What does it mean to “take away the righteousness of the righteous”?

Thomas R. Valletta

“How many fewer devotees of the First Amendment would there be if, for instance, there were not so much profit in pornography? The words of Isaiah may have some special application to our time. … We must never make the error of assuming that the wicked believe in tolerant pluralism—in a ‘live and let live’ philosophy. Misery may crave company, but darkness detests light. Evil people are not polite pluralists—they are predators, as Lot found out in Sodom. Hitler’s hatred of the Jews did not remain a private gripe. Private immorality finally makes itself manifest publicly” (Maxwell, Wherefore Ye Must Press Forward, 9–10).

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