Neutrality is a Myth!

Here’s a quote included in the book we’re currently working on. Something to chew on and prepare you for “2,000 Years of Christian Theology”, to be published later this summer.

“Every social order rests on a creed, on a concept of life and society, and represents a religion in action. Culture is religion externalized, and, as Henry Van Til observed, ‘a people’s religion comes to expression in its culture, and Christians can be satisfied with nothing less than a Christian organization of society.’

“The life of a society is its creed; a dying creed faces desertion or subversion readily. Every creed, however healthy, is also under continual attack; the culture which neglects to defend and further its creedal base is exposing its heart to the enemy’s knife. Because of its indifference to its creedal basis in Biblical Christianity, western civilization is today facing death and is in a life and death struggle with humanism.” (1)

“Every social order has an implicit creed, and this creed defines the order and informs it. When a social order begins to crumble, it is because the basic faith, its creed, has been undermined. - The success of the subversives rests on their attack on the creed of the establishment, and its replacement by a new creed. When the foundations are provided, the general form of the building is determined. When the creed is accepted, the social order is determined. There can therefore be no reconstruction of the Christian civilization of the west except on Christian creedal foundations.” (2)

Emphasis, mine.

(1) Rushdoony, R.J., Foundations of Social Order: Studies in the Creeds and Councils of the Early Church (Philadelphia, Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1968) p. 217-220

(2) Rushdoony, R.J., Foundations of Social Order: Studies in the Creeds and Councils of the Early Church (Philadelphia, Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1968) p. 225-226