Monthly Archives: August 2008

The Male Supremacy Test

August 24, 2008

[Disclaimer: Contrary to popular belief, egalitarian women like men-- men who think we're human, that we're people, that don't consider us enemies to be conquered. And there are many egalitarian men-- brave men who don't bow to culture's long tradition of misogyny, to peer pressure, to bullying. This test is for fun, but also for the purpose of exposing the kind of me-first teachings being pushed so heavily in churches today.

And besides... compared to what's being written on this topic by the likes of CBMW, in all seriousness I might add, this is very watered-down.]

Manly men, this is your big chance to test and prove your manhood! Answer these questions in whatever way makes you look the most assertive. Choose only one answer per question.

  1. What is the opposite of male supremacism?
    1. Female supremacism
    2. Equality
    3. Maleness mildly preferred
    4. There is no opposite
  2. Complete this sentence: Real men don’t ______.
    1. Cook– those male 4-star chefs are all sissies
    2. Clean– Mr. Clean is an oxymoron
    3. Sing– tenors are trying to sound like women
    4. Paint– unless it’s a house
  3. If I were driving and got lost in a big city, I would ask directions from:
    1. Anyone or anything but a female, even a male store mannequin
    2. No one; I like driving in circles to pretend I’m on a race track
    3. Why does my GPS have to have a female voice??
    4. CBMW. That “BMW” must mean they know about cars and stuff.
  4. Men are born leaders over women because:
    1. Adam got rewarded for being spineless, and we can’t do worse
    2. We don’t need to ask directions
    3. We’re bigger and stronger, and might makes right
    4. We got there first. Nyaa nyaa!
  5. The ideal woman would be:
    1. A store mannequin
    2. A BMW
    3. Rich and stupid
    4. Can’t talk now, watching football

Thank you for taking the Male Supremacy Test. Please submit— er, send in— your manly, decisive, godlike answers for grading. If you pass you will receive a free map of major US cities and a deer head to hang on the wall and make everyone envy your hunting skills, whether you have them or not. If you do not pass, you must undergo six weeks of Insensitivity Training at the Rodney Dangerfield Theological Institute. And stop sniveling about it, ya big wimp.

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A False Dichotomy

August 22, 2008

In the face of the extreme patriarchy (aka male supremacism, aka complementarianism) movement, many are trying to establish places of dialogue in order to find common or middle ground between that group and Christian Egalitarianism (frequently called by what has become the pejorative “feminism”).

Question: Where is the middle point between extreme and equal? In the picture here, M.F.S. stands for “matriarchy/female supremacism”, EGAL stands for “egalitarian”, and P.M.S. stands for “patriarchy/male supremacism”.false dichotomy

Egalitarianism IS the middle. The opposite extreme to male supremacism or patriarchy would be female supremacism or matriarchy. What part of equal means not equal? What part of “nobody is superior” means either men are superior or women are superior?

So when people say they want to find common ground between comps and egals, they are looking for a point that doesn’t exist. It would be like trying to find balance between the fulcrum of a teeter-totter and one end. They are chasing a phantom.

Likewise with the common description of egal as “extreme egal”; it’s an oxymoron. By definition, equality is the lack of extremity; it is a balance point. There is either equality or there is not. And this egal position is no attempt to compromise the gospel or find dialogue with evil; instead, it simply acknowledges the equality of male and female, between any one believer and any other believer, in the church, home, or society at large.

We are all equally human. Our differences are between personalities, abilities, talents, and experiences. The obvious biological differences are exactly that: biological; it’s the way to tell male from female. There are really more differences among males or females than between males and females. To tell whether or not something is likely to be a universal and ingrained trait, you would have to prove that it cuts across the boundaries of culture, time, language, etc. Such proof is in the realm of “always” and “never”, not “averages” or “majorities”.

And such a view of equality hardly means we egals don’t appreciate the differences in biology! We are not teaching or advocating androgyny in any form. What we are teaching is that it is wrong to try to homogenize all men to have the same personalities and talents and experiences; likewise for all women. Should all men be considered clones? Are they all identical? Neither are all women clones or all identical. Equal is not identical!

PMSers will take that last statement and say “See? Women can be equal with men but still play a subservient role to them.” That’s obvious doublespeak; it tries to equate equality with permanent hierarchy. If one man is a slave owner over another man, are they equal? No. Are they identical? No. If two men are equal business partners, are they equal? Yes. Are they identical? No.

Equality is found in a relationship where neither bosses the other on a permanent basis by virtue of an intrinsic quality of being. Temporary voluntary hierarchies do not violate ontological equality, but permanent involuntary hierarchies do. When one will is permanently and involuntarily subservient to another, that is a hierarchy and the servant is unequal to the master. Conversely, when one will is temporarily and voluntarily subjected to another, that does not violate the meaning of equality, because it is not based upon one’s intrinsic qualities (inherited, biological) but on a temporary agreement– an agreement made by equals.

This understanding not only negates the permanent and involuntary subordination of one believer to another on the basis of race, class, or sex, but also the modern attempt to make Jesus a permanent sub-God to the Father, and the Spirit a permanent sub-God to both the Father and the Son. And since all three members of the Trinity share a common will, hierarchy is impossible.

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Tales from the Crypt

August 17, 2008

Remember that new cult I told you about? It was born with fangs! Just read some of these quotes and see for yourself. But keep your distance, and don’t read it after a meal. (source)

There is no third way in which one can have both the God of Judeo-Christian tradition, that is, the God of the Bible, and the egalitarian god. You can be a Christian or an egalitarian; you can’t be both. This is simply a matter of study and reason, and I am joined in this opinion by feminist theologians who think that Christianity isn’t true. They are more honest than those who wish to eat Christian pudding with egalitarian sauce.

Males are given by God a higher place in the human hierarchy not because of their superior “virtues,” or “traits,” or necessarily even abilities. They are assigned the leader/provider/protector tasks simply because God decided they should depict Him in His relationship to His creation (the masculine vis a vis the feminine).

I understand. It’s same old, same old. But you still have to unsheath the battle-worn sword again and again because the Medusa-witch keeps growing new heads with every new and deceived generation.

Touchstone has no rule that its writers must be Christians.

Let me make it clear that I judge no one’s soul–only God can do that. What I’m saying is that egalitarianism and Christianity contradict each other.

But power and hierarchy are very different things… But true patriarchy is actually the restraint of this power to dominate, the replacement of the simple capacity to exploit with an obligation to lead… But this is impossible when the very idea of leadership is dismissed [Note: this is a lie, egals do not dismiss the idea of leadership. We just don't arbitrarily assign it to anyone based on the flesh.]

The absence of hierarchy is predation.

Could it not then be said that Satan is an egalitarian? In fact, isn’t it fair to say that Satan is the first egalitarian?

the mystery of the Holy Trinity, in which ontological equality exists within the a natural hierarchy [Note: there is no hierarchy in the One God]

you hold positions that are heterodox at best, and rank heresy at worst.

Let’s put it this way for those who don’t like my saying you can’t be a Christian and an egalitarian: to the degree a person is an egalitarian, he is not a Christian. It means the same thing.

I was being charitable. Don’t get me going. Besides, you already called yourself an egalitarian. What could I add that would be worse than that?

That’s right; he’s simply a false teacher and self-opinionated heretic, who twists Scripture to his own destruction. I do not account him in any sense a “fellow-believer.”

(emphasis mine)

Well, there you have it: cold, dead, hatred of egals by male supremacists. I couldn’t make myself read any more, you’ll have to continue reading there to see the rest. Name calling, cursing, ripping the Body apart! What kind of “Christians” engage in such Satanic butchery?? Where is the love of God in their hearts?

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Heaven’s Partying!

August 12, 2008

Today’s news, for a change, actually had something very much worth celebrating: the son of a leader of Hamas has openly announced his conversion to Christianity! This is what the Bible says:

I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent. (Jesus, in Luke 15:7)

Mosab Hassan Yousef is very brave for doing this. He puts both “moderate” Muslims and most Christians to shame; Muslims, because their silence out of fear keeps the violent ones in power, and Christians, because many are too ashamed of Jesus to utter His Name in public except as a curse word. But with each new convert we step closer to the End: an end to suffering, an end to lies, an end to injustice.

Bring them in!

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High Treason

August 8, 2008

I check the blog of Constance Cumbey often, and today’s article, “The Family” and its Hi-Jacking of Evangelicalism, is the first part of a series we all need to read. It shows the very deep roots of betrayal of Christianity by its most illustrious leaders, going back decades at the very least.

This is vital knowledge, especially when we know “fundamentalist Christians” are blamed for pretty much everything these days. Many of us have been fooled into thinking the people who have been chipping away at our freedoms in Christ are even remotely Christian. They are, in fact, New Agers in sheep’s clothing. Read the article and note the names and associations. It isn’t any form of true Christianity that seeks to control the US government, or keep women behind men, or extort “tithes” from millions, or turn our relationship with Jesus into a dead religion like all the others.

We must stop holding up these “big names” as Christian leaders. We must stop parroting their teachings, or tolerating their continual trashing of the Name of Jesus through their acceptance of bribes (primarily from people like Moon or Templeton), demanding of obedience and money, buying their books, or anything else that might lend support to them. They meet in secret and plot our enslavement. Yes, it’s a conspiracy, and a very well-planned and executed one. And there is only one devious mastermind that could pull it off, for so long, over so many people.

Rev. 18:3 For all the nations have drunk
the maddening wine of her adulteries.
The kings of the earth committed adultery with her,
and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries.”
4 Then I heard another voice from heaven say:
” ‘Come out of her, my people,’
so that you will not share in her sins,
so that you will not receive any of her plagues;
5 for her sins are piled up to heaven,
and God has remembered her crimes. (TNIV)

The immediate context there is about Mystery Babylon during the Tribulation, but it is the death of Mystery Babylon being written about in that time, not its birth, meaning it is alive and well at present. That is the fake church, which will ultimately be the coming world religion. It could not be merely an entity just formed in the last days, because verse 24 tell us “In her was found the blood of prophets and of God’s people, of all who have been slaughtered on the earth.” She has been around for a very long time.

These traitorous “leaders” are prostituting the visible church by playing the harlot with the leaders of the world, just as scripture tells us. And of course we know that these same traitors have been openly advocating the re-absorbing of all Protestants back into the RCC– and now joining also with “moderate” Islam! (Prophetically, though, we can’t ignore the evidences in chapter 17 for this being headquartered in Rome, since it must be both a CITY that acts like a government and also a “city on seven hills”.)

The next time you hear someone blaming “Christian fundies” for anything, set them straight with this information.

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Birth of a Cult

August 6, 2008

For if evangelicals go off again in a fundamentalist separatism while clinging to an unorthodox doctrine of the Trinity, their separation from the rest of the Body of Christ could prove irreparable, like the invention of a new sect in the characteristically American mode of Mormonism or Jehovah’s Witnesses (”The New Evangelical Subordinationism: Reading Inequality Into the Trinity,” Priscilla Papers, Vol. 20, No. 4, Autumn 2006, pp. 41, 45)

This quote comes from part 2 of an excellent series entitled The Trinity and Evangelical Neo-Arianism beginning at Emmaus House, a new blog. While I don’t assign Biblical authority to creeds and confessions, their value lies in refuting this new cult’s claim of having history on their side. Specifically, this cult is the one that calls itself “Complementarianism”. It is male-supremacism, to the point as the article shows of denying the very nature of God. It worships male flesh and pride, rank and order and authority, to a practically fascist level.

Of course they don’t like hearing these words and will take great offense. But it’s the truth, and truth must not “dialog” with error.

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