Rushdoony Blog Tour
Let's start our Rushdoony blog tour by visiting Little Geneva. This blog is written by H. Seabrook who considers himself a reformed confederate theocrat. In a recent post, he writes:
Yes, Rushdoony and Scott were opposed to jazz because it was a very obvious outgrowth of immoral Negro culture, and a slang term for semen. On page 61 of The Institutes of Biblical Law, Rushdoony writes: "The background of Negro culture is African and magic, and the purposes of magic are control and power... Voodoo or magic was the religion and life of American Negroes. Voodoo songs underlie jazz, and old voodoo, with its power goal, has been merely replaced with revolutionary voodoo ['civil rights'], a modernized power drive." Then, in his footnote: "See, for the voodoo background of jazz, Robert Tallant, Voodoo in New Orleans (New York: Collier Books, 1946, 1965)." Rushdoony wished for Whites to separate themselves from Negroes. "The white man has behind him centuries of Christian culture and the discipline and the selective breeding this faith requires... The Negro is a product of a radically different past, and his [genetic] heredity has been governed by radically different considerations." Our next blog is L'Enfant Terrible where the writer quotes Rushdoony and Doug Phillips, son of Howard Phillips who was a presidential candidate for the Constitution Party. Doug Phillips also runs the homeschool and Christian reconstruction friendly Vision Forum website. L'Enfant Terrible writes:
That's why I give Doug a lot of credit for publicly lauding Rushdoony as a great theologian, for carrying Rushdoony's materials in his online store at Vision Forum, and for continuing to quote from Rushdoony's books in his articles and blog postings. Let's all follow his example. Don't let the PC police browbeat you into silence, even if they are ordained. Doug Wilson, who has some influence at least in his circle of conservative Presbyterians, writes:
Back in the eighties I read through a small hill of Rushdoony's books, profiting greatly from many of them. One that I was never able to get my hands on was his The Politics of Pornography. But it has just been released again by Ross House Books under the new title Noble Savages. The folks there were kind enough to send me a review copy, which I gladly read. This book is simply outstanding. Anyone who wants to understand the real fuel that is making the fires of pornography burn needs to get and read this book. A college student writes a tribute to Rushdoony and includes this:
When it comes to how much Rushdoony has affected my thinking, my favorite book of his is actually not a systematic book. Chalcedon published The Roots of Reconstruction, which is a collection of articles by R.J. Rushdoony in a publication called the Chalcedon Report, which is now a bi-monthly magazine called Faith for All of Life. The work is obviously massive. However, if one just reads a couple of articles a day (less than 10 pages) you will be changed! Rushdoony is that powerful a writer and thinker. What most people need 2 pages to say, Rushdoony can spew it out in 2 paragraphs. While most people write about the facts, Rushdoony points you to the underlying presupposition behind the facts. It is transforming stuff. Ben House writes a post in honor of Rushdoony. Some quotes:
At first Rushdoony seemed to fulfill my initial image of Calvinists as cold, scholarly, abstract, puritanical, overly somber, but not very 'spiritual.' Only when I began listening to his tapes did I realize that he was warm, gracious, entertaining, and filled with a heart of love toward God and His Word.
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