If you believe it matters how women are treated, realize this: You just acknowledged there is good and evil - for there cannot be absolute truth without a truth giver, who is God. The fact that He most definitely exists has been virtually shouted by the whole creation into every infinitely complex sensory organ you have (your eyes your ears and all the rest) ever since the first day you were born on this blue planet (that, by the way, literally circles around a ball of fire next to a moon that literally moves the sea!!!) Oh, there is a God and the good news is that you were made in His image and that is why you have this beautiful desire to oppose injustice and any other vice. God has put within you a deep desire to fight injustice but sometimes that fire gets misdirected and can actually result in hurting others.
What does God's existence have to do with a podcast on feminism? Everything. It is so true that “Nothing, absolutely nothing, has a more direct bearing on the moral choices made by individuals or the purposes pursued by society than belief or disbelief in God. Personal and national destinies are inextricably bound to this issue. It is not accidental that the key issues of the day that are felt with deep emotion and conviction, whether it be the issue of sexual orientation and practice, or life in the fetal stage, sooner or later filter down to whether there is a God, and if so, has he spoken?”
God has spoken truths that can set you free, and many of them relate to clarifying the erroneous, and culture-destroying platforms of militant feminism.
As a point of clarification: If the following ideas are all you mean by feminism --- I am with you:
Three cheers for you and everyone else who simply wants women to succeed. I worked all my adult life toward that effort. In fact, the reason I’m about to say what I’m about to say is that I genuinely want women to succeed.
Three cheers for standing up for liberty, justice, and fairness for all. God long before any human rights movement of mankind came along, authored all three of those virtues. So when there is equality in the right to vote or to own property or equal pay for equal work we have finally honored what He told us to do all along. Because you see, when any of the virtues in scripture are lived out in our lives, it prevents every social injustice that is rooted in sin, whether that sin is favoritism, greed, or any other sin that leads to social chaos and injustice.
Three cheers for fighting domestic violence by teaching the world to treat one another the way you’d like to be treated. Honor and respect in every relationship is God’s idea too, long before it was ours. We just need to work God’s ideas to see the strain in every relationship evaporate.
Three cheers for laws against sexual harassment. God said all along that men were to view older women as mothers and younger women as sisters in 1 Timothy 5:2. That way, not only are women not sexually harassed, we’re actually defended by chivalrous men if need be. That kind of support and protection comes in handy, to say the least.
Three cheers for the ability to view oneself as the captain of one’s own soul, as a person willing to face and resolve any conflict – and to refuse to see oneself as a victim of man-made or biological circumstances – and that through hard work and discipline women can become strong. Yes. I agree. So again, if those ideas are all you mean by feminism --- I’m with you.
This podcast is an invitation to all Warrior Princesses to come over to the light side of the force. We need you over here.
