[Vision2020] Reviews DW001

[keely emerinemix]

The passage "women and children shall rule" is from Isaiah in the Old 
Testament.

I will have much more to say on this a little later, but I have to fix 
oatmeal and dismantle patriarchy before my sons leave for school...

keely


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Subject: [Vision2020] Reviews DW001
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:23:58 -0500 (EST)

    Federal Husband
by Douglas Wilson

Reviewer:J.R.Corry "ceebcorry2" (Fl)  - See all my reviews
In my review for Nancy Wilson's book "The Fruit of her Hands", I
mentioned how Ms. Wilson seemed constantly nervous about displeasing
her husband. Now I know why; her husband is nothing short of sexist and
controlling, not only of his wife but apparently of his entire church.
His statement that the women in his church aren't allowed to read this
book should be the first clue, but that's just one of several extremely
offensive statements.

There's hardly a thing in this entire book
regarding women or marriage that I found helpful or even Biblical.
Wilson says we should question everything the modern woman does, even
going to college! Does he really expect us to pull women out of college
in the name of Christianity? But then, if he thinks women are made
simply to get married and bear children, I guess it's not surprising
that he doesn't think we should have educations. Here's a little
shocker, Wilson: women are meant to do far more than marry. This is
proved by the fact that Eve was given a brain as well as Adam.

One of
the main things that angered me about this book was that Wilson
shamelessly ripped B!
  ible passages out of context in order to support
his ridiculously s
exist views. As an example, he listed a passage in
which someone in the Bible (I honestly cannot remember if it was God or
not), while furiously addressing men in a certain village, said "Women
rule over you and children oppress you." You get the sarcasm there? He
was obviously accusing those men of being utterly spineless and saying
they needed to stand up for themselves. Wilson, however, took his angry
and very sarcastic words to mean that God doesn't want women to be
leaders, ever. Um, WHERE did he get that? That particular Bible passage
involved someone who was ticked off and was addressing a certain group
of weak men, NOT all mankind. The passage didn't even really have
anything to do with women, so to rip that out of context and interpret
it as God's words for all mankind is simply nonsense; only a man with
an agenda could find such ridiculous meaning behind something like
that.

Calling female leadership a curse is one of !
  the most lame things
you could possibly do considering all the leading females in the Bible,
including Deborah, who helped lead a battle, counseled men and operated
as a judge, and had a song made in her honor. This book, unlike the
Bible, is chock-full of images of spineless women. Before all the
feminists get mad, though, let me assure you that Wilson gives plenty
of bad advice for men too, even saying that the husband's solely
responsible for any problem in the marriage and the household.

Wilson even scolds men who let their wives work, saying that if men can't
provide for their wives enough by themselves, they fail as husbands. I
found this almost amusingly offensive; have you looked at the job
market, Wilson? Haven't you ever seen good husbands struggling to
provide for their families? Not only does he imply that women are
simpletons who need caring for, but he seems determined to dump the
world on men's shoulders and this!
   is simply not right.

Several times he
acts as though he be
lieves marriage to simply be a contract ("I'll
provide for you if you bear me children") and he even goes so far as to
say that sex is just a duty and doesn't need any spark to be enjoyed.


Wilson gives the impression of a guy so sequestered in his own little
church and beliefs that he's totally unaware of how the real world
works, not to mention how real minds work. His matter-of-fact, almost
dull tone in the book imply that he's just a guy laying out all the
facts and we should act accordingly. I find it hard to believe that he
expects us to accept these ideas as Christian behavior.



Reviewer:Bradford-Ewart "Freedom!" (Burnaby, Canada)  - See all my reviews
Ew!

I don't even want to give this book a star. Can you give negative
stars?

Since I've been doing an in depth study on Biblical Equality, I
thought I'd pick up this book and see this guys point of view. The
ideas presented in this book are so entirely unbiblical that I couldn't
even stand it. He states ideas like: sexism isn't really a sin, and a
woman's "purpose" is to bear children and serve a man. Not only are
they entirely untrue, but his arguments to support his cases are really
bad. One example of this (and the book is full of them) is how he
mentions how husbands are to love their wives as Jesus loves the
church, but twists it and says that Paul meant this in an "entirely
mundane" way. C'mon buddy! I'm sorry, but Jesus' love for me is more
than "mundane".

My advice is to not read this book, but if you do, and
if you know pe!
  ople that adhere to these blasphemous world-views, teach
them about
  how Jesus came to set women free. Not to set them free to be
only housewives (which, by the way, is an entirely 19th century ideology), 
but to set them free to choose, to bring complete and total
equality between ALL people. Don't even try to tell me that the women
who followed Jesus around on his public ministry were housewives.

Think
about these issues and don't just accept ideas like Mr. Wilson's
disgusting stereotyping and misconstrued ideas about what Jesus has
done for humankind. Jesus came to set ALL people free: males, females,
slaves, different races, Jews and Gentiles! Stand firm then, and do not
let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery!









Juanita Flores

Advocate for the Truth from Jesus




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