The Sandpoint Reader: The American Redoubt Series: ‘Keeping the faith’ — The role of religion in the American Redoubt
According to Frederick Clarkson, a Massachusetts-based journalist, public speaker and senior fellow of progressive think tank Political Research Associates, the marriage of Christianity and survivalism is not an invention of the American Redoubt. It echoes the Christian Reconstructionist movement developed by Cold-War era survivalists Rousas Rushdoony and Gary North. In his 1973 book “The Institutes of Biblical Law,” Rushdoony conceptualized how a new Christian society might rise from the ashes of nuclear war.
“Rushdoony spent a lot of time imagining what a Christian society based on the Bible would be like,” Clarkson said.