Rousas John Rushdoony Quotes


There can be no tolerance in a law-system for another religion. Toleration is a device used to introduce a new law-system as a prelude to a new intolerance... Every law-system must maintain its existence by hostility to every other law-system and to alien religious foundations or else it commits suicide


Citations

Rushdoony, Rousas John. The Institutes of Biblical Law. Craig Press, 1973, p. 5.

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Rousas John Rushdoony
Rousas John Rushdoony
  • Born: April 25, 1916
  • Died: February 8, 2001
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Minister, Missionary, Author, Founder Chalcedon Foundation, Rutherford Institute Board Member

Rousas John Rushdoony was an American Calvinist philosopher, historian, and theologian and is credited as being the father of Christian Reconstructionism and an inspiration for the modern Christian homeschool movement. His followers and critics have argued that his thought exerts considerable influence on the evangelical Christian right.