It’s rhetorically ham-handed, but not entirely stupid. The Fathers of the Church, some of whom were very literalist in their approach to Scripture, some of whom weren’t, but all of whom very much believed in God and the Scriptures, nonethless taught that the Fall made us more like brute beasts.
Chalk the article’s rhetoric up as an attempt to explain to liberals (who unaccountably insist on neo-Darwinism as their creation myth, and fancy human beings are reprogammable computers rather than animals as their creation account would suggest) the concepts inherent in “male and female he created them” and in the doctrine of the Fall by appealing to their own creation myth, and their consequences and read the article.
Agree totally.
The article is great in it’s recognition of the problem regardless of the evolutionary/creationistic cause of it.
Societal training has created this “placating response” by the teachers... and this feminization has spread to the whole of the institution (male and female instructors). This is exacerbated by the lack of parental discipline.
Our PC system has eliminated any connection between cause and effect. There is no follow-through because the student knows that even if the teacher actually finds the testicular capacity to send them to the principal’s office, and even if the principal takes some kind of action, that there will be no follow through in the community or at home.
Well, I looked at your “about page” and since we have some things in common, I read the article in full. I think it’s pretty much poppycock (my female tends ask me to ‘bop’ any aggressive male that threatens our domain rather than quivering and submitting to them as the article suggests is natural, for example — I keep various weapons around for this purpose). I’ve also seen plenty of female school teachers put the kabosh on kids (isn’t that a big part of what mothering is about?). Anyway, maybe it would get through to a left-wing secularist with the “male and female he created them concept” but I still think I was right in my basic and quick judgment that the article had little to offer me since it is written from an incorrect secular perspective and is poorly thought out even within that context.
Just an aside, but I think that writer’s that are going to talk about religious concepts should have someone they trust (like their priest or pastor, or if they are not religious, an intelligent Christian friend) to run the article by to make sure they are making sense theologically.