Patriarchy vs. Feminism

Martin Selbrede's constructive biblical critique of both Feminism and Patriarchy.

http://www.chalcedon.edu/articles/article.php?ArticleID=2965

Patriarchy is a great blessing, as long as it is under the Lord. Having lost someone we love through their idolatry to an ungodly autonomous patriarchy, we hate it almost as much as we hate godless autonomous feminism. We need to learn more how to apply God's word.

The Botkins have a saying that, every culture is a patriarchy. Some lead well for God's glory, while other cultures lead badly for Satan's glory.

Feminism is simply women helping tear down God's design in family, church and state. Godless patriarchy does the same thing and lays the groundwork for a culture under judgment.

There is a time for a lower magistrate to correct an higher magistrate.

Paul told the young Timothy how to correct an older man appealing to him as to a father. He is to speak to younger women as to sisters and older women as mothers.

Daughters are valuable here with brothers, sisters, Mom & Dad. A woman too can appeal to her husband.

Men are concerned with conquering. Women are concerned with relationships. Women need to help their men conquer rightly. Neither can do this without being under Christ.

Liberated and Unhappy -- New York Times on Feminist Victories and a Generation of Unhappy Women

From the New York Times:

American women are wealthier, healthier and better educated than they were 30 years ago. They’re more likely to work outside the home, and more likely to earn salaries comparable to men’s when they do. They can leave abusive marriages and sue sexist employers. They enjoy unprecedented control over their own fertility. On some fronts — graduation rates, life expectancy and even job security — men look increasingly like the second sex

But all the achievements of the feminist era may have delivered women to greater unhappiness. In the 1960s, when Betty Friedan diagnosed her fellow wives and daughters as the victims of “the problem with no name,” American women reported themselves happier, on average, than did men. Today, that gender gap has reversed. Male happiness has inched up, and female happiness has dropped. In postfeminist America, men are happier than women.

Reply to Hilllary's Speech

Doug Phillips posted a article with exerpts from Hillary's speech at the Democate convention, and here is my reply:

Mrs. Clinton’s remarks regarding the similarity of Pres. Bush & Mr. McCain are I think quite accurate and is true that “these days they’re awfully hard to tell apart,” though “equal pay for equal work” is definitely not the issue, scripture categorically states that women—or womyn as feminists would like to put itJ—are to be “keepers at home…that the word of God be not blasphemed”. True femininity is to be “discreet, chaste, keepers at home…obedient to their own husbands” The 19^th Amendment to the Constitution is as Doug Phillips says “we stopped being a nation of families and became a nation of individuals”

Though her holding up as a heroine Harriett Tubmen should send up a red flag to the peanut gallery of Harriett Tubmen fans, she may have been brave but that isn’t the issue. Tubmen should not be lauded as a “brave New Yorker, a woman who risked her life to bring slaves to freedom” the reality is that since the slaves weren’t willing to leave she actually would coerce them at gun point to come, threatening to shoot down any who strayed.