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Rev. R. J. Rushdoony(1916-2001)was the founder of Chalcedonand a leading theologian, church/state expert, and author of numer-ous works on the application of Biblical Law to society.
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From the Founder
The Warare State
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From the President
Why Liberty is Part o Christian Doctrine
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Cornelius Van Til and Rousas John Rushdoony, Part 2Defenders of the Faith
Michael J. McVicar, Ph.D.
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How Lobsters Expose the Achille’s Heelof the Conservative Movement
Ian Hodge, Ph.D.
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Don’t Plant Churches, Build Covenant Communities
Bojidar Marinov
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Rethinking Childbearing - Part 2
Andrea Schwartz
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Christian Radio Host’s Project: Rebuilding Civilization
Lee Duigon
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A
ew years ago, a writer described themodern American orderas “the warare state.”His argument was aaulty one, but his term was a very apt one. The age o the statehas led inescapably to the warare state. An important and central aspect o thelie o the state has been war.Now St. James makes clear inhis epistle (4:1–3) that the source o conict and war is in the heart o man;it is a product o his sin, and he cannotthereore blame war on the capitalists,a military-industrial complex, othernations, the communists, or anythingelse. The basic and essential cause o waris the sin o man. This does not rule outsecondary causes; it does make it mor-ally necessary to avoid giving primacy tosecondary causes, or then we absolutizecircumstances over man and man’s ree-dom and responsibility. We must alsohold that the secondary cause alwaysrests in the primary cause, sin. A theorist o the last century saidthat war is the continuation and exten-sion o diplomacy into military action. A state is continually seeking the advan-tage by one means or another, so thatdiplomacy and war are alike instrumentsto a continuing evil.The act o warare gained prestige when Darwin set orth his theory o evolution. The struggle or survival was widely assumed to mean warare in oneorm or another, economic and class warare, warare or resources, wararein every area. When Darwin publishedhis
Origin o Species
on November 24,
The Warfare State
By R. J. Rushdoony
(Reprinted from
The Roots of Reconstruction
[Vallecito, CA: Ross House Books, 1991], 776-780. Original print date December 1, 1971)
From the Founder
1859, a waiting world was delighted with his thesis and the entire editionsold out on the day o publication. Twoo the happiest o the earliest readers were Marx and Engels, who rightly saw in Darwin the confrmation o theirbelies: they correctly held that Darwin’ssuccess would ensure the triumph o socialism. The reason is an obvious one.I evolution rather than creation by Godis true, then two things ollow: frst, lieis a struggle or survival, and, second,i God is eliminated, nothing morally binding remains to ensure private prop-erty, Christian marriage, and religiousauthority in any realm. Lie is then anamoral struggle or survival, and in thatamoral struggle mass man has the bestchances or victory, supposedly.The age o the state, already frmly geared to warare as an instrumento politics, thus turned warare, withDarwin and Marx, into the holy crusadeo humanism on its march to utopia.Much is said about “holy wars” in pasthistory, and most o it is nonsense. Thetrue holy wars in the ullest sense o the word are ater Darwin and Marx. World Wars I and II were holy crusades“to make the world sae or democracy,”and to “end war and ensure peace,” andso on. The terminology o communist warare is the most intense example o holy warare in all history.Since accepting the necessity o struggle or survival, our humanismo today has in it the grounds or theholy war o our evolutionary aith.The established humanistic religion o modern states sees conict as always themeans o progress; every struggle againsta reactionary, racist, or ascist enemy isby defnition an act o aith and a steptoward peace and reedom. The evilis war by the enemies o a particularsocialist state, or by any who oppose thereligion o statism.Thus, despite all the pious bleatingsabout a love o peace, ours is an age o warare, and o holy wars. These warsserve two purposes: frst, a war alwaysconsolidates greater power over thecitizenry in the hands o the state, sothat a victorious state emerges not only victorious over its enemies but over itspeople as well. Thus, whatever lossesthe Germans, Japanese, North Koreans,and Vietcong or North Vietnamese may have suered at American hands, thismuch is certain, that, since 1917, themajor and consistent losers have beenthe American people. By their sinulpropensity or the cult o the state, they have seen their reedom diminishedand economic slavery emerge: the statehas been the consistent winner. A hugebureaucracy has developed in Washing-ton and in every city and state; rom astanding army o a ew thousand, wenow have an army o millions; rom al-most inconsequential taxes, the citizensnow pay taxes which are almost equal toa rent on their property and a permit tolive. Second, warare is more and morea way o lie, and a basic philosophy o progress. The result is class warare.How does labor see progress oritsel? The answer is clearly by means o warare, war against management, andagainst the consumer. It is unthinkableor labor negotiators to assume thatanything but conict can assure prog-
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ress, and benefts or the working man. As a result, labor is committed, by virtueo its religious aith in the evolution-ary humanism o our day, to a wararephilosophy.This is not less true o capital. Very early, in men like Carnegie, industry committed itsel to social Darwinism,and the result was a growing breachbetween capital and labor. In this grim warare, having a religion o conict,concession is sin, and even elementary decencies must be ought or by bothsides, since both maintain a hostility toconcessions. There have been notable ex-ceptions on both sides, but, basically, thephilosophy o warare governs them. Wehave thus, in every area, a warare state.In all this, o course, the state is thegainer. Warare works to the disadvan-tage o industry and labor; it is destruc-tive o the economy and o society, sinceprogress rests on a harmony o interests.For the state, however, progress in itsmarch to power rests on warare, whichgreatly increases power. The greater thehostility between capital and labor, themore both will turn to the state or anally, so that the real victor in all casesis the state, which gains steadily in itspower over both capital and labor. Thestate emerges as the victor, and capitaland labor as the chained and controlledservants o the state.The state thus has an advantage inpromoting class warare, and statisminevitably promotes it, because its inter-erence urthers conict. Progress in racerelations in America was real, until stat-ist legislation turned it into class warareand riots in the streets. Neither blacksnor whites have been the gainers, butthe state’s powers over both, and overlabor and industry, are greatly increased.But the state cannot proft by itsvictories. When the state steps beyondits God-appointed realm as the ministry o justice, the state begins to ail in itsability to unction eectively. The stateis not a producer. For the state to gainvast powers over society is about as ruit-ul o good as or a mule to gain powerover a corral ull o mares; it is a sterilevictory which can only embarrass thevictor. The result is even greater tensionand conict.The greatest powers or the state are just ahead o us, and its greatest deeats,its inability to keep its promises and aconsequent disillusionment o peoples. Already, everywhere, the state is ailingin its ability to maintain an elementary and basic need o the people, security in their homes and saety in the streets;ailure here will only increase in thedays ahead. Already, a sum equal to 50percent o all ederal, state, county, andlocal police costs is spent or varyingorms o private protection, and thissum will only increase. As controls overthe police increase, and public morality declines, lawlessness will become moreopen and extensive.The more power and money anindividual or an enterprise gains, themore eectively it unctions, because,normally, people and businesses havea productive unction which thriveson urther capitalization. However,this is not true o the state. The morepower and money a state gains, the lesseectively it unctions, because it eedson power and money, not to unctionin terms o a productive end but toenhance its power and wealth. Powerand money give muscles to men, busi-nesses, and organizations, but they eeda cancer in the state.The modern state is thus a sick en-terprise which resents health in its midstand penalizes it. It grows in wealth, butregards wealth in others as an evil. Itssenators vote or busing or the massesand send their own children to privateschools to avoid busing. The state hasa double standard o morality, one oritsel, and another or the people. A deepening disillusionment withthe state is ahead o us, and a grow-ing decline in its authority. However,because the warare state rests frmly onthe oundation o the wararing man,
disillusionment will not change the world
. As long as men believe, ater Darwinand Marx, in a warare world as the way or progress, they will create andperpetuate a warare state. A man spentsome time recently telling me how badsocialism, controls, and statism gener-ally are. Then he concluded his randomremarks by saying, “Well, it’s a dog-eat-dog world.” His perspective ensures pre-cisely the kind o world he has. It is nota dog-eat-dog world: it is God’s world,and His law prevails. All who violateit will sooner or later suer the conse-quences. Those who insist that it is adog-eat-dog world are debasing lie, the world, and themselves, and they are thelosers.
To live on the oundation that this is God’s world
may not give us as many bones as this man has, but, instead o adog’s lie,
we live a rich lie under God
. Jesus Christ is declared to be “thePrince o Peace” (Isa. 9:6), but this doesnot mean surrender. He came to bring asword (Matt. 10:34.) o moral divisionin terms o Himsel and His law-word,but an oer o peace to all men o allclasses. His peace is more than a cessa-tion o warare: it is a way o lie and arelationship to Himsel. Progress is notthrough a struggle or survival or war-are but by means o obedience to Hislaw-word and its application to every sphere o lie.The warare state sees progressthrough the destruction o its enemiesor their subjection to the state; it seesconict as the essence o progress. TheBiblical perspective is radically dierent:there is no progress unless there is, frsto all,
regeneration; a change o heart, lie,
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