Rousas John Rushdoony Quotes

… in this state [a theocracy] the highest and only authority belonged to God, to whose worship all other things were made subservient.

Our government should be led by religious men …. Religion is with politics and politics is with religion. They are as one.

As soon as Jesus sits on his throne he's gonna rule the world with a rod of iron. That means he's gonna make the ACLU do what he wants them to. That means you're not gonna have to ask if you can pray in public school. We will live by the law of God and no other law.

I think the Shiites want a theocracy.

The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics.

Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as king.

Some peoples have entrusted the supreme political power to monarchies, others to oligarchies, yet others to the masses. Our [the Jews] lawgiver, however, was attracted by none of these forms of polity, but gave to his constitution the form of what … may be termed a “theocracy”, placing all sovereignty and authority into the hands of God.

Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church.

The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles?

It's not always the case that Muslims have been theocrats.

The Constitution and laws of the United States resemble a theocracy more closely than any government now on the earth, or that ever has been, so far as we know, except the government of the children of Israel to the time when they elected a king.

The only true order is founded on Biblical Law. All law is religious in nature, and every non-Biblical law-order represents an anti-Christian religion.

I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.

Religion organized in the Church has in times past pursued two lines of action—First, it has secluded itself from the world, gone out of the world, that is, of the State; and, secondly, it has striven to reenter the world as a conqueror, to dominate the world

I refuse to take the position that now I have to make the whole society of non Catholics, non believers, and even those Catholics who do not support the abortion dicta, I have to impose a law upon them. If you do that, you are talking about a Catholic theocracy.

The President is the Theologian in Chief.

Arguably, the application of complete libertarianism leads one towards anarchy.

God has appointed two kinds of government in the world, which are distinct in their nature, and ought never to be confounded together; one of which is called civil, the other ecclesiastical government.

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

The pure Christian State is a State in which theological law prevails. This law attains to real power or, to be more exact, absolute power, when through its results which are identical with those of opium, it puts all parts of humanity to sleep. If some occasionally awake they carry out crimes that horrify humanity which has not yet become Christian in the full sense of the word or has already abandoned the Christian framework.

The problem with this world is that there isn't enough liberty and freedom.

The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of the law for the virtues of men.

The Catholics have a Pope. Protestants laugh at them, and yet the Pope is capable of intellectual advancement. In addition to this, the Pope is mortal, and the church cannot be afflicted with the same idiot forever. The Protestants have a book for their Pope. The book cannot advance. Year after year, and century after century, the book remains as ignorant as ever.

History makes the point time and time again No greater mischief can be created than to merge the power of religion with the power of government.

My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs).