Self-Righteousness

A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life · Apr 15, 2026 · 4m

A striking feature of our age is the rise of pure self-righteousness the kind seen in a young wife who abandoned her family yet indignantly cried, “How can he do this to me after all I’ve done for him?” or in a pampered son who, despite receiving every advantage from devoted parents, angrily insisted they had “never done anything” for him. In both cases, the moral sickness is the same: the self-righteous person sees all faults in others and none in himself. His revolutionary solution to every problem is simple everything around him must change; he must never change. He becomes his own law and…