Productive 3 days at the lake
Finished …. Igor Shafarevich’s, “Socialist Phenomenon”
Finished …. Anthony Sutton’s, “Skull and Bones”
Almost finished … R. J. Rushdoony’s, “Chariots of Prophetic Fire”
Made good progress in David Hall’s “The Genevan Reformation & the American Founding.”
RJR’s book is great as a kind of devotional for the lives of Elijah and Elisha.
RJR gives insights consistent with what you find elsewhere in RJR — to wit — the warnings against Statist control, the development of the antithesis in the life of Israel, Observations about the dangers of syncretism, and what it means to be a “Throne man.” Very good
Shafarevich’s book is a must-read if you want to understand what we are living through. Shafarevich connects the dots between atheism as a belief system and socialism as the incarnation of atheism into a social order. Shafarevich lays bare the irrationality of socialism and in a treatise that is worth the price of the book. He spends time exposing how socialism is popular among those who think only as animals (intuitively) as opposed to those who think like humans (using reason). A fantastic book and if one were to combine this read with Dr. Fred Schwarz’s “You Can Trust the Communists to be Communists,” and Toledano’s “Cry Havoc,” and Von Mises “Socialism,” and Hayek’s “On the Road to Serfdom,” one would have a pretty good working foundation on the worldview that is our greatest enemy in our time.
Anthony Sutton’s book made me realize again how deep the wormhole goes. Much of what we get from the thin crust media is 100% spin. The next level isn’t much better with what we get from the court historian publishing houses. Sutton documents the role of the Skull and Bones order in the US and World History. Sutton re-emphasizes that most of the conflict that we see in our times is purposely created as part of the dialectic between a manufactured left vs. right that has as its goal the result of a New World Order. Read in conjunction with other Sutton books, Carol Quigley’s “Tragedy and Hope,” and books like “None Dare Call It Conspiracy,” “The Zionist Factor,” “Behind Communism,” and “Secret Societies and Subversive Movements,” one begins to realize that the need for heaven-sent Reformation is far greater than any of us could possibly be aware of. Good book.
Hall’s book is the antidote for the disease that Sutton names. Hall describes for us how Liberty-minded Calvinism is and he traces the impact of Calvin’s thinking on the creation of the West and especially the founding of America. Quoting numerous sources Hall probes how and why genuine Calvinism has always revolted against those who revolt against the Lord Christ as King. This book should be read in combination with Witte’s
“The Reformation of Rights.”
This book explodes the myth that R2K thinking is Calvinistic in the least. Hall has done us a real service with this work.