"They Are of the World"
I know that Casey (a.k.a. The Rusted One of Many IRC Nicks) had been involved in a somewhat heated discussion in his Cultural Diversity class (which, I believe, is just a cubit, cubits and a half shy of "Gender Development") over the topic of homosexuality just a short while ago. You can read his side of the exchange
here. Imagine labeling the homosexual behavior as a "culture"...sheesh.
Thinking about that whole scenario, my own thoughts can't help but wander toward the prospect of having my butt handed to me on a platinum tea tray in Gender Dev't. That's right, I've submitted my official reaction paper. If you read through it, you can see that it's a bit disjointed.
Class will begin in a few minutes, and we will have our preliminary exams. To be honest, I can't help but feel intimidated. The professor appears to be a very bright and assertive woman. Good for her, but she seems to have this penchant for bullying students (mostly aimed at those who couldn't handle their reports well enough). I also can't help but feel as if the female population of the class (which outnumbers the male population by around 4 to 1) will end up seeing me as a woman-hater.
Feminism appeals to women, not only because it attempts to address the many problems of daily life for women in a fallen world (If you would gladly scroll down, serrevin told me something very interesting on the subject of fallen human personalities affecting social behavior between the sexes), but also because it seeks to empower the "little woman", to establish her ideentity based on rules that women have composed and give her autonomous control over her own life. If I were a woman, I honestly would find such an idealism impossible to resist apart from the grace of God!
But I believe that the main reason philosophies such as these appeal to humans is because we are rebels. We don't want anybody else's rules governing our actions. We don't want people to get in the way of our hopes and dreams. Ever wonder why Betty Friedan saw housekeeping as drudgery and the home as a "comfortable concentration camp" (her words, not mine)? It was because she cared about her own vainglory more than the welfare of her husband and children, and in writing angrily speculated that most women in America felt the same way she did. She most likely tapped into the selfishness of many housewives in America (and by the way, don't we ALL have that failing?) and launched a cultural revolution that ruined American family life in the long run. By extension, we are all the same.
Case in point: the Israelite people during the great Exodus from Egypt. I ran across a commentary on my newer Bible the other day and found its message very interesting; basically, when God was very visible back in the day, there were few atheists. However, there WERE a lot of rebels to go around. A casual reading of Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers reveals how people often fall short of pleasing the Triune God, mainly because the desires of their own hearts and minds get in the way so much. The same is evident here. Women in actuality desire to be treated like queens, they way we men SHOULD have treated them according to God's good plan (see Ephesians 5:24-26). But instead, we failed greatly because of our unregenerate hearts...and now they're taking revenge with their own brand of rebellion.
It's 9:41 as I am typing this, and my exams are about to start. Today might be less hectic than the next, but I must set my heart in God and not be swayed should persecution arise because of my belief. And I believe Rusty could use the same passage below as well.
here. Imagine labeling the homosexual behavior as a "culture"...sheesh.
Thinking about that whole scenario, my own thoughts can't help but wander toward the prospect of having my butt handed to me on a platinum tea tray in Gender Dev't. That's right, I've submitted my official reaction paper. If you read through it, you can see that it's a bit disjointed.
Class will begin in a few minutes, and we will have our preliminary exams. To be honest, I can't help but feel intimidated. The professor appears to be a very bright and assertive woman. Good for her, but she seems to have this penchant for bullying students (mostly aimed at those who couldn't handle their reports well enough). I also can't help but feel as if the female population of the class (which outnumbers the male population by around 4 to 1) will end up seeing me as a woman-hater.
Feminism appeals to women, not only because it attempts to address the many problems of daily life for women in a fallen world (If you would gladly scroll down, serrevin told me something very interesting on the subject of fallen human personalities affecting social behavior between the sexes), but also because it seeks to empower the "little woman", to establish her ideentity based on rules that women have composed and give her autonomous control over her own life. If I were a woman, I honestly would find such an idealism impossible to resist apart from the grace of God!
But I believe that the main reason philosophies such as these appeal to humans is because we are rebels. We don't want anybody else's rules governing our actions. We don't want people to get in the way of our hopes and dreams. Ever wonder why Betty Friedan saw housekeeping as drudgery and the home as a "comfortable concentration camp" (her words, not mine)? It was because she cared about her own vainglory more than the welfare of her husband and children, and in writing angrily speculated that most women in America felt the same way she did. She most likely tapped into the selfishness of many housewives in America (and by the way, don't we ALL have that failing?) and launched a cultural revolution that ruined American family life in the long run. By extension, we are all the same.
Case in point: the Israelite people during the great Exodus from Egypt. I ran across a commentary on my newer Bible the other day and found its message very interesting; basically, when God was very visible back in the day, there were few atheists. However, there WERE a lot of rebels to go around. A casual reading of Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers reveals how people often fall short of pleasing the Triune God, mainly because the desires of their own hearts and minds get in the way so much. The same is evident here. Women in actuality desire to be treated like queens, they way we men SHOULD have treated them according to God's good plan (see Ephesians 5:24-26). But instead, we failed greatly because of our unregenerate hearts...and now they're taking revenge with their own brand of rebellion.
It's 9:41 as I am typing this, and my exams are about to start. Today might be less hectic than the next, but I must set my heart in God and not be swayed should persecution arise because of my belief. And I believe Rusty could use the same passage below as well.
"Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error." (1 John 4:4-6)
Machaira is considering renaming his blog to either "MACHinations" or "MACHismo" in honor of irRational
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