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Rev. R.J. Rushdoony / The Chalcedon Foundation:
False theocracies are the rule of men; true theocracy is the rule of God's law in men and over men. True theocracy requires a very limited church and state. Giving more power to men, either privately or institutionally, is no substitute for the rule of the triune God in the lives of men. We are told of Cardinal Richelieu that there was madness in his family. The cardinal himself, in "his spells of mental aberration," thought himself to be less than a man; he "imagined himself to be a horse." Richelieu’s elder brother, a half-wit, feeble-minded and delusionary, believed that he was the first person of the Trinity. Richelieu took this brother out of his Carthusian monastery and made him the Cardinal-Archbishop of Lyon.

Posted by Editor at May 17, 2007 01:49 AM