas) aren’t so cuddly could accept it if the remaining states But there’s another reason the blue with us Southerners anymore. Not that would agree to be known as “Pagan- states won’t secede. Who would the they ever were, but Mr. Lincoln and the land.” What am I talking about? They elites scold if they didn’t have Bible old Republican party sure did cotton to already are. Belt Southerners? It is their reason for those tariffs. But seriously, what is it about Amer- existing. As one libertarian blogger so Ah, but now it seems the tables icans and their constant restlessness with accurately noted, “Liberals don’t want have turned. Yes, according to Lawrence our differences and regionalism? Is it to leave their enemies alone. Instead, as O’Donnell, who is a former aide to healthy? What’s the word for the new their track record shows, they want to the late New York Democratic Senator order? In case you’ve been lost in a cave take over the government in order to Patrick Moynihan, red states “collect for the last ten years, it’s diversity. Unless, force their enemies to endure perpetual more from the federal government than of course, you diverge from what the sensitivity training for being such racist, they send in.” While I’ve not taken socialist elites approve of, which is pretty sexist, homophobic, ‘closed-minded’ the time to check the accuracy of Mr. much anything non-Christian. boors, i.e., for disagreeing with them.”4 O’Donnell’s statement, let’s assume, for This is what was truly driving the This incessant need for American the sake of this article, that he’s right. So blue state folks crazy after George Bush liberals to pontificate from their pedestal what? Many Southerners would simply won reelection in 2004. The perceived of self-righteousness and to meddle in take the position that it’s payback time. born-again, swaggering Texan — a.k.a. the affairs of those whom they deem Actually, we could really do with- Southerner — who speaks openly about beneath them has been ongoing and out the Northeast elite’s money; that his faith and whom the liberals fear observed by many. Counter-culture is if we could also cleanse ourselves of will bring in the millennium, thereby seventies rock icon Neil Young was one everything that came with it — a strong thwarting their plans to make little such example, offering his opinions in centralized government, higher taxes, committed socialists out of every child his song, “Southern Man”: an overreaching judiciary, a breakdown in America. Southern man of our Judeo-Christian heritage, just to All of a sudden we had big govern- better keep your head name a few. Yes, please Mr. Beckel, keep ment, anti-family liberals saying things Don’t forget your socialist dollars and go in peace, like: “We hold our noses as we fly over what your good book said which is all the South wanted to do in you,” and “We don’t want to be lumped Southern change 1861: go in peace, that is. in with you anymore.”2 Alas, we knuck- gonna come at last Naturally, Mr. Beckel could not le-draggers who prefer Andy Griffith Now your crosses are burning fast discuss secession without mentioning reruns to South Park can only hope. Southern man

26 Faith for All of Life November/December 2005 Faith for All of Life Naturally, the “good book” and Reverend J. William Jones noted Lee’s of their first loyalties. It is a concept that “burning crosses” go together down Christian response: “General Lee, with many outside of our region fail to appre- South like moonshine and magnolias. that inimitable grace of manner peculiar ciate. It can be summed up in the words The song goes on to castigate Southern to him, promptly rejoined, ‘How can of John Randolph, the eccentric and culture for its role in slavery (conve- you say so, General? Now I wish that aristocratic Virginia congressman and niently leaving out the North’s role) they were all at home attending to their senator: “When I speak of my Nation, I and was seen as a hard-hitting social own business and leaving us to do the mean the Commonwealth of Virginia.” commentary against the “racist” South. same.’”6 When Robert E. Lee tendered his The South’s collective answer can be This philosophy of “leave us alone” resignation in the Federal Army, he was summed up in Lynyrd Skynrd’s classic is what led the Southern states to secede. seen by many as a traitor. But Lee, too, rock song, “Alabama”: The respective States, as the Constitu- was a Virginian first. And it must be Big wheels keep on turning tion clearly denotes, were seen as the re- understood that, at the time of Virginia’s Carry me home to see my kin pository of the rights of the people. And secession, the United States had only Singing songs about the Southland the Southern people had decided they been a reality for about eighty years. I miss Alabamy once again wanted to be left alone. Most South- Virginia, however, had been a political And I think its a sin, yes erners, the cotton state fire-breathers entity for more than two hundred years Well I heard mister Young notwithstanding, had long concluded and Lee could trace his roots in Vir- sing about her that slavery was, and should be, on its ginia back to the year 1640. Lee loved Well, I heard ole Neil put her down way out. The problem was how. his family and his heritage more than Well, I hope Neil Young will remember It is this same philosophy that led he loved the government — admirable A Southern man don’t need him the original thirteen colonies to estab- traits in this writer’s opinion. around anyhow lish the American republic. More of As the culture war heats up, Amer- Bottom line: “We really don’t care a secession movement than a “revolu- ica will, unfortunately, continue to see what you think. Leave us alone.” The tion,” the colonists simply wanted fissures along regional and cultural lines. Northern elitist busybody was, and Britain, who had come to be seen as a Many prominent social commentators, is, concerned with correcting “all us distant, meddling behemoth, to leave both left and right, are suggesting that poor, dumb, illiterate, inbred, redneck them alone to run their own affairs. these divides are becoming as serious Southern folk” and elevating us to their And while Southerners often frame this as those which led to the Civil War. I pedestal. Well, not quite, we’ll always be discussion as a “North vs. South” issue, would argue that the divide is primarily at least a rung or two down the ladder. we realize those distinctions are becom- due to the social engineers’ desire to rid Remember, they need a reason to exist. ing blurred as many of our Northern the South — and the rest of America It is most offensive. Most Southerners, friends, particularly those in the Body — of every last vestige of Christianity. conservatives/libertarians, and Chris- of Christ, embrace the same “leave us Most of the divisiveness would cease if tians just want to be left alone to, as alone” philosophy. the elites would just leave the rest of us Paul admonished, “… study to be quiet, Yet this philosophy was most alone. and to do your own business, and to prominently manifested in our Nation’s Rick Williams is a businessman, writer, work with your own hands, as we com- bloodiest struggle: The War Between and publisher (VirginiaGentleman.com). 5 the States, a.k.a., “The Civil War.” The manded you.” He is the author of The Maxims of Robert We just want to run our businesses, South saw the North as an arrogant, E. Lee for Young Gentlemen, published by love our families and our neighbors, and self-righteous bunch of busy-bodies who Pelican Publishing (ISBN 9781589803107) worship our God. “Leave us alone” is in- had taken economic advantage of their and co-authored Christian Business herently American — or so it once was. region for decades and who now wanted Legends published by the Business Reform Robert E. Lee understood this. One to further subjugate their culture under Foundation (BusinessReform.com). He does day during the War Between the States, the false pretense of ending slavery. not advocate secession but he would like to one of Lee’s lieutenants grew angry as Looking at that struggle, readers should be left alone. he observed a vastly superior Union also consider the very strong tie South- 1. The Washington Times, “Blue States Buzz force arrayed against the Southerners. erners had — and still do in many parts Over Secession” by Joseph Curl, November Frustrated, he seethed in Lee’s presence: of the South — to their homes and 9, 2004. “I wish those people were all dead.” The land. Their states were the beneficiary continued on page 33

November/December 2005 Faith for All of Life 27 Faith for All of Life Unto Caesar and God: Biblical Principles of Christian Resistance By Roger Schultz

n 1521 Martin Luther ered to have descended through the pope priests, Azariah the priest opposed him. I appeared before or the church. In the modern statist age, (Azariah’s resistance wasn’t with force, Emperor Charles V at people think all power emanates from but with a public rebuke of the king. the Diet of Worms to the state, considered to be the supreme To use Presbyterian language, Azariah answer for his teachings. human institution. And as modern saw his authority as “ministerial and Already excommunicat- society becomes more hostile to Bibli- declarative,” not physical and coercive.) ed by the pope and now facing sanctions cal Christianity, there may be increasing Standing with Azariah were eighty other from the emperor, Luther was ordered threats to the integrity of the church. priests of the Lord — described by to recant. His response was direct and Christians must emphasize that Scripture as “valiant men.” And when unequivocal: “I stand convicted by the God has ordained the church as a Uzziah was smitten by God for his pride Scriptures to which I have appealed, and separate sphere of authority. There are and sin, the faithful priests helped hustle my conscience is taken captive by God’s times when the church can and must the proud and leprous king out of the word. I cannot and will not recant any- resist the unlawful encroachments of the Temple (2 Chr. 26:16-21). thing, for to act against conscience is nei- civil magistrate. Because Christ is head Religious leaders frequently chal- ther safe for us, nor open to us. On this of the church, Christians must never lenged sinful and tyrannical rulers. I take my stand. I can do no other. God abandon to the state the rights of Christ Civil magistrates were not absolute: help me. Amen.” The great showdown and His church. As Jesus put it, we their actions were scrutinized by men at Worms is an excellent example of how must render to Caesar the things that of God and they were held accountable a courageous Christian leader and a faith- are Caesar’s, and to God the things that according to principles of scripture. ful church can stand against the unlawful are God’s (Mt. 22:21).1 Nathan denounced sinful King David and ungodly actions of the state. (2 Sam.12). Elijah defied Ahab and Biblical Examples Jezebel enough that he had a reputation Sphere Sovereignty Scripture gives many illustrations of as a “troubler of Israel” and the king’s Reformed Christians have long em- spheres of authority. Upon taking the “enemy” (1 Kin. 18:17; 21:20). phasized the importance of sphere sover- throne, a king was to write out a copy of Old Testament saints provide eignty, and this doctrine is foundational the Law of God, “in the presence of the examples of both active and passive to any theology of Christian resistance. Levitical priests” (Dt. 17:18-19). The resistance to tyranny and despotism. God has ordained separate spheres of king was ordained to rule and was to be The book of Daniel is a case study of authority in human society, including governed and guided by the Scriptures. stalwart believers who disobeyed the the individual, church, state, and family. Priests did not rule over the civil realm, civil magistrate rather than violate Each sphere of sovereignty has a distinct but they had a unique responsibility Scripture or conscience. This was true function and separate authority from for guarding the Word. So they had to of issues of cleanliness and food (1:8), God. And while there will be some guarantee that the king properly wrote idolatry (3:18), and prayer (6:10). In overlap in the authority of these spheres, out the Law — and had every jot and a more dramatic episode, Jehoiada and it is important to protect their integ- tittle correct. This provides a Biblical Jehosheba hid little prince Joash in the rity. The state, for instance, must not checks and balances and a scriptural Temple, protecting him from wicked encroach upon areas of authority given separation of church and state. Athaliah who had seized the throne by God to the church and the family. Just as priests didn’t rule the state, (2 Kin. 11). Biblical teaching on sphere author- so kings couldn’t intrude on the work There are New Testament examples ity has frequently been attacked. In the of the church. When King Uzziah of apostles refusing to obey the unjust ecclesiastically-dominated Medieval pe- entered the temple to offer incense, commands of rulers. When commanded riod, for instance, authority was consid- usurping the God-ordained work of the to stop preaching the gospel, Peter said,

28 Faith for All of Life November/December 2005 Faith for All of Life “we must obey God, rather than men” Canossa illustrated the power of the Christian schools in Nebraska. Indeed, (Ac. 5:29). Our obligation to God is pope and the autonomy of the church. there was strong opposition to Christian always higher than our obligation to My favorite example is of Thomas and home schools around the country Caesar.2 Becket (probably because I like the film at the time. The state asserted a right Becket so much). Previously Chancel- to control the education of children Historical Examples lor of England, Becket was appointed — and threatened to incarcerate anyone Church history also includes ex- Archbishop of Canterbury by his friend, who stood in the way. amples of Christian resistance, and its King Henry II. As archbishop, however, One man of the Louisville church early pages are sprinkled with the blood Becket followed an independent course became my special hero. Dramatic of martyrs. Martyrs chose their causes and protected the church from Henry’s video footage showing the sheriff and carefully. Christians were willing to pay designs. Frustrated by this “meddle- his deputies physically removing praying their taxes, no matter how much a nui- some priest,” Henry’s henchmen mur- congregants from the church particu- sance. But they would not offer incense dered Becket at Canterbury cathedral in larly caught my attention. During the to Caesar. Jesus was their only Lord, and AD 1170. The people of England had raid, officers struggled to remove this they resisted to the death the messianic enormous respect for the memory of the one beefy brother — who must have pretensions of the humanist state. martyred archbishop and his willing- weighed close to 400 pounds. Two, The integrity of the church and ness to die to prevent the church from then four, then six officers labored to its discipline was clearly at issue in the becoming a mere bureau of the state or lug his limp carcass out of the sanctu- great showdown between Ambrose and tool of the king. ary. Passively, but with every ounce of Theodosius. Ambrose was the highly his being, this Baptist Behemoth did his influential bishop of Milan and had Louisville, Nebraska part to resist the tyranny of Nebraska been Augustine’s mentor. Theodosius For conservative Christians in statists. was the Christian emperor of Rome America, there was a wake-up call about The Louisville crisis provoked who made Christianity the empire’s the threat of the civil magistrate in the fierce discussions in my own church. official religion. But in AD 390 early 1980s. The alarm came from tiny One dispensational pietist insisted Theodosius ordered the massacre of Louisville, Nebraska, and the focal point that Christians must never, under any the people of Thessalonica. Ambrose was Pastor Everett Sileven, who spent circumstance, resist the state. Even if directly confronted the emperor for his months in jail. His crime? His church the state forbids the evangelization of egregious sin and refused him commu- sponsored a school to train children one’s children (as in the Soviet Union nion until he showed repentance and in the Christian faith, and it was not — or Louisville), a Christian must obey. gave a public confession. The emperor licensed by the state. To prevent the Even if the civil magistrate forbids the eventually submitted and was restored school’s continued operation, the judge preaching of the gospel (as in Ac. 5:29), to the church. For Ambrose, the church jailed the pastor and padlocked Faith Christians must submit. Though like- was a distinct sphere to which even the Baptist Church. able and devout, the man had com- emperor was subject.3 By 1982, Sileven was a major pletely misunderstood the teaching of A more interesting and compli- national story. The Moral Majority be- Scripture, the Biblical doctrine of sphere cated case involved Pope Gregory VII came involved, and big name preachers sovereignty, and the parameters for and Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV.4 of the Christian Right registered their Christian resistance. Henry wanted greater state control support. Concerned Christians flocked Principles of Resistance of the church and its bishops, while to Louisville to stand with Pastor Sileven The first course of action for perse- Gregory hoped to enhance the church’s and “America’s First Padlocked Church.” cuted Christians is to pray. Christians independence. The resulting feud over Though released for a while, Sileven are charged to pray for civil magistrates church-state authority produced a civil and six other fathers would eventually (1 Tim 2:1-2). Prayers are to be specific: war in Henry’s German territories and spend Thanksgiving and Christmas of “that we may live a tranquil and quiet forced him to seek the pope’s forgive- 1983 in jail, while their families fled the life in all godliness and dignity.” It is al- ness. In 1077, at the “high water mark state, all because they refused to place ways appropriate to pray that the church of the Medieval Church,” the emperor the church’s school under the dominion will be delivered from persecution, will humbled himself before the pope for of the state. enjoy peace, and will be sustained in its three days in the snow at Canossa. The court’s action jeopardized other witness.

November/December 2005 Faith for All of Life 29 Faith for All of Life I suspect that American Christians all, Jesus calls believers to be “as wise as http://freebooks.entrewave.com/freebooks/ are more willing to grumble than to serpents” (Mt. 10:16). docs/a_pdfs/cc_3.pdf) Also recommend are pray. Scripture commands us to pray (1 Some Christians might flee from The Journal of Christian Reconstruction: Sym- posium on Puritanism and Law V:2 (Winter, Thess. 5:15-17), and the early church tyranny. The Louisville families fled 1978-19) and The Journal of Christian Nebraska for the relative safety of Mis- left a testimony of prayer. When Peter Reconstruction: Symposium on Christianity and John were released from prison, souri. Elijah hid himself during the and the American Revolution III:1 (Summer, Christians immediately and instinctively persecutions of Ahab and Jezebel (1 Kin. 1976). prayed (Ac. 4:24). They prayed corpo- 17:1-7). David hid from Saul. The Pu- 2. Discussions of the legitimacy of Christian rately (“with one accord”); they prayed ritans fled England during the despotic resistance can come off sounding anarchis- from Scripture (using the words of rule of Archbishop Laud and Charles tic and revolutionary. Scripture (Romans Psalm 2 and 146); they prayed Calvin- I. (Among the reasons given by John 13, for example) requires submission to istically (acknowledging God’s sovereign Winthrop for the Puritan emigration: proper God-ordained authority. Sphere power and purposes — 4:28); and they hopelessly compromised schools!) sovereignty does not legitimize an anarchis- prayed for boldness in proclaiming the As a last measure, Christians may tic do-your-thing rebelliousness. Rather, gospel (4:31). need to resist and fight. Francis Make- sphere sovereignty emphasizes the authority of God-ordained spheres in society — and Persecuted Christians must also mie, the father of Presbyterianism in resistance under proper authorities. maintain a faithful witness. Daniel’s colonial America, would not submit to 3. In the 1590s, Andrew Melville delivered friends (Dan. 3) declared their convic- the tyranny of transvestite Governor “two kingdom” speeches to Scotland’s King tions before Nebuchadnezzar, even Hyde and went to jail for preaching the James. For Melville and Scottish Presbyte- though it seemed likely to cost them gospel in New York in 1707. Among rians, James was not “head of the church”; their lives. Martyrs of the church, such the examples of church history, the he was only “God’s silly vassal.” Ambrose as Polycarp, used persecution as an op- Covenanters of Scotland in the late 17th would have appreciated Melville’s emphasis: portunity to testify to their faith. The century are my favorites. Jock Purves’ “King James is a subject of King Jesus!” full edition of Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, Fair Sunshine gives thrilling illustrations 4. This is a confusing case, with no real which runs to thousands of pages, of faithful Christians who laid down heroes, and no happy ending. Gregory VII contains long speeches of Christians fac- their lives in the “Killing Times” for the had a megalomaniacal streak. The maxims ing martyrdom and giving their dying sake of Jesus and their confession. of his Dictatus Papae (1075) include the following: ”that of the pope alone all princes convictions. The testimony and “the It would be a great blessing if a new shall kiss the feet,” and “that it may be per- blood of the martyrs,” Tertullian noted, generation of Christians were willing to mitted him to depose emperors,” and “that became “the seed of the church.” take a stand on the Word of God, the he himself may be judged by no one.” Christians should also use the rights gospel, and the crown rights of King 5. Home School Legal Defense Association, that they have. This is especially true of Jesus. I pray that our children and for instance, does an excellent job of repre- American Christians who have Con- children’s children will have the courage senting and defending home schoolers. stitutionally-guaranteed liberties. The to say: “We are taken captive by God’s 6. Gary North, “The Escalating Confronta- apostle Paul frequently used the legal Word. We will not recant. Here we tion with Bureaucracy,” in Christianity and protections he had as a Roman citizen take our stand. God help us!” Civilization: Tactics of Christian Resistance 3 (Ac. 16:37-38; 22:25-29; 25:11). To- (Summer, 1983): 141-190. day, a number of Christian advocacy or- Dr. Schultz is Chair of the History Department at Liberty University, teaches ganizations help believers and churches Rushdoony, Elitism … cont. from page 3 5 Church History at Christ College, and who are facing pressure from the state. is pastor of Westminster Reformed Now that the elite set the trends for Christians should also be savvy Presbyterian Church in Lynchburg, Virginia. the masses, they long to be different, about publicity and how they present He may be reached at [email protected] and they alter their styles and tastes to their cases. Paul, for instance, shrewdly 1. Christianity and Civilization: The Theol- show their difference. took advantage of the squabbles be- As we have seen, for Plato (and tween the Pharisees and Sadducees (Ac. ogy of Christian Resistance 2 (Winter, 1983) and Christianity and Civilization: Tactics Socrates), justice is an elitist doctrine. It 23:5-6). For excellent ideas about how of Christian Resistance 3 (Summer, 1983) means that all people do what the elite to deal with tyrants and bureaucrats, see had excellent articles on this topic. (Avail- feels is best for them to do. In Plato’s Gary North’s “The Escalating Con- able online at http://freebooks.entrewave. words “we have laid down, as a universal 6 frontation with Bureaucracy.” After com/freebooks/docs/a_pdfs/cc_2.pdf and principle, that everyone ought to per-

30 Faith for All of Life November/December 2005 Faith for All of Life form the one function in the communi- 16. Gary North, Conspiracy: A Biblical View Selbrede, Success … cont. from page 17 ty for which his nature best suited him. (Dominion Press, 1986) PDF edition, 97- realized than a Christian political victory Well, I believe that principle, or some 98. form of it, is justice.” Notice that Plato, 17. Rushdoony, The Nature of the American is a sign of its acceleration. the elitist, lays down a principle, a ratio- System, 174. We must resist being drawn into our nalist premise. Disagree, and you go to opponents’ mental frame, which sees the a slave labor camp or to execution. God North, Neoconservatism … cont. from page 14 nations decisively determining the tilt instead gives us commandments and private conversation: “This meeting of God’s balance. We must consistently laws which we are to obey. These are not is being held because of Rushdoony’s affirm that the small dust of the balance ideas to discuss and try to understand influence, even though most of the is, and will ever remain, irrelevant. We but marching orders for life. God’s laws attendees have never heard of him.” I should pray that God place His strong are more intelligent than all the intel- agreed with that assessment. hand upon us lest we be tempted to seek lectualism of Plato and every elitist since By the end of the 1980s, Christian out and use the kind of yardsticks the then, because God’s law-word sets forth Reconstruction’s ideas had spread into Pharisees had sought from Christ. We the way of life, of faith, and of under- the homeschool movement. They had prosecute the ongoing task of Chris- standing. We are plainly told, “The fear not spread inside the Washington belt- tian Reconstruction according to an of the Lord is the beginning of knowl- way. Christian Reconstruction’s slogans invincible standard, moving inexorably edge, but fools despise wisdom and — “There is no neutrality,” “Chris- toward victory, only when we think His instruction” (Pr. 1:7). Again, “For the tian world-and-life view” — are today thoughts after Him. Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth familiar to millions of Protestants in the By faithfully upholding a tran- cometh knowledge and understanding” pews, even though their politics revealed scendent standard, God’s standard, we (Pr. 2:6). This is not a principle: it is that they still believe in neutrality and shall observe what St. John saw and a fact of life. It presupposes that God common-ground law. reported: “the darkness is passing away, made the world and all things therein, Christian Reconstruction is op- and the true light is shining already” (1 and all creation is governed and judged posed to empire because empire is the John 2:8). Dr. Rushdoony articulated by Him. Elitism presupposes a self-cre- preferred alternative to the Kingdom of the content of that divine standard ated world; it has thrived on the myth God in history (Daniel 2:44-45). Neo- with penetrating clarity throughout his of evolution. In that world of brute conservatives favor the American empire published works, which, in sum, point factuality, there is no law-word of God. because it is pro-Israel and clothed in the way to the highway of holiness, Man therefore fashions ideas or prin- the rhetoric of democracy. There is no as envisioned in Isaiah 35:8: “And a ciples with which he proposes to govern reconciliation possible between the two highway shall be there, and a way, and and rule the world. When Christians try positions. it shall be called The Way of Holiness; to combine God and principles, they try The fundamentalist Christian right, the unclean shall not pass over it; but it to join what cannot be joined. because of its complete commitment to shall be for those: the wayfaring men, In earlier years, I felt that the Hel- the State of Israel, has found common though fools, shall not err therein.” In lenic concept of ideas or principles was cause with neoconservatism. Eschatol- modern language, Isaiah here describes too deeply enmeshed in our thinking ogy matters. The Idiot’s Guide to Holiness. When it for eradication. I have since come to the becomes a bestseller, figuratively speak- Dr. Gary North is the noted author conviction that it is wrong to compro- ing, we will see the rulers and judges of of numerous works on economics and mise with such thinking, or attempt to the earth “serve the Lord with fear” as use and direct it, as I did earlier. Our history and is a co-founder of Christian Reconstruction. He continues to pour out they “kiss the Son” instead of provoking duty is to be faithful; the results are in a steady stream of writing and commentary one another to rebellion against His rule the hands of God. and you can learn more about his work at (Psalm 2). Ortiz, Conspiracy … cont. from page 10 www.garynorth.com and www.freebooks. com. Martin G. Selbrede, Vice President of 13. Rushdoony, The Nature of the Ameri- Chalcedon, lives in Woodlands, Texas. can System, 184. 1. Andrew Roth, “Melvin Lasky,” The Martin is the Chief Scientist at Uni-Pixel 14. Ibid., 160. Guardian (May 22, 2004). http:// Displays, Inc. He has been an advocate for 15. Rushdoony, The Roots of Reconstruction, www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/sto- the Chalcedon Foundation for a quarter 666) ry/0,3604,1222311,00.html century, and is set to take over the scholarly

November/December 2005 Faith for All of Life 31 Faith for All of Life responsibilities of R. J. Rushdoony in Terrell, Federal Reserve … cont. from page 19 Perhaps the greatest good that is being research and writing. produced by these “alternative money” economy. It’s another thing to work on efforts is the publicity — the eyebrows 1. Lange, John Peter. Commentary on the a solution. Unhappily, there are no pain- they raise and the questions they gener- Holy Scriptures. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, less ways out. Returning to a gold-based n.d., p. 232 (Vol. 16B: Luke). ate. It is constructive to think about dollar might take decades, while the Fed what money is, why the gold standard 2. Lenski, R.C.H. The Interpretation of St. continues to plague the economy with Luke’s Gospel. Minneapolis: Augsburg Pub- was important, and whether we really its monetary fluctuations. A national lishing House, 1946, p. 881. need the civil government to control awakening to the immorality of the 3. Ridderbos, Herman. The Coming of the money at all. Kingdom. Philadelphia: Presbyterian and current system, and/or some massive Instead of a quick fix through a re- Reformed, 1962, p. 474. and obvious monetary failure might placement money, we may need to work 4. Godet, Frederic. Commentary on the Gos- speed that effort along. However, moral patiently for moral renewal — a renewal pel of St. Luke. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, awakening cannot be engineered, and that brings the Christian faith to bear 1887, p. 403. as we have seen from Alan Greenspan’s outside the church walls and into all 5. Meyer, H.A.W. Commentary on the New own statements, monetary failure has areas of life. (“Faith for all of life,” one Testament. Winona Lake: Alpha Publica- been used as an excuse for further inter- might say!) It is not easy to convince tions, 1979. 10 vols. Originally published vention that makes the problems even even Christians of the immorality of by T.&T. Clark in 1883. Vol. 2, p. 490. worse. our banking system. The relatively low 6. Owen, John. The Works of John Owen. Some have suggested that in the inflation of recent years may make it 16 vols. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, meantime, individuals essentially boy- more difficult to convince people that 1965 (1850-53). Vol. 8, p. 374. cott the dollar, as far as is possible, by the Federal Reserve is really all that bad. 7. Ibid., p. 376. returning to the use of gold and/or silver Now, more than ever, it becomes critical 8. Clouse, Robert G. The Meaning of the in transactions. A few schemes have to develop the moral case against the Millennium. Downers Grove: Intervarsity appeared, some of them internet-based Press, 1977. Anthony A. Hoekema (p. 151) Fed. (e-gold and e-bullion being prominent pointed out that Boettner’s sketch of world examples). I recall a member of the Timothy Terrell teaches economics at a conditions was seriously out of date, while small college in South Carolina. He is also church in which I grew up who quietly George Eldon Ladd (p. 143) argued that director of the Center for Biblical Law and such claims were a double-edged sword. placed gold coins in the offering plate Economics, at http://www.christ-college. 9. None of this discussion bears on our instead of a check or Federal Reserve edu/html/cble/. Dr. Terrell can be contacted continuing obligation to labor faithfully in notes. at [email protected]. all domains, including the political realm: Such efforts do have problems. As it rather speaks to our attitude toward that the Austrian-school economist Mur- 1. See http://www.chalcedon.edu/articles/ 0207/020709terrell.php. work. When Christ tells the disciples (Luke ray Rothbard pointed out, people are 10:20), “Don’t rejoice that the spirits are unlikely to give up using the dollar Blumenfeld, Dumbing … cont. from page 22 subject to you, but rejoice that your names in exchange, even though it has been are written in heaven,” He didn’t mean that alphabetic system and being drilled in they should stop casting out demons! The devalued by inflation. Therefore, sub- letter and syllable sounds so that the stitutes for the dollar, like one inter- disciples were to draw their eyes upward learner develops a phonetic reflex to net scheme’s “gold grams,” are highly to see that their temporal success was a replace the holistic one. This writer has side effect of something bigger. Consider unlikely to become generally accepted. achieved success in curing some dyslex- Daniel’s vision of the Kingdom as a rock cut And general acceptance, after all, is what without hands that becomes a mountain makes something money. ics of their reading problems by using that fills the whole earth. That Kingdom As for those who have moral com- his own highly structured instruction moves forward like an immense glacier. The punctions about tithing in dollars, it program. In other words, there do exist enemies arrayed like ants in front of it use all perfectly good phonetic reading pro- their strength to stop and reverse it, but they might be well to remember that dollars grams that the schools can use. We are clearly imagine a vain thing — they’re push- do have value, even though they exist ing the wrong way. On the other hand, as we only as paper or binary digits in a bank not looking for a cure for cancer. The push on the glacier in its actual direction of computer. Ideas of “intrinsic value” cure to America’s illiteracy problem ex- motion, let none of us ever boast: “Hey, I have serious problems, as I have pointed ists, but the schools will not use it. moved it!” out in an earlier article for Chalcedon.1 The result is that textbooks for

32 Faith for All of Life November/December 2005 Faith for All of Life history, social studies, science, etc., transform our environments and society Trojan Horse in American Education, How to have been dumbed down. Contrary to in general. We are not just asking for a Tutor, Alpha-Phonics: A Primer for Beginning wishful thinking, one hundred years change in the teaching of reading, but a Readers, and Homeschooling: A Parents Guide after John Dewey showed the way, the radical change in the social and political to Teaching Children. All of these books are progressive establishment has not aban- structure of schooling and society. available on Amazon.com or by calling 208- 322-4440. doned its political and social goals. As President Bush’s “No Child Left the authors of Whole Language: What’s Behind” reform has done nothing to 1. John Dewey, “The Great American the Difference wrote in an article in The deflect the progressives from their goals. Prophet,” 1934. The work was a tribute to Whole Language Catalog published in The only solution for parents who wish Bellamy. 1991 (p. 418): their children to become literate human Whole language teaching is subversive, beings is to educate them at home or Williams, Leave Us Alone… cont. from page 27 place them in a private school that has in the best sense of the word, because it 2. Ibid. their confidence. seeks to restore equality and democracy 3. The Christian Science Monitor, “Where And so we can expect our govern- to our schools, to our children, and in Recruiting Runs Strongest” by Mark Sap- essence, to our society. [When were ment to continue spending billions penfield, July 19, 2005. the schools ever models of equality and more to alleviate the poverty of those 4. Ibid. democracy? –S.B.] in the underclass who will continue to 5. I Thes. 4:11 be miseducated and victimized in our Whole language puts power for 6. J. William Jones, Life and Letters of Gen- schools. Meanwhile, the educators can learning, decision-making, and problem eral Robert Edward Lee, The Neale Publish- solving back into the hands of teachers laugh all the way to the bank. ing Company, 1906. Reprinted by Sprinkle and students. It creates active learners; Samuel L. Blumenfeld is the author of Publications, Harrisonburg, Virginia, 1986, it empowers all of us to act upon and eight books on education, including NEA: page 401.

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The Christian School represents a break with humanistic education, but, Or, buy Volumes 1 and 2 and receive Volume 3 for FREE! $56.00 too often, in leaving the state school, the Christian educator has carried the state’s humanism with him. A curriculum is not neutral: it is either a Ten Commandments for Today course in humanism or training in a God-centered DVD Series. Ethics remains at the center of faith and life. The liberal arts curriculum means discussion in sports, entertainment, politics literally that course which trains students in and education as our culture searches for a the arts of freedom. This raises the key question: is freedom in comprehensive standard to guide itself through and of man or Christ? The Christian art of freedom, that is, the the darkness of the modern age. Very few Christian liberal arts curriculum, is emphatically not the same as the consider the Bible as the rule of conduct, and humanistic one. 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But this book and the author’s later Messianic Character of American Education were a The Foundations of Christian Scholarship resolute call to arms for Christian’s to get their Edited by Gary North. These are essays developing children out of the pagan public schools and provide them with the implications and meaning of the philosophy a genuine Christian education. Dr. Rushdoony had predicted that of Dr. Cornelius Van Til for every area of life. The the humanist system, based on anti-Christian premises of the chapters explore the implications of Biblical faith Enlightenment, could only get worse. Rushdoony was indeed a for a variety of disciplines. prophet. He knew that education divorced from God and from all Paperback, 355 pages, indices, $24.00 $16.80 transcendental standards would produce the educational disaster and moral barbarism we have today. The title of this book is The Victims of Dick and Jane particularly significant in that Dr. Rushdoony was able to identify By Samuel L. Blumenfeld. America’s most the basic contradiction that pervades a secular society that rejects effective critic of public education shows us God’s sovereignty but still needs law and order, justice, science, and how America’s public schools were remade meaning to life. As Dr. Rushdoony writes, “there is no law, no society, by educators who used curriculum to create no justice, no structure, no design, no meaning apart from God.” And citizens suitable for their own vision of a so, modern man has become schizophrenic because of his rebellion utopian socialist society. This collection of against God. essays will show you how and why America’s Paperback, 150 pages, index, $17.00 $11.90 public education declined. You will see the educator-engineered decline of reading skills. The Messianic Character of American Education The author describes the causes for the decline By R.J. Rushdoony. Rushdoony’s study tells us an and the way back to competent education methodologies that will important part of American history: exactly what result in a self-educated, competent, and freedom-loving populace. has public education been trying to accomplish? Paperback, 266 pages, index, $22.00 $17.00 $11.90 Before the 1830s and Horace Mann, no schools in the U.S. were state supported or state controlled. This They were local, parent-teacher enterprises, american history & the constitution supported without taxes, and taking care of all children. They were remarkably high in standard Independent Republic and were Christian. From Mann to the present, the By Rousas John Rushdoony. First published in 1964, state has used education to socialize the child. The school’s basic this series of essays gives important insight into purpose, according to its own philosophers, is not education in the American history by one who could trace American traditional sense of the 3 R’s. Instead, it is to promote “democracy” development in terms of the Christian ideas which and “equality,” not in their legal or civic sense, but in terms of the gave it direction. engineering of a socialized citizenry. Public education became the means of creating a social order of the educator’s design. Such men These essays will greatly alter your understanding saw themselves and the school in messianic terms. This book was of, and appreciation for, American history. 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This book revolutionizes the elections were long considered of less importance than local politics; prevailing understanding and teaching of math. how early American ideas attributed to democratic thought were The addition of this book is a must for all upper- based on religious ideals of communion and community; and the level Christian school curricula and for college absurdity of a mathematical concept of equality being applied to students and adults interested in math or related people. fields of science and religion. It will serve as a Paperback, 163 pages, index, $17.00 $11.90

Save 30% on everything when you order by Jan. 13, 2006 American History to 1865 The Nature of the American System Tape series by R.J. Rushdoony. These By R.J. Rushdoony. Originally published in 1965, tapes are the most theologically complete these essays were a continuation of the author’s assessment of early American history previous work, This Independent Republic, and available, yet retain a clarity and vividness examine the interpretations and concepts which of expression that make them ideal have attempted to remake and rewrite America’s for students. Rev. Rushdoony reveals past and present. “The writing of history then, a foundation of American History of because man is neither autonomous, objective philosophical and theological substance. nor ultimately creative, is always in terms of a He describes not just the facts of history, framework, a philosophical and ultimately religious framework in but the leading motives and movements the mind of the historian…. To the orthodox Christian, the shabby in terms of the thinking of the day. incarnations of the reigning historiographies are both absurd and Though this series does not extend beyond 1865, that year marked offensive. They are idols, and he is forbidden to bow down to them the beginning of the secular attempts to rewrite history. There can be and must indeed wage war against them.” no understanding of American History without an understanding of Paperback, 180 pages, index, $18.00 $12.60 the ideas which undergirded its founding and growth. Set includes 18 tapes, student questions, and teacher’s answer key in album. Retreat From Liberty 18 tapes in album, RR144ST-18, A tape set by R.J. Rushdoony. 3 lessons on “The Set of “American History to 1865”, $90.00 $63.00 American Indian,” “A Return to Slavery,” and “The Tape 1 1. Motives of Discovery & Exploration I United Nations – A Religious Dream.” 2. Motives of Discovery & Exploration II 3 cassette tapes, RR251ST-3, $9.00 $6.30 Tape 2 3. Mercantilism 4. Feudalism, Monarchy & Colonies/The Fairfax Resolves 1-8 Tape 3 5. The Fairfax Resolves 9-24 The Influence of Historic Christianity on Early America 6. The Declaration of Independence & By Archie P. Jones. Early America was founded Articles of Confederation upon the deep, extensive influence of Christianity Tape 4 7. George Washington: A Biographical Sketch inherited from the medieval period and the 8. The U. S. Constitution, I Protestant Reformation. That priceless heritage Tape 5 9. The U. S. Constitution, II was not limited to the narrow confines of 10. De Toqueville on Inheritance & Society the personal life of the individual, nor to the Tape 6 11. Voluntary Associations & the Tithe ecclesiastical structure. Christianity positively 12. Eschatology & History Tape 7 13. Postmillennialism & the War of Independence and predominately (though not perfectly) shaped 14. The Tyranny of the Majority culture, education, science, literature, legal Tape 8 15. De Toqueville on Race Relations in America thought, legal education, political thought, law, politics, charity, and 16. The Federalist Administrations missions. Tape 9 17. The Voluntary Church, I $4.20 18. The Voluntary Church, II Booklet, 88 pages, $6.00 Tape 10 19. The Jefferson Administration, the Tripolitan War & the War of 1812 The Future of the Conservative Movement 20. Religious Voluntarism on the Frontier, I Edited by Andrew Sandlin. The Future of the Tape 11 21. Religious Voluntarism on the Frontier, II Conservative Movement explores the history, 22. The Monroe & Polk Doctrines accomplishments and decline of the conservative Tape 12 23. Voluntarism & Social Reform movement, and lays the foundation for a viable 24. Voluntarism & Politics Tape 13 25. Chief Justice John Marshall: Problems of substitute to today’s compromising, floundering Political Voluntarism conservatism. 26. Andrew Jackson: His Monetary Policy Because the conservative movement, despite its Tape 14 27. The Mexican War of 1846 / Calhoun’s Disquisition many sound features (including anti-statism and 28. De Toqueville on Democratic Culture Tape 15 29. De Toqueville on Equality & Individualism anti-Communism), was not anchored in an unchangeable standard, 30. Manifest Destiny it eventually was hijacked from within and transformed into a scaled- Tape 16 31. The Coming of the Civil War down version of the very liberalism it was originally calculated to 32. De Toqueville on the Family combat. Tape 17 33. De Toqueville on Democracy & Power $4.20 34. The Interpretation of History, I Booklet, 67 pages, $6.00 Tape 18 35. The Interpretation of History, II

Save 30% on everything when you order by Jan. 13, 2006 The United States: A Christian Republic Tape 7 9. New Humanism or Medieval Period By R.J. Rushdoony. The author demolishes the modern myth that the Tape 8 10. The Reformation United States was founded by deists or humanists bent on creating a Tape 9 11. Wars of Religion – So Called secular republic. 12. The Thirty Years War Tape 10 13. France: Louis XIV through Napoleon Pamphlet, 7 pages, $1.00 .70¢ Tape 11 14. England: The Puritans through Queen Victoria Tape 12 15. 20th Century: The Intellectual – Scientific Elite Biblical Faith and American History By R.J. Rushdoony. America was a break with the neoplatonic view of The Biblical Philosophy of History religion that dominated the medieval church. The Puritans and other By R.J. Rushdoony. For the orthodox Christian who groups saw Scripture as guidance for every area of life because they grounds his philosophy of history on the doctrine viewed its author as the infallible Sovereign over every area. America’s of creation, the mainspring of history is God. Time fall into Arminianism and revivalism, however, was a return to the rests on the foundation of eternity, on the eternal neoplatonic error that transferred the world from Christ’s shoulders to decree of God. Time and history therefore have man’s. The author saw a revival ahead in Biblical faith. meaning because they were created in terms of God’s perfect and totally comprehensive plan. The Pamphlet, 12 pages, $1.00 .70¢ humanist faces a meaningless world in which he must strive to create and establish meaning. The Christian accepts world history a world which is totally meaningful and in which every event moves in terms of God’s purpose; he submits to God’s meaning and finds his life therein. This is an excellent introduction to Rushdoony. Once A Christian Survey of World History the reader sees Rushdoony’s emphasis on God’s sovereignty over 12 cassettes with notes, questions, all of time and creation, he will understand his application of this and answer key presupposition in various spheres of life and thought. in an attractive album By R.J. Rushdoony. From tape 3: Paperback, 138 pages, $22.00 $15.40 “Can you see why a knowledge of history is important—so that James I: The Fool as King we can see the issues as our Lord By Otto Scott. In this study, Otto Scott writes about presented them against the whole one of the “holy” fools of humanism who worked backboard of history and to see against the faith from within. This is a major the battle as it is again lining up? historical work and marvelous reading. Because again we have the tragic Hardback, 472 pages, $20.00 $14.00 view of ancient Greece; again we have the Persian view—tolerate both good and evil; again we have the Assyrian-Babylonian-Egyptian view of chaos as the source of Christian Reconstruction in England regeneration. And we must therefore again find our personal and A cassette tape series by R.J. Rushdoony, societal regeneration in Jesus Christ and His Word—all things must previously released as English History examines be made new in terms of His Word.” the impact of John Wycliffe, Richard III, Oliver Twelve taped lessons give an overview of history from ancient times Cromwell, and John Milton on English history. to the 20th century as only Rev. Rushdoony could. Text includes 5 cassette tapes, RR135ST-5, $15.00 $10.50 fifteen chapters of class notes covering ancient history through the Reformation. Text also includes review questions covering the tapes and questions for thought and discussion. Album includes 12 tapes, church history notes, and answer key. 12 tapes in album, RR160ST-12, Set of “A Christian Survey of The “Atheism” of the Early Church World History”, $75.00 $52.50 By Rousas John Rushdoony. Early Christians were called “heretics” and “atheists” when they denied Tape 1 1. Time and History: Why History is Important Tape 2 2. Israel, Egypt, and the Ancient Near East the gods of Rome, in particular the divinity of Tape 3 3. Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece and Jesus Christ the emperor and the statism he embodied in his Tape 4 4. The Roman Republic and Empire personality cult. These Christians knew that Jesus Tape 5 5. The Early Church Christ, not the state, was their Lord and that this 6. Byzantium faith required a different kind of relationship to Tape 6 7. Islam the state than the state demanded. Because Jesus 8. The Frontier Age Christ was their acknowledged Sovereign, they

Save 30% on everything when you order by Jan. 13, 2006 consciously denied such esteem to all other claimants. Today the but himself. Because of this impass, modern thinking has become church must take a similar stand before the modern state. progressively pragmatic. This book will lead the reader to understand that this problem of knowledge underlies the isolation and self- Paperback, 64 pages, $12.00 $8.40 torment of modern man. Can you know anything if you reject God and His revelation? This book takes the reader into the heart of The Foundations of Social Order: Studies in modern man’s intellectual dilemma. the Creeds and Councils of the Early Church By R.J. Rushdoony. Every social order rests on a Paperback, 127 pages, indices, $19.00 $13.30 creed, on a concept of life and law, and represents a religion in action. The basic faith of a society means To Be As God: A Study of Modern Thought growth in terms of that faith. Now the creeds and Since the Marquis De Sade councils of the early church, in hammering out By R.J. Rushdoony. This monumental work is a definitions of doctrines, were also laying down the series of essays on the influential thinkers and foundations of Christendom with them. The life of a ideas in modern times. The author begins with society is its creed; a dying creed faces desertion or subversion readily. De Sade, who self-consciously broke with any Because of its indifference to its creedal basis in Biblical Christianity, Christian basis for morality and law. Enlightenment western civilization is today facing death and is in a life and death thinking began with nature as the only reality, and struggle with humanism. Christianity was reduced to one option among many. It was then, in turn, attacked as anti-democratic and anti-freedom for its dogmatic Paperback, 197 pages, index, $16.00 $11.20 assertion of the supernatural. Literary figures such as Shelly, Byron, Whitman, and more are also examined, for the Enlightenment presented both the intellectual and the artist as replacement for the p h i l o s o p h y theologian and his church. Ideas, such as “the spirit of the age,” truth, reason, Romanticism, persona, and Gnosticism are related to the The Death of Meaning desire to negate God and Christian ethics. Reading this book will By Rousas John Rushdoony. For centuries on end, help you understand the need to avoid the syncretistic blending of humanistic philosophers have produced endless humanistic philosophy with the Christian faith. books and treatises which attempt to explain Paperback, 230 pages, indices, $21.00 $14.70 reality without God or the mediatory work of His Son, Jesus Christ. Modern philosophy has sought By What Standard? to explain man and his thought process without By R.J. Rushdoony. An introduction into the acknowledging God, His Revelation, or man’s sin. problems of Christian philosophy. It focuses on God holds all such efforts in derision and subjects the philosophical system of Dr. Cornelius Van Til, their authors and adherents to futility. Philosophers which in turn is founded upon the presuppositions who rebel against God are compelled to abandon meaning itself, for of an infallible revelation in the Bible and the they possess neither the tools nor the place to anchor it. The works of necessity of Christian theology for all philosophy. darkness championed by philosophers past and present need to be This is Rushdoony’s foundational work on exposed and reproved. philosophy. In this volume, Dr. Rushdoony clearly enunciates each major Hardback, 212 pages, index, $14.00 $9.80 philosopher’s position and its implications, identifies the intellectual and moral consequences of each school of thought, and traces the dead-end to which each naturally leads. There is only one foundation. The One and the Many Without Christ, meaning and morality are anchored to shifting sand, By R.J. Rushdoony. Subtitled Studies in the and a counsel of despair prevails. This penetrating yet brief volume Philosophy of Order and Ultimacy, this work provides clear guidance, even for laymen unfamiliar with philosophy. discusses the problem of understanding unity vs. particularity, oneness vs. individuality. “Whether Paperback, 180 pages, index, $18.00 $12.60 recognized or not, every argument and every theological, philosophical, political, or any other The Word of Flux: Modern Man and the Problem exposition is based on a presupposition about of Knowledge man, God, and society—about reality. This By R.J. Rushdoony. Modern man has a problem with presupposition rules and determines the conclusion; the effect is the knowledge. He cannot accept God’s Word about the result of a cause. And one such basic presupposition is with reference world or anything else, so anything which points to the one and the many.” The author finds the answer in the Biblical to God must be called into question. Man, once he doctrine of the Trinity. makes himself ultimate, is unable to know anything Paperback, 375 pages, index, $15.00 $10.50 Save 30% on everything when you order by Jan. 13, 2006 The Flight from Humanity By R.J. Rushdoony. Subtitled A Study of the Effect of p s y c h o l o g y Neoplatonism on Christianity. Neoplatonism is a Greek philosophical assumption Politics of Guilt and Pity about the world. It views that which is form or spirit By R.J. Rushdoony. From the foreword by Steve (such as mind) as good and that which is physical Schlissel: “Rushdoony sounds the clarion call of (flesh) as evil. But Scripture says all of man fell into liberty for all who remain oppressed by Christian sin, not just his flesh. The first sin was the desire leaders who wrongfully lord it over the souls of to be as god, determining good and evil apart God’s righteous ones.… I pray that the entire from God (Gen. 3:5). Neoplatonism presents man’s dilemma as a book will not only instruct you in the method metaphysical one, whereas Scripture presents it as a moral problem. and content of a Biblical worldview, but actually Basing Christianity on this false Neoplatonic idea will always shift the bring you further into the glorious freedom of faith from the Biblical perspective. The ascetic quest sought to take the children of God. Those who walk in wisdom’s refuge from sins of the flesh but failed to address the reality of sins of ways become immune to the politics of guilt and pity.” the heart and mind. In the name of humility, the ascetics manifested Hardback, 371 pages, index, $20.00 $14.00 arrogance and pride. This pagan idea of spirituality entered the church and is the basis of some chronic problems in Western civilization. Revolt Against Maturity By. R.J. Rushdoony. This is a study of the Biblical Paperback, 66 pages, $5.00 $3.50 doctrine of psychology. The Biblical view sees psychology as a branch of theology dealing with Humanism, the Deadly Deception man as a fallen creature marked by a revolt against A tape series by R.J. Rushdoony. Six lessons maturity. present humanism as a religious faith of sinful Hardback, 334 pages, index, $18.00 $12.60 men. Humanistic views of morality and law are contrasted with the Christian view of faith and providence. s c i e n c e 3 cassette tapes, RR137ST-3, $9.00 $6.30

Epistemology: How Do We Know? The Mythology of Science A tape series by R.J. Rushdoony. Eleven lessons By R.J. Rushdoony. This book points out the on the discipline largely ignored by the modern fraud of the empirical claims of much modern thinker. Learn how philosophers such as Descartes science since Charles Darwin. This book is about and Camus changed modern thought. See how the religious nature of evolutionary thought, circular reasoning is an unavoidable fact of how these religious presuppositions underlie man’s creaturehood. Understand how modern man is increasingly our modern intellectual paradigm, and how irrational, as witness the “death of god” movement. This is a good they are deferred to as sacrosanct by institutions companion set to the author’s book, The Word of Flux. and disciplines far removed from the empirical sciences. The “mythology” of modern science is its religious devotion 4 cassette tapes, RR101ST-4, $12.00 $8.40 to the myth of evolution. Evolution “so expresses or coincides with the contemporary spirit that its often radical contradictions A History of Modern Philosophy and absurdities are never apparent, in that they express the basic A tape series by R.J. Rushdoony. Nine lessons trace presuppositions, however untenable, of everyday life and thought.” In modern thought. Hear a Christian critique of evolution, man is the highest expression of intelligence and reason, Descartes, Berkeley, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Sade, and and such thinking will not yield itself to submission to a God it views Genet. Learn how modern philosophy has been as a human cultural creation, useful, if at all, only in a cultural context. used to deny a Christian world-view and propose a The basis of science and all other thought will ultimately be found in new order, a new morality, and a new man. a higher ethical and philosophical context; whether or not this is seen as religious does not change the nature of that context. “Part of the 8 cassette tapes, RR261ST-8, $21.00 $14.70 mythology of modern evolutionary science is its failure to admit that it is a faith-based paradigm.” Paperback, 134 pages, $17.00 $11.90

Save 30% on everything when you order by Jan. 13, 2006 Alive: An Enquiry into the Origin and man and its results. See how class warfare and a social order based Meaning of Life on conflict lead to disaster. This book is essential reading for an By Dr. Magnus Verbrugge, M.D. This study is of understanding of the moral crisis of modern economics and the only major importance as a critique of scientific theory, certain long-term cure. evolution, and contemporary nihilism in scientific Paperback, 144 pages, indices, $18.00 $12.60 thought. Dr. Verbrugge, son-in-law of the late Dr. H. Dooyeweerd and head of the Dooyeweerd Foundation, applies the insights of Dooyeweerd’s Christianity and Capitalism thinking to the realm of science. Animism and By R.J. Rushdoony. In a simple, straightforward style, the Christian humanism in scientific theory are brilliantly discussed. case for capitalism is presented. Capital, in the form of individual and family property, is protected in Scripture and is necessary for liberty. Paperback, 159 pages, $14.00 $9.80 Pamphlet, 8 pages, $1.00 .70¢ Creation According to the Scriptures Edited by P. Andrew Sandlin. Subtitled: A A Christian View of Vocation: Presuppositional Defense of Literal Six-Day The Glory of the Mundane Creation, this symposium by thirteen authors By Terry Applegate. To many Christians, business is is a direct frontal assault on all waffling views a “dirty” occupation fit only for greedy, manipulative of Biblical creation. It explodes the “Framework unbelievers. The author, a successful Christian Hypothesis,” so dear to the hearts of many businessman, explodes this myth in this hard- respectability-hungry Calvinists, and it throws hitting title. down the gauntlet to all who believe they can Pamphlet, 12 pages, $1.00 .70¢ maintain a consistent view of Biblical infallibility while abandoning literal, six-day creation. It is a must reading for all who are observing closely the gradual defection of many allegedly conservative churches biblical studies and denominations, or who simply want a greater grasp of an orthodox, God-honoring view of the Bible. Genesis, Volume I of Commentaries on the Pentateuch Paperback, 159 pages, $18.00 $12.60 By Rousas John Rushdoony. Genesis begins the Bible, and is foundational to it. In recent years, it has become commonplace for both humanists e c o n o m i c s and churchmen to sneer at anyone who takes Genesis 1-11 as historical. Yet to believe in the myth of evolution is to accept trillions of Making Sense of Your Dollars: miracles to account for our cosmos. Spontaneous A Biblical Approach to Wealth generation, the development of something out of By Ian Hodge. The author puts the creation and use nothing, and the blind belief in the miraculous powers of chance, of wealth in their Biblical context. Debt has put the require tremendous faith. Darwinism is irrationality and insanity economies of nations and individuals in dangerous compounded. Theology without literal six-day creationism becomes straits. This book discusses why a business is alien to the God of Scripture because it turns from the God Who the best investment, as well as the issues of debt acts and Whose Word is the creative word and the word of power, avoidance and insurance. Wealth is a tool for to a belief in process as god. The god of the non-creationists is the dominion men to use as faithful stewards. creation of man and a figment of their imagination. They must play Paperback, 192 pages, index, $12.00 $8.40 games with the Bible to vindicate their position. Evolution is both naive and irrational. Its adherents violate the scientific canons they Larceny in the Heart: The Economics of profess by their fanatical and intolerant belief. The entire book of Satan and the Inflationary State Genesis is basic to Biblical theology. The church needs to re-study it By R.J. Rushdoony. In this study, first published to recognize its centrality. under the title Roots of Inflation, the reader sees Hardback, 297 pages, indices, $45.00 $31.50 why envy often causes the most successful and advanced members of society to be deemed Exodus, Volume II of Commentaries criminals. The reader is shown how envious on the Pentateuch man finds any superiority in others intolerable Essentially, all of mankind is on some sort of an and how this leads to a desire for a leveling. exodus. However, the path of fallen man is vastly The author uncovers the larceny in the heart of

Save 30% on everything when you order by Jan. 13, 2006 different from that of the righteous. Apart from Jesus Christ and His from this, nor can we know His history in any other light. This is why atoning work, the exodus of a fallen humanity means only a further John’s “testimony is true,” and, while books filling the earth could not descent from sin into death. But in Christ, the exodus is now a glorious contain all that could be said, the testimony given by John is “faithful.” ascent into the justice and dominion of the everlasting Kingdom of God. Hardback, 320 pages, indices, $26.00 $18.20 Therefore, if we are to better understand the gracious provisions made for us in the “promised land” of the New Covenant, a thorough examination into the historic path of Israel as Companion tape series to The Gospel of John described in the book of Exodus is essential. It is to this end that this A cassette series by R.J. Rushdoony. Seventy sermons volume was written. cover John’s entire gospel and parallel the chapters Hardback, 554 pages, indices, $45.00 $31.50 in the author’s commentary, The Gospel of John, making this a valuable group Bible study series. Leviticus, Volume III of Commentaries 39 cassette tapes, RR197ST-39, $108.00 $75.60 on the Pentateuch The book of Leviticus has not been a popular Chariots of Prophetic Fire: subject of study in the modern church. Much like Studies in Elijah and Elisha the book of Proverbs, any emphasis upon the By R. J. Rushdoony. See how close Israel’s practical applications of God’s law is readily shunned religious failure resembles our own! Read this in pursuit of more “spiritual” studies. Books like to see how the modern Christian is again guilty Leviticus are considered dull, overbearing, and of Baal worship, of how inflation-fed prosperity irrelevant. To be spiritual, in the modern sense of the term, means to caused a loosening of morals, syncretism and a live on a “higher” level where today’s Christian is governed more by decline in educational performance. the impressions of the heart than a carnal commandment. As in the days of Elijah and Elisha, it is once But man was created in God’s image and is duty-bound to develop again said to be a virtue to tolerate evil and condemn those who the implications of that image by obedience to God’s law. In this do not. This book will challenge you to resist compromise and the volume, the author writes, “Man cannot develop his personhood temptation of expediency. It will help you take a stand by faith for except in terms of God and His law-word. Even as God separated God’s truth in a culture of falsehoods. man from the dust of the earth to make him a living soul (Gen. 2:7), $21.00 so God summons covenant man in Leviticus to separate himself to Hardback, 163 pages, indices, $30.00 the Covenant Lord and to become holy even as God Himself is holy. The law or justice of God is the way of holiness.” Romans and Galatians The book of Leviticus contains over ninety references to the word By R.J. Rushdoony. From the author’s holy. The purpose, therefore, of this third book of the Pentateuch introduction: “I do not disagree with is to demonstrate the legal foundation of holiness in the totality the liberating power of the Reformation of our lives. In the book of Zechariah, the prophet proclaims a day interpretation, but I believe that it provides when “there shall be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS TO simply the beginning of our understanding of THE LORD” (Zech. 14:20). This same inscription is borne upon the Romans, not its conclusion.... garments of the high priest, and pictures for us a day in which every The great problem in the church’s interpretation area of life shall be made holy to the Lord. This present study is of Scripture has been its ecclesiastical orientation, as though God dedicated to equipping His church for that redemptive mission. speaks only to the church, and commands only the church. The Lord God speaks in and through His Word to the whole man, to Hardback, 449 pages, indices, $45.00 $31.50 every man, and to every area of life and thought…. To assume that the Triune Creator of all things is in His word and person only The Gospel of John relevant to the church is to deny His Lordship or sovereignty. If we By R.J. Rushdoony. In this commentary the turn loose the whole Word of God onto the church and the world, we author maps out the glorious gospel of John, shall see with joy its power and glory. This is the purpose of my brief starting from the obvious parallel to Genesis 1 comments on Romans.” (“In the beginning was the Word”) and through Hardback, 446 pages, indices, $24.00 $16.80 to the glorious conclusion of Christ’s death and resurrection. Nothing more clearly reveals the Companion tape series to Romans and Galatians gospel than Christ’s atoning death and His resurrection. They tell Romans - “Living by Faith” us that Jesus Christ has destroyed the power of sin and death. John A cassette series by R.J. Rushdoony. Sixty-three therefore deliberately limits the number of miracles he reports sermons on Paul’s epistle. Use as group Bible in order to point to and concentrate on our Lord’s death and study with Romans and Galatians. resurrection. The Jesus of history is He who made atonement for us, died, and was resurrected. His life cannot be understood apart 32 cassette tapes, RR414 ST-32, $96.00 $67.20

Save 30% on everything when you order by Jan. 13, 2006 Galatians - “Living by Faith” I Corinthians - “Godly Social Order” A cassette series by R.J. Rushdoony. These nineteen sermons 47 lessons. 25 cassette tapes, RR417ST-25, $75.00 $52.50 completed his study and commentary. II Corinthians - “Godly Social Order” 10 cassette tapes, RR415ST-10, $30.00 $21.00 25 lessons. 13 cassette tapes, RR416ST-13, $39.00 $27.30 I John Hebrews, James and Jude 15 lessons on the first epistle of John, plus a bonus lesson on the By R.J. Rushdoony. There is a resounding call in incarnation. Rev. Rushdoony passed away before he could complete Hebrews, which we cannot forget without going this, his last sermon series. astray: “Let us go forth therefore unto him without 16 lessons. 8 cassette tapes, RR419ST-8, $24.00 $16.80 the camp, bearing his reproach” (13:13). This is a summons to serve Christ the Redeemer-King fully and faithfully, without compromise. Exegetical Sermon Series by Rev. Mark R. Rushdoony When James, in his epistle, says that faith without Galatians - “Heresy in Galatia” works is dead, he tells us that faith is not a mere 10 lessons. 5 cassette tapes, MR100ST-5, $15.00 $10.50 matter of words, but it is of necessity a matter of life. “Pure religion Ephesians – “Partakers of God’s Promise” and undefiled” requires Christian charity and action. Anything 24 lessons. 12 cassette tapes, MR108ST-12, $36.00 $25.20 short of this is a self-delusion. James’s letter is a corrective the church needs badly. Colossians - “The Sufficiency of Christ” Jude similarly recalls us to Jesus Christ’s apostolic commission, 10 lessons. 5 cassette tapes, MR101ST-5, $15.00 $10.50 “Remember ye the words which have been spoken before by the I Timothy – “Right Doctrine and Practice” apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ” (v. 17). Jude’s letter reminds us 27 lessons. 14 cassette tapes, MR102ST-14, $42.00 $29.40 of the necessity for a new creation beginning with us, and of the inescapable triumph of the Kingdom of God. II Timothy – “Faithfulness and Diligence” 14 lessons. 7 cassette tapes, MR106ST-7, $21.00 $14.70 Hardback, 260 pages, $30.00 $21.00 Titus – “Speak with All Authority” Companion tape series to Hebrews, James 11 lessons. 6 cassette tapes, MR105ST-6, $18.00 $12.60 and Jude Philemon – “For My Son, Onesimus” Hebrew and James - “The True Mediator” 4 lessons. 2 cassette tapes, MR107ST-2, $6.00 $4.20 A tape series by R.J. Rushdoony. 48 lessons “Doers of the Word” - Sermons in James Hebrews and James. 7 lessons. 4 cassette tapes, MR104ST-4, $12.00 $8.40 26 cassette tapes, RR198ST-26, $75.00 $52.50

Jude - “Enemies in the Church” t h e o l o g y A tape series by R.J. Rushdoony. 4 lessons on Jude by R.J. Rushdoony. 2 cassette tapes, RR400ST-2, $9.00 $6.30 Systematic Theology (in two volumes) By R. J. Rushdoony. Theology belongs More Exegetical Tape Series by Rev. R.J. Rushdoony in the pulpit, the school, the workplace, Exodus - “Unity of Law and Grace” the family and everywhere. Society as 125 lessons. 70 cassette tapes, RR171ST-70, $195.00 $136.50 a whole is weakened when theology is neglected. Without a systematic Leviticus - “The Law of Holiness and Grace” application of theology, too often people 79 lessons. 40 cassette tapes, RR172ST-40, $120.00 $84.00 approach the Bible with a smorgasbord Numbers - “Faith, Law and History” mentality, picking and choosing that which pleases 63 lessons. 38 cassette tapes, RR181ST-38, $102.00 $71.40 them. This two-volume set addresses this subject in order to assist in the application of the Word of God to every area of life and thought. Deuteronomy - “The Law and the Family” 49.00 110 lessons. 63 cassette tapes, RR187ST-63, $168.00 $117.60 Hardback, 1301 pages, indices, $70.00 per set The Sermon on the Mount 25 lessons. 13 cassette tapes, RR412ST-13, $39.00 $27.30

Save 30% on everything when you order by Jan. 13, 2006 Companion tape series to R. J. Rushdoony’s systematic perspectives. The author defends predestination from Systematic Theology the perspective of Martin Luther, showing he was as vigorously These tape series represent just a few of the many topics represented predestinarian as John Calvin. At the same time, the author provides a in the above work. They are useful for Bible study groups, Sunday compellingly systematic theological understanding of predestination. Schools, etc. All are by Rev. R. J. Rushdoony. This book will give the reader a fuller understanding of the sovereignty of God. Creation and Providence 17 lessons. 9 cassette tapes, RR407ST-9, Paperback, 314 pages, $24.00 $16.80 $27.00 $18.90 The Lordship of Christ The Doctrine of the Covenant By Arend ten Pas. The author shows that to limit Christ’s 22 lessons. 11 cassette tapes, RR406ST-11, work in history to salvation and not to include lordship is $33.00 $23.10 destructive of the faith and leads to false doctrine. The Doctrine of Sin Booklet, 29 pages, $2.50 $1.75 22 lessons. 11 cassette tapes, RR409ST-11, $33.00 $23.10 The Doctrine of Salvation The Church Is Israel Now 20 lessons. 10 cassette tapes, RR408ST-10, $30.00 $21.00 By Charles D. Provan. For the last century, Christians have been told that God has an The Doctrine of the Church unconditional love for persons racially descended 30 lessons. 17 cassette tapes, RR401ST-17, $45.00 $31.50 from Abraham. Membership in Israel is said to be The Theology of the Land a matter of race, not faith. This book repudiates 20 lessons. 10 cassette tapes, RR403ST-10, $30.00 $21.00 such a racialist viewpoint and abounds in Scripture references which show that the blessings The Theology of Work of Israel were transferred to all those who accept 19 lessons. 10 cassette tapes, RR404ST-10, $30.00 $21.00 Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. The Doctrine of Authority Paperback, 74 pages, $12.00 $8.40 19 lessons. 10 cassette tapes, RR402ST-10, $30.00 $21.00 The Guise of Every Graceless Heart Infallibility and Interpretation By Terrill Irwin Elniff. An extremely important By Rousas John Rushdoony & P. Andrew Sandlin. and fresh study of Puritan thought in early The authors argue for infallibility from a distinctly America. On Biblical and theological grounds, presuppositional perspective. That is, their Puritan preachers and writers challenged the arguments are unapologetically circular because autonomy of man, though not always consistently. they believe all ultimate claims are based on one’s $4.90 beginning assumptions. The question of Biblical Hardback, 120 pages, $7.00 infallibility rests ultimately in one’s belief about the character of God. They believe man is a creature The Great Christian Revolution of faith, not, following the Enlightenment’s humanism, of reason. By Otto Scott, Mark R. Rushdoony, R.J. Rushdoony, They affirm Biblical infallibility because the God Whom the Bible John Lofton, and Martin Selbrede. A major reveals could speak in no other way than infallibly, and because the work on the impact of Reformed thinking on Bible in which God is revealed asserts that God alone speaks infallibly. our civilization. Some of the studies, historical Men deny infallibility to God not for intellectual reasons, but for and theological, break new ground and provide ethical reasons—they are sinners in rebellion against God and His perspectives previously unknown or neglected. authority in favor of their own. The authors wrote convinced that Hardback, 327 pages, $22.00 $15.40 only by a recovery of faith in an infallible Bible and obedience to its every command can Christians hope to turn back evil both in today’s The Necessity for Systematic Theology church and culture. By R.J. Rushdoony. Scripture gives us as its underlying unity a unified Paperback, 100 pages, $6.00 $4.20 doctrine of God and His order. Theology must be systematic to be true to the God of Scripture. Predestination in Light of the Cross Booklet (now part of the author’s Systematic Theology), By John B. King, Jr. This book is a thorough 74 pages, $2.00 $1.40 presentation of the Biblical doctrine of absolute predestination from both the dogmatic and

Save 30% on everything when you order by Jan. 13, 2006 Keeping Our Sacred Trust Tithing and Dominion Edited by Andrew Sandlin. The Bible and the By Edward A. Powell and R.J. Rushdoony. God’s Kingdom covers all Christian Faith have been under attack in one way things in its scope, and its immediate ministry includes, according or another throughout much of the history of the to Scripture, the ministry of grace (the church), instruction (the church, but only in recent times have these attacks Christian and homeschool), help to the needy (the diaconate), and been perceived within the church as a healthy many other things. God’s appointed means for financing His Kingdom alternative to orthodoxy. This book is a trumpet activities is centrally the tithe. This work affirms that the Biblical blast heralding a full-orbed, Biblical, orthodox requirement of tithing is a continuing aspect of God’s law-word and Christianity. The hope of the modern world is not cannot be neglected. This book is “must reading” as Christians work a passive compromise with passing heterodox fads, but aggressive to take dominion in the Lord’s name. devotion to the time-honored Faith “once delivered to the saints.” Hardback, 146 pages, index, $12.00 $8.40 Paperback, 167 pages, $19.00 $13.30 Salvation and Godly Rule Infallibility: An Inescapable Concept By R.J. Rushdoony. Salvation in Scripture includes By R.J. Rushdoony. “The doctrine of the infallibility of Scripture can in its meaning “health” and “victory.” By limiting be denied, but the concept of infallibility as such cannot be logically the meaning of salvation, men have limited the denied. Infallibility is an inescapable concept. If men refuse to ascribe power of God and the meaning of the Gospel. infallibility to Scripture, it is because the concept has been transferred Paperback, 512 pages, indices, $35.00 $24.50 to something else. The word infallibility is not normally used in these transfers; the concept is disguised and veiled, but in a variety of ways, infallibility is ascribed to concepts, things, men and institutions.” A Conquering Faith By William O. Einwechter. This monograph takes Booklet (now part of the author’s Systematic Theology), on the doctrinal defection of today’s church 69 pages, $2.00 $1.40 by providing Christians with an introductory treatment of six vital areas of Christian doctrine: The Incredible Scofield and His Book God’s sovereignty, Christ’s Lordship, God’s law, the By Joseph M. Canfield. This powerful and fully documented study authority of Scripture, the dominion mandate, and exposes the questionable background and faulty theology of the the victory of Christ and His church in history. This man responsible for the popular Scofield Reference Bible, which did easy-to-read booklet is a welcome antidote to the much to promote the dispensational system. The story is disturbing humanistic theology of the 21st century church. in its historical account of the illusive personality canonized as a Booklet, 44 pages, $8.00 $5.60 dispensational saint and calls into question the seriousness of his motives and scholarship. Noble Savages: Exposing the Worldview Hardback, 314 pages, $20.00 $14.00 of Pornographers and Their War Against Christian Civilization The Will of God of the Will of Man In this powerful book Noble Savages (formerly By Mark R. Rushdoony. God’s will and man’s will are both involved in The Politics of Pornography) Rushdoony man’s salvation, but the church has split in answering the question, demonstrates that in order for modern man to “Whose will is determinative?” justify his perversion he must reject the Biblical doctrine of the fall of man. If there is no fall, the Pamphlet, 5 pages, $1.00 .70¢ Marquis de Sade argued, then all that man does is normative. Rushdoony concluded, “[T]he world will soon catch up taking dominion with Sade, unless it abandons its humanistic foundations.” In his conclusion Rushdoony wrote, “Symptoms are important and sometimes very serious, but it is very wrong and dangerous to Christianity and the State treat symptoms rather than the underlying disease. Pornography By R.J. Rushdoony. This book develops a Biblical is a symptom; it is not the problem.” What is the problem? It’s the view of the state against the modern state’s philosophy behind pornography — the rejection of the fall of man humanism and its attempts to govern all spheres that makes normative all that man does. Learn it all in this timeless of life. classic. Hardback, 192 pages, indices, $18.00 $12.60 Paperback, 148 pages, $18.00 $12.60

Save 30% on everything when you order by Jan. 13, 2006 Towards a Christian Marriage soon and solve all their problems. But the rapture did not come, and Edited by Elizabeth Fellerson. The law of God makes clear how our nation only slid further into sin. important and how central marriage is. God the Son came into the God’s people must be taught how to fight and win the battles ahead. In world neither through church nor state but through a family. This this small volume, you will discover how the church is God’s armory, tells us that marriage, although nonexistent in heaven, is, all the designed by Him to equip and train His people for spiritual war and same, central to this world. We are to live here under God as physical prepare them for victory. creatures whose lives are given their great training-ground in terms of the Kingdom of God by marriage. Our Lord stresses the fact that Booklet, 83 pages, $6.00 $4.20 marriage is our normal calling. This book consists of essays on the importance of a proper Christian perspective on marriage. Dominion-oriented tape series by Rev. R.J. Rushdoony Hardback, 43 pages, $8.00 $5.60 The Doctrine of the Family The Theology of the State 10 lessons that also form part of the author’s 2- A tape series by R.J. Rushdoony. 37 lessons that are also from a volume Systematic Theology. portion of Rev. Rushdoony’s 5 cassette tapes, RR410ST-5, $15.00 $10.50 2-volume Systematic Theology. Christian Ethics 14 cassette tapes, RR405ST-14, $42.00 $29.40 8 lessons on ethics, change, freedom, the Kingdom of God, dominion, and understanding the future. Roots of Reconstruction 8 cassette tapes, RR132ST-8, $24.00 $16.80 By R.J. Rushdoony. This large volume provides all of Rushdoony’s The Total Crown Rights of Christ the King Chalcedon Report articles from the beginning in 1965 to mid-1989. 6 lessons on victory and dominion. These articles were, with his books, responsible for the Christian 3 cassette tapes, CN103ST-3, $9.00 $6.30 Reconstruction and theonomy movements. Hardback, 1124 pages, $20.00 $14.00 Tape series by Rev. Douglas F. Kelly Reclaiming God’s World A Comprehensive Faith 3 lessons on secularism vs. Christianity, restoration in the church, Edited by Andrew Sandlin. This is the surprise and revival. Festschrift presented to R.J. Rushdoony at his 3 cassette tapes, DK106ST-3, $9.00 $6.30 80th birthday celebration in April, 1996. These essays are in gratitude to Rush’s influence and elucidate the importance of his theological and eschatology philosophical contributions in numerous fields. Contributors include Theodore Letis, Brian Thy Kingdom Come: Studies in Daniel Abshire, Steve Schlissel, Joe Morecraft III, Jean- and Revelation Marc Berthoud, Byron Snapp, Samuel Blumenfeld, Christine and By R.J. Rushdoony. First published in 1970, Thomas Schirrmacher, Herbert W. Titus, Owen Fourie, Ellsworth this book helped spur the modern rise of McIntyre, Howard Phillips, Joseph McAuliffe, Andrea Schwartz, David postmillennialism. Revelation’s details are Estrada-Herrero, Stephen Perks, Ian Hodge, and Colonel V. Doner. Also often perplexing, even baffling, and yet its main included is a forward by John Frame and a brief biographical sketch meaning is clear—it is a book about victory. It tells of R. J. Rushdoony’s life by Mark Rushdoony. This book was produced us that our faith can only result in victory. “This as a “top-secret” project by Friends of Chalcedon and donated to Ross is the victory that overcomes the world, even our House Books. It is sure to be a collector’s item one day. faith” (1 John 5:4). This is why knowing Revelation is so important. It Hardback, 244 pages, $23.00 $16.10 assures us of our victory and celebrates it. Genesis 3 tells us of the fall of man into sin and death. Revelation gives us man’s victory in Christ over sin and death. The vast and total victory, in time and eternity, set The Church as God’s Armory forth by John in Revelation is too important to bypass. This victory By Brian Abshire. What if they gave a war and is celebrated in Daniel and elsewhere, in the entire Bible. We are not nobody came? In the great spiritual battles of the given a Messiah who is a loser. These eschatological texts make clear last century, with the soul of an entire culture at that the essential good news of the entire Bible is victory, total victory. stake, a large segment of the evangelical church went AWOL. Christians retreated into a religious Paperback, 271 pages, $19.00 $13.30 ghetto, conceding the world to the Devil and hoping anxiously that the rapture would come

Save 30% on everything when you order by Jan. 13, 2006 Thine is the Kingdom: A Study of the Postmillennial Hope b i o g r a p h y Edited by Kenneth L. Gentry, Jr. Israel’s misunderstanding of eschatology eventually Back Again Mr. Begbie destroyed her by leading her to reject the The Life Story of Rev. Lt. Col. R.J.G. Messiah and the coming of the Kingdom Begbie OBE of Heaven. Likewise, false eschatological This biography is more than a story of the three speculation is destroying the church today, by careers of one remarkable man. It is a chronicle of leading her to neglect her Christian calling a son of old Christendom as a leader of Christian and to set forth false expectations. In this revival in the twentieth century. Personal history volume, edited by Kenneth L. Gentry, Jr., the reader is presented with shows the greater story of what the Holy Spirit can a blend of Biblical exegesis of key Scripture passages, theological and does do in the evangelization of the world. reflection on important doctrinal issues, and practical application for $16.80 faithful Christian living. Paperback, 357 pages, $24.00 Thine is the Kingdom lays the scriptural foundation for a Biblically- based, hope-filled postmillennial eschatology, while showing j o u r n a l s what it means to be postmillennial in the real world. The book is both an introduction to and defense of the eschatology of victory. Chapters include contemporary writers Keith A. Mathison, The Journal of Christian Reconstruction William O. Einwechter, Jeffrey Ventrella, and Kenneth L. Gentry, The purpose of the Journal is to rethink every area Jr., as well as chapters by giants of the faith Benjamin B. Warfield of life and thought and to do so in the clearest and J.A. Alexander. This work should prove immensely helpful for possible terms. The Journal strives to recover the understanding and defending the postmillennial hope. It should also great intellectual heritage of the Christian Faith enliven our prayer to God as we faithfully pray: “Thy kingdom come, and is a leading dispenser of Christian scholarship. thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven…. thine is the kingdom Each issue provides in-depth studies on how the and the power and the glory forever. Amen.” Christian Faith applies in modern life. A collection of the Journal constitutes a reference library of Paperback, 260 pages, $22.00 $17.00 $11.90 seminal issues of our day.

God’s Plan for Victory Volume Discounts: You may deduct 25% if ordering six or By R.J. Rushdoony. An entire generation of victory- more issues (see order form). minded Christians, spurred by the victorious Vol. 1, No. 1: Symposium on Creation postmillennial vision of Chalcedon, has emerged Geological, mathematical, philosophical, biological, theological and to press what the Puritan Fathers called “the other approaches to the subject of creation. $13.00 $9.10 Crown Rights of Christ the King” in all areas of modern life. Central to that optimistic generation Vol. 1, No. 2: Symposium on Satanism is Rousas John Rushdoony’s jewel of a study, God’s Occultism from the days of the early church to the present, its Plan for Victory (originally published in 1977). meaning, and the Christian perspective. $13.00 $9.10 The founder of the Christian Reconstruction movement set forth Vol. 2, No. 1: Symposium on Christian Economics in potent, cogent terms the older Puritan vision of the irrepressible Medieval, Reformation, and contemporary developments, the causes advancement of Christ’s kingdom by His faithful saints employing the of inflation, Manichaenism, law and economics, and much more. entire law-Word of God as the program for earthly victory. $13.00 $9.10 Booklet, 41 pages, $6.00 $4.20 Vol. 2, No. 2: Symposium on Biblical Law What Scripture tells us about law, the coming crisis in criminal Eschatology investigation, pornography, community, the function of law, and A 32-lesson tape series by Rev. R.J. Rushdoony. much more. $13.00 $9.10 Learn about the meaning of eschatology for Vol. 3, No. 1: Symposium on Christianity and the American everyday life, the covenant and eschatology, Revolution the restoration of God’s order, the resurrection, The Christian root, the religious liberty issue, the Franklin legends, the last judgment, paradise, hell, the second myths and realities of 1776. $13.00 $9.10 coming, the new creation, and the relationship of eschatology to man’s duty. Vol. 5, No. 1: Symposium on Politics Modern politics is highly religious, but its religion is humanism. 16 cassette tapes, RR411ST-16, $48.00 $33.60 This journal examines the Christian alternative. $13.00 $9.10

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