The Legacy of Radical Feminism

Townhall.com::The Legacy of Radical Feminism::By Chuck Colson



Alice Walker, best known as the author of the novel The Color Purple, is one of the most renowned feminist authors and activists of her generation. She is also a mother, and that fact brought her public and private lives into direct conflict.

That is because Alice Walker?s brand of feminism was the kind that taught that ?motherhood was about the worst thing that could happen to a woman.? So says her daughter, Rebecca, who suffered the consequences of that thinking. In a recent London Daily Mail article, Rebecca Walker reflected on the neglect she experienced with her divorced father across the country and her mother too busy for her, frequently leaving her alone for long periods as a teenager. With her mother?s knowledge?and even support?Rebecca became sexually active at 13 and had an abortion at 14. She was well aware that her mother thought of her as a burden.

The younger Walker?who lives in England?writes now, ?My mother?s feminist principles coloured every aspect of my life. As a little girl, I wasn?t even allowed to play with dolls or stuffed toys in case they brought out a maternal instinct. It was drummed into me that being a mother, raising children and running a home were a form of slavery. Having a career, travelling the world and being independent were what really mattered according to her.?

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Chuck Colson sees it correctly it's not the issue of religion but given to us values:

Such women, even when they are not coming at family life from a Christian perspective, are living out the larger truth: We find our own fulfillment not by putting ourselves first, but by living for others. And that means accepting our responsibilities, and moving toward?not away from?God?s design for families

And what would God's 'Design' be then?

Women are as important as men but have different roles.

We generally consider the individual greatness, but in the God's eyes what's more important is the impact we make. You can't hardly find a great man who influenced the society without loving and caring mother, or wife.

Another important aspect to remember that the Holy Spirit in the Bible is called the helper and there is nothing diminishing in it.

I personally think women have lost a lot of their "power" by trying to hard to be men.

I would agree with the first statement, but I know that without the Bible or the influence of it. How does the Bible show what families should be? In my experience all families are different. How is there a 'design' that all should follow, surely it's about love and support not reading a book on 'How to do it'?

That's always the best to go back to the Bible :lightbulb:

Gen 2:20 But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him. 21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. 22 Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. 23 And Adam said: ?This is now bone of my bones And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man.?

Woman was not created separately from man. Eve was in 'God's image' by being created from Adam since she was a part of Adam.

Than what's the role of woman?

Paul explained that the role of women is a symbol of Christ and the church. In Eph 5:31-32 31?For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.? 32This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

A woman was not created to serve a man, rather woman was made to be part of man. It's not a conjectural submersion of characters, ideas and thoughts, rather it's an union made out of one. The perfect union is when woman and man are complete in one.

Of course it is very idealistic, but it's possible. I don't believe that man and woman become one once they got married, that's the process of surrender to each other and growing in love.

I don't believe that man and woman become one once they got married, that's the process of surrender to each other and growing in love.

I guess it depends on the literature you read and how it is interpreted, nothing in thoses passages specifically refers to family, nor does it say how a family should be made up, conduct itself or survive as a family unit

What about Lilith though, Adam's first wife, made equal but who he could not dominier so had God cast her out as a Demon and thus have his new wife made from his rib so that he had control over her.

This i agree with completely, but still i don't need a Bible to know how to do it.

Lilith is mentioned in Isa. 34:14, though the KJV renders
lilith as 'screech owl.' This first wife of Adam may safely be
called the world's first uppity woman.

To me there is not enough evidence to conclude that Lilith was the first wife of Adam based on Isa 34:14. There is only one reference in the Bible to Lilith and it's in that passage. It is referring to something or someone as demonic, and dark. It could be anything.

But if you look on the basis of clarity then the Bible states that Eve was the first wife of Adam:

Gen 3:20 And the man called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
1Ti 2:13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve;

That does not say eve was the first wife. the only way we could truly know is if we knew Hebrew.

That's the best time to be equipped in the Bible. There are many tools to read in original Interlinear Bible (one of them).
But overall every major English translation NKJV, KJV, NIV, ESV are acceptable translation by Christian and Jewish scholars.

You should really look into this book.