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Nurturing the NationsNurturing the NationsReclaiming the Dignity of Women in
Building Healthy Cultures
The Framework
Part 2 THE LIE: ROOT OF THE
POVERTY
3 The Framework
4 The Crushing of Women
5 The Culture of Sexism
6 The Disappearance of Women
Fighting on Two Fronts
“In this fallen world, things constantly swing like a pendulum, from being wrong in one extreme way to being wrong in another extreme. The devil never gives us the luxury of fighting on only one front, and this will always be the case.”
Francis Schaeffer
The World’s Concept of Truth
Right Wrong
The World’s Concept of Truth
RIGHT WRONG
Grace Law
Free Will Predestination
Responsibility Sovereignty
Faith Works
UNITY DIVERSITY
Feminism Sexism
Biblical Concept of Truth
Wrong Right Wrong
FREEDOM
Grace Law
Free Will Predestination
Responsibility Sovereignty
Faith Works
UNITY DIVERSITY
Biblical Concept of Truth
Feminism Complementarianism Sexism
UNITY DIVERSITY
Biblical Concept of Truth
Monument Valley
Two Extremes
• Monism: Reality is a unified whole
• Atomism: Reality is a series of indivisible and indestructible particles
The Edges
• Monism– Absolute Unity– Radical Feminism– Men and women are
equal in being– Therefore they are the
same/interchangeable– The disappearance of
female
• Atomism– Absolute Diversity– Sexism– Men and women are
different in function– Therefore male is
superior to female– The crushing of
women
Mobile
Complementarian
• Men and women are equal in being
• Men and women are diverse in function
Three Distinct Visions
Philosophic
ExpressionMonism Trinitarian
(ism)Atomism
Religious
ExpressionHinduism
Buddhism
Judeo –
Christian
Theism
IslamPolytheism
Nature of
God“One Undivided
Spirit”
Community: Father Son
Holy Spirit
Power Harsh Capricious
Three Distinct Visions
Historic
Proponent
Plato Moses
Jesus
Aristotle
Sexual
Focus
Interchange-
ability
Equal in being/Diverse
in function
Male
Superiority
Sexual Expression
Radical
Feminism
Complement- arianism
Sexism
Values Maleness/
Androgyny
Female &
Male
Maleness
Male “Superiority”
• Derived from the sense that men are, generally, physically stronger and more aggressive than women
• When this warrior mentality becomes a virtue, then men are seen as superior to women
Male is ‘godlike’
“But still, wherever the brute force of the warrior is counted god-like, woman is appreciated only as she approximates to sterner natures.”
Lydia H. Sigourney
Letters to Young Women
The Demise of Female
• Males disrespect the feminine enough to war against women
• Women hate the feminine enough to want to be men
Femicide
“When women’s work of caring is rendered invisible by societal arrangements and structures, a kind of social femicide is in process.”
Professor Ivy George
Gordon College
Compromised Vision
Professed
ChristiansSyncretism w/
Monism
Transformed
Romans 12:2
Syncretism w/
Atomism
Feminism Egalitarian-ism
Complement- arianism
Chauvinism Sexism
Disappearance of Women
Dignity of Women
Crushing of Women
Complementarian Cultures
• MALE – Stronger– Rational– Hunt the deer– Roam – Protect
• FEMALE – Finer– Intuitive – Cook the deer – Nest– Nurture
Sexists Cultures
• GOOD – Stronger– Rational– Hunt– Roam– Protect
• BAD– Finer– Intuitive– Cook – Nest– Nurture
Radical Feminist Culture
• Stronger
• Rational
• Hunt
• Roam• Protect