Quotable: R. J. Rushdoony (1916-2001)
October 20th, 2009 by inspired
Behind every source of law there is a god. To find the god in any system, look for the source of law in that system. If the source of law is the individual, then the individual is the god of that system. If the source of law is the people, or the dictatorship of the proletariat, then these things are gods of those systems. If our source of law is court, then court is our god. If there is no higher law beyond man, then man is his own god, or else his creatures, the institutions he has made, have become his gods. When you choose your authority, you choose your god, and where you look for your law, there is your god.
~ R. J. Rushdoony, Law and Liberty (Fairfax, Virginia: Thoburn Press, 1971). p.33.
