Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy.
Rushdoony is the founder of Christian Reconstructionism, upon which Dominionism relies. Dominionism, of course, is the religious tradition in which Ted Cruz was reared.
I give Rushdoony credit for this much, and no more: He was intellectually honest when he acknowledged that Christianity and democracy are incompatible.
Dominionism, it should be understood, is not Reconstructionism; it is a strategy for implementing Reconstructionism. What is more, like anything which relies upon the Inerrancy and Eternal Truth of the Bible, Dominionism is as fractured as Sybil’s mind. Even so, you can get a pretty good understanding of who these pitiful nutjobs actually are by acquainting yourself with Rushdoony.
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Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.
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The Bible declares blasphemy to be a very serious offense, because any society which begins by profaning God and His authority will soon profane all things. Nothing will be sacred. No authority will stand. The alternative to authority is total terror by the power of State. This is why, as I’ve pointed out more than once, when the authority of God is destroyed, and when the doctrine of Creation was replaced with the doctrine of Evolution, Marx and Engels congratulated one another in that now their position was established.
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We are moving towards a situation in which Statism wants to suppress in one area after another, the freedom of Christians to be charitable.
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The most common term in the New Testament for Jesus Christ is again Lord in the Greek Kyrios; Lord. What does it mean? It means sovereign. It means absolute owner so that if we have a Lord we are His property. To confess Jesus Christ as Lord is to declare that we belong to Him in all that we are and in all that we have. We give ourselves, we give our children, we give our property, we give our income, everything, it belongs to the Lord and we are stewards of that which we are and that which we posses under Him. God is the Lord. Jesus Christ is the lord. This is the basic confession of all of scripture. The basic term; let me repeat applied to God the Father and to God the son in all of scripture is Lord. The term is used so much so that it probably outnumbers all other terms used for God. Lordship. It means sovereignty. Dominion means the exercise of authority under a sovereign.
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Now a sovereign, a Lord, is always the source of law. Law making is the pejorative [prerogative?] of the Lord or sovereign of [or?] a God. In every religious faith, in every religion, in every culture, the God of that system provides the laws. They are of his making. And if you allow any other law to come in you are acknowledging another God.
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We as Christians have a mandate. We have not been called to retire from the world when we are saved but to go out and conquer.
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A [further] aspect [of homosexuality] is the hatred of God’s reality, an insistence on wars against reality, in living in a world of make believe. As a result, the theater is the natural element of these people. Some scholars, again not Christian, have pointed out there has been by-and-large a strong homosexual control of the theater, in varying degrees in different times, from the days of the Romans. But part and parcel of this homosexual control of the theater has been the delight in prostituting women, in using them and abusing them for the sheer delight of showing their contempt for them. Now this is homosexual culture, described by people who are not hostile to it, and in fact sometimes have some good things to say for it.
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If the law is set aside, the humanistic amoral ethics of love then takes over.
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The homosexual culture as we have said is at war with God, and there are no negotiations possible in this world.
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The question is, in case some of you did not hear it, “Supposing there is a mixed marriage with respect to race; and assuming that both are of the same faith, what is there in scripture that might be against that?” Well, the answer is that there is not a law against it, but there is basically a principle that militates against such marriages, so that you might say they are just barely legal, but in principle scripture is opposed to them. Because the whole point of marriage is that the wife be a help-meet to her husband, and the term help meet means in effect a mirror, an image, one who reflects him spiritually, that is in terms of faith, in terms of a common background, in terms of a common purpose. Now, marriage between persons of very different races generally doesn’t fulfill that requirement, you see. So that it can be technically a marriage, but it isn’t one in which the wife can be a help meet. So that, while it can legally qualify, theologically you could say there are factors that normally in almost 99 cases out of a 100 hundred would militate against it.