Pilgrimage

In Pilgrimage, Rushdoony contrasts the historic Christian understanding of life as a God-directed journey with the modern humanistic pilgrimage that seeks meaning through experience, shock, and perversion. Tracing the shift from faith-driven purpose to the Enlightenment’s lust for sensation and the Romantic fascination with the abnormal, he argues that modern culture has turned pilgrimage into a quest for pathology, violence, and demonic fascination symbolized by society’s attraction to figures like Dracula. These distorted pilgrimages reveal the true loves of modern man: entertainment, education, and power detached from God, often enforced through statist tyranny. Against this death-bound journey, Rushdoony calls believers back to a pilgrimage rooted in God’s law and purpose, affirming that while false pilgrims build only ruins, those who labor under Christ’s lordship are commanded to occupy, build, and govern in confidence that God’s kingdom will prevail. #Pilgrimage #Rushdoony #ChristianWorldview #FaithAndCulture #ChristIsLord #GodsLaw #Statism #CulturalCritique