re: #218 karmic_inquisitor

Rushdoony is another name in the pantheon of intellectuals behind economic fundamentalism.

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Here is a post from Gary North writing at Lew Rockwell eulogizing Rushdoony.

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And here is an index of posts by Ron Paul at Lew Rockwell

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These people will limit your economic freedoms in the name of a gold standard and a biblically coherent set of economic policies. And allow me to remind everyone that many forms of lending today would simply evaporate under such a regime. Including most mortgage deductions (state subsidization of usury).

Rushdoony is also a Christian Reconstructionist.

In the Institutes, Rushdoony supported the reinstatement of the Mosaic law’s penal sanctions. Under such a system, the list of civil crimes which carried a death sentence would include homosexuality, adultery, incest, lying about one’s virginity, bestiality, witchcraft, idolatry or apostasy, public blasphemy, false prophesying, kidnapping, rape, and bearing false witness in a capital case.

Mentioning the Taliban isn’t so out of line.