Overnight, there has been a very long conversation going on in the blogosphere. Dalrock pointed out that the society we have has familial instability by design…
Society has seen fit to hand wives the option to destroy their families on a whim in an effort to give them power over their husbands. In order to maximize the credibility and effectiveness of this threat, the church has stepped in to offer moral cover, and the culture regularly eggs her on. If she acts on this option she will cause herself and her own children great and lasting pain. She will almost always end up with the real life bad outcomes the absurd divorce fantasies are based on. Instead of a secret multimillionaire hunky handyman magically appearing with a proposal of marriage after she detonates her family, she is far more likely to find herself alone or pretending she did better than she did.
But none of this changes the fact that she has the option to blow up her family and society’s full moral and legal blessing to use it. While she can’t rationally expect to avoid creating her own personal catastrophe in the process, the threat she can hold over her husband is all too real.
This has led to a sense among traditionalists that we need to change. The text today is a fairly accurate description of the elite in our society. This group are generally atheist, leftist… they rejoice in small families, that there are less Christians than secularists — then they allow the exotic religions in, destroying what remains of the culture of the West in a fit of joyous offense of that imagined enemy.
The Bourgeois. Who really (the middle class) have also been destroyed by 50 years of social democracy..
1 Give ear to my words, O LORD;
give heed to my sighing.
2 Listen to the sound of my cry,
my King and my God,
for to you I pray.
3 O LORD, in the morning you hear my voice;
in the morning I plead my case to you, and watch.4 For you are not a God who delights in wickedness;
evil will not sojourn with you.
5 The boastful will not stand before your eyes;
you hate all evildoers.
6 You destroy those who speak lies;
the LORD abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful.7 But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love,
will enter your house,
I will bow down toward your holy temple
in awe of you.
8 Lead me, O LORD, in your righteousness
because of my enemies;
make your way straight before me.9 For there is no truth in their mouths;
their hearts are destruction;
their throats are open graves;
they flatter with their tongues.
10 Make them bear their guilt, O God;
let them fall by their own counsels;
because of their many transgressions cast them out,
for they have rebelled against you.11 But let all who take refuge in you rejoice;
let them ever sing for joy.
Spread your protection over them,
so that those who love your name may exult in you.
12 For you bless the righteous, O LORD;
you cover them with favor as with a shield
Now, if you argue that we should move back to a more traditional society: like the Monastics of the 4th century, we should flee Babylon and set up holy communities, as beacons of truth: we should return to the practices of holiness that both the Puritans and Pietists argued for — and leave the mediocre and unimaginative in their rebellion we will find that those very women will drag us back. As CL says.
Dare to try to crawl out of the bucket on your own, however, and they claw at you to try to pull you back down where they are.
ezra, a new commentator at Dalrocks, expands CL’s comment in a description of how women are.
You know, I do not have ANY female friends that aren’t at least twenty-five years older than me (I’m forty-two, have been happily married for over five years to a man who has been through the ringer with feminist women) because ALL of the younger women (that’s ALL of them) believe in no-fault divorce. They also ALL have had affairs on their men. Regrettably, it is true that women typically do not hold other women accountable: my hubby and I still talk about the time that my “best friend” left her precious husband of seven years (with whom she had a beautiful daughter) for some a-hole where we both worked. I went home and wept when I found out, but I NEVER called her out on the carpet for it. She was singlehandedly the WORST friend I have ever had; I eventually cut off all contact with her for fear she would taint my image of my husband and have an ill effect upon our marriage.
I work for a married woman (married eight years with three children) who treats her husband like a rug. When I go over there, he’s rarely there, because I think he deliberately chooses work sites out of town, but it’s clear that he’s had an affair and she’s really pissed. She justifies her fatness, her rudeness, her sassiness toward him because of his infidelity. I’m SURE she was that way before he ever cheated on her. She commands him like a puppy dog. He stays away. He loves his girls. He is trapped.
Her complaints about him, other than the “affair?”
He “dips” too much (Copenhagen), he sometimes “drinks too much”, he “doesn’t make her feel loved”. My GOD! He is her slave! It’s disgusting.
The woman across the street with little children that COULD have been my friend tarts herself up every night, leaves her three children with her hubby and runs all over town with her GF’s, doing God knows what.
I have no female friends that are my age; they are disgusting. I don’t know where you are living that you are not seeing “frivilous divorce” or at least the pre-cursors to such.
Our rule is to stand. Our rule is to speak truth. Our role is not to accommodate the fashions of this age. This means, as a father, my role is to raise my sons. Other things are secondary. We are to speak truth in a time of lies.
And we can expect contempt from the herd. For we are the outliers, the remnant. And we are will not be accepted until God allows this society to repent.
