Easy Chair No. 148, June 4, 1987 — The French Revolution: The Revolution That Never Ended

Judge Not

“Judge not” is often quoted to silence moral clarity, but Scripture means something far deeper. The Bible never forbids judgment itself it forbids false judgment. Jesus, the prophets, and the apostles judged boldly and publicly, condemning real evil according to God’s law, because unjudged evil is tolerated evil. We are not called to judge by appearances, personal dislikes, or emotions, but to judge righteously by God’s standard. When we excuse sin, we share in its guilt; when we judge justly, with truth and mercy where there is repentance, we act faithfully. The command is clear: don’t abandon judgment judge righteous judgment.

How Bad is Pollution?

This passage emphasizes that historical urban pollution was far worse than what we typically imagine today. In the era of horse-drawn vehicles, cities in the U.S. and London were covered with tons of horse manure, creating unsanitary conditions and difficult foot traffic. Noise pollution from horseshoes and buggy wheels added to the chaos. Going back further, in 1783, many cities lacked sewers, and human waste was often dumped into streets, making sanitation even more dire. By contrast, modern technology and infrastructure have drastically reduced both physical and noise pollution. While ongoing improvements are necessary, exaggerating today’s pollution misrepresents reality and obscures the progress achieved. #HistoricalPollution #UrbanSanitation #EnvironmentalPerspective #TechnologicalProgress

Moral Disarmament

In “Moral Disarmament,” Rushdoony argues that before societies are conquered politically or militarily, they are first defeated morally, as distinctions between good and evil, truth and error, Christ and Antichrist are deliberately blurred. Through literature, theology, education, and popular culture, sympathy is shifted from righteousness to rebellion, from law to lawlessness, until betrayal, criminality, and perversion are reinterpreted as tragic or noble while moral discipline and principle are condemned as Pharisaical evil. This process disarms the conscience, teaching coexistence with sin and even reconciliation with Satan, thereby denying the Biblical realities of judgment, hell, and moral separation. Rushdoony insists that such moral confusion inevitably leads to political surrender, tyranny, and social collapse, as seen in the French Revolution and modern totalitarian movements. The antidote is not sentimental pietism but Christian maturity: sound doctrine, Biblical law, and comprehensive Christian thinking applied to every sphere of life, so that believers may stand fully armed in God’s truth rather than defenseless before the advance of evil.

The Biblical Approach to Economics (Remastered)

This lecture presents economics as inherently religious, showing that humanism begins in Genesis 3:5 with man’s desire to be his own god and expresses itself today through fiat law, fiat money, and fiat economics, all of which create inflation, disorder, and false wealth. In contrast, biblical economics flows from the dominion mandate of Genesis 1:26–28 and rests on four foundations: faithful obedience and godly character, knowledge as an aspect of the image of God, productive labor as a blessing rather than a curse, and capital built through patience, saving, and intergenerational stewardship. Economic decline follows when faith collapses, envy replaces discipline, and productivity is destroyed, while humanistic systems substitute political power and “works of law” for real work, producing unemployment and social decay and demanding state control of education and knowledge. Christians are therefore not called to pursue wealth as an end in itself, but to use wealth as a tool of stewardship, bringing every area of economic life into submission to God rather than to man-made authority. #BiblicalEconomics #DominionMandate #NoFiatMoney #FaithAndWork #ChristianWorldview #Stewardship #AgainstHumanism #GodsLaw #EconomicsAndFaith #BiblicalAuthority

Judgment

We live in an age that preaches tolerance while practicing constant judgment just not by God’s standards. Even those who reject biblical morality still draw hard lines, elevating personal tastes and preferences into law, while dismissing God’s Word entirely. Scripture doesn’t forbid judgment; it forbids false judgment. We are commanded not to condemn by appearances or private whims, but to judge righteously, according to God’s law. When men replace God’s standard with their own, they aren’t becoming tolerant they’re playing god. And that path, history shows, leads only to disaster.