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Law & Liberty Podcast: Law and Government

by Chalcedon on June 28, 2010

Chapter thirteen of Rushdoony's Law & Liberty. The basic government of the universe and of man is the government of God. Every person, family, institution, vocation, school, church, or state which is in rebellion against God's government or by-passes His word and law is thereby in rebellion against its own health, against its own life. The government of God is basic to self-government, to the family, church, school, society, vocations, and to the state. Listen now.

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Law & Liberty Podcast: Law and Magic

by Chalcedon on June 28, 2010

Chapter twelve of Rushdoony's Law & Liberty. Magic is basic to the modern mentality, to our politics and science, and we cannot understand our present-day world without a knowledge of what magic is. Magic is the attempt by man to gain control over the world of man, nature, and the supernatural. In magic man attempts to become god over all things and to assert his power and control over all reality. Listen now.

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Law & Liberty Podcast: Law and Academic Freedom

by Chalcedon on June 28, 2010

Chapter eleven of Rushdoony's Law & Liberty. The modern doctrine of academic freedom is a totalitarian doctrine which is hostile to real academic freedom. Academic freedom means, if taken literally, freedom of the academy, that is, freedom of the school. It means, or should mean, that anyone has the freedom to establish a school to propagate his ideas and to maintain that school without interference, as long as it does not violate the criminal and moral laws of society. This is permitted for all but Christianity. Listen now.

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Law & Liberty Podcast: Law and Alchemy

by Chalcedon on June 28, 2010

Chapter ten of Rushdoony's Law & Liberty. Alchemy is the metamorphosis, the transmutation, the change of man and his world by means of chaos; man speeds up his own evolution by re-creating the original chaos of being. Revolution is simply the theory of social alchemy. We cannot counteract alchemy except by means of a Biblical faith, one firmly grounded on creationism. Listen now.

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Law & Liberty Podcast: Law and Evolution

by Chalcedon on June 28, 2010

Chapter nine of Rushdoony's Law & Liberty. From an evolutionary perspective, we have a very different concept of law. The universe is evolving, and the one constant factor is change. It is impossible therefore to speak of any absolute law. The universe has evolved by means of chance variations, and no law has any ultimacy or absolute truth. Listen now.

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Law & Liberty Podcast: Law and Chaos

by Chalcedon on June 28, 2010

Chapter eight of Rushdoony's Law & Liberty. If we believe that the universe evolved out of a primeval chaos, we then hold chaos to be the primary and ultimate factor and force of the universe. Chaos is then the source and origin of all things and is the given, the datum, the undergirding force of the cosmos. Instead of God as the source, we then have chaos. Listen now.

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Law & Liberty Podcast: Law and Authority

by Chalcedon on June 28, 2010

Chapter seven of Rushdoony's Law & Liberty. All thinking appeals to authority, and the question to ask of any man or of any philosophy or religion, is simply this: "What is its authority?" To what does it appeal as the foundation, the basis, of its thinking? Listen now.

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Law & Liberty Podcast: Law and the Future

by Chalcedon on June 28, 2010

Chapter six of Rushdoony's Law & Liberty. Law is the basic form of social planning. Every law is geared to a belief concerning the nature of society; every law is expressive of some faith concerning life, liberty, and property, and it is a part of a plan to realize an envisioned future. Listen now.

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Law & Liberty Podcast: Law and Nature

by Chalcedon on June 28, 2010

Chapter five of Rushdoony's Law & Liberty. The advocates of natural law say that there is a higher law in nature which man's enlightened reason can discover. This higher law, which is inherent in nature, that is, it is in and of nature, is the true law by which men and nations must be governed. Listen now.

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Law & Liberty Podcast: The Politics of Pornography

by Chalcedon on June 28, 2010

Chapter four of Rushdoony's Law & Liberty. The politics of pornography is a moral anarchism whose purpose is revolution, a revolution against Christian civilization. Listen now.

Learn more about pornography's war against Christian civilization with Rushdoony's Noble Savages.

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