“Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy.”

—  Rousas John Rushdoony

As quoted in David Cantor and Alan M. Schwartz (1995), Anti-Defamation League book -The Religious Right: The Assault on Tolerance and Pluralism In America

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