“…the covenant people must wage war against the enemies of God, because this war is unto death. The deliberate, refined, and obscene violence of the anti-God forces permits no quarter…this warfare must continue until the Amalekites of the world are blotted out, until God's law-order prevails and His justice reigns.”

—  Rousas John Rushdoony

Source: Writings, The Institutes of Biblical Law (1973), P. 308

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