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R.J. Rushdoony
Good Morning,
Friends volume 2
G
ood morning, friends. One of the things which
makes life a little harder these days is the
newspaper. All one has to do to find something to
worry about is to read a newspaper and listen to some
news commentator. They give us a fairly steady diet of
wars and rumors of war, storms, accidents, murders,
scandals, and the like. Try mixing all that into your
breakfast, and you’ve got a good reason for ulcers!
Now, I have no intention of suggesting that you
cancel your daily paper. I certainly don’t intend to do so.
I do suggest, though, that we look at these constantly
recurring human tragedies from a healthy perspective.
First of all, we have to recognize that the history of
the world is one of perpetual human crises. All recorded
history gives us essentially the same story: civilization
tottering, man in despair, ugliness of behavior, human
depredations and depravity, it’s all an old story. As
Christians we not only must recognize that this has
been so, we must insist that it will be so. The history of
the world will be a perpetually recurring crisis because
man is in rebellion against God. You cannot take rotten
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2 Good Morning, Friends
G
ood morning, friends. Fear and flight are
commonly associated as cause and effect, and
rightly so. When people are afraid, the usual
impulse is to run away. But fear often disguises itself
as courage, and flight tries to cover itself under the
semblance of attack. A very telling illustration of this
is to be seen on the battlefield. Occasionally, a soldier
who is afraid and wants to run, will run, but he runs
head-on against the enemy. He forsakes all normal and
natural precaution for a suicidal attack which on rare
occasions is successful but which normally puts an end
to his fear and himself. His impulse is to deny his fear
and yet to put an end to the situation which produces
the fear. And so he ends it all by running away from
himself but towards the enemy. This is not courage but
fear. True courage holds its ground and moves forward
or backward only with wisdom and precaution, but fear
is always impatient and cannot wait.
The man who is not afraid is a patient man. He does
not feel that life is robbing him, and that he must, with
haste and impatience, get his share of its pleasures and
profits while he can. The impatient man is impatient
because he is afraid, because he feels that every moment
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