Overnight I have been offensive. I commented to a woman that in marriage she gives up rights to her body. I offended the feminist pieties.

Meh.

Feminism is an idol, and the consequences of idolatry are clear. Feminists either fall in to the Hindu error of worshipping a perfected version of themselves they see in their imagination, or become functional Wiccans, worshipping nature.

Psalm 135: 15-18

15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands.16 They have mouths, but they do not speak; they have eyes, but they do not see;17 they have ears, but they do not hear, and there is no breath in their mouths.18 Those who make them and all who trust them shall become like them.

The psalmist indicates that by worshipping something that has no power, one becomes powerless, By worshipping the flawed — and all humans are flawed, that you exaggerate your flaws. If you worship nothing, there is nothing. (Most of us cannot do this. Atheism requires a deep faith, which I lack)

John describes the feminine out of control in his description of Babylon. Love of vice, love of luxury, and a sense that nothing will ever go wrong.

Revelation 18:1-8

¹ After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority; and the earth was made bright with his splendor. ² He called out with a mighty voice, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! It has become a dwelling place of demons, a haunt of every foul spirit a haunt of every foul bird, a haunt of every foul and hateful beast. ³ For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxury.”

⁴ Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, so that you do not take part in her sins, and so that you do not share in her plagues; for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. Render to her as she herself has rendered, and repay her double for her deeds;   mix a double draught for her in the cup she mixed.  As she glorified herself and lived luxuriously,  so give her a like measure of torment and grief. Since in her heart she says, ‘I rule as a queen; I am no widow, and I will never see grief,’ therefore her plagues will come in a single day —  pestilence and mourning and famine — and she will be burned with fire; for mighty is the Lord God who judges her

Now we are to come out of Babylon. But we are to live in this world. We are told by Paul that we are allowed to talk with those outside the church — we should reserve shunning to those within the church who egregiously break the laws of the Lord and the teaching of the Lord.

When is it time to come out of Babylon? Historically, in the later Roman Empire this passage led to the start of monasticism. Monks preserved the culture of the ancients…during the centuries of war following the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Monks preserved the faith and culture when the Turks over run the Eastern Roman Empire.

In the West, we may not be there yet. But we have to stop giving space to the modern idols, of which feminism is chief. (And yes, it acts as a religion. You can lose your job on the cry of “Sexist” and women who are living in the ways of old are criticised and shunned by wider society.

Which is why I support those groups who are trying to stem the tide. Even though at times they are very girly at times, and I argue theology with them constantly, we need to support those men who are honouring their covenant and the women who are also keeping their vows. Despite the pain and hurt.(Which reminds me, I need to expand my links to these people)

For feminism is not just an idol. Like Babylon of the prophecy, it corrupts and destroys. From it we need to come out.