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FEMINIST THEOLOGIANS
Feminist theologians do mention God but they are ignorant also because they don't know who God is. Some try to make Jesus out as a feminist and think that St. Paul and others after Jesus hijacked the religion and made it patriarchal. Jesus taught patriarchy and every other decent moral value and some feminists make the ridiculous claim that he would be for a feminist family and even approve of gays adopting and raising children. Rosemary Radford Ruether is a prominent feminist theologian understands the Bible teaches patriarchy and says it "sacrilyinzed patriarchy." Ruether says in her book Woman Guides: Readings Toward a Feminist Theology that "Feminist theology cannot be done from the existing base of the Christian Bible. The Old and New Testaments [is a] canonization to sacralize patriarchy. .. they are designed to erase women's existence as subjects and to mention women only as objects of male definition. In these texts the norm for women is absence and silence. Whether praised for their compliance or admonished for their 'disobedience,' women remain in these texts 'the other.' Their own point of view, their own experience, their own being as human subjects is never at the center. They appear, if at all, at the margin. Mostly, they do not appear at all. Even their absence and silence are not noted since, for women in patriarchy, absence and silence are normative."
One can only wish that she and other feminists would be silent. Everything Ruether writes is a lie. Everything Rubin writes is a lie. It doesn't matter if feminists ignore the Bible or focus on it because they completely miss the point. They have this idiotic view that men are having fun as slave masters full of self esteem while poor women spend their days groveling to insensitive clods. Rubin and Ruether act like they are some fairy godmother who has come to save billions of sweet Cinderella's from the evil patriarchs. The truth is that Rubin and Ruether and their gang are the wicked witches and wonderful people like the Andelin's and their gang are the Prince who can save Cinderella and show her how to live happily ever after. To deny the Bible is to deny God. To deny God is to deny true happiness. The happiness Rubin and Ruether and their gang think they have is a false happiness. It is the happiness of a junkie shooting heroin. They may have some moments of ecstasy and pity those who do not know their high, but in the long run, their ideology is unhealthy and for many, even fatal. Rubin, Ruether and associates are evil incarnate. They are the forces of darkness the Bible says we are to fear. Feminists like Michael Kimmel hurt people and delude themselves that they are helping people by guiding them to the nightmare world of their version of equality. Communists love the word equality too. The result is that the masses endure a terrible equality of misery.
INTERCHANGING
The essence of feminism is to interchange roles and therefore eliminate any differences between men and women. Some feminists give lip service to the idea that there are some differences between men and women but they never get around to saying what they are. It is usually some vague idea that women will humanize the workplace and men will become human when they go home and spend time ironing and changing diapers. Of course, these feminists are never going to become roofers, car salesmen, and taxi drivers. Their idea of equality is for women to be all the politicians, CEOs, professors, lawyers and doctors. Men can do the dirty work and be led by women who have all leadership because we all know that women are good and men are bad. Men are violent and women are victims. Men are scary, sweaty competitors and women hug each other, hug trees, and embrace cooperation. Men are beasts and women are kind. Men hate women and women love men. Men are half empty; women are half full. Men are warriors and women are peacemakers. Men want to keep women barefoot and pregnant. Women would love to read a book and learn new things but men keep them from being educated by forcing them to be their personal slave and prostitute. If a man is not demanding to be served his beer he is raping her.
Feminists haven't got a clue to what a man or woman is. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams encouraged their wives and daughters to read and these women became very educated. Jefferson and Adam loved their wife and children. They are like countless millions of other men who treated their wives with respect. Evil women like Mary Wollstonecraft tried to poison them with her evil ideology just like the the evil queen poisoned Snow White with a beautiful poisoned apple. Men must become Prince Charmings and save women from the feminists who poison our world. Jefferson and Adams did not teach that women should live their lives vicariously through men. They honored the work women did in the home. In the 19th century men even went too far and taught that women are superior to men in heart and love. This slippery slope led to women like Rubin and Ruether being the dominate intellectual leaders of America and men being emasculated.
Rubin writes that the terrible patriarchal past marriages "didn't work so well for most people most of time. Marriages staggered under the burden of these role definitions; the dream began to look like a nightmare." Women, she says, are in a state of "rebellion" and now want "to reclaim some parts of themselves and some power in their relationships with their men."
Men, she says, have to give up trying to be "the tough, fearless, unemotional hero of folklore" because it is a "hard act to keep us in real life" and causes "enormous emotional stress." "In an economy that is almost always short on jobs, and in which most men who are lucky enough to have one simply can't earn enough to meet the idealized notions of male responsibility."
NO CLEAR PICTURE
"We know that the old ways are not for us, but have no clear picture yet of what the new ones will be. We know there's a new vision of masculinity and femininity, but can't figure out it fits each of us."
"For over a decade now, feminist scholars of both genders have labored to put before us a new vision of the nature of men and women ...."
"There is no single truth to tell."
Rubin says she was supported by her husband till middle age when she got her doctorate. She started to teach and her husband then told her he wanted to quit work and write. He said, "You can't imagine what a relief it is to know that you can support yourself." Why didn't you ever say things like that before?" I asked. "I never knew it until now," he answered. So he quits working and she becomes the breadwinner and both go into a depression. She writes that it was because of cultural conditioning that they were so unhappy but it troubles her that she discovers that young people who live in role reversal struggle also. "We had to confront the realization that we were still dominated by the stereotypic images of male and female roles -- images we would have sworn we had, by then, routed from our consciousness.
"He struggled with his sense of failure, with the fear that somehow his very manhood had been damaged. I -- the liberated, professional woman -- was outraged and enraged that he wasn't taking care of me any longer. I felt as if he had violated some basic contract with which we had lived, as if he had failed in his most fundamental task in life -- to keep me safe and cared for, to protect and support me."
She goes on to dismiss this as antiquated feelings and they went on to live this lifestyle and now she encourages others to do so.
Feminists deny reality. "I used to wonder whether these problems were unique to us, born largely of the fact that we were responding to the situation from the consciousness of an older generation. 'Perhaps,' I would think, 'it wouldn't happen that way with people in their thirties instead of their forties and fifties.' But all the evidence of my recent research suggests that most adults -- even those with the most enlightened moddern consciousness -- still have difficulty in accepting a role reversal of that magnitude. Smaller changes may be tolerated quite easily. But one that puts a woman in a position of economic superiority and a man in the dependent female role is quite another matter. Most men still can't cope with not being able to support the family, and most women still have difficulty in accepting the need to support themselves. A thirty-year old staunch feminist whose principles have led her to abjure a legal marriage spoke about just this conflict with pain and puzzlement. 'I know it's only fair that we share in supporting our family, but it feels so lonely sometimes, and I have dreams about laying back and letting him do it. I even find myself getting angry that he won't do for me what my father did for my mother. It feels unfair. I'm not getting something I deserve. I know it's not rational, but ...'"
"Repeatedly, in both my research and my clinical practice, young women and men speak of their contradictory and conflictful feelings around these issues. They know what they should feel, but the inner response doesn't always match the external mandates. Ideologically, they're committed to breaking down the stereotypes of what men ought to do, how women ought to behave. But their emotions contradict their intellect." She just can't see she is fighting human nature -- fighting the way our creator made us.
She ends by saying that in feminist families "children are developing new and more balanced internal psychic structures." But "the old ways of being die hard." The truth is the opposite of what she writes.
On the back cover of Erotic Wars: What Happened to the Sexual Revolution by Rubin we read that she "offers a resounding note of hope. Dr. Rubin helps us to see that the struggle and the anguish of the last three decades have created a society which affords greater potential for joy and satisfaction." This is a lie.
She writes: "When I hear the criticism of the sexual revolution now being voiced by both feminists and their enemies, I'm inclined to ask: Compared with what? Certainly the problems we face today are different from those of yesterday. But are they worse? Was there really a time when women had a better, more secure life than the one we know now? If so, when was it? A century ago, when, because good women were defined as asexual, their respectable, middle-class husbands regularly visited prostitutes and equally regularly infected their wives with the venereal diseases they contracted before? Or when life in the family was guided by the voice of the father, the patriarch, and women and children were little more than his property, to be used and disposed of at his will?"
This is a lie. She incorrectly paints the Victorian man as jerks and women as victims. Women are worse off today than in the past when it comes to the roles they had. We are living in a wasteland of epidemics from divorce to VD.
"Yes, life probably was less complicated in those earlier times, but simpler doesn't mean better. And the pain we know today is not made any easier by the glorification of a yesterday that by now has gained mythic proportions."
"... what we are witnessing in this period is not a return to an outdated past, but a thoughtful pause, a moment of consolidation, an attempt, difficult though it may be, to reorder our relationships, sexual and otherwise, in ways that will bring more lasting satisfaction to us all. The sexual revolution has not been turned back, but the quest for meaning has joined sex at center stage. And the ripples continue, slowly but inexorably eroding the rocks on the shore." This has not been a "thoughtful pause"; it has been a nightmare.
Since she wrote these evil words in 1990 there has been a backlash that will grow until this madness ends. Rubin and her evil friends will not win this cultural war. Her ideology will not erode the rocks of truth.
