Hostility to Christianity

CR101 Radio - Podcast Network · May 22, 2026 · 7m

In “Hostility to Christianity” (Chalcedon Report No. 155), Rushdoony argues that the drive to abolish Christianity did not begin with modern revolutions but was a long-standing Enlightenment objective, quietly embedded in state policy before erupting openly in events like the French and Russian Revolutions. He shows how this hostility surfaced even in the American War for Independence through British desecration of churches, destruction of Bibles, persecution of pastors, and contempt for Christian faith facts largely ignored or excused by humanistic historians. Rushdoony then contrasts older…