Mixed Idealogizes

In a 2009 doctoral address, a Vatican Cardinal stated:

.....Feminism drove changes in the basic relation between the sexes

.....U.S. laws also "undermine the role of the father," the cardinal maintained, citing legislation allowing "gay so-called parents" to adopt children and the 2008 Human Fertilization and Embryology Act, which enables single women to conceive children through artificial methods.

.....In Europe, he said, recent trends also "work to diminish masculinity." He described a research paper published by the Council of Europe in 1998 that indicated male leaders and fathers have "become more like women and mothers" in behavior, including becoming "sweeter."


I have sat on this one for 5 years!, because I just did not have the build up I wanted to address this foolishness.  And, I find this week I do - men have abandoned their roles and responsibilities towards love, marriage and sex.  Many blame this on the advent of feminism ...

Now the above quote was ripped off of a German Cardinal giving his doctoral address.  So he was preaching to the choir so to speak!  His audience was other Cardinals within the Roman Catholic Church - are they going to disagree that manhood in the 21st century is in trouble?  Are they going to disagree that equality of women is at the heart of the matter in destroying the traditional home and manhood?  I doubt it.

Now let us take this one step further, he is German, commenting on a worldwide problem ... and he picks feminism as the culprit which has destroyed life as we know it ...  Yeah ...  It is all the fault of those women.  Give them the vote and the next thing you know men will  be marrying men, and women marrying dolphins.  Oh wait, that has already happened in Israel ...

But, if you want to find a culprit, feminism is not the place to look. Why?  Because Christianity, aka The Way, was the very first religion or political entity to introduce the concept of equality of the sexes.  Too bad that the Roman Catholic Church had to rear its ugly head and buy into the concept of subjugation of women and bring the paganism of the Celtic world into "christianity"!  No, God brought women forward from the idea of property with no rights, to equality before Him, equality in the Spirit, equality in the Ministry, while leaving intact the idea that marriage is a cooperative effort made up of a man and woman.  Want to argue?  Loose your Roman Catholic belief set first, then argue Bible to me!

No, it took American culture, with Hollywood and its adoration of a select few highly talented homosexuals to show in the 1950's and 1960's that this group should be taken seriously.  Movies pushed the envelope of offering the acceptance of sin as being normal.  It was the minority whom disagree, the haters, the Bible thumpers, the jokes of mankind.  The visual media and the press would feed off of this sensationalizing crime against homosexuals while at the same time limiting any reporting of crimes by this special group.  They were normal, "Bubbus Americanus" was not.

This same mass media did the exact same thing with the concept of "free" sex and failing to point out that nothing is free - lives are destroyed apart from God.

This same mass media supported a RADICAL feminist agenda.  Beyond any logic or goals of value to instead push for superiority of the female species over that of lowly, confused man, stupefied by being driven wholly by his little head, not the big one ...

The "Pill" brought women unfortunate consequences in that she was now responsible for not getting pregnant, man could and did argue that he was not responsible if she did not take her own precautions.  And freed now of his responsibilities, the 1960's flourished.

Man, now stripped of any value, stripped of responsibility in sexual encounters, stripped of the belief that man and woman are normal ... becomes a creature of passion and free to pursue that passion at will, with no cost expected nor due.  It is in fact the "stupid" man whom is caught by progeny, disease, financial obligation, etc.

No, Vatican officials, if you want to know what a man is - do not look at the Marlboro Man, Rock Hudson, a Humphrey Bogart or any other Hollywood idol for your definition.  Instead consider the man whom loves and treats as an equal, because of that love, his wife.  Whom supports the advancement of her and their children.  Whom is a member of his community, working towards its betterment, whom treats all with kindness and respect.  Whom appreciates the arts and science.  Whom loves God with no disagreement possible from his peers.

This is called a Renaissance man, the man whom literally has stepped out of the darkness and into the light.  The super smart, "I am going to change the world" kind of renaissance man is sort of rare, always has been.   But, the man whom is as I described, well he used to be considered normal once upon a time.  A time when ego, vanity, greed and American Theology did not rule our culture.

I read old diaries and stories, mostly of the old American west for fun.  Imagine my surprise to find out that miners in the 1880's crowded around a campfire night after night to take turns reading and translating from the French, The Count of Monte Cristo.  Really?  I thought gold seekers were just one step up from cavemen!  They were literate, multilingual and interested in what was hot literature at the time?  Wow, have we been misled by Hollywood and history!

Wonder what ever happened to real men in the past century?  Well, I just told you ... they were not appreciated any longer and therefore rarely appear in public ...  If you want to find one, good luck, it is easier to be a Neandertal and use everyone around you - than to actually care, take responsibility and be all you could be ... if only it just wasn't such fun to be that happy go lucky Neandertal ...