Depending on Evil

In “Depending on Evil” (Chalcedon Report No. 112), Rushdoony argues that modern states consistently trust and support evil regimes because corruption is predictable, purchasable, and controllable, whereas righteousness and freedom are not. Using the long history of European and later global protection of the corrupt Turkish state as a central example, he shows how powers repeatedly defended tyranny—not out of ignorance, but because evil could be relied upon to serve power politics, commerce, and strategic interests. From the suppression of Christian minorities to the betrayal of Armenians, Greeks, and others, Rushdoony contends that modern diplomacy rests on a Machiavellian faith in evil rather than in God’s law. This pattern, he insists, governs relations with regimes like Marxist Russia and Communist China as well, revealing a humanistic world order built on collectivism, statism, and anti-Christianity. Such an order, he warns, is self-destructive and already under judgment, for no society can endure when it trusts evil rather than God. True rebuilding, he concludes, can come only through regeneration, obedience to God’s law, and faith in Christ, because those who trust in evil ultimately become like the evil they trust. #DependingOnEvil #PowerPolitics #Statism #Humanism #AntiChristianity #BiblicalWorldview #ChristianReconstruction #TrustInGod