Let me invite us all to take a good look around. Look especially at our cities and the perpetual, increasing state of mayhem in which they are gripped. Increasingly Christians are waking up to the fact that we live in Sodom, or as the case may be, the suburbs of Sodom. Millions of babies continue to be slaughtered. No one can figure out what gender anyone is, and you're in a lot of trouble if you guess wrong. Gay sex and its attendant “pride” (wasn't that supposed to be a sin?) is treated as a virtue, and conversion therapy is “evil.” Homelessness, disease, addiction and trauma issues are rampant. Masculinity is viewed as harmful and “toxic.” Numerous government programs continue to creep in and take over society, getting ever more top-heavy and inefficient as they do so. Money is wasted, people are depressed, political tribalism is rampant, no one can work together, everyone hates each other. On top of that we're so busy apologizing over slavery from 160+ years ago that we overlook major injustices right under our noses. If only we our society this kind of passion to fight, say, sex-trafficking, a form of slavery that continues to the present with thousands of victims right here in the USA.
One may ask, how did we get here? Should we blame the media? Should we blame the boomers and the sexual revolution of the 60's? Should we blame FDR? Is that when things first went down the tubes?
We could blame the public schools. That might be closer to the mark. Imagine if you will an institution which by its own admission deliberately teaches your children to deconstruct and ultimately abandon the biblical Christian principles their parents wish to instill them with. Then imagine millions of Christians willingly sending their kids there for 35 hours per week. What an idea. You can't make this stuff up.
At minimum, we need to go back much farther than the 60's, or even the 40's. Modern feminism is a movement that first reared its ugly head back in the 1800's. Granted, women with similar destructive ideas lived before that and in other parts of the world. We could go all the way back to Jezebel, Potiphar's wife, and beyond. But in modern times, feminism appeared in the form of a few 19th century women who apparently thought the destruction of the family would somehow be a great thing. Many of these were influenced by Satanism, which, in case you didn't know, stands in opposition to Christianity.
I once heard it said that these feminists really ought to have been locked away in insane asylums to make an example out of them. The more I think about it, the more this seems like it would have been wise and perfectly appropriate. It sounds harsh, but let's review what has happened since their day. It has taken multiple generations but over time their ideas, and worse, have gone completely mainstream. In the 1910's women were granted the right to vote. And, jumping way ahead, the end result of feminism has been manifest in the last 100 years: I'm talking about all the stuff in my second paragraph.
Now approaching this with the hindsight afforded to us by the present day, we ought to ask an important question: Why is anyone who identifies with Satanist feminists, in any whay whatsoever, being allowed a voice in conservative and reformed churches? How does this help? And yet here we find ourselves. It seems like the last bastion of Christian morality is just letting this slide on by with the unconvincing type of reluctance where we lament what's happening but don't do anything about it. It would seem that pastors in conservative denominations would apparently rather preach on virtually anything else to avoid this controversy. Now now, we don't want to offend anyone. We are quite comfortable, thank you very much. Where are the faithful God-fearing Christians who will refute this stuff head on? Will Christians heed the warning about how destructive this stuff is? And that's not theory – feminism has been proven destructive. Where is the passion and drive to confront it?
Ultimately, feminism will not win. It will not win because it doesn't build anything. It only tears down, and when it does, it doesn't replace it with anything. This stuff tore down the Boy Scouts and replaced it with what? It is torn down the old mainline American Christian denominations and not replaced them. For many who once depended on the work of the church, government now steps in to fill that void. Of course, we might have seen less of that had it not been for 100 years of women voting to expand government social programs.
God designed the household as a place of productivity. It is a place where things are built: businesses, livelihoods, and futures. Children are discipled and trained. In general feminists hate this, even if a lot of them won't admit it, or at least not to themselves. Personally I can't really comprehend why feminists hate this stuff so much: I can only conclude that, like Eve, they are deceived.
But I will make the following observation. So many people--so many Christians, even--have never seen a productive household in action, or better yet, a group of them. They see men who pursue their own interests rather than God's mission. They see households where a mission is lacking and the wife makes it her job to run everything. They see Christian families who would rather buy themselves a bunch of toys, put their kids in public schools, and soothe themselves with another praise chorus of “Oh Jesus my girlfriend, hurry up and get off this planet where everyone is so mean to us.” But is that really what we're here for?
It's great to refute the errors of feminism, but people need to see an alternative to understand why it is important. God has us on a mission to disciple the nations. Our households and our children are among the most valuable assets in doing so. And what does this type of household looks like. Is it a place where the wife and husband have equal say and leadership of the family and its priorities? Is it a place where the wife is always nagging her husband to do things? Have you ever seen such a household thrive?
Households that a ruled by the father where the wife and children willingly (as opposed to reluctantly) submit to his authority are increasingly rare nowadays. Feminists love to revile this idea and taunt those who hold it. But they shouldn't, and shame on them. This type of unleashed masculine energy is a very positive thing. It is positive because it constructs. It takes the help of the family and puts it together towards a common goal. It does not tear down.
By contrast, feminism is not productive, nor is it inspirational. It will ultimately prove to be unsustainable and someday go away. The question principled Christians should ask is, are we doing all we can to make it go away as quickly as possible?
And now we can finally bring it back to Aimee Byrd. Is Byrd laboring in her own capacity to make feminism fade into oblivion as quickly as possible? Hardly. Whatever you think her goals may be, that cannot be one of them. Thus, I see no need to waste time or money on her book. I am busy. I am being productive. I am raising my family and building my business. I am engaging and encouraging people who aren't closed-minded and foolish. I am not promoting bad ideas and stirring the pot, making money and drawing attention to myself in the process.
Thanks in no small part to feminism, Western society is falling apart all around us; and along comes Byrd saying we haven't listened to women enough. I grant there is a need to clearly refute feminism. Some may feel called to spend a lot more time on it than others, and I'm not disrespecting that. But let's not take our eyes off the goal. Those who have eyes to see must be able to see the alternative. We must continue to labor and to build for the kingdom of God, and do so productively according to the principles of Biblical patriarchy. What a change we would see if our culture, or even our Christian subculture, went all in for productive patriarchy.
Or if we're content with living in Sodom, let's not. I mean, if we're all ok with the damage feminism has done to society, slaughtered babies, the gaystapo, mass societal hysteria, and all; let's just keep our heads down and go back to our little soft-complementarian hidey-holes. Wouldn't want to get anyone riled up.
So I'm fine with coming down hard on Byrd and other feminists who have an audience in conservative Christian circles. Hopefully this post will read that way. I am not keeping my head down. Nevertheless I regard this as only a passing shot. It does not merit my attention to dwell on it further. What a distraction this is from constructive activities. It's as if someone thought “Just what conservative Christians need right now is a big controversy to completely waste their time.” No thanks. There's no time for sin and vice in a patriarchal paradise.
It's time to rebuke, to warn, to teach, and then to move on. God will destroy feminism in due time. We must continue to build. Go away, feminists, and take your destructive garbage somewhere else. Or better yet, repent, lest you perish in the way. Let all the ungodly be consumed from the earth, and the wicked be no more. The rest of us have better things to do.
