Editing Gary North (economist) (section)

====Religious liberty====
North said: "We must use the doctrine of [[freedom of religion|religious liberty]] to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government. Then they will get busy in constructing a Bible-based social, political and religious order which finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God."<ref name="Olson">{{Cite web |last=Olson |first=Walter |date=1998-11-01 |title=Reasonable Doubts: Invitation to a Stoning |url=https://reason.com/1998/11/01/invitation-to-a-stoning/ |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=Reason.com |pages=1–2 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=North|first=Gary|chapter=The Intellectual Schizophrenia of the New Christian Right|editor-first=James B|editor-last=Jordan|title=The Failure of the American Baptist Culture|year=1982|series=Christianity and Civilization|publisher=Geneva Divinity School|isbn=0-939404-04-4|issn=0278-8187|page=25}}</ref>

Adam C. English suggests that this quote implies that "religious liberty is a useful tool to Christians in the present, yet is ultimately to be denied to anyone who is not Christian once the Christians are in power".<ref>{{cite book|last=English|first=Adam C.|title=New Religious Movements and Religious Liberty in America|chapter=Christian Reconstruction after Y2K: Gary North, the New Millennium, and Religious Freedom|year=2003|publisher=[[Baylor University Press]]|page=116|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=up5fnY7Wp1wC&pg=PA116|isbn=978-0-918954-92-3}}</ref> English argues that although this may seem inconsistent (advocating religious liberty but denying the reality of the notion), North and his fellow reconstructionists understand "liberty" in a theological sense. According to the reconstructionists, "anyone outside of the Christian faith is in bondage," and so "government by rigorous theonomy is not oppressive but liberating".<ref>English, "Christian Reconstruction after Y2K," p. 117.</ref>