American society was founded on liberal principles, with institutions established specifically to safeguard and promote liberalism, including public school systems that inculcate liberal values among students. The antiliberal political theorist Patrick Deneen calls this “liberal totalitarianism.”[34] The Christian in America, Rushdoony complained, “has no right to his identity; he must recognize all others and their ‘rights,’ but he himself has none.”[35] This is true if a Christian’s “rights” include the right not only to lead a Christian life himself but to impose that life on the entire
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