Looking back over the brief period of my life, feminist thought has made incredible strides – not all of which are bad, and most certainly not all good. As 2021 comes to a close, here are a few of my reflections.

1. Women are of equal value in the sight of the Creator and should be in the sight of man.
2. Equal value does not mean equal in all things. Men and women were designed and created male and female for separate purposes and thus have different attributes best suited to their designed purpose.
3. Feminist thought has reduced the value of a woman’s sexuality to mere pleasure for herself and her consort rather than as creator and sustainer of the race. This is celebrated by worthless men who would rather satisfy their sexual desires at little or not cost than make the lifelong commitment to love her as oneself until death do us part. The media are reporting a surge in men getting snipped with the possibility of Roe being overturned. These are men who use their women as whores rather than wives, yet this is celebrated by feminists who are not lesbians.
4. Marriage as the protector and sustainer of women and their offspring is denigrated as a vestige of the patriarchy. Unmarried women are left to bear and raise children as wards of the state, and married women are encouraged to divorce on a whim or to be cast aside by her husband and also become wards of the state.
5. Women are only considered of value to society if they are actively engaged in work outside the home. The feminist movement places little value on motherhood and the advancement of civil society through volunteer engagement. In the name of independence, women are bearing children that they do not raise. Their primary role of teaching their children the Ars Vivendi and the Ars Moriendi they abandon to low-paid and poorly educated childcare workers and public schools so they can pursue careers – most of which are poorly paid and with little reward.
6. The reduction of women to being men with vaginas has created unattainable standards of feminine beauty. These demands are met in at least two different ways. Some women reject any ideal of the female by wearing masculine clothing, having their hair cut to be gender neutral, adopting male vocal patterns, dating/”marrying” other women, and even going to the extreme of removing their breasts and taking male hormones to appear more masculine. Other women go to the opposite extreme. They over-female. Women are at their pinnacle of female beauty as an attractant of a man with whom to marry and raise children between the ages of 16 and 26. Older women can be beautiful, but their beauty takes on deeper hues as they age. When women are only to be considered for their value as sexual objects, the struggle is on to maintain the beauty of their youth. They become Madonnas – an old woman botoxing, plastic surgerying, working out in the gym, displaying as much of her body as the law will allow, and painting herself trying to look still in the bloom but more like a whore in a cheap bordello.
7. Now for some questions. Does our nation have a stronger, more agile, psychologically prepared military from treating women as men with vaginas and incorporating them into warfighting units? I think not. They break easily, are more subject of infections, and experience trauma differently than men. Are we better and more safely policed when women are in the force? No. IMHO, using weaker-than-men women has changed police tactics and made them more prone to use deadly force rather than the nightstick or the fist to subdue someone resisting arrest. It is the rare woman who can win a fistfight or a wrestling match with a larger and stronger man, thus the police are trained to shoot rather than fight. Are fire departments better at the basic task of extinguishing fires with women in their ranks? No. A woman is not designed to wear equipment that heavy and scale ladders and stairways dragging a hose well into her 40s and 50s.
8. Feminism denies the most fundamental aspect of what it means to be female and male. Men and women are wired for mutual attraction. I’m not an expert in women, but I can say without fear of contradiction that attractive women are a magnet for a man’s attention and desire. Without adequate social constraints, that attraction can be overwhelming. More marriages are destroyed in the familiarity of the office than in the nightclubs and strip joints. I shake my head in amazement when I see females in the legislature demanding the military reduce its number of sexual assaults and harassment when they are the cause. They thrust young women and young men at their sexual peak into constant contact, tell them that the women are just men with vaginas and the men are just women with penises and to not maintain a healthy social distance, and then act all surprised when they behave like the men and women they are. And don’t get me started about young female teachers having sex with the young men in their charge! I do not approve. These teachers should have their credentials removed. But only a feminist would think it a civil crime – a violation of God’s law, yes, but an assault, no. Those 14–18-year-old young men fantasize almost constantly about bedding a pretty teacher, and instead of criminalizing it, we should recognize the fantasy and train to constrain it. Oh, and don’t hire women without moral values as teachers.

There, you have it: my opinions on the destruction feminism has wreaked on our society. It has weakened the family structure. It has denigrated a woman’s unique and priceless value to the perpetuation of the race and the nation. It has valued women, other than their immediate sexual value, only for their economic contributions to a mercantile system. It has placed unattainable demands on women to maintain the bloom of youth well into their middle and later years when character development and wisdom should be their most valued assets. It has freed men from the responsibility of being men and husbands rather than boys and dates, and has given us generations of Peter Pans who have girlfriends rather than wives. It has made us a weaker and less civil nation.
The feminist movement is a curse and a disgrace. It will be the death of us all.

Health sciences are imprecise at best. We creatures of the King are so incredibly complex in our makeup. (You probably read that some institution recently “dscovered” an unknown and unrecognized muscle in our jaw structure.) Medicine is a guessing game and we are the puzzle pieces.

I am not recommending this to anybody, but as a man moving from “old” to “older than dirt”, I’ve found myself easily breathless and tired. I have moderately elevated blood pressure and have been on BP medication for years. I read that some medical “experts” are suggesting that old people like me are better off with our MEBP left untreated, and I’d developed an alergic reaction to the meds. So I quit taking them.

It snowed yesterday and we had about 10″ on our driveway needing shoveling. So I shoveled the snow. No breathlessness and no exhaustion! I feel so much better since quiting the meds. They were making me feel older than necessary!

Did you know that almost 80% (I believe that number to be correct, but you can check me on that.) of US medical cost is spent on fighting off death in the elderly? And the fight is lost every time? I believe in the sacredness of life from conception to natural death, and the American medical industry is devoted to profiting off the natural process of dying. Most of the billions spent on Covid treatment enriches the medical industry but does very little in promoting the quality of life in the natural process of death. At least this is my not-so-humble opinion.

Christians should regard Hanukkah as they would the celebration of other great events in Jewish history be it the Exodus, or the deliverance of Judah from the Assyrians in the time of Hezekiah, or the Return from Exile under the Persians. The Maccabean Revolt was one more step in God’s shaping of the world for the coming of the Messiah. The world into which Christ was born had been shaped by the events of centuries and millennia past.

When we look at the world of our day, understand that all things, not just the “religious” things are the workings of our Divine Sovereign to prepare a people for our final deliverance from the a world under Satan’s sway. Whether it is the great world wars and the rise of global tyranny under communism of the 20th Century, or the Covid Panic of the 21st, we are seeing God’s handiwork preparing us for the appearance of the Antichrist, the application of the Mark of the Beast, the global destruction of God’s judgments on a sinful race, and the Return of the King.

If you’re not seeing this clearly, you need new spiritual glasses. If your pastor isn’t preparing you to see with divine insight, and hardening you for the battles ahead, find a new church.

The sins for which repentance is so hard to find are those that give the greatest pleasure and fullest satisfaction. The bible speaks of the “pleasures of sin for a season.” If sin did not provide some immediate gratification at least, no one would sin.

If possible, it is even more difficult to sorrow over those things the bible calls sin and our society calls virtue. This is bound to make some folk uncomfortable and others down-right mad, but here I go. I’m talking about family. In the bible, there is but one family system: husband, wife, and biological and adopted children. Within this biblical family system, the primary duty of the man is to provide food, clothing, shelter, and security to his family, and the primary duty of the woman is to support her husband in his duties and to incubate, nurture, educate, and prepare the next generation through the miracle of motherhood. Madness! Sheer madness! Do I not know ours is an enlightened society in which people can form any manner of relationships and call them, “families”? And do I not realize how out-of-date I sound by saying a dual income couple supported by the state through its childcare and public education system is not biblical?

Let me address the complementarian family gifted us at Creation. A family that does not strengthen its mutual bonds and instead relies upon the state to provide for it is a weak social structure that is easily fractured by economic or political hardship. Our society promotes a form of self-reliance in which we are not mutually dependent within the family but rather are dependent on the state to provide our basic needs. The biblical ideal is a mutual dependence within the family and self-reliance without.

So let me say categorically that no “family” other than the God-given one is a family in the biblical definition. Pete B. and his partner are not a family. An unmarried woman who has children without “needing” a husband is not a family. A legal union of a man and a woman of separate families who are joined as a step-family because earlier marriages or cohabitations didn’t work out as hoped is not a biblical family. Yes, widows and widowers can unite and form a biblical step-family. While not the foundational union that is the basis of a strong church and nation, they are honored as mutually sustaining and supporting family units. But they must be the exception and not the rule. A biblical family is a man and a woman bound together in a life-long union with their biological and adopted children.

Let me go farther into this snake pit. Jesus said that anyone who divorces for any reason other that absolute marital betrayal and marries another is an adulterer/adulteress. (And less you are looking for an escape clause, stepping out of a marriage and entering into a series of long and short-term sexual relationships is adultery as well, and if there is an economic incentive attached, rent paid, vacations taken, gifts bestowed, it is prostitution.) I don’t know how to fix this one for the nation at large. Our society does not regard the marriage bond as unbreakable. If a woman is unhappy in her marriage, she is encouraged to break her vows and seek after happiness in another relationship. We are surrounded by the shipwrecks of failed and abandoned marriages. And, let’s be honest, those new relationships may be healthier and more fulfilling than the marriages cast aside. A 40-something is often, not always but often, a little wiser when it comes to understanding another’s character than a 20-year-old in the heat of passion. They may find greater happiness in forming step-families. Try repenting of that! Seriously, this is what the gospel calls us to. Jesus said, “Repent and believe the gospel!” And when called to repent of something that gives me great joy – it’s “Come on, man!” It’s going to take more than an academic exploration of the text to bring us to repentance. God himself must plant repentance in our hearts. We have to be brought to an understanding that as much as we might find individual happiness and mutual encouragement in this relationship, God indicates it to be against the interests of future generations within the Church and society at large. Broken marriages place greater demands on the state to meet the needs of women and children and in meeting those demands it becomes more totalitarian in its governance.

As I heard someone say recently, the War on Poverty has not eliminated poverty; it has created a poverty industry employing thousands of workers whose livelihood is found in perpetuating poverty, not finding ways to guide the poor out of their poverty. So, it is as well with the divorce industry. There is no money to be made strengthening marriages and making men, women, and children less dependent upon the state for their daily bread.

The Democrat-controlled Congress is debating and trying to pass Mr. Biden’s Build Back Better agenda. When you look at it closely, it is designed to make divorce more available and attractive, and to entice women to abandon their homes and children to the care and instruction of others and find fulfillment in the workplace. Who benefits? Definitely not the children, and not their mothers either. Fathers are made irrelevant. They are no longer essential to the survival of the family and they find meaning in sexual conquest, sports fanaticism, drug abuse, and urban violence. Womanhood is reduced to being an object of sexual pleasure, a womb to incubate a infant, and cheap labor to feed the consumption economy. And Children? They are barriers to their mothers’ psychological fulfillment and sources of wealth to the childcare and education industries. Everyone wins in the Build Back Better program except the American family.

I can’t lay the blame for the disintegration of the family on the Democrats alone. They are only marginally more anti-family than their Republican co-religionists. The family was first attacked by the serpent in Eden, and his assault has been unrelenting since. The devil hates the family because he hates the Creator who mad it in his image. Many of the great heroes of the Old Testament had little regard for a mutually sustaining union of a man and a woman facing the challenges of a sin-broken world together. Abraham was a polygamist. Jacob, aka Israel, was a polygamist. David was a polygamist. And who can forget Solomon the Wise, with his 300 wives and 700 concubines. (A concubine being a mistress or second-class wife who didn’t have to raise her own rent money.) But in our generation, the push to eliminate the biblical family as the basic social unit is accelerating. Bastardy has risen across all ethnic and social groups in America since the 1950s with its greatest damage being done in the Black urban and White lower classes. This weakened social structure makes Build Back Better a “necessity” and further erodes individual autonomy and freedom.

What then are we to do? Have we gone too far from God to return? I think not! None are so far removed from God’s will that they are beyond his reach. God has long arms! Can we repair what we have broken? No. When I was 18, I went down to Doc Webb’s Tattoo Parlor in San Diego and got a tattoo on the bicep of my left arm. Fifty-seven years later that tattoo is still there. It has lost much of its color and the design is faded, but it’s there and it will be there until this body decays in the grave and I am given a new, unmarked body at Christ’s return. But I never got another tattoo. So it is with the family. You may have sinned against God, your spouse, and your children. You may have formed a family that is not a family by bible standards. That’s not fixable. But you can repent. And by the grace of God, you can say from this day forward I shall live in the light of God’s word and his plan for my life. You can tell your children you wronged them and you can do all in your power to recover that which has been lost and not pass your failure to future generations. Set your mind on hewing as close to God’s ideal as it is possible for you to hew. Do not excuse yourself. If you are married – stay married. If you are now single – stay single. No wed; no bed. No one has ever died from lack of sex, but millions have died from it. Take the oath, “As for me and my house, from this day forward we will serve the Lord.”

Two Red-billed Oxpeckers were arguing about where they should steer “their” rhinoceros as he walked about on the African Savanna.

In case you’re not familiar with Red-billed Oxpeckers, they are a bird that lives in a symbiotic relationship with rhinos. They ride along cleaning the rhino of ticks and other parasites that attach themselves to its hide, and serve as sentries providing aerial surveillance to give the rhino the alarm when hunters and other predators are nearby. In return none of the oxpeckers’ natural enemies are going to mess with them as long as they are on their living tank and they always have a plentiful supply of tasty treats.

So here were these two oxpeckers arguing about whether they should take their rhino to the watering hole where they could get a drink and hang out with some of their kind, or whether they should take him to the shade of the acacia tree where they could get out of the sun and maybe grab a snack on something other than ticks. Meanwhile the rhino grazed on oblivious to the heated discussion taking place on its back. He had more important things to occupy his time than listening to a couple of birdbrains jabbering over watering holes and acacia trees. He would go to the watering hole when he was thirsty, and he would go to the acacia tree when he was in the mood for a little shade and a nap. But the oxpeckers squawked and screeched and just knew they could drive their tank wherever they willed.

Humans are the oxpeckers riding on the back of this planet. Those who see themselves the gods of this world, the politicians and “scientists”, think they are in command of the earth’s changing climate and just know they can control viral infestations. But in truth, the climate changes regardless the human component. If we are to accept the current view of geologic time, the earth cycles between ice ages and tropical warmth, and it is presently at the tail-end of an ice age – a period within the cycles when life as we know it is optimal. So here we are with a slowly warming planet with no real control over how its climate cycles, and like those oxpeckers, those who preen themselves as the lords of the universe chatter and squawk about carbon (an element essential to our very existence) and weather patterns. They cannot steer the rhino but they pride themselves on being able to do so.

As with the climate, these gods are absolutely powerless in the face of a new virus. They flutter about telling all the other oxpeckers how they can control it. But instead of making life better for their fellow creatures, they worsen the situation. A virus that would cull the herd of its weak and old and then join the roster of annoying infections becomes a means of tearing down the social structures that have served us well for generations and creating a society that better serves these gods. Millions are in economic distress, children have been deprived of educational and social development, people are starving for meaningful connection and are suffering mental illness with its consequent drug abuse and suicide all thanks to the oxpecker gods deluding themselves that they can control the rhino.

Humans are endowed by their Creator the ability to adapt to the world, but not to adapt the world to themselves and when our gods attempt to do so they usually create a mess. They are just oxpeckers chattering loudly as our rhino goes where it will.

Revelation 13:15–17
And it (the beast with lamblike horns) was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain. Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. (ESV)

King County, the county just north of where I live, has a six-month mandate that no one may enter a public space like a restaurant or sports arena without a vaccine certificate, aka vaccine passport, or a recent (3-day) negative Covid test. Imagine that! A six-month mandate! Now almost 1/3 of all Washington residents live in King County and what happens there infects the rest of the state, so while my county hasn’t gone that far into insanity YET, it may not be far off because we now have a Destructocrat-majority county council as well.

Anyway, whether the insanity infects my county or not, I was watching a news segment last night as one of the local newsies was interviewing fans going in to watch the Seahawks as well as patrons of a sports bar across the street from the stadium. They were just singing the praises of vaccine passports and masks. Now, of course, the newsies are lickspittles of the governor and the county executive and this reporter no doubt sought out the most enthusiastic supporters of the mandate – plus those who refuse to submit are staying away from Seattle’s restaurants and arenas and coming into my county to eat and drink, yet the enthusiasm of the interviewees astounded me! They loved being told what to do to keep themselves “safe”!

Now let me hasten to say the Covid mandates, as coercive and anti-science as they are, are not the Mark of the Beast. They do, however, let us know how easily the Mark will be imposed upon those who are not marked as Christ’s own. Imagine for a moment how this world of ours will react when a series of natural disasters occur that put the survival of the race in doubt. And then imagine a “savior” arriving who tells the remaining governments of the world that he has come to save the race IF they will do exactly as he tells them. And what he tells them will cause all who comply to reject the lordship of Jesus Christ. I don’t know exactly what he will say or what he will do, but bowing to his mandates will make perfectly good sense – to all who are not guided by the Scripture and the Holy Spirit.

The Mark of the Beast has both a physical component and a spiritual component. It will be similar in nature if not in fact to the offering of incense on Caesar’s altar; the incense was physical, the offering of it acknowledged Caesar’s divinity. Just as the vaccine passport is the physical evidence of obedience, the willing compliance with the mandates is the spiritual component. If people so willingly comply when the threat is minimal, imagine the rush to receive the Mark when the race is dying in the 100s of millions.

The question before us, however, is not whether we’ll be vaccinated, or wear a mask, or kiss the hand as we bow to the mandates. The question is, what are we doing with Christ right now, today? If Jesus Christ is not the most important one in your life today, odds are he won’t be when the Mark is imposed and you will either embrace it wholeheartedly or take it just to live a while longer. But rejecting Christ is to reject life because he gives eternal life to all who belong to him, so don’t go down that road.