Empires of Dirt Quotes

“They want to keep the government ‘out of our bedrooms.’ What are they talking about? I have to live in their society, remember. And I built my house, which means I built my own bedroom. The government told me how far apart the studs had to be in my bedroom wall, they dictated how thick the sheetrock had to be, they mandated how far apart the sheetrock screws had to be, they had policies on the configuration of those sheetrock screws, they have laws on the size of the windows and what kind of glass I can have in them, and there are stern legal warnings on the mattress tags. What do you mean, you want to keep the government out of our bedrooms? The president is probably contemplating, right this minute, the establishment of a bedroom czar.”
― Douglas Wilson, Empires of Dirt: Secularism, Radical Islam, and the Mere Christendom Alternative

“Blaming public Christians for being ‘too political’ is like blaming Noah’s ark for being ‘too wet”
― Douglas Wilson, Empires of Dirt: Secularism, Radical Islam, and the Mere Christendom Alternative

“We need to make sure we are doing what Jesus said and not what we thought Jesus must have said. The textbook case against Christian activism can be made in one word—Prohibition—the word that would have made the Lord Jesus at Cana into a moonshiner felon. We did a great job there of setting aside the Word of God for the sake of our tradition”
― Douglas Wilson, Empires of Dirt: Secularism, Radical Islam, and the Mere Christendom Alternative

“Gelernter says, “If there is to be justice in the world, America must create it.”17 When I read things like that, I usually have my jumpin’ Jehoshaphat reaction. Did he really say that? Yes, he did, but the reason he is able to get away with it is because of the massive loss of confidence and faith that Christians have in Scripture. How can we be appalled when he says that if we are not willing to counter immediately with, “No, if there is to be justice in the world, and in this nation, Jesus must do it”? The”
― Douglas Wilson, Empires of Dirt: Secularism, Radical Islam, and the Mere Christendom Alternative

“all societies are theocratic, and the only thing that distinguishes them is which God they serve. I want a theocratic society that maximizes human liberty, including liberty of consciences, and since this is a good thing, this means that we have to worship the God who gives all good things, the true and living God.”
― Douglas Wilson, Empires of Dirt: Secularism, Radical Islam, and the Mere Christendom Alternative

“Perfectionists want static categories; they want things to be defined and to stay put. They want the kingdom of God to stay here, right where we put it, and they want the kingdom of man to stay right there, on the unbelieving shelf.”
― Douglas Wilson, Empires of Dirt: Secularism, Radical Islam, and the Mere Christendom Alternative

“Americanism has become a religion, and he accurately identifies how and where it happened. Where we should part company with him is to be found in his (religious) conviction that this development was a good thing. Faithful Christians will necessarily see it as a tragic fall into idolatry—and into one of the easiest forms of idolatry for conservative Christians to be tempted by.”
― Douglas Wilson, Empires of Dirt: Secularism, Radical Islam, and the Mere Christendom Alternative

“Secularism refers to the idea, popular for the last few centuries, that it is in fact possible for nations to be religiously neutral.”
― Douglas Wilson, Empires of Dirt: Secularism, Radical Islam, and the Mere Christendom Alternative

“God cannot be worshiped rightly in any culture without that worship challenging and dislocating all idolatries. To focus on the right worship of God is to declare war, it is to throw down the gauntlet. This is because when we worship God rightly, we have ascended into the heavenly places in order to glorify the name of Jesus Christ. He is glorified in Heaven, and then we ask, in humble faith, for God to glorify His name on earth as it has just been glorified in heaven. This is something that God is pleased to do, and this is why we ask for His kingdom to come, not for His kingdom to go”
― Douglas Wilson, Empires of Dirt: Secularism, Radical Islam, and the Mere Christendom Alternative

“If a public policy screecher began demanding that we all start rationing salt water because the planet Earth (which is our only home) was about to run completely out, and that many leading theologians agreed with this (and they would too), and that they offered their agreement in the name of the Lord Jesus, and with many solemn amens, I would still want to know how they could possibly think we were going to run out of salt water”
― Douglas Wilson, Empires of Dirt: Secularism, Radical Islam, and the Mere Christendom Alternative

“Theocracy is not, however, to be confused with “theocracy” or any other form of government contained within scare quotes, to which I am unalterably opposed.”
― Douglas Wilson, Empires of Dirt: Secularism, Radical Islam, and the Mere Christendom Alternative