The sexual revolution gave birth to the modern feminist
movement, although it really wasn’t about feminism at all. A real feminist
movement would have exulted the virtues and beauty of women. What we got
instead was the masculinization of women and the feminizing of masculinity. The
woman power moment measured its worth against that of the male. They demanded
to do everything a man did, wear what a man does, and yes, even have sex like a
man, with no attachment.
At the same time they tried to reduce the role of men as
much as possible. Even today we see the more radical of this group call for the
total abortion of male babies. It is in a man’s nature that where we don’t
perceive a need for us we will step back. As more and more women stepped up and
demanded to be treated as totally equal to a man more and more men stepped
aside. This included the role of father and head of the family.
Then on January 22, 1973 the Supreme Court of the United
States handed down a decision that would result in the murder of over sixty
million Americans; a number that grows by the thousands each and every day.
That was of course the historic Roe v Wade case on the legality of abortion. SCOTUS
did not rule that a woman had a right to an abortion, nor did she have complete
control and say over her body. What SCOTUS said was that we, as a society, have
never officially stated when a life begins so they cannot say that a fetus is a
life. If it is not in law that a fetus is a human life they cannot rule that it
cannot be terminated. They did say that the state does have an interest in that
fetus and may restrict abortions at some point, generally around the third
trimester. If we, as a society, define by law when a life begins the abortion
debate becomes null and void. The murder of the most innocent among us will
continue until we are brave and sane enough to define by law when a human life
begins.
Christians believe in a triune God, that is, one God
consisting of three persons. These distinct persons are the Father, the Son,
and the Holy Spirit. At the very heart of God is agape. Agape is sacrificial
love. It is the total giving of one’s self for another without expectation of
anything in return. It is the truest sense of love. It is love perfected. It is
through this love that all creation came into being and because of this love
that God took on flesh and became like us to die for our salvation and
redemption.
When perfect love is shared perfectly it wants to create and
create is what God did. God made man in his own image and seeing God is a
family he made man into a family. The family is also modeled in the triune
fashion – father, mother, and child. At the heart of every family is God and at
the heart of God is sacrificial love. At the nucleus of every family is agape.
To quote and correct Obi Wan Kenobi agape surrounds us. It penetrates us. It
binds all creation together. To quote a woman I met on a flight once, agape is
what occupies the space between atoms and between the particles of atoms.
God created father and mother to be equal in authority but
different in function. The tie that binds a husband and wife together is supposed
to be sacrificial love. It was designed to be the total giving of one to the
other without the expectation of something returned. This is called a covenant
and lasts until one of the two dies. The love between father and mother is so
strong that it manifests itself as a new creation that you have to give a name
to – children. Father and mother then pass along the attributes unique to their
gender and purpose, infused with agape, to create the next generation.
Marriage was designed by God with two purposes. The first is
unification. Agape between husband and wife unifies them as a one flesh
creation. The two become one that no one is allowed to separate. The second
purpose of a marriage is procreative. This union of man and wife brings about
the next generation. We join with God to co-create new life so that we can fill
heaven with Saints. That is the meaning of life in a nutshell.
So the pill led to feminism and feminism led to mass
shooting. Time to fill in the missing pieces.
Next up – Romans 5:12 and the reason why there is so much
hate in the world today.
