Sluthood removes discernment.

Yesterday I was driven by a combination of tiredness and anger. The anger was driven by seeing a young boy holding up a severed head. The interesting link to today’s passage is that this family is estranged from their grandparents (the mother is Australian: the father served five years for terrorist activities and is of Lebanese extraction).

I like AUstralia, but the (Jewish) taxi driver who drove me to the airport a couple of days ago now fears for her safety.

This morning I’m equally angry because the Syrian Islamic Mafia are selling girls into slavery, and that experience will destroy them as truly as this father is destroying the future of his sons.

Women of the West, choose your husbands with care. Do not believe the sex positive feminists that you can sleep with that exciting boy and then settle down with the boy next door. Consider that Christ himself called out this behaviour.

Jesus and the Woman of Samaria

Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. And he had to pass through Samaria. So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.

A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”

Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.” Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.” Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”

(John 4:1-26 ESV)

Young women, look carefully at this graph. It’s taken from here, and go and read the article. Read it carefully. Because most marriage minded men know this, if not from reading at the Social Pathologist or similar sites, they know it instinctively.

I know too many women who are now unmarriageable. I am no catch: I’m divorced, in my mid 50s, and the snark is deeply embedded in me. And there is nothing superficially wrong with these women: they are generally very good at their job, gym bunnies, and most of them think as they were taught.

But their sense of honour, their sense of judgment, has been destroyed. They continue to seek that man who excites them — to the point, where after many disappointments, their bitterness drives all others away and the sensible sapphists shun them. Because they can no longer love; they can no longer bond.

The Samaritan women was one of these. She had been used and discarded by four men — and in this society, where a husband was as much or more of a job description than something romantic, she lived outside the bonds of marriage, in shame.

Despite being shunned herself: no sensible woman would go the well in the middle of the day when it is much easier to heavy work either in the morning or evening.

Now, Jesus was gentle with this woman. But he confronted this within her. He offered her another way: and that way involved both great joy, for she was able to bring others to hear Christ and indeed most in that village believed, but also a path of painful change. Because she was not left without the consequences of her behaviour.

I am divorced, and I have no partner. I would far rather meet someone who has repented and lived celibate for years than the all too frequent woman who has always had a boyfriend, and considers much within her life as (their) fault. Despite the fact that (after 20 odd years of being married) singleness is not fun.

Because I have responsibilities. I have children: I have grandchildren. I do not want to let into their lives, or my own, someone without honour, someone who will not defend her family by birth or marriage. I do not want someone who believes that you can have everything: in this life you have to make choices and each choice removes some things that you could have done. Such women do exist: there is always a remnant.

But our education system lies all too much. It encourages women into careers with a very long training period (I’m in one of them: from leaving school to specialist practice in NZ will take a young person from age 18 to age 30 if you complete everything on time and you do not take time out: we encourage people to take some time out and go part-time when their children are young).

We lie and say all cultures and religions are the same and equally valid and true: saying those who question marrying across cultures are racist. Well, that’s untrue. You can tell the value of a culture by the results of it: and the Islamofascists have shown, over and over, that they produce nothing but destruction and feralness. (The Victorians kept such under control by the use of missionaries, the Maxim gun and cold steel: it looks like in this century we may have to undo the foolishness of the last 50 years in a similar manner).

But far more importantly, these lies remove discernment from women. A woman goes “all in” when she becomes a wife and mother: her future is bound up with her children and her husband, for good or ill. Young women have to choose wisely.

And removing from them the very tools that allow this, by preaching the modern memes of tolerance and promiscuity is cruel. Let is be gentle with the victims, but for those who preach such evil, let us use that very scorn we have reserved.