Who's Lying to You About Early Feminism? Susan B. Anthony: Lucifer's Babe?

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Who's Lying to You About Early Feminism?

Susan B. Anthony: Lucifer's Babe?


December 1, 2003

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by Art Lemasters

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Many people of scriptural faith have been duped into believing that Susan B. Anthony was a devout follower of the Word by feminist mentions that she was a Quaker, that Quakers were strict, and so forth. Those stories omit the truth. Anthony's family was with the liberal Hicksite Quakers, that is, until she stopped attending Quaker meetings. In liberal Quaker doctrine, scriptures are secondary to each person's "Inner Light." Some Quakers disagree with liberal thought against scripture, but Anthony could not have tolerated them.

She was more of a pagan than a Christian for most of her life. She believed in spiritualism, and she prayed to the "spirits" to become a medium. So did some of her friends, including Harriet Beecher Stowe. Anthony attended at least one "Spiritualist Festival" when she was getting old. Spiritualism (communications with the dead through mediums) became popular with many Quakers in the 19th Century.

She attended her first feminist convention with a group of Unitarians in 1848, when she was 28 or 29. Soon after, she left Quaker meetings behind, for the most part, to be more active as a Unitarian. Many Quakers did the same, because they felt too restricted by other Quakers.

Now, otherwise conservative and religious organizations, holding tightly to whatever vestige of feminism they can while unwittingly helping to destroy families, have clung to Susan B. Anthony as an historic heroine for their daughters. They pay tribute to a woman who opposed the Bible, even to the extent that she uttered blasphemies. But other kinds of organizations also claim alliance with her social inclinations, some having exhumed evidence written by Anthony, herself, that she may have been a lesbian.

At least once, she repeated and rejoiced in what she thought to be fulfillment of the words of the serpent of Genesis, that with his brand of knowledge, humans could "be as gods." While preaching in a church, Henry Ward Beecher yelled to the people there, "Ye are gods!" Thoreau's description of him as a "magnificent pagan" was probably accurate. Elizabeth Cady Stanton issued similar blasphemies, and with her Revising Committee, wrote the Woman's Bible. Anthony ranted in favor of keeping the Woman's Bible as part of the women's suffrage platform and referred to scriptures as "old superstitions" while she spoke. The blasphemous document is now enshrined by our government.

Anthony was widely known to be one who did not believe in our Father. This was the reason for the exodus of "many women of the WCTU" (Kathleen Barry, Susan B. Anthony: A Biography of a Singular Feminist, p. 294) from one meeting. The Territorial Dispatch and Seattle Times once described her as  "...recognizing no religion but self-worship, no god but human reason,..."

Many religious and associated organizations are holding Susan up as an icon of life. The truth is, though, that she opposed any law "prohibiting abortion," as you can see by finding those exact words in this amicus brief. Yes, Susan's words contradict much of what is written about her in the trojan horse presented by feminists. Amici Caesaris, indeed. Anthony said she rather desired to destroy the "root of the evil," and she blamed men for abortion. A high abortion rate is necessary to fulfilling Susan's various ambitions for feminists. She was a feminist on every point of view with regards to destroying relations between the sexes and to destroying families.

All of feminism leads to high abortion rates and destruction of families. So religious groups and all who attempt to saint Susan B. Anthony should just let the lie go, and join us against all that empowers the insidious  genocide against children in the womb, against men, and therefore, against families.

Our girls are being taught the lie that Anthony was a morally good teacher to follow. What will become of the young ladies when they receive the whole of her seductions from the universities?


Art Lemasters


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http://www.quaker.org/visalia/subpages/BushLetter.html

Mitch Gould, "A Gay Quaker Timeline, 1820s-1950s," 2002. 20TH ANNUAL CABRINI, JUNE 14-16, 2002. A Pacific Northwest gathering, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered Quakers and (F)friends and relations.
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Henry J. Cadbury, "Friends and the Bible," Friends General Conference, 1994.
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"The Quakers: Children of the Light," "SOME BASIC BELIEFS & PRACTICES," Friends United Meeting,  2003.
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Evangelical Friends International, 2002.
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The Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B.  Anthony, ed. Ann D. Gordon, et al. (Columbia, S.C.: Model Editions Partnership, 1999). Electronic version based on The Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony  (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1997) Vol. 1, pp. 196-461. http://adh.sc.edu [Accessed 2003]
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http://www.adventistsaffirm.org/proveallthings/15.01chapter15.html

Christopher Densmore, FRIENDS OF HUMAN PROGRESS (NORTH COLLINS), MEETINGS, 1855-1930s, Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, accessed 2003.
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Chuck Fager, "Continued: Beyond the Age of Amnesia: Charting the Course of 20th Century Liberal Quaker Theology," Quaker Theology, A Progressive Journal and Forum for Discussion and Study,  Quaker Ecumenical Seminars in Theology, 2000.
http://www.quaker.org/quest/issue3-4A.html

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http://www.rochesterunitarian.org/1997-98/980215.html

Rev. Frederick Emerson Small, "A Different Jesus," First Church Unitarian, Littleton, 2000.
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Sean McMeekin, "A Bed of Their Own? Review of [Lillian Faderman's] To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America — a History" (Houghton Mifflin, 1999), Boundless Webzine, 1999.
http://www.boundless.org/2000/features/a0000170.html

Arushi Sinha, Barbara Mercer Cullimore, Brooks Taylor, Chris Alhambra, Faith Marston, Ingrid Olsson, Jackie
Corrigan, Jessie Hudgins, Jim Fritzler, Joan Chovan, Joe Johnson, Kelly Hurt, Kris Lawson, Lori Summers, Lou Anne Meloche, Neil and Ann Piche, Patricia Heil, Sally Drake, Sue Solberg, Teresa McEachern, Velvet Van Bueren, Washington Irving and Mary Mark Ockerbloom. A Celebration of Women Writers  "Chapter XI." Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eighty Years And More: Reminiscences 1815-1897, 1898.
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Vernon Louis Parrington, Main Currents In American Thought: The Beginnings of Critical Realism In America
1860-1920, New York Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Revising Committee, The Woman's Bible, 1898. The Internet Sacred Text Archive, Accessed 2003.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Other Members of the Revising Committee, The Woman's Bible, 1892, 1895. Undelete: Women's Internet Information Network, 2000.
http://www.undelete.org/library/library0041.html

The Bible Resolution and Susan B. Anthony's comment, NAWSA Convention, Washington, D.C., January 23-28, 1896. Ellen DuBois, Deradicalizing Suffrage, Vote for Women: History of a Feminist Movement (syllabus), 1998.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/dubois/classes/995/98F/

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers), Words and Deeds in American History, Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division's First 100 Years, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
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Kathleen Barry, Susan B. Anthony: A Biography of a
Singular Feminist. New York University Press, 1988.

"Susan B. Anthony Lectures," Woman Suffrage Crusade (1848-1920),  HistoryLink, History lnk, 2003.
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"FFL Amicus Brief for Bray v. Alexandria Women's Health Clinic," 1990. Feminism and Nonviolence Studies Association, 2003. [Contains quote of Susan B. Anthony against abortion prohibition from "Marriage and Maternity," in The Revolution, 4(1):4 (July 8, 1869).]
http://www.fnsa.org/v1n1/bray.html

[familyop]

PING!

Susan B. Anthony: Lucifer's Babe?

Here's an early release while it's in-line for publishing at MensNewsDaily. I know that some of you are waiting for it. This will be the last of the series for now. The earlier releases are in the MensNewsDaily archive, and all releases in the series are HERE.

[Jackson Brown]

All of feminism leads to high abortion rates and destruction of families. So religious groups and all who attempt to saint Susan B. Anthony should just let the lie go, and join us against all that empowers the insidious genocide against children in the womb, against men, and therefore, against families.

One problem with this tome is that Susan B. Anthony was outspokenly anti-abortion!

“No matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death.” Susan B. Anthony

[familyop]

Jackson Brown wrote:
"One problem with this tome is that Susan B. Anthony was outspokenly anti-abortion!"

But Susan B. Anthony said:
"...I cannot believe . . . that such a law [prohibiting abortion] would have the desired effect." --Susan B. Anthony, as quoted from her own publication! Follow the links for the proof.

Thus, she was against any law that would punish those who abort.

The point of the series is that there is no good feminism. And who disagrees with that?

[Ken522]

So does this mean we should throw away all our currency with the Susan B. Anthony markings on them??

[Freedom4US]

If you really want your eyes opened up, read up on Margaret Sanger. The leftists go to absurd pains to hide her writings and philosophy.

[Maximilian]

I'm afraid this article isn't written as well as it might be, but it is important nonetheless. All Christians should be made aware that those feminist founders who are held up as being Christian were not. They were evil right from the inception. "Feminists for Life" is a total and complete contradiction. There is no such thing as a good feminist, just as there is no such thing as a good communist. These philosophies are just utterly incompatible with Christianity.

[Maximilian]

So does this mean we should throw away all our currency with the Susan B. Anthony markings on them??

The American public made that decision 20 years ago when the coins were introduced. They were a complete bust. Just like their replacement, the fake "gold" coins with another supposed proto-feminist.

[familyop]

Yes, Feminists for Life. I was surprised when I saw the following about Clintonian "prevention" instead of punishment. ...looks more like an effort to vilify men than to prevent abortion.

"President Of Feminist For Life Of America To Address Sacred Heart"
Sacred Heart University
http://www.sacredheart.edu/news/archives/foster/
Quote:
"Founded in 1972, FFL is a national non-sectarian, grassroots organization, which continues the efforts of the early American feminists including Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to eliminate the causes that drive women to abortion by giving practical solution. FFL has emerged as the link between the pro-life and pro-choice worlds, working on efforts such as the enforcement of child support and, the Violence Against Women Act."

Aside from its ends of family destruction and socialism, feminism's means are any policies that bring "sexual freedom" for women who are feminist-minded. Everything in the feminist agenda makes abortion common. Incarcerating more men for being divorced by their wives (see "Driving the Divorce Rate: Who’s Teaching the Women?") is not prevention against abortion, but it is certainly causing many of our better young men to be terrified of marrying.

Abortions remain common, because we are allowing too many of our young to be indoctrinated with feminist self-this and self-that independence from marriage and family.

[Maximilian]

Aside from its ends of family destruction and socialism, feminism's means are any policies that bring "sexual freedom" for women who are feminist-minded. Everything in the feminist agenda makes abortion common.

Excellent point. Feminists are doing everything possible to make abortion inevitable, but then some claim to be "pro-life." This is like having a group called "tavern owners for tea-totaling." They do everything possible to set up the situation, and then they claim that the don't support the ultimate outcome.

[familyop]

BTW, the rest of the Susan B. Anthony series is here!

http://familyops.us/anthonyproject/

The piece posted here is only one of four.

[Coleus]

Feminism's Third Wave

[Guelph4ever]

I'd like to know who ever thought Quakers were strict to begin with? According to all of my history they were on the liberal fringe from the get-go, letting women lead church services, sitting in a circle so no one could be seen as being 'boss' etc.

Modern feminism is nothing more than a liberal effort to turn women into men and degrade the unique role given to women by their Creator.

[3catsanadog]

Feminism's Third Wave:

Probably euthenasia for the elderly. Women have a God given right not to have to take time from their careers to visit their elderly parents at the nursing home or help them with their day-to-day needs such as getting them groceries, taking them to the doctor, etc.

[dangus]

What's the point of this, other than an ad-hominem attack on a pioneer of the true feminist (and pro-life) movement?

[victim soul]

"We have met the enemy... and [s]he is us"

[Barnacle]

Good post. That's important information, especially for parents.

I like how you gave access to your reference material. It's probably the way most research papers will be presented in the future.

[familyop]

Thank you very much for the thanks for the post! It's running at MensNewsDaily now.

http://mensnewsdaily.com/archive/l/lemasters/lemasters120203.htm (and on the front page for now at http://mensnewsdaily.com )

Some liberaltarians (reason.com, way social left type - pro-abortion, pro-same-sex-marriage, etc.) and social liberals call for ousters of conservatives--one at a time--who are published there, although the editor does seem to have a preference for publishing conservative material. The loud voice and easy money of the left can be powerful intimidators against any good publisher. So if you have a moment, send thanks to the editor at

editor@mensnewsdaily.com. He reads all of his mail.

Thanks again! It appears that quite a few copies are around the Web. It should get a few thousand readers before the day is done, as MensNewsDaily alone gets over 50,000 per day, and several other sites will carry it virtually permanently.

[Lorianne]

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of...Each of those churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my own part, I disbelieve them all."
____ Thomas Paine,

"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter." ____ Thomas Jefferson

“Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear....Do not be frightened from this inquiry by any fear of its consequences. If it end in a belief that there is no God, you will find incitements to virtue on the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise and in the love of others which it will procure for you.” ___ Thomas Jefferson

“It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible.”___ Thomas Paine

"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise." ___ James Madison

"That Jesus Christ was not God is evidence from his own words." ___ Ethan Allan

(When Allen married Fanny Buchanan, he stopped his own wedding ceremony when the judge asked him if he promised "to live with Fanny Buchanan agreeable to the laws of God." Allen refused to answer until the judge agreed that the God referred to was the God of Nature, and the laws those "written in the great book of nature." )

"As to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the System of Morals and his Religion...has received various corrupting Changes, and I have, with most of the present dissenters in England, some doubts as to his Divinity; tho' it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the Truth with less trouble." ____ Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin Franklin considered himself a Deist but not a Christian).

"I have examined all the known superstitions of the Word, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike, founded on fables and mythology. Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion? To make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the world ... " ____ Thomas Jefferson

"The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes; fools and hypocrites. To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical." ___ Thomas Jefferson

"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God." ____ Thomas Jefferson

"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind." ___ Thomas Paine

"My country is the world, and my religion is to do good."___ Thomas Paine

"Let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religions." ___ George Washington

“...Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle or mystery, and which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind.” ___ Thomas Jefferson

“Denominated a Deist, the reality of which I have never disputed, being conscious that I am no Christian.” ___ Ethan Allan

"Tom, had you and I been 40 days with Moses, and beheld the great God, and even if God himself had tried to tell us that three was one . . . and one equals three, you and I would never have believed it. We would never fall victims to such lies." ___ [John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson]

"I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life I absented myself from Christian assemblies." ___ Benjamin Franklin

"The Christian god can be easily pictured as virtually the same as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of the people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites." ___ Thomas Jefferson

"I would not dare to so dishonor my Creator God by attaching His name to that book (the Bible)." ___ Thomas Paine

"It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible." ___ Thomas Paine

[Lorianne]

The point of the series is that there is no good feminism. And who disagrees with that?

I disagree with that.

You're exhibiting the traits of the blind ideologue ... the same traits that you decry in others. That makes you a hypocrite.