Second American Revolution: Andrew Sandlin (1 of 4)

Question: What about the "establishment of religion" clause in the U.S. Constitution? Doesn't the U.S. Constitution forbid the display of religion in the civil sphere?

Andrew Sandlin: We strongly support the separation of church and state. We do not support the separation of the state from God. There is a vast difference. The church is under the authority of the law of God just as the state is. We're not looking for an ecclesiocracy. We are looking for a godly decentralized theocracy, the rule of the law of God. We certainly do not want the rule of the institutional church over society. We don't support medieval notions like that. We simply believe that the law of God should govern in society.

If it's not a Christian nation, it's going to be some type of nation. An Islamic nation? A secular nation? A science fiction nation? There will be some religion that will be enforced in society, we believe it should be Christianity -- within the narrow limits of the law of God not a heavy top-down bureaucracy.

The purpose of civil government is to enforce the Law of God appropriate to its sphere. We read in Romans 13 that the civil magistrate is to punish civil evil and to protect the righteous. When we start talking about "inalienable rights," although in some sense that terminology is permissible, it's not specifically biblical. Therefore, I think we have to go back to what the Bible specifically says. I am not in any way attacking the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution, we can have certain refinements.

The idea that we supposedly have the right to pursue the longings of our own heart is essentially a liberal idea. That's what liberals have held for the past 200 years and especially the last 50 years. The important thing is responsibility to the Law of God and to God as our sovereign.

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[theweakarefree]

I met Andrew Sandlin in 1996 in Michigan. He was a very gracious person, and he even gave me a Rushdoony book that I wanted to buy for free.

[jcr4runner]

Drew is one of my favs.

[kushisaac]

ahh a theonomy, well at least I can dream.

[snakejohnson]

This name is misleading. I thought I would actually hear some revolutionary talk and I get this BS.

[sebd2507]

This guy is sick, and has not read the bible all the way through or he wouldn't want a theocracy. If we followed the bible like he wants we would be back in the stone age in no time. Grow up man!

[SpringChatty]

We expect morals and the condemnation,fighting against all evil that corrupts or murders the innocent. You are misunderstanding and attempting to do evil yourself.

[Swa6543]

Make no mistake- The revolution will be a secular one! An enlightenment of free-thought has already begun and the Christian reconstuctionists know it.

[zygomatic79]

I'll get my AK-47 oiled and ready for the day any group tries to make the USA a theocracy.

[davidjakewillis]

Yes, a Theocracy is exactly what we need. Wow. That this is even questioned is absurd. People need to stop look at secularization as an attack on their fairy tales. These ideas are a complete attack on democracy, or what we have left of it.

[jossgower]

What we have is a Corporate nation!