Suicidal Humanism

CR101 Radio - Podcast Network · Jan 2, 2026 · 7m

In Suicidal Humanism, Rushdoony exposes the deadly illusion behind modern humanism: the belief that eliminating God, guilt, and divine law through technology, psychology, and the socialist state will usher in a perfect world. Drawing on figures like Bertrand Russell and Freud, he shows how humanism seeks to medicalize sin, erase religion, and enthrone man as his own god, only to produce despair, lawlessness, and self-destruction instead of peace. Far from solving humanity’s problems, technological power intensifies them, because the core issue is not systems or science but sinful man himself…