<style> p {margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;} </style> <table border=0 width=100%% cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 align=center> <tr> <td valign=top style='padding:8pt;'><font size=2><b style="font-style: italic;" class="sans">Federal Husband</b><br>by Douglas Wilson<br><br><table><tbody><tr><td valign="top">Reviewer:</td><td><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/AU2V2ZKMZFNY6/ref=cm_cr_auth/104-6292676-3743155"><span style="font-weight: bold;">J.R.Corry "ceebcorry2"</span></a> (Fl) - <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/AU2V2ZKMZFNY6/ref=cm_cr_auth/104-6292676-3743155?ie=UTF8&sort%5Fby=MostRecentReview">See all my reviews</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br>In my review for Nancy Wilson's book "The Fruit of her Hands", I<br>mentioned how Ms. Wilson seemed constantly nervous about displeasing<br>her husband. Now I know why; her husband is nothing short of sexist and<br>controlling, not only of his wife but apparently of his entire church.<br><span style!
="font-weight: bold;">His statement that the women in his church aren't allowed to read this</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">book should be the first clue,</span> but that's just one of several extremely<br>offensive statements. <br><br>There's hardly a thing in this entire book<br>regarding women or marriage that I found helpful or even Biblical.<br>Wilson says we should question everything the modern woman does, even<br>going to college! Does he really expect us to pull women out of college<br>in the name of Christianity? But then, if he thinks women are made<br>simply to get married and bear children, I guess it's not surprising<br>that he doesn't think we should have educations. Here's a little<br>shocker, Wilson: women are meant to do far more than marry. This is<br>proved by the fact that Eve was given a brain as well as Adam. <br><br>One of<br>the main things that angered me about this book was that Wilson<br>shamelessly ripped B!
ible passages out of context in order to support<br>his ridiculously s
exist views. As an example, he listed a passage in<br>which someone in the Bible (I honestly cannot remember if it was God or<br>not), while furiously addressing men in a certain village, said "Women<br>rule over you and children oppress you." You get the sarcasm there? He<br>was obviously accusing those men of being utterly spineless and saying<br>they needed to stand up for themselves. Wilson, however, took his angry<br>and very sarcastic words to mean that God doesn't want women to be<br>leaders, ever. Um, WHERE did he get that? That particular Bible passage<br>involved someone who was ticked off and was addressing a certain group<br>of weak men, NOT all mankind. The passage didn't even really have<br>anything to do with women, so to rip that out of context and interpret<br>it as God's words for all mankind is simply nonsense; only a man with<br>an agenda could find such ridiculous meaning behind something like<br>that. <br><br>Calling female leadership a curse is one of !
the most lame things<br>you could possibly do considering all the leading females in the Bible,<br>including Deborah, who helped lead a battle, counseled men and operated<br>as a judge, and had a song made in her honor. This book, unlike the<br>Bible, is chock-full of images of spineless women. Before all the<br>feminists get mad, though, let me assure you that Wilson gives plenty<br>of bad advice for men too, even saying that the husband's solely<br>responsible for any problem in the marriage and the household. <br><br>Wilson even scolds men who let their wives work, saying that if men can't<br>provide for their wives enough by themselves, they fail as husbands. I<br>found this almost amusingly offensive; have you looked at the job<br>market, Wilson? Haven't you ever seen good husbands struggling to<br>provide for their families? Not only does he imply that women are<br>simpletons who need caring for, but he seems determined to dump the<br>world on men's shoulders and this!
is simply not right. <br><br>Several times he<br>acts as though he be
lieves marriage to simply be a contract ("I'll<br>provide for you if you bear me children") and he even goes so far as to<br>say that sex is just a duty and doesn't need any spark to be enjoyed.<br><br><br>Wilson gives the impression of a guy so sequestered in his own little<br>church and beliefs that he's totally unaware of how the real world<br>works, not to mention how real minds work. His matter-of-fact, almost<br>dull tone in the book imply that he's just a guy laying out all the<br>facts and we should act accordingly. I find it hard to believe that he<br>expects us to accept these ideas as Christian behavior. <br><br><br><br><table><tbody><tr><td valign="top">Reviewer:</td><td><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A2DDO5MI9TGGWP/ref=cm_cr_auth/104-6292676-3743155"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bradford-Ewart "Freedom!"</span></a> (Burnaby, Canada) - <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A2DDO5MI9TGGWP/ref=cm_cr_auth/104-6292676-3743155?ie=UTF!
8&sort%5Fby=MostRecentReview">See all my reviews</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br>Ew!<br><br>I don't even want to give this book a star. Can you give negative<br>stars? <br><br>Since I've been doing an in depth study on Biblical Equality, I<br>thought I'd pick up this book and see this guys point of view. The<br>ideas presented in this book are so entirely unbiblical that I couldn't<br>even stand it. He states ideas like: sexism isn't really a sin, and a<br>woman's "purpose" is to bear children and serve a man. Not only are<br>they entirely untrue, but his arguments to support his cases are really<br>bad. One example of this (and the book is full of them) is how he<br>mentions how husbands are to love their wives as Jesus loves the<br>church, but twists it and says that Paul meant this in an "entirely<br>mundane" way. C'mon buddy! I'm sorry, but Jesus' love for me is more<br>than "mundane". <br><br>My advice is to not read this book, but if you do, and<br>if you know pe!
ople that adhere to these blasphemous world-views, teach<br>them about
how Jesus came to set women free. Not to set them free to be<br>only housewives (which, by the way, is an entirely 19th century ideology), but to set them free to choose, to bring complete and total<br>equality between ALL people. Don't even try to tell me that the women<br>who followed Jesus around on his public ministry were housewives. <br><br>Think<br>about these issues and don't just accept ideas like Mr. Wilson's<br>disgusting stereotyping and misconstrued ideas about what Jesus has<br>done for humankind. Jesus came to set ALL people free: males, females,<br>slaves, different races, Jews and Gentiles! Stand firm then, and do not<br>let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery!<br><br><br><br><br></font></td></tr>
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<br><br><br><font color=#000000 style='font-size: 9pt;'>Juanita Flores
<br>Advocate for the Truth from Jesus</font><br/>
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