In a 1993 Chalcedon Report, R.J. Rushdoony warned of rising anti-Christian hostility in America, tracing it to Supreme Court decisions eroding Biblical foundations of law since the 1950s, the rise of humanism as an unofficial established religion promoting moral relativism, media bias against Christians, and growing intolerance toward Biblical morality—while hypocritically accusing believers of judgmentalism. He called for prayer, action, and resistance, urging Christians to awaken rather than retreat, affirming we are called to be conquerors in Christ amid cultural persecution.#ChristianPersecution #BiblicalTruth #ReligiousFreedom #StandFirm #FaithInAction #HumanismExposed

This passage examines how well-intentioned social and labor programs can be exploited, often favoring the wrong parties. The “Burglar Cops of Hollywood” case illustrates law enforcement officers who committed theft while on duty yet received overtime pay during interrogation and even claims for disability due to the stress of being caught. Similarly, in a sex-discrimination lawsuit, the plaintiff received far less than her lawyers, highlighting systemic inequities in benefit distribution. The author argues that abuses in social programs, wage laws, and benefits diminish public trust and threaten the longevity of these initiatives. The solution, he suggests, is active civic involvement to eliminate abuses: if you value a program, work to ensure it serves its intended purpose rather than rewarding exploitation.

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In “Doing Nothing” (Chalcedon Report No. 159), Rushdoony argues that Western society’s failure to resist tyranny is not intellectual confusion but religious apostasy, rooted in a shared humanism that unites both democratic and communist systems. Solzhenitsyn’s critique unsettled the West because he exposed the uncomfortable truth that Marxism and Western statism spring from the same faith: the sovereignty of man and the state rather than God. As a result, persecutions of Christians—whether in Soviet labor camps or American courtrooms targeting Christian schools and parents—are met largely with silence, apathy, or even opposition from fellow churchmen. Where humanism reigns, Christ’s lordship is denied, neutrality is impossible, and nonconformity is treated as a crime. Rushdoony concludes that this is a spiritual war over the reign of Christ, one in which believers must recognize that doing nothing is itself surrender, and that true victory belongs only to those who overcome the world by faith in the risen King.

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