“Rushdoony was a man who was willing to whittle his theonomic stick until it had a pointed, jabby end. And then he would walk up to the classical liberal order in order to poke it. He would then want to ask some follow-up questions.”

Mere Christendom, p. 149

“The secularists are currently running a play on us. We need to figure out that play and counter it. Actually, I need to modify the image. They are not running a play. They have run the same play about twenty times in a row, and they have scored each time. They are breathing hard from the touchdown dances. The game’s not even over, and half of our team is back in the locker room, putting R2K stickers on their helmets, looking for the true football game whose maker and builder is God.”

Virgins and Volcanoes, pp. 53-54

“We are endowed with our rights by a Creator. If no Creator, then no rights. Put another way, Darwin hates you.”

Mere Christendom, p. 147

“In the classical liberal order, there was an arbitrary desire to hang the rights of man on a great big invisible sky hook. But whenever you bolt this sky hook into the azure blue, it does not much matter how many extra Kantian bolts you use—the thing will simply not stay up there.”

Mere Christendom, p. 147

“The free speech rights of the average nonbeliever would be far more secure in a Christian republic than they currently are in this epistemic fun house of ours. If you want free speech protected, not absolutely, but fairly and generally, in a way consistent with decency and good order, then you should ask the Christians. They know how to do it. Secular pagans don’t know how to do it and, moreover, have no desire to do it. It is not one of their values.”

Mere Christendom, p. 143