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Rushdoony on ‘Invisible Rulers’

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When R.J. Rushdoony wrote this essay, thirty years ago or so, the Western intellectual mind (pardon the oxymoron) had not yet degenerated to “your truth, my truth, no truth.” But as he so often did, he saw exactly where it was heading and could tell you exactly where it came from.

https://chalcedon.edu/resources/articles/invisible-rulers

There’s a lot of meat to this essay, but stick with it–because it tells us how we got here and points us back to God.

Postmodern poop that rests on such philosophical gems as “I is reality” has no future.

R.J. Rushdoony: ‘The Fright Peddlars,’ (2018)

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R.J. Rushdoony wrote this little essay for The California Farmer back in 1976; and today it seems more on target than ever.

Rushdoony on Target in 1976: ‘The Fright Peddlars’

Every generation, it seems has its doomsday scenario, “We’re all gonna die!” When I was a boy it was nuclear war, everybody building fallout shelters. Today it’s Climbit Change. It’s always some grisly fate from which we can only be saved by Science. And Big Government.

But the earth is the LORD’s, not theirs.

It would do us good to bear that in mind.

Rushdoony: ‘Giving Fear Too Much Power’ (2020)

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This little message takes less than a minute to deliver; but you can think about it all day.

https://chalcedon.edu/resources/videos/giving-fear-too-much-power

God knows there is a lot to scare us in this world today. But wasn’t that always the case?

Rushdoony said, “We are to proceed in the trust that God is God.” Amen. They aren’t going to defeat God. They aren’t going to erase His word. They will try to do those things, and fail.

We are cautioned against recklessness. We aren’t to abandon common sense. But how crazy did David sound when he volunteered to fight Goliath?

His faith was his knowledge.

‘Early Attempts to Discredit the Gospel’ (Rushdoony)

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As we head into Holy Week, heading toward Easter, bear in mind that the Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ has survived countless attempts to discredit it. R.J. Rushdoony discusses those here, in this short video.

https://chalcedon.edu/resources/videos/early-attempts-to-discredit-the-gospel

This could not be done, although it was certainly attempted, while thousands of eyewitnesses to Jesus’ ministry, His miracles, and His Resurrection still lived. But some hundred years later, it turned into a virtual industry which continues to this day.

How could so much effort, by so many people, over so long a time… fail?

Quite simply, because the Gospel, and the eyewitness accounts, are true.

This truth has been under siege for going on two thousand years–and they still can’t stuff it back into the box.

Onward to the Resurrection!

R.J. Rushdoony: Respectable “Christianity”

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Seeing it clearly–R.J. Rushdoony

R.J. Rushdoony wrote, “Respectability is the mark of a dying church which will not risk unpopular stances, no matter how godly they are.”

What? Respectability is bad? Look and see:

https://chalcedon.edu/blog/respectable-christianity

He wrote this in 1994. It was true then, it was true in Christ’s own time, and it’s true now. There are always churches that go along to get along; and there are always saints who are mocked and criticized, or worse, for taking the Bible seriously. Our Lord Himself was crucified by the respectable religious establishment of His day.

“God does not exist to serve us, but we, Him.” And sometimes that means taking and holding an unpopular stance.

Thanks be to God, we have never quite run out of Christians who will do that.

When ‘Economics’ Becomes Politics

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He saw it coming…

R.J. Rushdoony saw this coming many years ago, and did his best to warn us.

“When economics becomes a branch of politics, it ceases to be economics and becomes messianic. It becomes the instrument of power whereby men play god and plan to use human beings as their raw material.”  Larceny in the Heart [2003 reprint]

He could have said more. Politics devours science, too (does it ever!); and “education,” and even reaches into our personal lives.

We are rushing toward a point where it might be impossible to shake ourselves loose from Far Left, messianic, dystopian schemes of government. It’s not enough to work and fight to keep our freedom.

We need to pray for it, too.

‘Jesus Christ and the Beginnings of Christianity’ (R.J. Rushdoony)

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Let us not forget where the emphasis should lie.

Have historians–even historians who are also Christians–ever paid proper attention to the work of Jesus Christ in history?

In Chapter 7 of A Christian Survey of World History, R.J. Rushdoony felt compelled to answer that question “No” (https://chalcedon.edu/resources/articles/jesus-christ-and-the-beginnings-of-christianity). He rejects the ancient wishful thinking of “two kingdoms,” Christ’s and the world’s. Christ’s kingdom “is definitely for the world and over the world.” And Jesus Himself “had come not to unite good and evil, but to divide and destroy evil.”

Interestingly–I never noticed this before–hostile writings aimed at Jesus did not appear until many years after His death and resurrection. Why don’t we have rabbinical sermons or Roman decrees branding Him a fraud?

Because there were too many witnesses, at the time, who knew better.

This essay (or chapter) is kind of long; but it is illuminating.

We have a Savior and a King. We have no business looking for another.

Rushdoony: ‘Is The Church Obsolete?’

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Jesus has left the building.

This isn’t exactly an upbeat feel-good Sunday sermon. It’s more in the nature of “tough love.”

https://chalcedon.edu/resources/articles/is-the-church-obsolete

These essays by Rushdoony were first published over 20 years ago. If anything, they’re even more relevant than they were back then! We have seen, in recent years, a pagan idol carted into the Vatican, “goddess worship” in several Protestant denominations, free passes handed out for every kind of sin you can think of.

Yes, too many churches have indeed become obsolete.

And yes, the Lord will judge them. He surely will.

‘The Kingdom of God Will Both Endure and Grow’

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We have a brief message this morning from Chalcedon’s president, Mark Rushdoony.

https://chalcedon.edu/blog/the-kingdom-of-god-will-both-endure-and-grow

Mark continues to prepare his father’s manuscripts for publication (hard to keep up with R.J. Rushdoony as he wrote them!), including a possible trilogy on “the irrationality and suicidal course of man in his rebellion against God.”

Rushdoony’s observations and insights, which he wrote down 50 years ago, are startlingly applicable to today’s religious and cultural scene.

All Rushdoony’s books are available via the Chalcedon Store at http://www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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

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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.