I hear lots of secular talk in the media at the moment. The Minister for Women here in New Zealand wants there to be 50 percent men and women on public sector boards by 2021. Sounds good doesn’t it. I mean there’s nothing wrong with equality for women.
There’s also nothing wrong with women being in the top jobs. They are as capable as any man in any job. However, are working class women getting a better deal? Women have been educated to put themselves first and that means they have the right to be in the work force. They now work harder than they ever have and the impact on their children is that they spend hours a day in the care of strangers.
Fifty years ago their family could have been supported on only one wage but today struggles to survive on two incomes. The economy adjusted to meet the new state of affairs and without realizing it we as a society have been fooled into thinking that women have equality and are liberated. When they now have no choice but to work. How is that equality or emancipation?
I wouldn’t class myself as a hard worker. I’ve long theorized that most of the time thinking smart is more efficient than brute force. I have to be honest though that at the right old age of fifty seven I’d sooner be retired and able to follow my own interests and pursuits. Sadly this is not to be and honestly I don’t know that I’ll be able to retire before I die.
Thing is when the secular humanist crowd pushed the idea to women that they needed to be freed from the dominance of men. I’m pretty sure they didn’t talk much about the pressure of having to be in the work force until they are sixty five. The drag of not seeing your children when you want to. The pain of managing child care and explaining why you need to take the day off because your child is sick. The guilt of sending sick children to school because you don’t have any more sick leave or annual leave left.
I know that mens attitudes to women needed to change and it’s fair to say that women are now participating more in society. That’s a good thing because it gives them more security and rights as citizens in that society. But when emancipation results in you working harder to make ends meet for the rest of your life. Is that really emancipation or is that slavery?
I just want to restate that a marriage used to only need one wage and now it needs two wages. Even then there are working poor where both spouses are working one or more jobs each and still not making ends meat. Things just haven’t turned out the way the secular humanists advertised that they would. Where’s our Utopian Dream?
Personally I smell a rat here. Call me a conspiracy theorist. There that feels better doesn’t it? But I seriously wonder if the number crunchers and spin doctors of old, haven’t foreseen how all of this freedom and emancipation was really going to turn out. I’m being skeptical I know but I think this secular humanism stuff was developed to control the people not to set them free. I mean if you’re working hard you don’t have time to notice that you’re not getting ahead as well as you used too. If you haven’t time to spare you haven’t time to complain. So while you’re preoccupied which schemes of the powers that be are being fast tracked under the radar.
Certainly the right to free speech is being curbed. The world is being made a much more politically correct place so you can’t say what you think. All of these other secular groups are using every opportunity to take your slice of the pie by any means possible. Alls fair in love and war they say. You’re a feminist so you’re not in the LGBT and that makes you a competitor.
There’s only so much funding available so a secular group has to do what it has to do. Which also means that the elite can use the good old divide and conquer strategy to keep everyone pitted against each other. Meanwhile they can do what ever they purpose to do with the government and the resources. Starting to see the bigger picture or are you still not ready to give up on the old secular humanist agenda just yet.
Well that’s fine. I’m a Christian you see so I’m most concerned with the attack on morality and the damage being done to the Church by secularists trying to discredit the Bible and Christianity in general. That doesn’t mean that I don’t think that women should be free to participate in society as equals with men. For instance the bible asks wives to be subject to their husbands but tells husbands to love their wives as they love themselves. If you love someone as you love yourself you will deny them nothing because you will deny yourself nothing. Which really equates to equality doesn't it?
Jesus always treated women with compassion and understanding and with the utmost respect. It could be said that the women who followed him were the most important people in his life. They took care of his burial preparations and were the first to see him after he was resurrected. This obviously has meaning and is a message to Christian men to treat women with respect and as equals. That’s how I have always seen it in any case.
My message to women is be a feminist by all means but take a good look at Christianity, the Bible and Gospel of Jesus of Nazareth. When Jesus spoke to the Samaritan woman he spoke of giving her water from which she would never thirst. The water of eternal life through Jesus himself.
John chapter 4 verses 7 through 14
7When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” 8(His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) 9The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.a ) 10Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” 11“Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?” 13Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” NIV
John chapter 3 verse 16
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
So is this for you?
Reference List
https://www.bl.uk/sisterhood/articles/redefining-work Womens access to male dominated roles
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