Random Quotes from My Files

“Not surprisingly, humanistic education produces not only a proliferation of sin but of mental problems and serious personality disorders.”

R. J. Rushdoony
Education for Freedom
[Reprinted from The Philosophy of the Christian Curriculum (Vallecito, CA: Ross House Books, 1985), 153-157.]

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“On occasion, the leader may be intelligent and highly educated but the possession of these qualities does him, as a rule, more harm than good. By showing how complex things are, by allowing of explanation and promoting comprehension, intelligence always renders its owner indulgent, and blunts, in a large measure, that intensity and violence of conviction needed for apostles.

The great leaders of crowds of all ages, and those of the French Revolution in particular, have been of lamentably narrow intellect; while it is precisely those whose intelligence have been the most restricted who have exercised the greatest influence.”

Gustave Le Bon
The Crowd — pg. 194

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“The current idea is that a Southern plantation was generally a great estate, teeming with Black slaves who groaned under the lash of drivers and at night were scourged in their dungeons, while their masters reveled in ill-used luxury and steeped themselves in licentiousness, not stopping at times to ‘traffic in their own flesh and blood.’

It may well be said at the outset that nothing could be further from the truth…. The great majority of the plantations in Virginia, and, so far as my reading and observation have gone, elsewhere, however extensive were the lands, were modest and simple, and the relation between masters and servants was one of close personal acquaintance and friendliness, beginning at the cradle and scarcely ending at the grave.”

Thomas Nelson Page
“The Negro; the Southerner’s Problem” — pg. 112
Published 1904

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File this under the “Might makes right” category.

“The questions which have hitherto divided the sentiment of the people of the two sections — slavery and State-rights, or the right of the State to secede from the Union — they (the South) regard as having been settled forever by the HIGHEST TRIBUNAL, THAT OF ARMS, that man can resort to.”

General U. S. Grant
Reporting on the pacification of the South
December, 1865

How is that any different from Mao’s, “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun?”

James Orr & F. H. R. Frank on the Organic Unity of Christian Truth

“He who with his whole heart believes in Jesus as the Son of God is thereby committed to much else besides. He is committed to a view of God, to a view of man, to a view of sin, to a view of Redemption, to a view of the purpose of God in creation and history, to a view of human destiny, found only in Christianity.”

James Orr
Kerr Lecture Series

The Christian View of God & the World — p. 4

 

“The Christian truth, with the certifying of which we have to do, is essentially one, compact in itself, vitally interconnected, — as such at the same time organic, — and it is therefore not possible one should possess and retain a portion of the same, while yet not possessing or rejecting, the other portions. On the contrary, the member or portion of truth, it had been thought to appropriate or maintain alone, would by this isolating cease to be that which it was or is in itself; it would become a empty form or husk, from which the life, the Christian reality has escaped.”

F. H. R. Frank

So many R2K like modern preachers want to insist that ministers should only talk about the Cross and salvation in the pulpit. If Orr’s view above is correct such an approach is a sure way to stunt the growth of God’s people in the pew. While the Cross may be the center of the Christian faith from which all subjects depart and in which all subjects return, talking about the Cross apart from setting it in Christian Weltanschauung is like talking about the ocean to man who has never had a drink of water.

The minister must communicate to the flock that which helps the Cross make sense. It therefore must speak of anthropology, epistemology, axiology, teleology, and ontology. He needs to speak to his flock of law, education, sociology, politics, philosophy, family life, history, and economics. Because the Cross saves man from wicked thinking as well as wicked behavior preaching must speak to what wicked non-Christian thinking looks like in every area of life and then must round of by saying …”And such were some of you, but you were saved, you were washed, you were sanctified by the work of Christ on the Cross.”

Away then with the stunted preaching that wants to somehow reduce the pulpit to a children’s game of “finding Waldo (Jesus)” in the text as if the text doesn’t also teach us how to think like Christian in every area of life. Certainly, a lifetime of preaching can afford to us both the pleasure of bringing out the Lord Christ from the text as well as demonstrating that as those who believe that Jesus is the Son of God therefore, we are committed to a thought life that is completely contrary to those who despise the Christ of the Bible.

James Lindsey Complains About Folks Saying, “Christ Is King”

“‘Christ is King’ is, in addition to its malicious uses, a Christian virtue signal. Christians say it’s true. Nobody else does. Repeating it shows you’re on the team. Refusing to brings suspicions. That’s why it works. Bad actors can abuse it and lots will go along and defend it.”

James Lindsey
Atheist
Platformed by “Christian” Michael O’Fallon

1.) What possible malicious uses can a true statement possibly be leveraged?

2.) Of course it is, at the very least, a virtue signal. Just as someone saying “There is only one God; Allah, and Muhammed is his prophet” is a virtue signal among some types.

3.) Of course only people who believe it is true say it is true. This statement by Lindsey is like warning people that water is wet. NSS.

4.) Of course saying it proves one is on the team. And your point is?

5.) If I were an employer, for example, I would be so suspicious of someone not confessing “Christ is King,” I would not hire them. Yet another Captain Obvious statement by Lindsey.

6.) The primary reason why saying “Christ is King” works is because Christ is King.

7.) The idea that there is, out there, this galaxy of bad actors who will say “Christ is King” in order to abuse it is the kind of reasoning that the denizens of Hell come up with in order to make sure nobody ever says “Christ is King.”

8.) Of course “lots will go along and defend people saying “Christ is King.” That is primarily due to the fact that lots of people believe that “Christ is King.”

Michael O’Fallon, if he is a Christian, will have a good deal to answer for by platforming James Lindsey, the Christ hater.

In Praise of Partiality … In Defiance of Tolerance

“The law specifies, a definite partiality. God intervenes again and again in history to overthrow the enemies of His people. The law is given to protect Israel from subversion and total toleration is never legally possible nor is it permitted by the law of Moses. The idea of total toleration of course is a fiction. It is an impossibility. No law can ever extend total toleration.”

RJR
The Law Partial and Impartial

Pocket College Lecture

“Moreover, the Biblical and Moral requirements are for partiality. We are to pray for the good of others, but we are first of all responsible for our own household and he who does not care for his own, provide for his own, says Saint Paul, is worse than an infidel. Our first responsibility is towards our own household, and toward those of our own faith. We are to be merciful unto others, but there is a partiality required of us both religiously and politically. To tolerate subversion, for example, is itself a subversive activity. The law therefore has an impartiality, one standard of justice for all. But it has a partiality in that it defends a particular law-order, and it cannot tolerate a destruction of that order.”

R. J. Rushdoony
Law: Partial and Impartial

Pocket College Lecture

Scripture requires that we prioritize our people over the stranger and alien though we are to treat the stranger and alien (sojourner) with the justice of one and the same law. At this point in time the prioritizing of our people means massive de-migration – even by use of force if necessary.

When it comes to law, there cannot be total toleration when it comes to what is and what is not legal. When it comes to law there can only be toleration of any contrary faith behavior expression in so far as it does not offend the people of the ruling faith and the behavior expression codified in their law.