A LOOK AT THE FACTS BY
GARY RAY BRANSCOME
“Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them
according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife as unto the weaker
vessel.” (1 Peter 3:7)
Since God created men and women to fill different,
yet complementary, roles in the home and in society, those roles are in accord
with our nature. Moreover, because He designed the relationship of husband and
wife to reflect the relationship of Christ to His church, that relationship was
intended to be an expression of kindness and love, not oppression. God wants
husbands and wives to work together as a team, not compete with each other.
That is why the men living in Christian countries have traditionally taken upon
themselves the harder, dirtier, and more dangerous jobs, while allowing their
women to enjoy a less oppressive role that women in other lands could only
envy.
At the time my grandfather was born, over ninety
percent of the population of this country lived on farms, and prior to that
time the percentage was even higher. Therefore, if the roles that our society
has traditionally assigned to men and women were really designed to oppress
women (as the feminists would have us believe) we might expect to see all of
the hard or unpleasant jobs assigned to the women. However, the opposite is
true! It was the men, not the women, who chopped down trees, labored long hours
under a hot sun, shoveled manure out of the barns, cleaned out the outhouse,
built cabins, and dug wells. Does that sound like oppression to you? It certainly
does not sound like oppression to me, and I believe that any honest person will
admit that it was not oppression. Out of a kindness that was rooted in
Christian love, women were protected from danger and allowed to take the
lighter tasks.
During the same period of history, many of the
families living in town had their own family business. Again, there was a
distinction between the roles of men and women, and again it was men, not
women, who got the more difficult jobs. It was the role of men to build the
buildings, lift the heavy loads, and unload freight. Yet the men were willing
to shoulder the more difficult tasks and even got a satisfaction out of doing
it. At the same time, the women were not locked away, but often worked along
side of their husbands in the family business, doing those tasks that were less
oppressive than those shouldered by the men. All in all, husbands and wives
worked together as a team as God intended.
I do not deny that there were some unfortunate women
who, because of circumstances beyond their control, wound up working for meager
pay in sweatshops and mills. The conditions under which they worked amounted to
little more than economic slavery. Yet, the same feminists who condemn the
traditional distinction between the roles of men and women as oppressive are
now claiming that those sweatshops and mills actually “liberated”
women. However, what they never say is that most of the women who labored under
those conditions longed to find a husband so that they could be liberated from
the mills and sweatshops. They also never mention how women were often given
preference over the men. For example, when the British luxury liner Titanic
sank, there were not enough lifeboats for all of the passengers. Nevertheless,
instead of grabbing all of the boats for themselves, hundreds of men went to a
watery grave so that the women and children might live. In contrast, not even
one feminist was willing to die so that a man might live.
In her book “Domestic Tranquility,” F.
Carolyn Graglia not only presents a well reasoned
case against the “feminist movement,” but also explains why that
movement (contrary to its claims) was really an attack on marriage and
morality. Other sources trace the roots of that attack on marriage back to a Luciferian organization that was started in 1775 by Dr.
Adam Weishaupt (professor of Canon Law in the
After Dr. Weishaupt’s
organization was discovered and driven underground, some of its members set up
the “League of the Just [i.e. sinless]” – of which Karl Marx
was a member, and from which grew the “Communist Party.” In keeping
with the original program outlined by Adam Weishaupt,
the “Communist Manifesto” (written in 1848) called for the
abolition of marriage and the family. In fact, one former communist has been
quoted as admitting that the real aim of Communism was to destroy the family
and Christianity. Communist economic theories were simply used as a means to
achieving that end. [Note: Because growing immorality threatened Communist rule, during the 1930’s the Communists were forced to
strengthen marital commitment in the
In 1798, one of the leading scholars in
“There
is nothing in the whole constitution of the Illuminati that strikes me with
more horror than the proposals of Hercules and Minos
to enlist women in this shocking warfare with all that “is good, and
pure, and lovely and of good report”... If they are remiss, and yield to
the seduction, they will fall from the high state to which they have arisen in
Christian Europe, and again sink into that insignificancy or slavery in which
the sex is found in all ages and countries out of hearing of
Christianity.” (Proofs of a Conspiracy, by John Robison, pages 140-141)
“Are not the accursed fruits of Illumination to be seen in the present
humiliating condition of woman in
“Recollect in what manner Spartacus (Weishaupt)
proposed to corrupt his sisters... It was by destroying their moral sentiments,
and their sentiments of religion.” (IBID, page 148)
“When they have nothing to trust but the fondness of the men they
will soon find themselves reduced to slavery. The crown which they now wear
will fall from their heads, and they will no longer be the arbiters of what is
lovely in human life.” (IBID, page 150)
“I think that even here there is a perceptible superiority of the
female rank in those countries where purest Christianity prevails... woman is
indebted to Christianity alone for the high rank she holds in society. (Written
in 1798, IBID, page 152)
Adam Weishaupt obviously
drew some of his ideas — such as putting women into the military, using
them to breed soldiers for the state, and raising children in government
indoctrination centers — from Plato’s
“Republic.” Moreover, Adolph Hitler, (a left-wing socialist)
sought to implement that plan by encouraging members of the “League of
German Maidens” (women chosen on the basis of race) to breed with SS men
(also chosen on the basis of race) in order to produce soldiers for the state.
Far from helping women, the so-called
“Women’s liberation” movement has led to an increase in
physical abuse, broken homes and illegitimate children. The incidence of rape
has soared more than six hundred percent. In addition, many women are now
doomed to lives of tedious and boring work on an assembly line, while those
trying to support a family without a husband often live in poverty. And, if
that is not bad enough, the so-called advocates of women now want to force them
into combat.
The fact that the feminists care nothing about the
women who would be crippled, blinded, or disfigured by combat, should tell you
that what they really want is to destroy the family, not help women. Moreover,
their anti-family mentality is rooted in a hatred of men that produces a
twisted and distorted concept of womanhood, and leads them to view the
traditional role of a wife and mother as a curse when they should see it as a
blessing.
What God wants, is for husbands to shoulder
responsibility, act as His representative, and exercise spiritual leadership in
the home. At the same time, He wants wives to work with their husbands in
training the children, and guiding the household according to God's Word (Titus
2:3-5). That means that parents have a responsibility to study the Bible, know
what it says, and apply it to their lives. Because the
spiritual education of the children is of eternal importance, their instruction
should never be left in the hands of unsaved schoolteachers or anyone else
whose thinking is not in accord with Scripture.
Because God designed men and women to have
complimentary roles, and a relationship that reflects the relationship of
Christ to His church, He intended for those roles to be carried out in a spirit
of love, teamwork, and mutual support (Ephesians 5:23-26). When that is done,
women do not serve men; instead men and women serve each other as an expression
of Christ's love. The man serves the woman by protecting her, while shouldering
the responsibility to guide the family and provide for its needs. Moreover,
because he is allowing Christ to live through him, it is not he who is doing
those things, but Christ. The woman then responds to that service of love, and
shows her love for Christ, by caring for her husband. The man provides the
food; the woman prepares it. The man provides the house; the woman makes it a
happy nest.
For further reading, I suggest:
“The
Way Home” and “All The Way Home,” by Mary Pride,
“Domestic Tranquility” by F. Carolyn Graglia,
and the books, “Earthly Images of the Heavenly Bride (Women and the
Church)”, and “He Her Honour and She His
Glory” by Vernon Grieger.