Death and Restitution (Crime and Punishment) (Remastered)

Rushdoony argues the church’s crisis is moral blindness: Christians often treat the unbelieving neighbor as basically good and needing only “Christ added,” but Scripture teaches universal depravity and that, without the church acting as salt, society naturally decays into greater evil and eventually turns on Christians. True community requires something genuinely held in common, yet modern substitutes humanity (“family of man”), race, reason, class, politics, economics, hobbies create only thin connections or deeper division because they refuse to face sin and the need for Christ. He notes modern loneliness: many acquaintances, few real ties; immigrant communities and the family pro...