Rushdoony Blog Tour
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Fri Dec 02, 2005 at 03:13:10 AM EST
I was curious to see what bloggers were writing about Rushdoony, one of the central architects of the Christian Right.  As you will see, Rushdoony's ideas are still inspiring people today. How can we understand better why so many Americans are attracted to his ideas? Is there something we can do to counteract the spread of these ideas?
Let's start our Rushdoony blog tour by visiting Little Geneva. This blog is written by H. Seabrook who considers himself a reformed confederate theocrat. In a recent post, he writes:

Yes, Rushdoony and Scott were opposed to jazz because it was a very obvious outgrowth of immoral Negro culture, and a slang term for semen. On page 61 of The Institutes of Biblical Law, Rushdoony writes: "The background of Negro culture is African and magic, and the purposes of magic are control and power... Voodoo or magic was the religion and life of American Negroes. Voodoo songs underlie jazz, and old voodoo, with its power goal, has been merely replaced with revolutionary voodoo ['civil rights'], a modernized power drive." Then, in his footnote: "See, for the voodoo background of jazz, Robert Tallant, Voodoo in New Orleans (New York: Collier Books, 1946, 1965)." Rushdoony wished for Whites to separate themselves from Negroes. "The white man has behind him centuries of Christian culture a