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.