S1E131 - Are We Using Language to Confuse Ourselves?

In “Are We Using Language to Confuse Ourselves?” Rushdoony warns that statist categories—especially the IRS distinction between “profit” and “nonprofit”—have subtly reshaped Christian and cultural thinking, causing people to mistake tax classifications for reality itself. He argues that these terms obscure what truly matters: productivity versus nonproductivity, noting that families, churches, schools, and libraries—though labeled “nonprofit”—are among the most productive forces in civilization, while civil government, also nonprofit, is often minimally productive at best. By adopting bureaucratic language, society elevates administration over creation, form over substance, and pragmatism over theology, allowing the tax state rather than God’s law to frame...