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R.J. Rushdoony: ‘Is America a Christian Nation?’ (1998)

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Turkey / Armenia: Armenian women and children fleeing Turkish forces during the Armenian Genocide, c, Stock Photo, Picture And Rights Managed Image. Pic. GBP-CPA0026388 | agefotostock

Christian Armenians in Turkey, circa 1915: flee or die

It seems strange to think of 1998, the date of Rushdoony’s essay, as 25 years ago. In some ways that’s a lot of time; in other ways, the blink of an eye.

Rushdoony’s family came to America to escape the post-World War I Armenian genocide, perpetrated by Turkey. To these refugees, America seemed like heaven.

https://chalcedon.edu/magazine/is-america-a-christian-nation

When he asks, “Is America a Christian Nation?” Rushdoony answers from his own experience: Yes. Yes, it is. Scholars be damned, America is still a Christian nation. We need not ask the pseudo-wise if they agree. We are a Christian nation. He based that not on theory, not on other people’s writings, but on his own personal experience.

May the LORD our God equip us to keep it that way! He knows it won’t be easy.

‘Dictatorship and Freedom’

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The Creed of Antichrist”: R.J. Rushdoony on the United Nations as Religious Dream | Faith & Heritage

R.J. Rushdoony’s family barely escaped with their lives when the Turkish government, in the wake of World War I, launched genocide against the Armenian people. The Rushdoonys made their way to America.

Rushdoony, with his family’s experience to reinforce his studies, well understood the slippery slope that leads from freedom into tyranny. He wrote about it often: for instance, in this little essay which we have reprinted in A Word in Season (Vol. 3).

https://chalcedon.edu/resources/articles/dictatorship-and-freedom-1

The slipperiest slope of all is the one that’s been greased with “sexual liberation.” As Rushdoony taught throughout his life, “Freedom to sin is not freedom but slavery.”

Go ahead–look at America in the 21st century and tell me he was wrong.

U.N. Tomfools at It Again

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The United Nations Working Group of Experts–gee, we already know this is going to be really stupid and pompous–on People of African Descent has urged the United States to pay “reparations” to American blacks for the slavery that was allowed here over 150 years ago ( https://www.rt.com/usa/330934-un-recommends-usa-reparations-slavery/ ).

Nope, it ain’t enough we’ve already paid trillions of dollars for welfare, assorted anti-poverty programs, food stamps, midnight basketball, and what have you, and none of it prevented Democrat cities like Detroit and Camden from turning into urban badlands. The UN thinks we have to pay more. Much more: “full implementation of special programs” including strict gun control and “environmental rights,” whatever the sod those may be.

Well, OK, O citizens of the world, we can dig it! But where do you get off, assigning a 19th-century cutoff date to compensation for the injustices of history? And we didn’t hear anything about Turkey paying reparations to Armenians, did we?

My ancestors were oppressed and enslaved by the Roman Empire, and I think I ought to be paid off for that. By Italy, I guess. And did you say anything about China paying reparations to the Tibetans? Musta just slipped your minds…

The real question is, Why must American taxpayers continue to subsidize the United Nations?

I think we all deserve reparations for having had to put up with that for all these years.