Disposable Man

In Disposable Man, Rushdoony argues that modern humanistic statism, by denying transcendent meaning and moral absolutes, inevitably treats human beings as expendable tools of the state. Drawing on testimonies from the Gulag, he shows how a worldview grounded in pragmatism, utility, and evolutionary meaninglessness produces a society where injustice is never a “mistake” because there is no higher law by which the state can be judged. When meaning is declared dead, man himself becomes disposable used, discarded, and destroyed as circumstances require while art, culture, and life collapse into nihilism and violence. Against this death-driven order, Rushdoony affirms the biblical truth that all things are created in Christ and therefore possess God-given meaning, purpose, and value, concluding that only a civilization built on Christ and His law can endure, while the doctrine of disposable man can lead only to judgment and the graveyard of history. #DisposableMan #Rushdoony #ChristianWorldview #BiblicalMeaning #Statism #Humanism #FaithAndCulture #ChristIsLord