No matter how much good for women one wants to attribute to feminism, the movement at its core is anti-God, anti-family and anti-traditional values. The list is long of influential feminists whose belief is that until God and traditional family values are destroyed, women will never truly be equal with men, nor find their rightful place in society.
"By the year 2000, we will hopefully raise our children to believe in human potential, not God" (Gloria Steinam).
"Since marriage constitutes slavery for women, it is clear that the woman's movement must concentrate on attacking this institution. Freedom for women cannot be won without the abolition of marriage" (Sheila Cronan).
"The end of marriage is necessary for the liberation of women. Therefore, it is important for us to encourage women to leave their husbands and to not live individually with men. All of history must be rewritten in terms of oppression of women. We must go back to ancient female religions like witchcraft." The Declaration of Feminism, November 1971
:We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage." (Robin Morgan, "Sisterhood Is Powerful," (ed), 1970, p. 537)
"How will the family unit be destroyed? ... the demand alone will throw the whole ideology of the family into question, so that women can begin establishing a community of work with each other and we can fight collectively. Women will feel freer to leave their husbands and become economically independent, either through a job or welfare."- Female Liberation , by Roxanne Dunbar. (Quotes taken from HERE.)
Feminism is not new. Eve liberated herself from Adam's authority and did what she felt was right. Feminism at it's root is meant to destroy God's design on every front. It desires to make a sexless society and blur masculine and feminine roles. Into this climate, comes little ole' me and a few other brave souls who teach women that joyful, voluntary submission to a husband is a good thing. We encourage them to forsake their careers if they have children, be keepers at home, have children if the Lord blesses them, raise them in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, and protect traditional and Biblical values.
I know there are some feminists who don't support this radical agenda but I have seen the evil roots of what was intended by its founders to advance women’s rights become an agenda for destroying family values. I see women trying to have it all with a career and family life struggling under the weight of huge expectations, resentment and debt. Some feminists are beginning to question if the agenda has not gone too far, been too demanding and leaves little room for women who choose to be traditional at heart.
Hopefully more feminists will speak out and support those who want traditional roles to live in peace with where they feel God has called them. Too many young ladies who have grown up watching their mothers try to have and do it all like Superwoman are losing out on the joys that come from being wives and mothers as keepers at home. It certainly was never God's agenda for wives to divorce their husbands nor for mothers to be away from home for hours each day.
If the world hates you, you know that
it has hated Me before it hated you.
John 15:18
Cynthia · 572 weeks ago
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Lady Virtue · 572 weeks ago
Thanks for all you do, Lori. By God's grace, press on.
Buddy Federer · 572 weeks ago
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Loving been his wife · 572 weeks ago
I hope you don't mind me saying but have you noticed that most Feminism are so unfeminine? I NEVER ever want to be like that! I love, love, love that God made us Girls to be soft, cheery, loving, gentle............and the list goes on!
oxo
Loving been his wife · 572 weeks ago
Blessing!
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Kristin · 572 weeks ago
I don't think by being living and being loyal to your husband should be about some feministic view. I'm so happy and truly blessed that I met you Lori. Its about where we are placing our values and belief. Do we have faith enough to hand over the reigns to our husband? And if not what about God? They are the same. How we treat one we will treat the other. Come on people. God is good!!!!!! Live like you know this to be true.
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Roxy · 572 weeks ago
This can be through their acts and words and a choice to leave their babies and homes when it is possible to stay home and raise the next generation. Why are we letting the socialist brain wash our children's hearts and mind??
Blessings, Roxy
Courtney · 572 weeks ago
It's completely wrong for anyone to judge and criticize stay-at-home moms. But to be honest, I sometimes see more judgement coming from the traditional side on mothers who choose not to stay at home. They're judged as selfish, not loving their kids, letting others raise their kids, foolish, unfeminine. Career women say, "Oh I just had to go back to work. I couldn't waste my potential by staying home." But SAHMs say, "Oh I could never leave my children for a meaningless career. I love them too much." I think both statements imply criticism for the other choice. I love the message in this campaign: http://herscoop.com/posts/empowering-photo-series... "Let's love more & judge less."
Ken · 572 weeks ago
We must judge correctly while trying not to come across as judgmental. Sometimes that is impossible to do if the choice is between God's truth and sin. If God's truth places the highest priority on family and the raising of Godly offspring, how can one imagine that God is pleased with a large number of Christian women working outside their homes, and dropping their kids off at Day Care? For non-Christians I see no issue with working or not working as they are not called to raise godly kids.
If radical feminism that wanted to destroy family, men, and anything to do with God, was a healthy, then why isn't radical Christianity a healthy thing? What if the 70% of Americans who claim to be Christians all rose up with one voice and dominated politics in America, ridding the evils of porn, abortions, re-instituted capital punishment, put the BIble back in schools, and became intolerant to all of society's sin, and the result was that America became a more decent place? Would you then say that the ends justifies the means?
Jesus was a radical... so maybe we should as Christians start becoming far more radical because we see the evils of this world as it degrades with sin. If radical is a good thing then lets stand up and be counted as Christianity has the cures for all of society's ills. And His name is a radical Christ Jesus who will return to earth with a sword in His mouth to slay his enemies and overthrow the prince of this world.
Don't get me wrong, I am for tolerance for individuals, but not for sin. I do not advocate Christianity trying to win by force, but win at all costs is what I see in feminism and in the gay rights movement. They will stop at little to get their radical agenda approved by society, government and the courts. If they will attack and get a good man fired who donates $1,000 to marriage rights, where will radical people stop. They cannot separate ideology from the individual and they are only for the freedoms they want, not for the freedoms of others to live and believe as they choose. It's getting scary out there for Christians. See Matt Walsh's post on the subject: http://themattwalshblog.com/2014/04/07/jesus-didn...
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Kim · 572 weeks ago
Tied into this is the society's eye of women. Victorians thought women were frail, brains were too small to hold much information, and were spiritual being in a cruel world. I mentioned only labor laws, and there were many laws barring women becoming doctors or business owners. One woman told me how she had to get her ex-husband's permission to have a hysterectomy. The Temperance Movement portrayed woman as the last defense against society's decay. By JFK, all this became the perfect storm. More women had access to education, seeing a rising economy, only to be locked out due to hand picked law enforcement. Eventually, the Supreme Court agreed that this practice needed to be undone.
The societal environment of every one of the women Lori quoted no longer exist. We are all products of these events. This doesn't make these women wise, but you must understand why they took to the streets, denouncing every aspect of women's lives.
The funny thing is this argument is my strongest argument FOR the Bible. Victorian labor laws designed to protect women didn't live 100 years before the laws became oppressive. In a society that is calling God genocidal (comments left on some blogs), it is incredible that nearly 6000 year old laws of the Bible, whether physical, spiritual, logical, or metaphorical, still make sense; the results still are desired; still define righteous; still are the standard to reach.