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One faith, one law and one standard of justice did not mean democracy. The heresy of democracy has since then worked havoc in church and state . . . Christianity and democracy are inevitably enemies.

— Rousas John Rushdoony The Institutes of Biblical Law (1973)

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The church today has fallen prey to the heresy of democracy.

The Institutes of Biblical Law (1973)

The only true order is founded on Biblical Law. All law is religious in nature, and every non-Biblical law-order represents an anti-Christian religion.

The Institutes of Biblical Law (1973)

"The position of Pope Paul came close to being a pan-Deism, and pan-Deism is the logical development of the virus of Hellenic thought."

The One and the Many (1971)

Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.

Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.

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