"Don't Know Much About History"
"History is the battle of Christ versus anti-christ." ~ R. J. Rushdoony, The Biblical Philosophy of History, 5.In an effort to secure the present, secular critics of Biblical Christianity make much of the alleged "historical revisionism" made by such eminent thinkers as R. J. Rushdoony. By this they are referring to revisionism in American history, and they seek to remove any and all proofs that America was founded as a Christian nation. If they can achieve that, they believe they can make the case for casting aside all vestments of a "conservative" Christian society.
There is a problem with fighting for the present, however. To do so, you have to forsake the past and the future. You forsake it because you don't take seriously those who claim ownership of the 12th century, or for that matter, anyone foolish enough to claim ownership of the 45th century!
This is exactly what Rushdoony claimed. Whereas secularists speak much about America in 1787, Rushdoony spoke of the Garden of Eden. And while secularists are rubbing their hands over the 2008 election, Rushdoony's books spoke of the victory of God throughout all ages.
For the non-Christian, history is meaningless because all things spring forth from chaos. It is God that wars against such an atheistic world view. Following God is the revolutionary Christian who seeks to upset the world by challenging its intellectual strongholds:
God is the spearhead of revolution in time and history against the chaos and meaninglessness of time and history. ~ ibid.This is the great war for the Christian. It is not a militant one. It does not consist of sword and shield. It does not manifest itself in bloodletting or political revolution. However, intellectually--and in terms of faith--it is merciless and indefatigable. There is no peace between Satan and Christ, and there is no peace between the Christian and the anti-Christian.
The Christian view of history is more than the declaration of a Christian version of American history. For the secularist, there is a much greater threat--the Christian version of the history of the world past, present, and future. Christian nation? Try a Christian world:
History is the battle of Christ versus anti-christ, and man's basic need is redemption through the blood of Jesus Christ and then life in Christ and under God's law, now no longer a bill of indictment against man, but a charter for life. ~ ibid.Human history is littered with so-called "intellectuals" that have worked to destroy the faith only to become Christians themselves. The spirit of anti-christ cannot contend with a church armed with law and the redemptive Gospel. This progress of the Kingdom cannot be stopped. It's not political, so you cannot legislate it out of existence. Christianity has confronted some of the most vicious and God-hating regimes the world has ever known, and out of all of them Christianity has only increased.
The last 2,000 years are filled with a conservative Christianity of Bible-believers who stand upon the infallible Word of God. You cannot route something so formidable by a single nation's political election. The weak sniping of a handful of contemporary secularists are like a flea bite to an elephant, and any brief political victories they might achieve will only lull them into inaction while the advancing church multiplies its population and resources.
