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EPISODE · May 19, 2026 · 33 MIN

The Significance of the Family as a Social Institution (Remastered)

from Rushdoony Radio · host R.J. Rushdoony

This session confronts the social power of the biblical family and explains why it is relentlessly targeted by the modern state: under God, the family governs the future (children), property, inheritance, education, and welfare—the very foundations of society. From Theodora’s transformation of Roman law to Marx, Engels, Dewey, and modern democrats, the pattern is clear: destroy the family and Christianity collapses. Humanism insists religion and family are “private,” stripping God’s Law from public life while expanding state control over sexuality, schooling, property, and children. The result is social breakdown, dependency, unemployment, crime, and cultural decay—problems the state only worsens while the family, when ordered under God, historically solved them. The warning is stark and hopeful at once: every society that undermines the biblical family commits cultural suicide, and Christian reconstruction must therefore begin where God begins—with the family governed by His Law-Word. #BiblicalFamily #ChristianReconstruction #FamilyUnderGod #AgainstStatism #LawWord #FaithAndCulture #FamilyIsTheFuture #ChristianEducation #Dominion #WorldviewMatters

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