[Vision2020] Reviews DW001

[J Ford]

Questions:  Doesn't Nancy get paid for the "articles" that she writes?  Does 
this make her a working wife that is helping support his girthness?  And 
what about his daughter owning(!) a business?  Isn't she working outside the 
home and bringing in money to help support that home?

Hmmmm..........Doug - you need to make sure your own home is being run as 
you demand others to do.  Not doing too well there, big boy!

J  :]





>From: "News of Christ Cult" <news-of-christ-cult at lycos.com>
>To: <Vision2020 at moscow.com>
>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!
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