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		<title>Comment on Ding, Dong, the (Feminist) Witch is Dead by monitor301</title>
		<link>http://www.tomsbigpicture.com/2007/02/16/ding-dong-the-feminist-witch-is-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-65483</link>
		<dc:creator>monitor301</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Feminism was never a backlash, it was a straw man ideology derived from pride and gender disobedience. It was an aberrancy de novo based on distortions of humanist ideology originating in the Enlightenment era, and hence, is a fundamental denial of biologically normal gender behaviour. It is about as antichristian an ideology you can get, with well-documented ties tracing into dianic witchcraft.

Testimonial evidence would seem to suggest that prior to the imposition of gender liberalism and its associated programme of indoctrination, women understood their differential social, biological and spiritual roles, and were considerably more content than their modern day counterparts. This concurs with more recent gender psychometric data suggesting that women who adhere to biologically normal gender roles score more highly on &quot;objective&quot; indices of physical attractiveness, health and psychological well-being and enjoy a higher quality of life in many areas.

Our current societal situation belies an inability to learn from history: that which modern feminists would celebrate as groundbreaking social revolutions in recent decades have, in actual fact, happened numerous times in the past during the history of the major civilisations (cf. Toynbee, Jim Black). They are invariably associated with a declining society: matriarchist ideology, disruption of family cohesion and functionality, breakdown of normal gender roles and relationships, widespread moral and sexual degeneracy, violent disobedience of children; culminating in the onset of destructive events and widespread violence against and abuse of women, prior to reestablishment of the original traditions. All of this sounds alarmingly familiar.

The bible spells out clearly that there is a direct chain of command and delegation principle from God to Christ to Man to Woman, and that this relates to intrinsic creation order. Many of us still have the grace to understand and hold the patriarchal tradition as the biological norm, and are blessed by it. Those women who, by grace, have avoided or resisted feminist indoctrination appreciate clearly that obedience in a woman *is* beauty, or more accurately, that the two are effectively facets of the same overarching principle.

Despite years of feminist sophistry which has undermined our families, our nation and our workforce, a silent minority holds true to our core design, the very criteria which define us as God-created human beings male and female. Everyone else will rot, mentally and physically, from the very moment they are indoctrinated with contrary views, such is the nature of absolute principle.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Feminism was never a backlash, it was a straw man ideology derived from pride and gender disobedience. It was an aberrancy de novo based on distortions of humanist ideology originating in the Enlightenment era, and hence, is a fundamental denial of biologically normal gender behaviour. It is about as antichristian an ideology you can get, with well-documented ties tracing into dianic witchcraft.</p>
<p>Testimonial evidence would seem to suggest that prior to the imposition of gender liberalism and its associated programme of indoctrination, women understood their differential social, biological and spiritual roles, and were considerably more content than their modern day counterparts. This concurs with more recent gender psychometric data suggesting that women who adhere to biologically normal gender roles score more highly on &#8220;objective&#8221; indices of physical attractiveness, health and psychological well-being and enjoy a higher quality of life in many areas.</p>
<p>Our current societal situation belies an inability to learn from history: that which modern feminists would celebrate as groundbreaking social revolutions in recent decades have, in actual fact, happened numerous times in the past during the history of the major civilisations (cf. Toynbee, Jim Black). They are invariably associated with a declining society: matriarchist ideology, disruption of family cohesion and functionality, breakdown of normal gender roles and relationships, widespread moral and sexual degeneracy, violent disobedience of children; culminating in the onset of destructive events and widespread violence against and abuse of women, prior to reestablishment of the original traditions. All of this sounds alarmingly familiar.</p>
<p>The bible spells out clearly that there is a direct chain of command and delegation principle from God to Christ to Man to Woman, and that this relates to intrinsic creation order. Many of us still have the grace to understand and hold the patriarchal tradition as the biological norm, and are blessed by it. Those women who, by grace, have avoided or resisted feminist indoctrination appreciate clearly that obedience in a woman *is* beauty, or more accurately, that the two are effectively facets of the same overarching principle.</p>
<p>Despite years of feminist sophistry which has undermined our families, our nation and our workforce, a silent minority holds true to our core design, the very criteria which define us as God-created human beings male and female. Everyone else will rot, mentally and physically, from the very moment they are indoctrinated with contrary views, such is the nature of absolute principle.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Obama Sends a Shout-Out to His Homeboy Pastor Rick by Suzy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mature Believers and sold out to Jesus.  Be watchmen on the wall for your pastors if you love them.  Young pastors who love God can be deceived.  Pray that God will give them the gift of discernment.  I believe this is very important.  It is amazing .......... some of the &quot;personalities&quot; they do not see a danger of following.  PRAY FOR YOUR PASTORS NOT TO BE LED ASTRAY.  I do have to wonder if some have been bewitched.  God forbid!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mature Believers and sold out to Jesus.  Be watchmen on the wall for your pastors if you love them.  Young pastors who love God can be deceived.  Pray that God will give them the gift of discernment.  I believe this is very important.  It is amazing &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. some of the &#8220;personalities&#8221; they do not see a danger of following.  PRAY FOR YOUR PASTORS NOT TO BE LED ASTRAY.  I do have to wonder if some have been bewitched.  God forbid!!!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Huckabee Is Finished by Mitch</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mitch</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>He was &quot;finished&quot; long ago.  I&#039;d take &quot;a black hole of pure unreflective ego&quot; over the pulsating quasar of narcissistic ego we currently have in the White House.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He was &#8220;finished&#8221; long ago.  I&#8217;d take &#8220;a black hole of pure unreflective ego&#8221; over the pulsating quasar of narcissistic ego we currently have in the White House.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Nightline Report on the &#8220;Quiver Full&#8221; Movement by lisa</title>
		<link>http://www.tomsbigpicture.com/2007/02/07/nightline-report-on-the-quiver-full-movement/comment-page-1/#comment-62436</link>
		<dc:creator>lisa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks Dave for your candid sharing. I have three children and homeschool. We have attended a church for a couple of years that has a large number of full quiver families. One Sunday one of the men taught a teaching called The God Sized Family. These people think that God will control how many children you have if you will let him, and that He will give you just the right number. They don&#039;t ever mention that there is any justification for exercising personal authority and control in reproduction. It doesn&#039;t matter if there are health issues, financial issues or fitness to parent a lot of kids issues (such as past abuse, etc.) All they want to do is tell you how lots of pregnancies and births will help you be healthier and overcome health problems and cause God to provide more for more children, etc. I guess I&#039;m just supposed to ignore the instances I am aware of where that hasn&#039;t happened. I have a friend who had difficult pregnancies and almost died on her third. The above mentioned God Sized Family teacher told her when she questioned him that God exempts her from allowing Him to control her childbearing. I guess he just didn&#039;t have the guts to be consistent and uphold his God in control beliefs and tell her she should let God be in control and if she dies, she dies. Either He is in control or He isn&#039;t. I personally don&#039;t believe it is the norm for God to open and close wombs. I don&#039;t mean that He never intervenes to help someone get pregnant, etc., but He created a self functioning system when He created reproduction, sort of like gravity or the movements of the solar system. He doesn&#039;t have to &quot;control&quot; things on a minute by minute basis, because He created a system that is self perpetuating. He still gets credit for creating everyone born, because He created reproduction whereby it happens. But I don&#039;t believe that He micromanages every conception and development of a fetus. I know the bible says He knitted us in the womb, but I believe He did it by the process He set up that is self functioning.  In fact, I believe that the corruption of the fall is evident in reproduction in the form of stillbirths, deformities, miscarriages, and infertility. I believe these quiverers have created a commandment of men, twisting scripture and reading between the lines things that aren&#039;t there rather than letting it be the spirit led thing it should be. I have no problem with large families, if that is of the Lord and right for you, but I am against pharisaical laws that aren&#039;t really God&#039;s requirements that bring people into bondage. Jesus said that the truth will make you free. The reverse is also true. That which is false will bring you into bondage. So many people seem to want to live under laws so much that they even make up ones that don&#039;t exist.  I don&#039;t understand the draw as this kind of life is so oppressive.

Anyway, I feel for you Dave. I have felt very pressured by these people.  And it is them, not some misplaced guilt thing on my part. A lady at church has pestered me a number of times trying to get me to accept her quivering ways for myself and to make me feel if I would just have faith I could forgo any natural family planning or birth control and God would make things just great. I think that this shows immaturity and naiviety on her part. A person who that thinks that faith is the only factor and with faith anybody can do anything is sadly unwise and naive in my opinion. Not only that but faith is not something that can always just be turned off and on like a light bulb. We don&#039;t all have the same amount of faith for the same things, and the bible says that we are supposed to accept and not judge one another about that. 

I have sensed a self satisfaction in some of the people at church, as they go around proclaiming that they have faith for as many as God will give them. Generally, these people have great health, well paying jobs, have not struggled with trying to have good relationships and not abuse their children because of the programming in abuse that they received as children etc. I know one family in which the father is a fireman ands is around home A LOT. Of course now that He is up to nine kids He may get to where he is not around much because of side work so he can make ends meet. This family also has a grandfather who lives around the corner and is over all the time helping out. But those of us who have health problems, no help, did not have the benefit of a semi normal nonabusive upbringing, or are poor, etc. are expected to live just the same. I think some of these people consciously or not, like the idea of having lots of kids, don&#039;t have anything that is a real problem that would seriously dissuade them from it and don&#039;t even know how that would feel so they have no empathy for anyone who does, and since they have this thing in which they can be superior to others in, revel in it. I think they enjoy the sense of superiority and that they are &quot;right&quot; and others are wrong.  Maybe not all are that way, but many are and I think some that are not consciously aware of it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks Dave for your candid sharing. I have three children and homeschool. We have attended a church for a couple of years that has a large number of full quiver families. One Sunday one of the men taught a teaching called The God Sized Family. These people think that God will control how many children you have if you will let him, and that He will give you just the right number. They don&#8217;t ever mention that there is any justification for exercising personal authority and control in reproduction. It doesn&#8217;t matter if there are health issues, financial issues or fitness to parent a lot of kids issues (such as past abuse, etc.) All they want to do is tell you how lots of pregnancies and births will help you be healthier and overcome health problems and cause God to provide more for more children, etc. I guess I&#8217;m just supposed to ignore the instances I am aware of where that hasn&#8217;t happened. I have a friend who had difficult pregnancies and almost died on her third. The above mentioned God Sized Family teacher told her when she questioned him that God exempts her from allowing Him to control her childbearing. I guess he just didn&#8217;t have the guts to be consistent and uphold his God in control beliefs and tell her she should let God be in control and if she dies, she dies. Either He is in control or He isn&#8217;t. I personally don&#8217;t believe it is the norm for God to open and close wombs. I don&#8217;t mean that He never intervenes to help someone get pregnant, etc., but He created a self functioning system when He created reproduction, sort of like gravity or the movements of the solar system. He doesn&#8217;t have to &#8220;control&#8221; things on a minute by minute basis, because He created a system that is self perpetuating. He still gets credit for creating everyone born, because He created reproduction whereby it happens. But I don&#8217;t believe that He micromanages every conception and development of a fetus. I know the bible says He knitted us in the womb, but I believe He did it by the process He set up that is self functioning.  In fact, I believe that the corruption of the fall is evident in reproduction in the form of stillbirths, deformities, miscarriages, and infertility. I believe these quiverers have created a commandment of men, twisting scripture and reading between the lines things that aren&#8217;t there rather than letting it be the spirit led thing it should be. I have no problem with large families, if that is of the Lord and right for you, but I am against pharisaical laws that aren&#8217;t really God&#8217;s requirements that bring people into bondage. Jesus said that the truth will make you free. The reverse is also true. That which is false will bring you into bondage. So many people seem to want to live under laws so much that they even make up ones that don&#8217;t exist.  I don&#8217;t understand the draw as this kind of life is so oppressive.</p>
<p>Anyway, I feel for you Dave. I have felt very pressured by these people.  And it is them, not some misplaced guilt thing on my part. A lady at church has pestered me a number of times trying to get me to accept her quivering ways for myself and to make me feel if I would just have faith I could forgo any natural family planning or birth control and God would make things just great. I think that this shows immaturity and naiviety on her part. A person who that thinks that faith is the only factor and with faith anybody can do anything is sadly unwise and naive in my opinion. Not only that but faith is not something that can always just be turned off and on like a light bulb. We don&#8217;t all have the same amount of faith for the same things, and the bible says that we are supposed to accept and not judge one another about that. </p>
<p>I have sensed a self satisfaction in some of the people at church, as they go around proclaiming that they have faith for as many as God will give them. Generally, these people have great health, well paying jobs, have not struggled with trying to have good relationships and not abuse their children because of the programming in abuse that they received as children etc. I know one family in which the father is a fireman ands is around home A LOT. Of course now that He is up to nine kids He may get to where he is not around much because of side work so he can make ends meet. This family also has a grandfather who lives around the corner and is over all the time helping out. But those of us who have health problems, no help, did not have the benefit of a semi normal nonabusive upbringing, or are poor, etc. are expected to live just the same. I think some of these people consciously or not, like the idea of having lots of kids, don&#8217;t have anything that is a real problem that would seriously dissuade them from it and don&#8217;t even know how that would feel so they have no empathy for anyone who does, and since they have this thing in which they can be superior to others in, revel in it. I think they enjoy the sense of superiority and that they are &#8220;right&#8221; and others are wrong.  Maybe not all are that way, but many are and I think some that are not consciously aware of it.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Huckabee Is Finished by brian</title>
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		<dc:creator>brian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;a black hole of pure unreflective ego&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Way to turn a phrase, Tom!  Him and all the other self-serving scum that haunts DC and the several state capitals...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>a black hole of pure unreflective ego</p></blockquote>
<p>Way to turn a phrase, Tom!  Him and all the other self-serving scum that haunts DC and the several state capitals&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Comment on Huckabee Is Finished by Tom</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>More:

http://www.arkansasleader.com/frontstories/st_07_21_04/huckabee5.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>More:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.arkansasleader.com/frontstories/st_07_21_04/huckabee5.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.arkansasleader.com/frontstories/st_07_21_04/huckabee5.html</a></p>
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		<title>Comment on This Warms My Heart by Mitch</title>
		<link>http://www.tomsbigpicture.com/2009/07/07/this-warms-my-heart/comment-page-1/#comment-56641</link>
		<dc:creator>Mitch</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Check me out:

http://www.meetup.com/setxteaparty/photos/654522/#9494515</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Check me out:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.meetup.com/setxteaparty/photos/654522/#9494515" rel="nofollow">http://www.meetup.com/setxteaparty/photos/654522/#9494515</a></p>
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		<title>Comment on This Warms My Heart by Mitch</title>
		<link>http://www.tomsbigpicture.com/2009/07/07/this-warms-my-heart/comment-page-1/#comment-56640</link>
		<dc:creator>Mitch</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Brian,
I think &quot;derailed&quot; is too strong. For sure they are trying to coop the rallys but I think the video is proof it is not working. I spoke at the Orange Co. tea party on the 4th. It was a small one with only about 150 people attending. I spoke before the Orange Co. Republican Chairman and went off on Bush and the Republican controlled Congress. Ripped McCain Fiengold then launched on Cap and Trade. 

I got a great response from the crowd and the Chairman wouldn&#039;t even look at me when I was done. When he spoke, it was a snoozefest.

The people at these rallies aren&#039;t drinking the Republican Kool Aid.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Brian,<br />
I think &#8220;derailed&#8221; is too strong. For sure they are trying to coop the rallys but I think the video is proof it is not working. I spoke at the Orange Co. tea party on the 4th. It was a small one with only about 150 people attending. I spoke before the Orange Co. Republican Chairman and went off on Bush and the Republican controlled Congress. Ripped McCain Fiengold then launched on Cap and Trade. </p>
<p>I got a great response from the crowd and the Chairman wouldn&#8217;t even look at me when I was done. When he spoke, it was a snoozefest.</p>
<p>The people at these rallies aren&#8217;t drinking the Republican Kool Aid.</p>
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		<title>Comment on This Warms My Heart by brian</title>
		<link>http://www.tomsbigpicture.com/2009/07/07/this-warms-my-heart/comment-page-1/#comment-56532</link>
		<dc:creator>brian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Blithering idiot.

My favorite part?  The guy screaming &quot;Traitor!&quot; in the background.  Plus the organizers of the &quot;freedom rally&quot; trying to make everyone shut up because this putrid organ of the state--who is obviously more important than &quot;we&quot; are--was giving a speech.

&lt;b&gt;That&lt;/b&gt; is just proof these grass-roots protests have become derailed by the GOP as recruitment rallies.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Blithering idiot.</p>
<p>My favorite part?  The guy screaming &#8220;Traitor!&#8221; in the background.  Plus the organizers of the &#8220;freedom rally&#8221; trying to make everyone shut up because this putrid organ of the state&#8211;who is obviously more important than &#8220;we&#8221; are&#8211;was giving a speech.</p>
<p><b>That</b> is just proof these grass-roots protests have become derailed by the GOP as recruitment rallies.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Why the South Was Right by Kevin leahy</title>
		<link>http://www.tomsbigpicture.com/2007/11/05/why-the-south-was-right/comment-page-1/#comment-56006</link>
		<dc:creator>Kevin leahy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Do you now have these same worries about Obama?  This is the largest expantion of federal power this nation has ever seen.  I would love to hear your thoughts now.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you now have these same worries about Obama?  This is the largest expantion of federal power this nation has ever seen.  I would love to hear your thoughts now.</p>
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