Dear visionaries,
Steve notes that the initial question asked of me has gone unanswered in the flurry of discussion. “What should we tell our daughters?” We should teach them what we believe, which is that men are called by God to sacrifice, love, lead, provide, protect and honor, and women are called to answer this with respect, wisdom, counsel, nurture, and skillful management. I am aware of the fact that all this is perfectly appalling in our egalitarian era, but there it is.
The thing that cracks me up about the progressive agenda on this subject is how they quietly assume that this sort of thing is a universal “women’s issue,” when actual women (Christian women, with brains and everything!) differ with their egalitarian agenda just as much as our men do (and sometimes more). But no, it is thought, all women, by virtue of the combination of their chromosomes, are just so many moo cows, waiting patiently to be herded into liberation.
Toni objects to the “brainwashing” that goes on in conservative Christian circles. In the first place, most of our brains (and hearts, and hands) could use a little scrub. So thank God for forgiveness of sin! But if she means (as she perhaps does) that at our private Christian school we work the kids over with rubber hoses until they comply with our horrific vision, I think she has overstated her case. There are schools where a significant number of the kids are kept compliant and docile by means of medications — but that would not be at our school.
Cordially,
Douglas Wilson
“Apologetics in the Void” are repostings from an on-going electronic discussion and debate I had some time ago with members of our local community, whose names I have changed. The list serve is called Vision 20/20, and hence the name “visionaries.” Reading just these posts probably feels like listening to one half of a phone conversation, but I don’t feel at liberty to publish what others have written. But I have been editing these posts (lightly) with intelligibility in mind.