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“Rushdoony saw the reconstructionist goal as simple: Christians who believed in Christ’s supremacy were compelled to “reconstruct” American society based on Old Testament ideals, turning ancient Near Eastern legal codes into policy. Rushdoony believed statism to be a ‘false religion’ that dueled with the rule of God on Earth. The secular state was a religion against God. He wrote in his 1973 magnum opus Institutes of Biblical Law: ‘All law is religious in nature, and every non-Biblical law-order represents an anti-Christian religion.’ Unlike Graham and Henry, Rushdoony sought to impose a top-down ethic, led by Van Til’s epistemology.”