Sin, Guilt, and Injustice
"Where the law of God is set aside, man’s law, which is anti-law from before Plato’s day to ours, replaces it. The Christian is a man empowered by God’s grace and by His Spirit because he has a clean conscience before God (Heb. 10:22). Where God’s law and grace are rejected, the systems of government devised by man rest on sin, guilt, and injustice. The power of guilt to cripple and limit man is very great. We see it widely used today to make men feel guilty because they are successful, or white, or almost anything. We are held to be polluters of the air and earth and an accursed race of exploiters. The effects of this on millions is very severe. People are afraid to state obvious facts lest they be accused of racism, cultural imperialism, ideological oppression, and so on and on. Guilt is a very powerful means of controlling and castrating peoples. This guilt is created by manufacturing sins which have no place in God’s sight but are very important in man’s plans to govern over men and nations, and the earth as well. If we are held to be guilty because of our race and national past, there is no way of removing that ostensible sin and its guilt."
~ R. J. Rushdoony, taken from the soon-to-be-released commentary on Deuteronomy
~ R. J. Rushdoony, taken from the soon-to-be-released commentary on Deuteronomy
