God, Man and Woman

Bruce Charlton had a very good piece recently about how Christian women used to be more religious than men but now are less so. You could probably extend this to include other religions even if Christian apostasy is much further down the line then that of other religions. The premise is that women are more conformist so will adapt themselves to the prevailing culture, but they are also more concerned with being, and being perceived as, good. If what society deems good really is good that is an excellent thing but when, as now, society has been completely corrupted by materialism, atheism and their cultural consequence which is leftism, it is disastrous. Women will follow the path of least resistance and most acceptance within the group. Couple this with feminism which, cutting through the fog of all the intellectual word-spinning and ideological propaganda, really amounts to no more than the female attempt to usurp the role of the male and which lures countless people into pursuing a path they should not be pursuing and which will not make them truly happy or fulfilled,  and you see that women are potentially in an even more spiritually dangerous place today than men. 

One can see why so many women adopt feminism even though that means undermining their true being. It appears to promise them so much and claims to redress error and set right injustices of the past. It comes in a shiny package and appeals both to egotism and resentment, carefully rebranding these as noble sentiments - an old trick of you know who. But everything it offers is on the material plane and even there its gifts are poisoned. Spiritually, it is entirely regressive which is why when it moves into spiritual matters it is always on the old pagan, Gaia worship level which is something humanity should have long outgrown even if Nature and the Feminine have been undervalued in the West since at least the time of the Reformation. But that is a different matter. You don't correct error by making more error. The fact is feminists are spiritually ignorant, woefully so. The story in Genesis concerning Adam and Eve represents a profound truth about the created order and points to the path of fulfilment and truth for both sexes. God created Woman as a companion and helper for Man and, like it or not, this does give him headship. It means he should look to God and she should look to him. But it does not make him superior or justify resentment. It is just a simple fact that corresponds to the nature of each sex's being and to which both sexes should strive to make themselves worthy. It's a partnership with each partner having different roles and fulfilling the other. To rail against it is an act of rebellion, one that comes from pride and the ego, and to upset this order puts Woman at odds with the truth of her own nature and thereby creates disorder. At the same time, to abuse it on the masculine level which no one can deny has happened historically is also wrong and quite obviously so. The partnership is based on love and mutual help.

If one can see why women might turn to feminism why should men pay it any attention? It seems to me that any man who supports feminism actually has no love for the feminine. How can he if he goes along with it being trashed? But perhaps men follow the party line on this matter because they are weak, easily influenced by the zeitgeist or ideologically committed to the post-Enlightenment materialism which is the philosophical framework on which feminism is built. At any rate, no Christian man (or woman for that matter) can support feminism. I believe there are people who call themselves Christian feminists and even invent theologies to justify this aberration. You might as well talk about peaceful wars. If you are a Christian feminist you are not a Christian.

The metaphysical dynamic between the sexes on which the order of creation is built becomes easier to understand if you equate them to the vertical and horizontal polarities of existence. Men are more likely to aspire upwards and to seek truth. They are more hierarchical and also more interested in abstract thought. For women life is all about their relationships and maintaining the safety of the group. This is a very important part of life but it should not be the dominant force or society will descend into conformity, mediocrity and, as now, a prioritising of security over freedom. Women should rule children and men should rule the adult world. This is in line with their particular skills and orientations. When you have women ruling the adult world, the adult world becomes infantilised, risk is removed and in the end civilisation and culture will collapse.