Source: https://sovereignnations.com/2018/10/17/in-defense-of-strong-men/

IN DEFENSE OF STRONG MEN

by Jamie Hope

James Manning

POSTED ON OCTOBER 17, 2018, 11:48 AM 

6 MINS

I’m a female with a husband, son, brother, father, male cousins, etc., and I’m going to get to the point.

Our founding fathers were intelligent rogue alpha males dressed in suits who whooped the snot out of tyrannical England with nothing more than a meager militia.  Our founding fathers didn’t apologize for bloodying the field when necessary, or for rising up in righteous anger when they were attacked.  That anger and fierce brutality, needed to overcome the world’s most powerful army at the time, is what is needed and absolutely warranted today.  Can you imagine a bunch of beta males cowering at the feet of the king, imploring him to be sensitive to us colonists?  We’d be the United States of Great Britain if the founders hadn’t risen up in anger – the very anger we saw of Brett Kavanaugh.

Who actually determines the qualifications for judicial temperament?  According to the Bar Association, good temperament means that a judge exhibits “compassion, decisiveness, open-mindedness, sensitivity, courtesy, patience, freedom from bias and commitment to equal justice.”  This is in reference to how a judge handles law and court cases.  It does not specify that a justice is courteous when he and his family are personally attacked and he has to sit through a kangaroo court.  I, and many others, would have been disappointed if he had not been provoked to anger over this whole circus.

It took anger and hostility to win that war against a tyrannical England.  Now we have to apologize for “feelings” in 2018?

God himself can be and has been provoked to anger.  Just read the Bible: even he has his limits and will rain down fiery judgment on the unjust.

I don’t want Justice Kavanaugh to apologize.  He had to write an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal to explain that while he was emotional at times in testimony, he was defending his family, not presiding over a legal proceeding.  Gloves come off when one is personally attacked and shredded without an ounce of evidence.  The gloves came off with our founding fathers, and it didn’t compromise their ability to draft the Declaration of Independence and subsequently the Constitution – nor their ability to win a bloody war.

The militia at times left bloody footprints in the snow because their footwear fell apart.  Are those the actions of someone not provoked to anger and defense of country and family?  Do you think those patriots didn’t cry, spout off in anger, or sneer at those opposing them?

As a woman, I can come to only one conclusion.  These women trying to subvert the males of this country are not the strong women they pretend to be.  I am not talking about well intentioned women, many of whom are my friends, on the left.  I’m talking those we see on their knees screaming and crying, and the likes of Carol Christine Fair, who was put on leave from teaching at Georgetown University for saying of white men, “All of them deserve miserable deaths while feminists laugh as they take their last gasps.  Bonus: we castrate their corpses and feed them to swine?  Yes.”  They are trying to convince themselves with their outlandish lack of decorum and pseudo-strength.  They are actually intimidated by a strong man, therefore they try to soften men.  They are incapable of being truly strong women like Susan B. Anthony (who was a Republican for those who don’t know).

Strong women – truly strong women – like the grit in our men.  The other women stand in the streets, attempting pansy violence in a fit of not getting their way, cajoling males to do the same, and expect those they oppose not to not rise up in response.

I will never respect these antics or these fearful demonstrators.  The men I, and the women I respect, surround ourselves with and the men we support for leadership will be the same.  We want warriors, not subservient, apologetic wussies.  Truly strong women will encourage a response like Kavanaugh’s to being unjustly accused.  Funny that liberal women try to condemn conservative women as subservient when we are not afraid to match ourselves with a strong male figure.  We encourage their manliness, their strength, their vigor.

A weak person tries to lessen others’ power, not encourage it.  Conservative women generally encourage the power of a man, because we are not afraid of it.  That’s what truly makes a strong woman.

As a woman, I am heartened to see true-grit men like Justice Kavanaugh out there.  As for his titanium-spine wife and children, God will bless them for their strength and unwavering support. The conservative women of this country look forward to seeing what Kavanaugh, a strong man, will accomplish.

via American Thinker

Opinion: Here’s why “progressive Christianity” won't persuade believers

 Opinion: Here’s why “progressive Christianity” won't persuade believers

 by Peter Heck · Dec 15th, 2020 11:45 am 

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Last Updated Dec 16th, 2020 at 8:07 am

It's no big secret that Religion News Service gravitates left politically. Their line-up of op-ed contributors, the angles of their reporting, the stories within Christendom that are ignored versus the ones that are addressed by the organization, all make that abundantly clear to anyone paying attention.

But what may not be immediately obvious is the paucity of biblical grounding in much of the analysis found at the site. This is an all-too-familiar pattern within the vast majority of so-called "progressive Christianity." Sociological trends and modern scientific consensus always seem to provide their framework for thought and springboard for discussion rather than biblical authority.

In other words, instead of beginning with biblical presuppositions and interpreting contemporary issues from there, progressive Christians typically begin with what the culture "knows" – a worldly presupposition – and then try to chart out how best to make Scripture conform to it in the least contentious way. If there is to be any confrontation, progressive Christianity ensures it will not be with the world. They are consistently far more inclined to join forces with those who reject Scripture as authoritative in order to dress down conservative evangelicals than they are to stand shoulder to shoulder with their conservative brethren against an ungodly culture.

Consider as but one example the recent opinion piece that appeared at RNS, penned by pastor and political scientist Ryan Burge:

The subtitle tease to that article astounded me: "While women are changing the world of electoral politics, their progress in the world of religion is downright glacial."

What is Burge even talking about? How can women make "progress" in the world of Christianity that goes beyond being joint heirs with Jesus (Rom 8:7)? What "change" is needed to what Christ declared is "finished" (John 19:30)?

The central message of Christianity is that Christ died for all, giving to every human soul the opportunity to live in paradise not because of the progress we make, but because of the restitution of our souls that He already made.

The Apostle Paul's affirmation that in Christ, "there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one" (Gal 3:28), shows that Burge's entire piece is built upon a political calculus, not a Scriptural one.

Consider that in a piece ostensibly making the case for female pastors in the pulpit – the entire point of the column – you won't find a single Scripture reference. You can read Burge's entire "progressive" piece and find plenty of statistics, plenty of survey results, plenty of comparisons to the gender diversification in Congress and other democratically elected bodies. But you won't find a single sentence that addresses the second chapter of Paul's first letter to Timothy.

That sufficiently reveals what Burge, and those who are persuaded by his arguments, see as authoritative. And it isn't the Bible. That is not to say that Burge's position that women should be embraced as pulpit ministers is wrong simply because popular trends agree with him. It is to say that what he has written should not sway believers one way or the other because it omits the central question that matters most to believers: what does God say about it?

The Christian begins with the authority of Scripture. So if a professing Christian wants to make the case for female pastors to other Christians, that needs to be done scripturally. But notice that is not the approach of Ryan Burge, nor is it ever the approach of progressive Christianity. And that should be a glaring red flag.

Progressive Christians always seem far more competent and capable quoting the latest scientific consensus than exegeting a passage of Scripture. How crazy is it to suggest that might have something to do with who their god is?

source: https://disrn.com/opinion/opinion-heres-why-progressive-christianity-doesnt-persuade-believers

Stop Lying About Our Sons

Boys are not bad. Boys do not need to be fixed. Boys do not need to be more like girls. And no matter how many lazy pieces of faux-journalism appear that shame our sons as inherently toxic and expendable, we will fight to ensure that they know that the culture is lying to them.

My life would not be what it is without the men who have and continue to bless it.

The loving heart of my father, still willing to drop everything if his girls need him whose kindness and sense of humor makes the world a little better every day.

The department heads and colleagues who encouraged and supported me as an educator. My mentors through my twenties, thirties and still into my forties.

My friends.

My students.

My husband.

My sons.

I never thought we would reach a point where it was commonplace to hear social commentators, journalists and presidential candidates awfulize boys and men — our fathers, brothers, husbands and sons — simply because they are male. There were always those fringe women’s studies professors and radical feminists who made their living by hating on men but I couldn’t have imagined that such ugliness would infect the public discourse and be lauded as brave, let alone enlightened.

It is not enlightened. In fact, it is woefully uninformed. And it is cruel.

We hear the word “toxic” constantly, often followed by the word “masculinity.” Sometimes these men-haters throw in “problematic,” “misogyny” and “mansplaining” too. But having lived almost half a century, it is clear to me that toxicity has little to do with gender and everything to do with character and behavior.

Some men talk about and treat women terribly. So talk about those men. Some women are toxic from sun up to sun down. So include them in the conversation about toxicity.

But leave our sons alone and far away from the ugly stereotypes that feminists and media commentators immediately decry when they are applied to women.

And while these lazy writers and commentators natter on about inequality, the patriarchy and the the inherent brokenness of boys and men, let’s remember:

Over 90 percent of on the jobs deaths happen to men.

Men are 3.54 times more likely to die by suicide than women.

Women currently outpace men in obtaining associates degrees, bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees and PhDs.

Boys are more than twice as likely to get suspended from school and almost three times as likely to be expelled.

Boys represent two thirds of the special education population. Almost 80 percent of these boys are Black and Hispanic.

60 percent of high school drop-outs are male.

93 percent of prison inmates are male and 68 percent of them do not have a high school diploma.

While others make a name for themselves awfulizing males, we moms of boys will tell our sons every single day not to believe the lies. And we will stand up for the countless boys across our nation whose lives are being irrevocably damaged by a culture that tells them they are inherently bad and unworthy of the opportunity to live their best lives.

Enough.

via Medium

 from here: https://sovereignnations.com/2020/02/18/stop-lying-about-our-sons/