In the latest hit piece, "A Nation Under God," author John Sugg echoes the usual slanderous accusation that Rushdoony denied the holocaust. Critics repeatedly make this charge. This happens when journalists get lazy and neglect double checking the validity of the critiques they're lifting from.

In his discussion on the ninth commandment Rushdoony examined the implications of bearing false witness on modern thinkers:

"In every age, false witness has been extensive because man is a sinner, but in the modern era it has particularly been developed into a refined science. Humanistic man, from Machiavelli, through Hegel, Marx, Nietzche to the present, having no belief in an absolute law, has revived the platonic doctrine of the right of the state to lie." (Institutes of Biblical Law, p.586)

Modern man justified his bearing false witness for what he considered a greater cause. The righteousness of the sought outcome somehow atones for any means used to achieve it. This was especially true, Rushdoony wrote, in the case of Hitler's Germany, where holocaust numbers were inflated to create greater outrage:

In view of this massive insensitivity to murder, so that false witness is resorted to, the exaggeration of evil to make it seem evil, evil itself is growing in order to keep pace with the imagination of men, and evil imagination grounded in false witness. (ibid., p.588)

Rushdoony condemned the Nazi atrocities as outright evil but saw no solution in bearing false witness of genocide.

The evils were all too real: even greater is the evil of bearing false witness concerning them, because that false witness will produce an even more vicious reality in the next upheaval. Men are now "reconciled" to a world where millions are murdered, or are said to be murdered. What will be required in the way of action and propaganda next time? (ibid.)

Rushdoony then mentions the plight of his own heritage where during "World War I, the Turks sought to murder all Armenians." What's noteworthy is that Rushdoony never mentions the fact that his own family fled Aremenia and came to America in order to escape genocide by the Turks.

In other words, Rushdoony was born in America because he was escaping a holocaust. By no means was his criticism of the Jewish holocaust numbers an insensitivity to their plight. Rushdoony was committed first to God's law, and not the bleeding hearts of his progressive critics.