I知 Terrified By These Zealots
by Claire Conner
In my book, Wrapped in the Flag, I wrote about Rushdoony. Here’s a snippet from Chapter 16, “Carrying the Cross.”
"In his magnum opus, Institutes of Biblical Law,’ published in 1973, Rushdoony described the Old Testament laws that would be the backbone of the new justice system in a Christian America, along with the punishments he envisioned for those who broke them.
Criminals would be burned at the stake, hanged and stoned, depending on their sins.
The folks facing such punishment included gays, blasphemers, unchaste women, and incorrigible juvenile delinquents. Of course, doctors providing abortions and their patients would also be executed.”
John Rushdoony understood that it would take time and hard work to bring his vision for America to fruition. He saw HOME SCHOOLING as the way to “train up a generation of people who know that this is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government.”
It was Rushdoony who first urged Christians to take “dominion over the land as the Bible commanded them to do.”Ron Paul, the former Congressman from Texas and a John Birch Society favorite, ripped a page from Rushdoony’s playbook and published his own home school curriculum. To get things rolling, he hired Gary North to write and market the program. Gary North, the son-in-law of Rushdoony, sounds just like his father-in-law when he talks about schooling.
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“We must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government. Then they will get busy in constructing a Bible-based social, political and religious order which finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God.”
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