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