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Feminism: Satan's Plan to Destroy Your Family Feminism: Satan’s Plan to Destroy Your Family Read this article online here: Author: Christopher J. E. Johnson http://www.creationliberty.com/articles/feminism.php Updated: Nov 16, 2016 Introduction to Feminism The title of this article alone will probably deter most feminists and their supporters from reading further, but my job is to provide the facts, not make people read and understand them. As the title suggests, feminism is a design of Satan for the express purpose of destroying families, and the destruction of the family has been one of the key foundations in building a communist nation in the U.S. feminism (n): the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men (See 'feminism', Random House Dictionary, 2015, [dictionary.com]; See also Collins English Dictionary, 10th Edition, William Collins Sons & Co, 2012) Don't be decieved, this definition is a lie; it's only what feminists claim that it means with their mouths. It sounds good on the surface, but a little investigation into the feminist movement will reveal the fact that they (in general) could not care less about equal rights, and their actions reveal their true nature. We need to be willing to put aside emotions, and look at the facts to determine the truth. Feminist.com's director Marrian Schnall says: "Feminist.com was founded in 1995, as a few women and I gathered around the table in my New York City apartment... to offer people around the world access to information about human rights, women's issues, health, anti-violence resources, grassroots activisim, women's business, and pretty much anything that could possibly support a world where men and women are allied, empowered and equal." -Marriane Schnall, "Welcome to Feminist.com," feminist.com, retrieved Aug 24, 2016, [http://feminist.com/about/] Like I said, it sounds really good, friendly, and peaceful on the outside, however, the truth is that everything she just listed out is the exact opposite of what the feminist movement is actually doing. What they won't show you on their "About" page are the flat-out lies feminists have screamed through bullhorns nor the true results and effects of feminist protests, which we will try to thoroughly cover here with all the documentation you can go research for yourself. To get some idea of what I mean, let's look at a few feminist quotations that feminist.com won't tell you about, starting with Robin Morgan, editor for Ms. Magazine: "I feel that 'man-hating' is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them" -Robin Morgan, Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist, Vintage Books, 1978, p. 178, ISBN: 9780394726120 Remember, the definition of feminism included "social rights," meaning they want everything social about men and women to be equal, then why aren't feminists hating women too? Already we begin to see that feminism is not about equality, it's about destroying families and men (i.e. fathers, husbands) specifically. Feminist Linda Gordon, professor of history at New York University said: "The nuclear [i.e. core structure of] family must be destroyed, and the people must find better ways of living together... Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process." -Linda Gordon, quoted by Elayne Bennett, Daughters in Danger: Helping Our Girls Thrive in Today's Culture, Thomas Nelson Inc, 2014, p. 58, ISBN: 9781595554512 The truth is that the feminist movement is not about "humans rights" and "health;" it's actually about hatred and destroying God's design of the family for mankind. In case that quote wasn't clear enough, feminist author and activist Vivian Gornick, in a fundraising letter by a relief organization for Kosovo refugees, said: www.creationliberty.com "Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession... The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family- maker is a choice that shouldn't be. The heart of radical feminism is to change that." -Vivian Gornick, quoted by Marshall R. Goodman, Karla Marx and the Man-Haters, Lulu.com, 2015, p. 50, ISBN: 9781329358362 What happened to those "rights of women" that keep being preached by feminists? Why can't a woman choose to be a wife, mother, and homemaker? The truth is that feminism doesn't want women to have the right to serve as a helpmeet to their husbands. Their true goal is to destroy women’s' rights, removing the choice of women, and making all women adhere to the choices their movement has established for women. The Lord God created woman with a specific purpose in mind: And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him... And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. -Genesis 2:18-24 We'll cover more on this in the section "The Biblical Role of Men," but in short summary, the term "help meet" literally means an assistant fit for the intended function, and so the Lord God designed men and women to be married, with women specifically to be a helper and companion for a man. This is not to say that all women have to be married or have children, but this is the express design of her mind and body. The problem is that feminism seeks to reject God's design for women, reject the role He gave to Eve, and create something perverted in its place. In fact, Gloria Steinem, one of the the most popular feminist voices of the 20th century (and undercover CIA agent), stated the true goal of feminism is not only to take away a woman's choice to be a help meet, but also to destroy your marriage and your faith in the Christian God of the Bible: "We have to abolish and reform the institution of marriage... By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God... We must understand what we are attempting is a revolution, not a public relations movement." -Gloria Steinem, quoted by David Kupelian, The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo- Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedom, WND Books, 2005, p. 111, ISBN: 9781581824599; Kupelian is a bestselling author and journalist, and managing editor of WorldNetDaily and Whistleblower Magazine. I've talked with a lot of women in my lifetime, and 99% of the women I've talked to about this subject absolutely cannot stand the feminist movement. Almost all the women I've talked to hate the feminist movement, find it an embarrassment to women, and wish they would just shutup and leave. In combination with the 99% of men I've talked to who also hate the feminist movement, it only seems like a tiny fraction of a percentage of women are in favor of the feminist movement, and even though their numbers are incredibly small, they're getting loads of media attention, which is due to a larger communist agenda working behind the scenes. The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein. -Proverbs 22:14 Ladies, listen up: The Devil is attempting to deceive you again. Please read the following information, consider the Scripture, and I pray you gain understanding of the truth behind the farce so that you and your daughters will be protected from the plagues feminists are attempting to bring into your lives. Popular 20th century spokeswoman for the feminist movement, Andrea Dworkin, did not leave any room for speculation when she said: "I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in the mouth of a pig." -Andrea R. Dworkin, quoted by Peter C. Pappas, Fanning the Flames, LULU, p. 155, ISBN: 9781483409665; Dworkin died in 2005. 2 Page www.creationliberty.com I would like to make a very important point: Although this came from a feminist, I want readers to understand that it is not feminism that is the underlying problem. Feminism is only a symptom of the cause. It is sin that creates such violent hatred. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. -Romans 1:28-32 The Lord God explains to them that they are wicked, full of envy, murder, and deceit, and that's exactly why they hate Him.
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