Call Me A Rebel!

When we hear the examples of a rebellious heart many think, "Well if being a strong woman who stands up for her rights is being rebellious and somehow wrong, then call me a rebel!"

I fully understand that! I too want to be recognized for being strong, intelligent, and not one who lies down to be a doormat. God wants that too. However the way we realize our strength looks nothing like they way it's been done in the past. How they told us to be heard was wrong. In the words of Malcom X "Ya been Hoodwinked! Bamboozled!"

We can not fully realize our freedom by repressing men and saying we can do it better then them. We can not do it by shaking our fists in anger and especially not by bitterly railing at the establishment. We simply can not sacrifice our souls for this freedom, yet that is exactly what has happened. Because we wanted the opportunity to be exactly like men, we have laid down our daughters and sons to be sacrificed in the name of our personal Freedom. We too can cause a life to exist and then walk away from the responsibility of it if we so choose. We can be as sexually promiscuousis as men, having sex wherever and whenever we choose without worry of impugnity. We can raise a child without his father, because after all we really don't need a man in our life anyway right? And I'm fully aware of the fact that some women have no choice in the matter of raising their children on their own. Believe me the men are sacrificing their sons and daughters too!

Surprisingly I do see the established Church as part of the reason why things unfolded the way they did.

If the Church had been doing her job besides focusing on dictating moral standards for so long, women would not have felt the need to find validation in such a manner. If they had recognized the power of woman and made a place for her, we would not have had to scream to be heard and the results may well have been different.

Yet, in the end, it is not God or even the church behind our repression. It is the same enemy who deceived us in the beginning, and hates us because it was out of woman that the Deliverer would be born. He is who we should be raging against. And it is his force to make woman feel shame that I will continue to do battle with. Not the Church, not God, and not the "Liberals" and Feminists of our time.