WAMI -- Women Against Misogynist Imperialism

Let's Talk Fundamentalism Shall We, Religion of Peace, I think NOT.

2010-01-10T01:38:00.003-07:00

This, is an Outrage---Trafficking of young Christian women, Egypt, who are Kidnapped, Raped, forced to convert AGAINST THEIR WILL, and never seeing their families again...worse, many of them are then 'forced organ donors', meaning, their organs are taken from them, Who knows,

how many of them are Dead.

And yet, Dare we, demand a woman to remove a full face veil for Identification purposes,

TALK ABOUT DOUBLE STANDARDS AND PREJUDICE!

Well, it's time to confront it, and its not just in Egypt the persecution of young women Because they are not Muslim is common place, but in Pakistan, India [persecution by Hindu extremists, so its not always Muslims] and in Algeria, Sudan, etc.

What gets me about this, is that here in America too, we see those same 'prejudices', by Feminists even, its 'cool' to slam Christianity, to do so under the veil of confronting fundamentalism--but the true goal is not to 'free women from fundamentalism' as much as its just to create hostility towards a faith. And its those who will keep silent in regards to some of the most horrid human right abuses To women--in Islam.

But I ask, What about those women, who are Not Muslim, maybe they are not Christian either, but they suffer horrible human right abuses, especially Rape--and yet, there is little to NO outrage here, among women or among so called 'women's right's on their behalf, Why is that?

Is it now One standard for Western women and another standard for Christian women overseas, does Human Rights for Women fall under some 'quota' as to where they are, whom they are, what kind of nation they live in, etc? Is 'faith' a requirement or Non-faith a requirement BEFORE ACTION AND OUTRAGE CAN BE TAKEN ON BEHALF OF THE PERSECUTED?

If so, then human rights and feminism is sheer HYPOCRISY.

It is for This reason, I am picking these issues Back up here, on WAMI,

because whether a woman is Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Pagan,

no group, has the God given 'right' to kidnap, rape, force convert, force marry, Any woman....there is NO license given by Any God to do so,

and those men and women who Do these things, I just want you to know,

if you continue in them, YOU will, one day, answer for your crimes...if not in this lifetime, on judgment day. That I do believe....

and the thing is, in every human being, unless they are so overtaken by EVIL, knows this is wrong..it is WRONG to commit such abuses to Any human, male or female. It goes contrary to Natural Law inside all of us---that is given to us, yes, by God.

For more about the kidnapping, rapes and forced conversions of young Christian women, see article here,

http://www.copts.com/english/?p=3667

and recent article in Washington Times on this.

More later,

Natasha

Continuing to Confront Misogyny While Working through My Faith

2010-01-02T01:12:00.002-07:00

Update...its been a long while since posting on this blog, thought it time for update. I've been writing more on my other blog, which has more to do with confronting sexism within Christian communities [or who claim Christian, some are clearly not--some are just deceived--as I once was] and working through well, just a lot of personal issues.

I still continue to also confront Islamic fundamentalism-oppression of women--but its NOT my 'only' focus now, because I do see how that same type of fundamentalist woman hate is in some sects of Christianity too--AS well as in the secular. I'm coming more to the conclusion that Dogma is Dogma, and well, some Dogma is worse because its dogma with a gun,

so to speak. While I do not believe we should ever underestimate the danger of political Islam--because we surely can't, on the other hand, where women are concerned, Islam is not the Only oppressive system--or oppression.

More and more I'm moving away from the 'group ISMs' and just confronting ISSUES in themselves, as well as confronting evil and the lack of love and mercy in our world. In humanity, along with dealing with my own sinful nature, per se--

a lot has changed in me since I first started this blog--I don't get As angry any more, that's a good thing, Christ has healed so much in me, but that doesn't mean that the issues, the horrors, still don't cause me anger or grief, they sure do, and fear,

as well as Guilt. You know, when we live in relative safe places [though we might not be safe within our intimate environment] there can be a type of survivor guilt--this is something I'm working with now, how sometimes we can focus also on issues to Avoid dealing with the demons in our own lives,

ON the other hand, we can become so wrapped up in 'our own lives' that we forsake all others,

but, I have been wondering about Why God allowed me to go through so many years of anger and rebellion--to bring me back to a place of repentance and healing, not perfection--no, I still sin--we are saved by His Grace, not our 'own efforts', but its a 'growth' process--that does not mean we aren't accountable to Him for our sins though or that we can just do as we please, etc., we are to Abide in Him, to abide in His Grace, its not cheap--it Cost Him something precious, we should never forget that,

Jesus Christ.

Anyway, I'm seeing how for me anyway, that maybe what God is doing with and through me, is actually reaching out to those who like me, in anger/brokenness get into the political--out of fear, resentment, maybe even that sense of indignation, but who are more harmful, being zealots...because you see, while being zealous to do good is honorable, Without Love, it is a breeding ground for evil. What we 'measure out' is measured back to us, what we judge, we are then judged,

there is no respecter of persons OR gender here where God is concerned.

But what I also learned, is that in a lot of raging against the injustices of the world, that often times, it comes from an Anger at God--life is unfair, why we know better than God, why doesn't God do anything, etc etc etc.,

and while we may rage, yell, protest, the thing is, what do we Really do, to minister to the needs of those who ARE hurting?

All the years, I raged, wrote, protested, Did I feed the hungry, clothe the poor, relieve the afflicted, give water to the thirsty, visit the prisoner, and Did I do these things in the Love of God?

Sometimes, but rarely, I did--you see, its way easier, to curse the darkness, to revolt, to rage,

its NOT so easy, to suffer, suffer in doing good in a world bent on evil. I'm learning some humbling, hard lessons, but I am glad--better to be corrected by God than to not be--and answer later,

anyway, I have another blog--I am listing it here today, as I am writing more there--my direction is changing...I still cover issues,

but it seems more and more, I want to go to more hands on relief--work,

as Christ changes me--well, it pours out. Not that the change is immediate or that I don't fall back into old habits--I do,

but, one thing, I never want to go back to being that woman again--because no matter how horrible this world is, I know, there IS an eternal--I know, that Jesus is Real, that He is Living, that He will one day, return...I know, He loves me,

and its His love, that has changed me--His kindness, that leads us to repentance--repentance is not just immediate--its a whole entire change,

an inside change. Not just external--though its not this la la land existence either, its NOT about religion,

its about Relationship.

That I am learning--and its not always Easy, no way, easy,

http://homesewersneedleworkersunion-hsnwu.blogspot.com/

More though, its about Love, and love isn't just some warm feeling or cliche or pretense--I still have a lot to learn,

but I'm getting there....one step, at a time.

I will sign this, under this blog's name, Natasha,

I use the name Jane, for janedoe, on my other blog...btw, neither are my real name. I used the pen names, to represent someone or something,

to be honest in some ways I'm a tad ashamed of this blog--so much hate and anger here, but I left it, because, well, it shows, what Christ can do, to a human heart...

probably more, than just 'talking' about it.

So, will return to this blog--or I'll just leave it, don't know yet, but you can follow me on the other,

peace, in Jesus Christ,

Natasha--or Jane

CHRISTIANS GOD NEVER SAID TO BE A 'WAR DOG'

2009-12-08T01:17:00.002-07:00

[see post below--this is in addition to]

lets begin here, take a look Western Women--at the Reality, of what the Women, Girls in Afghanistan live with, corrupted War Lords supported by OUR GOVERNMENT, and not just in Afghanistan, but in Iraq...and may I also say, the support of governments that are Notorious, for doing these same horrors, to Christian women [and the media is very quite about this real fact--such as the Christian women who are repeatedly raped in Pakistan, who are forced to carry human feces, as punishment, for being Christian--brutality isn't discriminatory--and its time, to confront it at its roots, of justifications, Patriarchy and Misogyny under Theocracy AND religion. I say this, as a Christian--who does NOT believe, MEN ARE SUPERIOR TO WOMEN and have these ENTITLEMENTS TO ABUSE WOMEN, BE IT THEIR WIVES OR OTHER WOMEN. I will be writing on the horrors that Christian women, in Iraq and Pakistan, India, have been suffering, silently, the horrid thing is, even the Muslim women in these areas and Hindu women, do not support the poorest of the poor in these countries--the Christians, because they are deemed 'infidels' and the women/girls are raped and brutalized with impunity and without any empathy even from the women in those countries, I do wonder though, if that may be contributed to the fact that IF these Muslim women lifted a finger, those who are not 'oppressors' themselves, would pay a high price, in the misogynist societies, and point being, we, Women, have got to stop Pandering to ALL MISOGYNY, and the 'excuses' and the sticking our heads in sand, at the abuses of women, children, its that simple, because to not confront Violence and Evil, is to give your 'o.k.' to it. And it only furthers the world of misogyny, violence, power and abuse of power, war, child abuse, discrimination, Sharia laws and religious cults and spiritual abuses, etc. Either we stand for justice, peace, equality, love, LOVE, OR WE DON'T,

YOU CAN'T SUPPORT VIOLENCE, EVIL AND LOVE AT THE SAME TABLE--it just don't wash. And if God is merciful, to ALL OF US SINNERS, do we NOT then, have a DUTY, TO BE MERCIFUL OURSELVES?

see:

LEGALIZING RAPE [THIS IS ALSO IN IRAN, AND THERE ARE CHRISTIAN MISOGYNIST THUGS IN AMERICA WHO SUPPORT THIS SAME GARBAGE]

More on the reason why 'switching' fundamentalism is not the 'answer' to the plight of women--and why, any who truly are for elevating the status AND safety AND welfare of Women--need to stop supporting the 'lip service' promises that are just as misogynist as the other, who kill and butcher and rape girls and women and young boys, with as much hatred and zeal and religious 'justifications' or 'materialist' justifications--why they are really, just the same, Boys joined at the Loins club, using Might and Power--to brutalize and oppress,

BECAUSE THEY CAN.

More on why WAR escalation in Afghanistan--simply switching power from one misogynist reactionary thug group to another, in NO WAY, LIBERATES WOMEN...and we, are FED UP, with Women's Rights, being used as 'THE LIE' to prop up, more despots for greed, 'trade' and oil and arms.

see: http://www.rawa.org/rawa/2009/12/06/not-all-feminists-love-escalation-in-afghanistan.html
[note: I would think, the women on the ground there, the poor who are 'not protected by the Drug and Extortion monies, would know far more, about the Reality, of the 'lack of liberation for women' than MEN and the Parrot women in the West, who support this war front. I see the photos and I think--they are our sisters, our daughters, our mothers, they are US---women, and as a woman, I, can not wrap my mind, around supporting one more 'boys club' and THE WAR DOGS who not only turn a blind eye to these horrors, but who make 'wealth' and 'Power' via supporting these War Lords, I don't care 'who' they are OR WHAT GOD THEY CLAIM. Women, its time, to say, NO MORE--ENOUGH, NO MORE WAR, NO MORE EXCUSES FOR RAPE, MISOGYNY, POVERTY, WAR

NO MORE. This, is not about fighting for Freedom, it would be one thing if it was, but any one with any Thinking sense, can see the hundreds of photos, of the children, the women, the girls who have torched themselves in Desperation to flee the violence and the misogyny that goes on with impunity, to not see, that something is terribly wrong, with the picture and the so called 'claims of democracy'. Democracy for Who, I ask? MEN WHO RAPE KIDS?

NO MORE---ITS

EVIL----and I, will not support it, I hope, neither do you. And, yes, the Taliban are evil, granted, but you know,

TWO EVILS, DON'T MAKE A RIGHT.

Not all feminists love escalation in Afghanistan
Maybe RAWA and its allies would have a better shot at power if the occupation wasn’t shoveling billions of dollars to the most reactionary elements in society.

Dana Goldstein has a piece called "Why Feminists Love the Surge" in the Daily Beast. Her prime example is Eleanor Smeal, founder of the Feminist Majority Foundation, which has advocating for women and girls in Afghanistan since 1996. Smeal believes that long-term U.S. military occupation is the only way to save women and girls from the horrors of another Taliban-style regime.

Yet, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), the nation's oldest and most illustrious feminist group, opposes the U.S. occupation. RAWA argues that the real enemy of women's rights in Afghanistan is religious fundamentalism, not the Taliban, per se.

RAWA sees the U.S. occupation entrenching a regime stuffed to the gills with fundamentalists, reactionaries, misogynists, criminals, and warlords. As the group says on its website:

The US "War on terrorism" removed the Taliban regime in October 2001, but it has not removed religious fundamentalism which is the main cause of all our miseries. In fact, by reinstalling the warlords in power in Afghanistan, the US administration is replacing one fundamentalist regime with another. The US government and Mr. Karzai mostly rely on Northern Alliance criminal leaders who are as brutal and misogynist as the Taliban.

RAWA believes that freedom and democracy can’t be donated; it is the duty of the people of a country to fight and achieve these values. Under the US-supported government, the sworn enemies of human rights, democracy and secularism have gripped their claws over our country and attempt to restore their religious fascism on our people.

At feministe, Frau Sally Benz links to an interview with a RAWA spokeswoman known only by the pseudonym "Zoya." Zoya's on a speaking tour, but her face is blurred out for her own safety. Even in occupied Afghanistan, it's dangerous for women to speak out.

Westerners usually frame the debate over U.S./NATO policy in Afghanistan is usually framed as a choice between handing the country back to the Taliban or propping up the Karzai regime. The latter is assumed to be a dramatically better option for women's rights.

Karzai pays lip service to women's rights, but jettisons them whenever they need to make a compromise to stay in power. It should be noted that the Karzai government was responsible for the infamous Shia Family Law which legalized marital rape within Shia marriages.

Last month, Malalai Joya, a former member of the Afghan parliament, told Michelle Goldberg of the Daily Beast that the situation for Afghan women is every bit as bad under Karzai as it was under the Taliban. Joya is also concerned that civilian casualties are fueling popular support for the Taliban.

RAWA and its grassroots allies think that pro-democracy forces could transform the country on their own without U.S. military occupation. That's a point of view we seldom hear in U.S. media.

I don't know how realistic it is to think that pro-democracy forces could prevail against warlords and the Taliban, but the question hasn't gotten nearly as much attention as the issue of whether the U.S. could force reform at gunpoint. Maybe RAWA and its allies would have a better shot at power if the occupation wasn't shoveling billions of dollars to the most reactionary elements in society.

Category: English, RAWA in Media

coming later, the other side of misogyny, the rapes, oppression, brutality against Christian women, in nations, that oppress their women [the beauty of the male hierarchy eh] that we Don't hear about....because, if we are going to confront violence against women, THEN IT HAS TO BE, FOR ALL WOMEN, not just Muslim women or Christian women or Secular women, but ALL WOMEN,

or our 'cries' will go unheard by God, who IS NO RESPECTER, OF PERSONS.

Natasha

NO TO WAR IN AFGHANISTAN, NO MORE TROOPS

2009-12-07T14:11:00.000-07:00

I am, today, livid...actually, I'm livid quite a lot of the time, Why? Because, I live in a nation where numerous 'churches' in the name of God, support a system, a government, that is all in love with War--using 'moral reasoning's' that are really just BOGUS,

to support, Wealth, but not only supporting wealth but more often than not, to clean up their MESSES they made when they propped up the despots in THE FIRST DAMN PLACE, such as the Taliban [we so forget that it was the United States that kissed the asses of Taliban to fight the Communists back during the butcher Reagan years],

not only that, but we forget, that the majority of murderers on the planes of 9-11 were from Saudi, yet our president kisses the hand of the king of Saudi, a nation that just prior refused the divorce of AN 8 YEAR OLD GIRL, for crying out loud, 8 years old, child RAPE, CHILD ABUSE, and here we have leaders who kiss their hands--so much for Democracy and Human Rights [its all lip service],

and now more troops to Afghanistan. I tend to not talk much on these issues with other Christians because I find that they get offended easily--not because they are malicious as much as they, like numerous other Americans, have been 'mislead' through centuries of 'moral reasoning HYPE that America is so good at and its not that America has Always been wrong, no, but since WWII [after] it seems, that America in my opinion, has gone down the tubes as far as 'morals' is concerned, real morals because it became all about Empire and Money. Now, that was going on prior to WWII, and WWI, but, it seems that across the board, culturally, we became a nation that 'spewed Godliness' on the surface but our real love, our real 'god' was $$$$, during the 50s, and it just grew from bad to worse. Now, its about OIL, about Corporations, about Capitalism, about Empire, about protecting the world's elite and that includes political Islam,

and who pays?

WOMEN, CHILDREN, that is who. Since the war in Afghanistan, they have done more, to PROTECT RAPISTS, and they have thrown women and children under the bus, same with Iraq. What is even more infuriating is the hero worship we have in this country [or flat out denial and prosecution] of raping thugs in our own military, who rape not only Civilians but hell, they rape OUR OWN WOMEN, in the Armed Services--with IMPUNITY AND PROTECTION.

What peeves me the most, is to hear Women, support this shit. I believe, and am convinced, it is just the manifestation of geo-political Racism, American exceptionalism and Idolatry, as well as this pious religious 'hypocrisy' that the West has become notorious for. [not to fret, the hypocrisy runs just as rampant in left politics and in Islam and other religions, I blame, the patriarchy on that one].

Anyway, the conditions for women and children in Afghanistan [other than the corrupt RICH] have deteriorated and it will only get worse with the addition of more troops. They won't even prosecute these war lords who daily gang rape girls...yet, they'll protect the courts who punish 10 year old girls for running away from their 'old man rapist pedophile husband' that she has been, against her will, SOLD TO,

its infuriating, to say the least, it is A MORAL INJUSTICE, A PERVERSION OF GOD'S LAWS AND AN OUTRAGE...

I do believe there is a HELL--where many RAPISTS AND THEIR SUPPORTERS WILL GO TO FOR ETERNITY--

A report from Human Rights Watch says,

The already dire plight of women in Afghanistan risks deteriorating further as the US and its allies take steps to turn around the war against the Taliban, according to a report by Human Rights Watch today.

Eight years after the Taliban were ousted from power, rapists are often protected from prosecution, women can still be arrested for running away from home, and girls have far less access to schools than boys, the report says.

see rest of report here:

http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2009/12/07/plight-of-afghan-women-may-worsen-as-war-effort-is-stepped-up-warns-report.html

when I go to church or read a Christian bulletin or hear some one on Christian radio, brag and talk about how 'moral' we are, to send troops,

I want to scream, SCREAM---TELL THAT, TO THIS GIRL, AND BE SURE TO TELL HER, HOW MUCH GOD LOVES HER, IN YOUR SO CALLED 'AMERICAN' WAY

...

RAWA: Samia, a 14-year-old Afghan girl victim of gang-rape by warlords in Sar-e-Pul province in Northern Afghanistan. She told to an Afghan TV Channel on November 24, 2009, that the warlords not only raped but also imprisoned her father and brother when they publicized the issue and asked for justice.

[God help us, because mark my words, and the Bible is very clear on this, this nation, is one day, going to fall hard, and what has happened with impunity to Women and Girls in these countries, while we've lived fat off the land and with insensitivity, it will happen to Women and Girls here--mark my words on that one, the Babylon, of today, America, WILL FALL, one day, mark my words on that one, God is JUST--you do NOT oppress, civilians, AND NOT PAY THE REAPER ONE DAY. What peeves me the most, is the down right INDIFFERENCE of not just men but So many Women here, who 'claim' God...its just, enough to make one want to puke. Now, that in NO WAY means, I support or give voice to the Muslims who want Sharia law and who lie and abuse women, condone slavery, I do not, I am not a CULTURAL RELATIVIST, and I have a long history of slamming leftists, including when I was a communist, for that garbage--I hate the betrayals to women on all fronts, period. But, the thing is, one would Expect more, from those who profess Christ, who profess Grace, Forgiveness, Love, and when I see and/or hear, Christians, who as SINNERS celebrate or are indifferent to the rapes and horrors done to women, civilians, to other peoples, it MAKES ME ANGRY, and I know, enough reading the Word of God, it makes God angry too. What is more, is when I see/hear/read Christian women, being apathetic, even making 'excuses' for American boys, who do this garbage, I say, throw their asses in jail, and hang them out to dry--there is NO excuse, for rape, abuse, torture, of civilians and women, etc., children, there is NO excuse for kissing the hands of butchers and child butchers---and surely, not in the name of Democracy, and most definitely not, in the Name of God.]

For this reason, I don't support the wars in either Iraq or Afghanistan, one, they haven't done anything to curb terrorism, hell we got more threats now than prior to 9-11, if they were so concerned about terrorism, then they would one, stop pandering and kissing the asses of Sharia Proponents and that includes their 'banking', they would stop tolerating 'excuses' for abuses under Cultural Relativism [that goes for the far left-left too, they are hypocrites of the worst kind, anti-religion but not anti-theocracy and to hell with women, their equality is Useless argument on me],

they leave us wide open, not only that, especially in Europe, are more and more, giving way to Sharia laws while sacrificing the people, citizens and their own Constitutions, why worry about terrorism when your government is practically handing over your nation-state to the Islamists who are just like Taliban--and doing so, with YOUR TAX DOLLARS????? Sort of moronic, don't you think?

Meanwhile, the poverty 'recruitment' for the military goes on, women are raped with impunity, both civilians, children AND armed forces women, with nothing but lip service, the drug lords are in full power, the rape-war lords rule with impunity, the gap between the 'rich' and 'the poor' is so wide in those nations its not even funny, makes the French Revolution look tame in comparison,

and the rich, are laughing all the way to the bank--with the Religious folks, holding up the glasses of cheer....because hey, its all about 'our security', right?

Right...yea, like, whatever,

meanwhile, more girls today, will be gang raped while the war lords are catered to by none other than the US government. But hey, God will just continue to 'wink, wink' at America, Right?

[read the Bible, Ezekiel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Malachi, etc., for the answer to that one, read Amos--because judgment, one day, will be coming, to America, you can count on it.]

Solidarity,

Jane

FREE RIFQA BARY USA NO SHARIA LAW HERE!

2009-12-06T00:21:00.000-07:00

URGENT PRAYER AND ACTION ALERT, URGENT PRAYER AND ACTION ALERT

from Women in Islam, http://thewomenofislam.blogspot.com/

Rifqa Bary In Solitary Confinement
The vise is tightening further on Rifqa Bary, the teenage girl who converted to Christianity from Islam and then fled to Florida from her Ohio home in fear for her life. Now she is in foster care in Ohio, in imminent danger of being returned to her family, and the Ohio authorities, at the command of the Barys’ lawyer, continue to isolate her.

Rifqa Bary has been in Ohio for well over a month and still there is no “approved visitation” list of friends who are allowed to see her. How can this be? How can it be that friends who request a visit, and whom Rifqa requests to visit, are repeatedly told that “there is no approved visitation list”? Is it not the very mission by objective of children’s services to protect the health and welfare of a child? Why has this one child in particular been denied visits from friends?

Rifqa has also been deprived of access to the phone and Internet. She has also been denied “pastoral guidance.” Convicts, murderers, rapists, and pedophiles all have access to “pastoral guidance.” Rifqa’s close friend and fellow ex-Muslim, Christian pastor Jamal Jivanjee, explains: “If you are incarcerated in an American prison today, you have the right to have a visit from a Pastor. Rifqa Bary does not have this most basic right that most criminals have today.” Is that how powerful and influential Islamic supremacists have become in the state of Ohio -- that one young girl is starved of spiritual nourishment so as not to insult Islam?

WHAT YOU CAN DO

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/11/merry-christmas-rifqa.html

see story here as well: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34612

SHARIA LAW IN AMERICA? OH, YOU BET.....OHIO--FREE RIFQA, WE ARE NOT A 'SHARIA' COUNTRY, RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, IS JUST THAT--

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE, THIS IS A HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE, AND ITS A WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE.

Questioning Christianity Part II

2009-11-16T08:22:00.004-07:00

Greetings all,

since my last post, I've been going through this 'skeptical' period, for various reasons, and I wanted to give you an update.

I went back to the Scriptures and went to the book of Luke. Then I read Amos. [again] And I came to these conclusions:

1. Its not the scriptures but the 'abuse of scriptures' by men, by institutions, by 'religions' [referring to Christianity here] and the 'influence' of those abuses, that have been spewed for Centuries, have a negative influence, even on one who may not have read the Bible, and do so for the first time, because those 'indoctrinations', false ones I may add, condition us to see through a certain patriarchal 'lens'. Its only when you take the Bible apart, and read it, section by section, and read the entire context--rather than take out, that you see, a very different meaning.

2. Where there is the most abuse of scriptures and especially in 'cult-like' churches that are extremely patriarchal, there is also, an emphasis on Idolatry, love of money or striving for success, and a deeply rooted prejudice against the 'underclass', or those who are 'different'. In other words, the emphasis will always be first, the entitlement to 'subjugate' women, and then, the 'entitlement' to 'have' and if at the expense of others, there will always be 'justifications' along the line of 'us verses them'.

3. The patriarchal churches [or cults, fertility cults] will also gloss over numerous scriptures and 'focus' on the same ones, out of context, over and over and over and over, also, there tends to be a lot of 'money making' ministries that will also utilize the 'misery' that is caused by those teachings, meanwhile, it becomes nothing more than an industry of oppression [subtle] and 'profit off of misery'.

So, what is the answer then, write off Christianity?

Well, I thought about it, I wrestled with it, I even questioned my faith and if there truly was a God or if Jesus existed, I questioned if Jesus only died for 'men'. I even watched a video [by Muslims] that took many scriptures and portrayed the faith as the most misogynist...

but then, I went, and looked at every scripture they used--sure enough--they were taken way out of context and not only that, they were taken way out of the meaning completely,

like, ones that are often pulled from the Old Testament. There is one, that is used a lot, the statements made by Solomon. But if you go back, and read the entire books of Solomon And Proverbs, you will see that what he is saying, is

not that there isn't good women--or that women are inferior, but that, Men tend to have these 'expectations' of this perfect 'fantasy' woman [sounds familiar with men to day] and that, there IS NO SUCH THING,

and Solomon would know, he had like over 500 wives and concubines. This was a man who wanted wisdom, who wanted to find the best that life had to offer, and he found, in the end [the book of Eccl] that all that was worth living for, was a relationship with God and to live a good life, meaning, doing 'good' to others, rather than living for 'gratifying self'.

See you have to be careful with a lot of scriptures because its so easy, to construe a wrong meaning--that is why, the Word is Spirit, and Truth, not literal, 'carnal nature' of man, because we see things, from a very negative and sinful view. [our carnal nature]

Many [not all, but the good ones are very few these days] churches [women haters] will yes, use those scriptures to 'back up their misogyny', but they will completely omit, the hundreds of Other scriptures, where God reveals His Love for women. One book, is Proverbs, in fact, I believe Proverbs was written in a lot of ways, for Women...because Proverbs goes into a lot of wisdom, in how to 'avoid' the wrathful man, such as, beware of those who flatter with words and gifts. [good advice, how many of us know That lesson]

Also, in Proverbs, there is a very similar scripture, like in Eccl, that says, 'who can find a righteous man'?. Not to mention, Wisdom, is called SHE, several times, in the Bible.

When I read Amos, I saw how God hates several things [and will not turn back punishment for either]

1. ethnic cleansing, especially by raping women
2. wealth at the expense of the poor, and if you really read the Bible, the 'greed' of capitalism is no way, supported by Scripture, anywhere.
3. cities and fortresses at the expense of the poor and weak, and on blood [violence]
4. violence, including, gloating over the violence [or taking part in] the plundering of another [and not letting go of anger--meaning, generational revenge, is a big NO NO as far as God is concerned].

There are several other scriptures I found, where God slayed men, Men WHO RAPED women, who cut up women--God hates it. No ands, ifs, ors, buts about it, He hates the oppression of the weak,

in the New Testament, Jesus was very blunt, about the punishment and how God views 'child abuse', that would include forced child marriages, abusing girl children, etc.,

He said, 'it would be better for them [the abuser] to have a millstone tied around their neck and thrown into the sea', and that 'their angels are always before the Face of God, reporting, on how children are treated.'

But what is also neat, about Solomon, was the story about Queen of Sheba, I read that one, and the Lord spoke through Solomon to her, She saw, how even Solomon's servants, were dressed like kings and how they lived and she was impressed,

Solomon treated her with the utmost respect, not once was she bridled for being wise or for being a 'female ruler', and Solomon's kingdom, [apart from the harems] was representative in many ways of God's Heavenly Kingdom--how women AND servants are treated,

Jesus always said, the 'last will be first, the least first, etc.', meaning, the 'hierarchy' of POWER that we value in our world, is not going to be in Heaven,

Jesus said, the greatest in Heaven is the servant here on earth--meaning, that those who have Power and status here, aren't going to be that in Heaven, because Heaven plays by a whole different set of rules--the rules of Love,

not Power, not Hierarchy [other than God and Jesus and the Angels, there is hierarchy but NOT the kind of hierarchy we have on earth], and there IS no abuse of power there.

In Acts, the first 'true' church, was in fact, communal, they distributed among themselves so that NO one was in need---and this is stressed through out the Entire New Testament.

What we have today, in the West, is so far from scripture its not even funny--I say the West because in nations where Christianity is a persecuted faith, the churches there tend to be far more along the ways and behaviors of the early church [Biblical]. Though they may still be patriarchal and misogynist, depending on the 'culture' norms and those are being challenged in many countries [a lot due to necessity for survival].

Maybe that is what it takes though--trial by fire--to purge the power and the greed and the 'sexism' from many a church, it does weed out the chaff from the wheat.

Anyway, so going back to scriptures, I found, that the problem, at least for me, was attempting to 'find' Christ in many churches, when in fact, I found the opposite, I found, a facade, a 'religion' that really, is not that different from the sexism and racism and classism that is in the world,

which leaves me to question then, How much, of the 'culture' of the world, has polluted the church? Well, the Bible says, in the end days, the church would go 'apostate',

and only a 'remnant' would be saved.

So what to do then,

well, after a long struggle, prayer, and self-reflection, I went back, and looked through, many of the 'issues' I used to be so passionate about and it dawned on me, Why was I giving those up? Why was I trying to fit into some 'American Christian mold' and become this woman, that I clearly am not? Was God really the one telling me to become this woman,

or was it 'conditioning'?

So back to the Bible and when I read Luke, then I saw it...the story of Mary, Jesus's mother, the story of Elisabeth, and the story of Anna, the Prophetess. All three of these women, praised God, for His help to them, in a very intimate way,

Mary, said, God was Her Savior [not her husband, like what many patriarchs teach]
Elisabeth said, God removed her reproach [shame] among men, because in those days, a woman's worth was only if she could produce a son...women had no 'societal' worth then, but to God, women had worth, just for being her human self. [and there are numerous scriptures to show this]
Anna, who prayed night and day, prophesied, to Mary and Joseph, [so much for the women don't have any role in the church that misogynists spew today].

Then there is the way, gentle and loving way Jesus treated women--and how God heals women, in the most intimate of ways too, those ways that 'men' deem as unclean, inferior, a curse,

the woman with the bleeding non-stop, whom Jesus healed. Jesus didn't rebuke her, and then, the woman caught in adultery, Jesus didn't condemn her, He only said, sin no more.

The men did though, they tried to stone her, but Jesus said, 'who of you that has no sin, throw the first stone'...then the Bible says, Jesus was writing in the dirt,

made me think, was He writing the Ten Commandments, like He did when He carved them on stone? [the Lord God]

Anyway, after reading Luke, I knew then...what I had to do.

I had to trust in God, and sift through, or dump, the 'wrong teachings', the 'cult indoctrinations that yes, many are taking over many churches' and well, if it means, going it alone--so be it,

and living the Life, in the Micro, because I can't do anything about the Macro. I can do my part--but we can't change it. WE, after all, are not 'gods', we're just clay.

So I'm back, working on ethical consumption, back recycling, being green, back to working in advocacy and one on one with the homeless and poor, back doing the things, I believe in,

and fighting for women's human rights and children's rights. And let me just say,

its good, to be back to my 'good' self again--maybe that is what it means, when it says, Jesus restores to us our soul.

I may not be 'mainstream' Christianity--but that's o.k., because maybe, mainstream, is not the good way--didn't Jesus say, the road to hell is wide, the gates to destruction many go through,

the way to God, is narrow,

and I do believe, that narrow way, is the way of Love [not hedonist love or tolerant to sin love, but Love that seeks the good of others]. Jesus said, I am the Way, the Truth, the Life, NO man-woman, comes to God-Heaven but through ME.

Living the Way, living the Truth, and living the Life--in Christ,

it ain't the 'church', and its not 'easy' either [and He did say, it wouldn't be], especially because, you find yourself, going against the grain,

there is a good web site, I like, that deals with confronting the misogyny in the churches,

I will close, leaving it here.

Peace, Solidarity in Christ,

http://dannimoss.wordpress.com/about/

There ARE people, Christians, who are confronting the 'false' teachings and the abuses in the modern day churches...there are also, what they call, egalitarians,

so God is working.

So while I may be going against the 'grain', I find, I am not going against the grain, alone...

and that's a good thing, to Praise the Lord about. So, I'm sticking to my faith--just weeding out, the chaff,

while the Lord, does the same, in working in me. [and there is a lot of chaff still, that needs to go I might add, but He's not done with me yet!]

Peace

Questioning Christianity

2009-10-31T09:13:00.004-06:00

Well, in my journey, search,

I am dumping 'church'. There is more similarities between today's FACADE and CULTIC CHRISTIANITY with ISLAM, than I thought...

while I have seen the true nature of God in some jewels of the Bible in regards to women, I can not ignore the REALITY of OPPRESSION, BRUTAL MISOGYNY, that yes, is SUPPORTED BY SCRIPTURES.

Scriptures taken literally--I have thus far concluded, that UNLESS one takes the entire Bible, seriously, and FEARS GOD, FEARS PUNISHMENT FOR
BEING

CRUEL AND UNLOVING

that includes YES, TO YOU MEN...LOVE BEGINS IN THE HOME,

then patriarchy and misogyny will go on.

The TRUTH IS,

misogyny has roots in ALL RELIGIONS, so, until we confront them--and all religions INCLUDES PHILOSOPHY, YES, A LOT OF 'FEMINIST' PHILOSOPHY AND YES, PAGANISM THAT IS MORE WOMAN CENTERED--MISOGYNY HAS ALWAYS BEEN AROUND SINCE THE FALL--THE ROOT,

but, in the history of CHRISTIANITY, misogyny has been PROTECTED AND SANCTIONED UNDER 'GOD' AND STILL IS TODAY IN WHAT I WILL CALL--CULTS [ I would go as far to include many of the mainstream churches]. NOTE: JESUS SAID TO ASK, SEEK, KNOCK--READ ALL BIBLE FOR YOURSELF, RATHER THAN DEPEND ON WHAT MEN SAY, ITS SAFER.

the spiritual abuse and misogynist abuse [including rapes with impunity] JUST CAN'T BE IGNORED,

we can poke at Islam all we want--but the SAME BELIEFS, ARE YES, IN THE 'RELIGION' OF CHRISTIANITY,

the question is, then, what to do about them?

I don't believe the answer is in man centered philosophies or those by women but that once you peel the layers away have just as much or more hate for 'woman', womb.

I believe, maybe the answer is more on the MICRO LEVEL, that we love--overcome evil with good. And maybe, that is what the Bible really was telling us,

anyway...where I'm at now.

Back from a Long, Long Blogging Vacation!

2009-10-10T14:01:00.002-06:00

I'm back,

after a very, very long 'blogging' vacation' or rather, a leave of absense. I had, on numerous occasions, debated whether to just completely 'delete' my blogs and just be done with all of it,

the writing, activism,

and just return to the shelter of domesticality.

Its been a struggle...a Spiritual struggle, more than anything because, loe and behold, when I first started seeking answers, from God, I had sought answers to my 'complaints' of 'injustices' and especially those towards women.

Of course, you see, when the Holy Spirit gets a hold of a person, He does reveal His love, to you, but, then comes, the real messy stuff,

He reveals, the ugly stuff, sin, the nastiness, of yourself.

Oh yea, then, your entire perceptions and long held beliefs get Entirely turned upside down, when you realize,

that, YOU, the judge and juror,

are the one, being Judged, by a Holy God, by His standards and His laws,

then, its a different ballgame. Then, its not so much, you victim, the world the wrong one...that includes, yes, Men. Oh yea,

ugly little truth that we like to not see, but truth nethertheless. And guarantee you, it is the same for any Man who gets Real and Honest before a Holy God and sees himself in God's light, not in his own 'male entitlement' light,

God's ways are not our ways nor His thoughts our thoughts. But God is just,

and God is kind. And in His loving Grace and Kindness, through the Redemption in Jesus Christ, and ONLY through Jesus Christ,

does He begin to not only Show us our true state, but He begins to work in our hearts, to restore our souls, and to give back, what the locusts have eaten....

He shows you, if you truly SUBMIT to His Lordship, what LOVE really is...not just Love for Him, but Love for others, both men AND women. God is no respector of persons [Acts10:34],

what He requires of men He requires of women and vice versa.

The 'traditions' of the world and religions and of patriarchs, may have some parts of scripture woven in, but they are hardly, the Truth of God. NOR do they portray the TRUE CHARACTER OF GOD,

in fact, many of them, are down right BLASPHEMOUS.

God is, I have found, NOT A MISOGYNIST,

NOR DOES HE, APPROVE, OR CONDONE, THE MISTREATMENT OF WOMEN, IN ANY FORM, MANNER, WAY, OR MEANS.

AND God will, repay, all those who harm girls, women, children....be ASSURED OF THAT.

Any teaching, that condones or allows the mistreatment, rape, kidnapping, abuse of women, is NOT of God,

ITS FROM THE PITS OF HELL--OF SATAN,

period. That is the Bible...there IS no getting around it, you either believe it, or you don't.

Many have taken the 'submission' scriptures and have twisted them to not just enable abuse of women but to indoctrinate women to tolerate abuse or to accept it as God's assignment for them, but through months of prayer and studying and seeking God's Perfect Will, I have been seeing, through the Holy Spirit, how the warped sinful nature of man, has twisted, scripture, for their own selfish agendas. Women can do this too...anyone can, that is what it means, to

mold 'gods' in our own image.

But, in saying this, let me stress this, because it is of Vital Importance,

while God in His Loving Character does in no way Abuse or Condone the Abuse of Women, or of anyone for that fact,

He doesn't allow us, to 'pay back' or to 'revile' or to 'hate' or to 'overthrow'....contrary to what many have espoused, even using scriptures,

but God commands us, to submit and to learn

OBEDIENCE.

NOT to men, but to GOD.

God, is looking for, obedience, because the first sin...committed by BOTH Adam and Eve, not just Eve as the 'liars' like to say,

is that of

DISOBEDIENCE to GOD.

Now, before your head pops off in rage...because in a world where authority is so abused by Evil and Wicked men,

what God wants for Obedience, isn't from this nature of a Tyrant, Abusive, Misogynist God,

hardly, but from a Loving Father [and yes, a Loving Mother, because God is Spirit, He isn't a man, He clearly states so in His Word...and He has both male-female character and reveals himself-herself as both...not as a 'goddess' no, but as God, the Trinity, God, reveals Herself--Himself, but as Her, when He refers to 'She' as Wisdom...Proverbs, written by Solomon, but Proverbs is more a book for women, and to the powerless, in a world consumed by the ambition of abuse and power. There are many 'jewels' for women in the Bible, that are so overlooked by the Mainstream 'church' that its not even funny...

and I will begin to share them here, because one thing I have found in my journey, is that Jesus, is a feminist's best friend,

a woman's best friend.

I would rather Jesus be my defense now, because I KNOW, one day, He is, going to make all those who willfully and in their refusal to come to Him, who abuse women and even more so, who abuse children--women included here, --to give account, and trust me, it is a Fearful thing, to fall into the hands, of a Holy Lord and Holy God. God will forgive, if we repent,

but for those who Refuse to Repent,

repent mean turning away and letting Christ transform them, its more than just 'believing' He exists,

well, ain't nothing going to save them, put it that way. Because 'no flesh' will be justified in the sight of God, period.

All have sinned, All have fallen short of the glory of God [Romans, read entire book]

Well, anyway, so, in this journey, God has been doing a lot of work, in Me, in my life, and its not been a 'fun' journey, my sins and iniquities are piled so high that without God's grace through Jesus, I'd be damned, to eternal hell. Let me really state that to you all and make that Very clear,

and well, that's everyone, and if you don't believe that, just ask God, to reveal it to you...go to His light, and He'll show you.

That is what Redemption is, not of our 'works' lest any man/woman should boast, don't matter How much you pray a day, don't matter How much you fast, don't matter How much you chant or How much you are 'religious' or How much you go to church or How much you don't drink or sleep around,

if you ever lusted in your heart--you've sinned against God, if you've ever hated anyone in your heart--you've sinned against God, if you've ever had one evil thought or pride thought, of your own righteousness--you've sinned against God, if you've ever 'judged' anyone--you've sinned against God...

ONLY through the accepting of God's gift, Grace--the Blood Redemption work of His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, are we saved, from Hell,

period.

Believe me, as God has ripped open the 'veil' off my eyes and has shown me the depths of the base sinful nature and I have tried to rid myself of that nature, that nature has gotten stronger and that is what is 'sin',

its a 'law', a spiritual law, because NO one will be 'gods' except God. Any attempt to force oneself into Heaven by their own 'righteousness' is that pride nature--of Satan, that 'I will be god',

the thing is, though, its Soooooo deceptive, because it can look sooooooo good.

That is what the tree of knowledge of 'good and evil' is, that fruit,

totally opposite from that Tree of LIFE.

And the amazing thing is, as God has shown me my true 'fallen' nature self [not the self that He created me to be, before the fall--He is showing that to me now and that is what it means, when David says, that He restores our soul],

is that He has been showing me, how He truly sees and LOVES women.

And its not, what so many think.

Its not about 'gender roles' as the super-patriarchs like to pro-claim. Those are the rudiments and traditions of MEN,

not the commands of God.

NOT that God didn't command, under the old covenant and the new covenant, gender rules, He did, but NOT for the reasons, often proclaimed, and not in the 'way' they are often, proclaimed. But because of SIN,

there is, yes, in THIS WORLD, a hierarchy, not designed by God, but the result of Sin...disobedience to God,

that wanting 'independence' from God.

The thing is though, we weren't created, to be 'independent' from God, we were created, For God,

this is a hard one to swallow, and that is because of our sinful natures, what Paul calls the Carnal man, our carnal nature can't grasp this, because our carnal nature, is that fallen nature.

But now, here's the Beauty, of being created, For God's pleasure,

that I have been finding,

God is LOVE.

That is right, LOVE,

we were created for LOVE's pleasure.

think about it...that includes both men and women.

Not for hate, not for abuse, not for tyranny, not for fear, not for oppression, not for slavery,

but for Love.

That is Why, Heaven is Paradise, in God's Holy Presence,

because hate isn't allowed there, of ANY KIND,

God is no respector of persons.

That means, MISOGYNY, ISN'T ALLOWED IN HEAVEN EITHER...NOR WILL MISOGYNISTS, GO TO HEAVEN.

Haters and murder's [who don't repent] won't get into Heaven, nor will sorcerers or liars or those who love the lie.

That lie, btw, is the 'religious' lie...the 'philosophical' lie, the 'political' lie, that 'I am righteous' and don't need Christ's redemption and lordship Lie.

And here's the awesome thing about Christ's Lordship,

He didn't come to rule as a tyrant,

but He came, to SERVE AND TO BE OBEDIENT UNTO DEATH.

God, Himself, reconciled both Men AND Women, to Himself,

sinful, disobedient, self-serving, hating, murdering, stealing, disrespectful, misogynist, child butchering, raping, proud, stubborn, human beings,

who worship the works of their hands, the things of the earth [that God created] yet,

refuse to Love and Submit to God...

God, in His perfect Holiness and LOVE,

showed His true Character, in Jesus Christ,

and His Love, for Women, Elderly, the Sick, the Demon Possessed,

and He, shed His own blood, endured torture, at the hands of the very ones He created,

so He

could

Save Them.

All they have to do, is come to Him, admit their sins, receive Him, and let Him, change their hearts and spirits.

Wow, what AN AWESOME GOD....

the world thrives on strength and power and abuse and hierarchies and hate,

and Jesus, showed us, leaving HIS place of All POWER AND AUTHORITY, TO COME DOWN IN FLESH..THE WORD MADE FLESH,

AND PUTTING UP, WITH THE HATE OF THOSE WHO REJECTED HIM,

IN HIS LOVE,

TOWARDS US,

TO RECONCILE US TO HIM, because there is no way, we can 'undo' our sins...no way,

and He knew it. And there is no way, we can fulfill the righteousness of the law that GOD requires,

in perfection,

so, He exchanged our sinfulness for His righteousness, what that means is, HE, in us, works to transform us, into His righteousness.

Know what 'righteousness' is?

Its doing, right,

its doing right, to Love God and to Love your neighbor as yourself, neighbor,

not just men, not just women, not just children, not just the rich, not just the poor,

but, to your neighbor.

IF you LOVE,

you don't curse, you don't hit, you don't intimidate, you don't kill, you don't rape, you don't torture, you don't insist on your way, you don't talk hateful, you don't lie and break hope and trust in people, you don't do those things,

because when we LOVE we don't do those things.

To the ones who love us, or to the ones who hate us.

That, summing it up, is obedience,

not easily done, in a world where abuse is rewarded, where wickedness thrives,

but like in Job, chapters 32-36 [read entire book], God says,

He uses affliction, to get our attention, because in our prideful sinful nature, we wouldn't even Seek God,

and that is true.

What God has shown me, through numerous scriptures and in prayer, about women, is that, God has revealed and shared Himself, to women, on ways and on very intimate levels that we often don't see, because our vision is so clouded,

especially by internalizations of abuse.

And I'll close this, for now, with something in Genesis...

when God, spoke to Eve, about what would come about, He didn't 'curse' her, as many say, no where does it say, HE cursed Eve or Adam,

He cursed the serpent [Satan] and the ground,

but not Adam and Eve, but God did say, these things will happen now because of your actions,

to Eve, we always hear the pain in childbirth and so forth...but, if you have a Bible, go and read that, slowly,

God tells the Serpent [Satan] that He will put 'emnity' between him and the WOMAN,

that means, hate.

Evil, will have hate, towards the WOMAN,

and, vice versa.

And then, Satan's seed will hate, her seed...

and vice versa....

not 'seeds' mind you, but 'seed',

Misogyny--is from SATAN.

not from God.

so, the 'hate' of women, is not from God--its from Satan,

and ask yourself, why that is?

Eve, is the 'mother of all living',

if, the tree of knowledge, of good and evil, produces 'death'

the tree of life, produces life.

God works in mysterious ways, His ways are not our ways...

this in NO way, means women, are 'holier' or 'purer' than men, because go back--the serpents seed will hate the seed of woman, and vice versa,

seed can bring forth both male and female.

In the end--the seed, that promised seed, crushes the head of the serpent....[see Revelations]

Through out scripture, I have been finding jewels, of God's love to women, and not that He doesn't love men, because He does,

but the 'jewels' have been deliberately 'ignored' by many 'religious' and misogynists and pro-patriarchal folks,

to condone and be tolerant of the abuse to women AND children,

God sees all, and there isn't Anything, done in secret, that won't be exposed...God Will, repay the wicked, He says so, that includes,

those who harm women, and think they are 'justified' in doing so. Even Jesus said, to the disciples, that there would be those who 'will kill you thinking they are doing God a favor',

He wasn't just talking about the Pharasees, but of those who profess God in future who would butcher and kill and rape

women and peoples.

There is tons more, but I'll close with this for now....but let me say, after all these months, seeking God, seeking answers, I have found them,

and I am at peace. For the first time in my life, I am at peace, and I know Love,

and for the first time, I can really say, I really Don't fear, what 'man' can do to me....because God,

has and is, restoring my soul, removing the poison and the hate, and is showing me, every day, in some of the most intimate of ways, His love, for me...and how Precious, I am to Him,

as His Daughter, a Woman.

And I can say, I trust in Him, with my Soul....

Peace,

Natasha

CHILD BRIDES---WHY I LEFT THE SOCIALIST LEFT

2009-08-17T10:32:00.003-06:00

This is why I left the Socialist Left in America, and came back to my faith in Christ....

as this is what they support,

see:

Friday, August 7, 2009

450 (child) Brides for 450 (Islamic) Brothers?

Well, I had decided to end the blog when the website subscription ran out, but I find myself so angry about this situation I have to write.

WHAT KIND OF NUTTINESS IS THIS? In the Gaza Strip, HAMAS holds a mass wedding to rival that of Sun Myung Moon. But to Moon's credit, at least the women involved WERE WOMEN! But these are LITTLE GIRLS! I don't know who to be angrier at: Hamas or the Parents of these poor babies! You can read about the story HERE . It simply sickens me!

read the rest here: http://thewomenofislam.blogspot.com/2009/08/450-child-brides-for-450-islamic.html

God has strict commands against 'passing the children through the fire'

these men, have bought a sure ticket, to Hell.

ONLY ONE PATH TO TRUE FREEDOM

2009-08-08T16:30:00.001-06:00

I AGREE---TIME TO BAN THE BURKHA AND HIJAB

2009-06-25T01:51:00.003-06:00

Why I, as a British Muslim woman, want the burkha banned from our streets

By Saira Khan
Last updated at 8:40 AM on 24th June 2009

Shopping in Harrods last week, I came across a group of women wearing black burkhas, browsing the latest designs in the fashion department.

The irony of the situation was almost laughable. Here was a group of affluent women window shopping for designs that they would never once be able to wear in public.

Yet it's a sight that's becoming more and more commonplace. In hardline Muslim communities right across Britain, the burkha and hijab - the Muslim headscarf - are becoming the norm.

READ THE REST HERE, SHE NAILS IT....http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1195052/Why-I-British-Muslim-woman-want-burkha-banned-streets.html#

WE SHOULD HAVE ZERO TOLERANCE FOR THE CUSTOM HERE, ESPECIALLY, FORCING YOUNG GIRLS, TODDLERS EVEN, TO WEAR IT,

AND I CONCUR, COVERING YOUNG GIRLS, TO 'PROTECT THEM' YET, SELLING THEM OFF IN MARRIAGE AND THEY DO, WITH FGMS [FEMALE CASTRATIONS WHICH ARE OPPOSED TO 'GOD'S LAW, THE MOST HIGH GOD, not the 'demon gods' of RA and Molech--ETC] 'and they continue to pass these little girls through the fire....just as they did, in Ancient Babylon] is absolutely horrid,

its no different than other religions, forcing temple shrine prostitutes [Benin, Ghana, Nigeria, etc., and trafficking--to Rome, of all places, surprise surprise NOT],

AND False Christians -- a.k.a. mind control CULTS that indoctrinate, via mind control, spiritual abuse, the rapes/marital rapes and imprisonment of women and children...

its all the same misogynist garbage [and there IS a real danger, in one False Christian CULT that wants dominion, just like Islam...and in fact, they are in co-hoots with the Islamists AND Obama, gee, another, surprise surprise, and no, they aren't 'jews']

anyway....I've researched enough misogyny this past few months to last me a lifetime...

but, CASE IN POINT,

THE DEBASING TREATMENT OF WOMEN, IN MANY OF THESE COUNTRIES, IS YES, CONNECTED,

TO THE HIERARCHY AND THE TEMPLE SHRINE PROSTITUTES [ESP OF THOSE LITTLE GIRLS] THAT WAS GOING ON IN ANCIENT

MESOPOTAMIA...

THE NEPHALIM, ARE MOST SURELY, HERE...AND THE ATTACKS ON WOMEN

HAVE ONLY JUST BEGUN.

six six six...

you know, that Black Cube, has Six sides,

six, sex, hex, figure it out...its called

BABYLON FOLKS.

And BABYLON, WANTS DOMINION, OVER THE WORLD.....

resist, and DO NOT, BOW.

Natasha

Natasha

SUPPORT THE REVOLUTION IN IRAN

2009-06-20T21:21:00.003-06:00

I have been away for while so not able to write on this...[doing some other needed work, research on the Truth, about the Value of Women, in ancient Judaism and the early Christian Body of Christ before the 'misogynists' and the 'dogs of circumcision'

and the rising of the Babylonian and Sumerian 'goddess and god influences' [and they are Global, why the violence against women and children, especially 'sex' violence, passing Children girls through the fire, so to speak] that are stronger than ever today...of course,

fed by the blood of children and women

took over and formed a worldwide type of magistrate...[including in many Churches, false church]

so, not been writing,

but, here, Support the Revolution in Iran....once Persia, known as Persia...

http://www.womensspace.org/phpBB2/

see anti-porn post below,

time to confront the Lies of fornication and its harm effects, time to insist on Separatism until women are treated like HUMAN BEINGS rather than 'penis ashtrays],

and, time for

ANY MEANS NECESSARY, TO END, ALL EXPLOITATION AND ABUSE, OF ALL WOMEN AND CHILDREN.

LOVE, DOES NOT, OPPRESS

NOR, DOES LOVE, IN CHRIST,

IF ITS TRULY 'LOVE'

SHOW RESPECTER, OF GENDER.

EITHER STAND OPPOSED TO OPPRESSION,

OR

CALL YOURSELF A LIAR, BECAUSE IF YOU ALLOW HORRID OPPRESSION OF GIRLS AND CHILDREN

YOUR FAITH IN CHRIST

IS CRAP.

AND IF GOD IS A MISOGYNIST GOD WHO ONLY CREATED WOMEN TO BE PENIS ASHTRAYS

THEN, WHATS THE DIFFERENCE,

IF WOMEN, GO TO HEAVEN OR HELL?

something, really wrong, with the way, God has been painted....and its time, those 'liars', both men and spirits,

who have done the harm to women

PAY.

Natasha

ZERO TOLERANCE TO FASHION INDUSTRIES THAT PROP UP 'PORN'

2009-06-20T21:17:00.001-06:00

http://www.womensspace.org/phpBB2/2009/06/19/boycott-calvin-klein-posts-pornography-on-website/

more profit off of normalizing prostitution, porn and which leads to violent porn

and of course, which is the fuel for the temple global shrines of Marduk, trafficking of girls, boys and women.

Say NO

to Any, company, that supports in any form, normalization, of prostitution and other forms of

SEX SLAVERY.

ANY MEANS NECESSARY,

NO MORE, TOLERANCE, TO THE ENSLAVEMENT OF GIRLS AND WOMEN AS SEX SLAVES OR SLAVES,

PERIOD

TO MAN,

RELIGION

OR CORPORATION.

FINDING OUR ROOTS

2009-05-18T18:38:00.005-06:00

Going back and reading the Christian women--feminists, some not Christian, who worked in the Chartists movement [Marx],

so, before beginning there, want to post this,

because I later, will be finishing up about how the Christian Right is profiting off of the abuse of women, and

looking at what, Amos says, OT.

for now, see: http://www.anarcha.org/sallydarity/CarolEhrlich.htm

FOR UNION--ALSO CHRISTIAN WOMEN'S SPACE -- RADICAL CHRISTIAN FEMINISTS WHO STAND FIRM IN JESUS CHRIST YET REJECT THE PATRIARCHAL AND CAPITALIST IDOLATRY OF TODAY--GO TO

http://homesewersneedleworkersunion-hsnwu.blogspot.com/

HOW THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT PROFITS OFF OF THE ABUSE OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN

2009-05-13T12:38:00.005-06:00

[update: I am currently researching the MONEY TRAIL and let me just say, it is way more corrupt, I intend to also investigate and research, any ties to the PORN industry, especially trafficking, where the 'elites' are concerned, [seems to appear in the legal structure/elites and the church's role, particularly in the cases of elite structures that cover up or perpetuate rapes, rapes in particular of women of color, e.g. Asian women] and will include them in a full page report once finished. I do want to add, however, there IS a remnant of Christians, who do NOT adhere to the misogyny or dominionist [Satanic] doctrines, doctrines that are in a sinister way, ANTISEMITIC and MISOGYNIST, AS WELL AS IMPERIALIST. I am CONVINCED,

they are CONNECTED TO THE THIRD REICH--NAZIS. Researching this as well....will report what I can here, later]

____________________

Oh yea, I WENT THERE! Or, well, I'm going to go there, just well, not today..but I will be posting a long series on this,

because one, IT'S SO TRUE, and for two, well, IT NEEDS TO BE TOLD.

From yea, a Christian :0

I know, shock eh...

yes, a Christian who can't stomach the majority of White Christians in this country...not the people, no, the mentality, the privilege, the misogyny, the corruption oh my the corruption and well, the flat out hypocrisy...

not so much morally either, just that whole God loves you but oh, uh, don't bother me because well, God bless, He'll heal you, blah blah

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah,

LOL.

Trust me people, its all crap...you're better off hanging out with the drunk in the city park, will probably find God more there, than anywhere.

So, anyway, still on leave, but in the time, just wanted to say,

I have a whole lot of things to add to this blog, and this summer I hope to be working on getting a woman's ONLY space, where I live...that is Christ based,

not 'religious' and no, men don't need to apply...its for women only and PATRIARCHAL WOMEN, STAY THE HELL AWAY...GO WORSHIP YOUR HUSBAND, OR SOMETHING,

because this group, is going to be for serving women in need, women who are wounded, women fleeing violence.

And no, they don't need to hear no "submit woman" and all that SHIT that so many Privilege DOGS are making tons of blood money from... these are women who are KNOWINGLY perpetuating the abuse, sexual abuse, marital rape of women and abuse of children...for PROFIT, and yes, in my opinion, they are evil Babylon Whores, agents of Satan himself...I do not believe we can just assume they do only in ignorance when it is quite clear, these women have heard numerous complaints by women who have suffered horrid abuse at the hands of men, Christian husbands [who truly are NOT Christians because the Bible is very CLEAR ABOUT VIOLENT MEN WILL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD], and these women tell them, even if they die, its for the Glory of God...that is a bold lie from the pits of hell, but a lie, that LINES THEIR POCKETS WITH LOADS OF CASH...BLOOD MONEY, FURS, CARS, WHILE THE BELIEVERS, WOMEN, SUFFER....so yes, as far as I"m concerned,

they are evil dogs. By the way, Paul referred to these false teachers as yes, DOGS, and I use that term, in THAT way, evil dogs, female dogs...jackals, etc.

sound hostile,

you betcha. [YEA AIN'T CHRISTIAN LIKE BUT YOU KNOW, TRUTH SUCKS DOESN'T IT]

Later

ANSWERING ISLAM THE CROSS

2009-05-10T18:08:00.000-06:00

http://answering-islam.org/Cross/shame1.html

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THE DISTORTION OF PROVERBS 31

2009-05-03T10:30:00.002-06:00

I will be writing an essay, some time soon, on the Distortion of Proverbs 31.

but for a quick summary, I heard yet, another preacher today on the Radio [I won't say who because I am confronting the teaching and distortion, not the preacher], about Proverbs 31, that has been the idolized 'ideal' of what God desires of women.

This distortion has been more abused and has caused more of a perpetuation of racism, privilege, consumerism, androcentric patriarchy and indifference to the oppression of women worldwide than any other scripture, in my opinion, even worse than the scriptures on women and submission. Therefore, I believe that the manner in which Proverbs 31 is taught to direct, influence and heap guilt onto thousands of women, begs to be challenged.

I believe Proverbs 31 is not some 'perfect Godly ideal' for women to try to achieve, which is, to anyone with any inkling of common sense or mathematical ability to discern time, number of hours in a day, but rather, that Proverbs 31 is God speaking to the millions of women in our world who are mere SLAVES, that they are VALUED, more precious than rubies.

And the best example I can give is the women in Africa, who yes, do live the Proverbs 31 in very much the same manner as women did in Biblical Times. The men sitting at the gates, yes, men in Africa, for example, Do sit at the gates, men who don't life a finger to work,

because their slave WIVES do all the work, and they are some of the world's most exploited, abused, violated, and suffering violence. In their reality, though it is NOT a andro-centric nuclear patriarchy, it is a tribal patriarchy that thrives on hierarchy, particularly among the WIVES, or, WIVES WITH SLAVES, slaves that are usually children, paid and bought for, by men, who claim them as wives but they are really servants, with a very harsh hierarchy. The one at the bottom, does most of the grunge work and takes the most beatings. Countries such as Sierra Leone, for example,

and not just in Africa, but in parts of Asia this also ends to be the social norm. The world looks at these women with disdain, with pity, they are not the glamorous woman that the West holds up, but in God's eyes, because He sees, their oppression, their being devalued and yet, its These women, who hold and preserve entire societies THROUGH THE GENERATIONS, while the men, yes, sit at the gates, men who are privilege, fat with excess and luxury of idle time, and men, who no one dare challenge them to be, better men. Men who are like 'gods' in temples, who can do no wrong,

yet the tears of the thousands upon thousands who break their backs under a heavy yoke and whose spirits are crushed under a heavy cloud of contempt, fill the crevices and rivers that pour out onto the clay cracked soil that yearns for rain, rain of comfort from God.

Proverbs 31 has been the catalyst of the American and Western Puritanical andro-centric patriarchy that forced many a woman to also, rely on slaves, slaves who were African, Mexican, Asian, slaves who were women, yes, the real Women, of Proverbs 31,

but these women did not wear scarlet robes nor were they crowned with jewels, no, these women wore burlap and cotton and polyester. These women wore sun wrinkled skin and hump backs and swollen ankles,

but to God, these women, were the crowned jewels, these women in His eyes wore scarlet robes of nobility, more precious than rubies, their works not going unnoticed, nor will they be invisible.

In our world today, we have thousands of women who work in not just the worst impoverished conditions but who work in labor camps, who work as domestic 'slaves' even here in America, though titled Nannies, these women, many of them from Jamaica and Haiti, work with no days off, no freedom, no room of their own,

it is not the privilege woman with the nannies and the thousand dollar remodeled home with her prada shoes that is the Proverbs 31 woman, though she may be a trophy and a trophy to quite a number of Preachers, Men, who yes, sit at the gates,

no, the Real Proverbs 31 woman, the one that God sees who is worth more than the crown of rubies, is that woman,

you may walk by every day in the market, at the park with the children who are not her own, that woman that sews your clothes for .20cents a day to feed her starving children,

the women in burlap, cotton, naked even...the women who are yes, Proverbs 31.

In solidarity in Christ Jesus,

Jane

[I will be writing far more on this in weeks to come]

In Reconciling, God Reveals to Us, Abba Father

2009-05-01T08:12:00.003-06:00

So, sooo, in this Journey, so many tears, so many wounds, being opened up, and healing,

a long and painful process, yet one that is purifying, I am learning that is what it means when Jesus says 'be born again',

its more than just a one time conversion.

Anyway, God is merciful and slow to anger...

TO THOSE WOUNDED, WHAT ABBA FATHER MEANS, TO WOMEN, HURT BY PATRIARCHY, TO CHILDREN, HURT BY PATRIARCHY

OK, well, after a day of prayer and tears,

got some answers, to the Abba Father, what it means, WHAT IT DOESN'T MEAN.

It does NOT mean, God is Male, as many patriarchs like to put forth, those patriarchs and misogynists who have 'created God in THEIR image'

what it does mean, is that God, is our Spiritual Father, [but God in the Bible also is to us, many other things, including dwelling, which in Hebrew is a female noun, another topic, as I want to do more research on the Hebrew names for God before posting, but one of them, is a female noun in Hebrew, showing the female character of God...in the dwelling, or in one definition, like a bird's nest, birds, and that I could see because Jesus did say, how often I've wanted to gather you like a hen does her chicks],

but, anyway, the Abba Father, is Spiritual, for the heirs, the sons AND daughters...

but, the way, the masculine terminology has been used literal to put up this male Supremacy, hurts women,

hurts children,

because it gives the impression that God and Man has relationship, woman and child, are just appendages.

Who are often, abused, because if they have no value, other than being appendages, then, whats wrong with abusing them, right?

Unfortunately, there are those who truly believe, that women and children have no value other than for man's glory,

so in my journey, Is God a Misogynist, which has opened up so many wounds and internalization's,

it has also, revealed to me, or I should say, God has revealed to me, how sinful people have mischaracterized the character, nature, Holiness of God,

molding God into the Image that THEY want to support, prop up, maintain, perpetuate, the Power that they have over others,

be it religious institutions, social institutions, governments, you name it,

but God is a MORAL AND HOLY GOD, A JUST GOD, as well as A MERCIFUL GOD,

the two go hand in hand, God is not one without the Other,

God is Love,

and LOVE, is, MORAL, HOLY, AND MERCIFUL.

Love is 1 Corinthians 13:4-13

4: Love is patient, love is kind. it does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

5: It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

6: Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.

7: It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always preserves.

8: Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

9: For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

10: but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.

11: When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.

12: For now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13: And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

The part about when I was a child--is often too, taken as a means of indifference,

apathy,

we are to also, become childlike,

Jesus said: 1 About that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, "Who is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?"
2 Jesus called a little child to him and put the child among them.3 Then he said, "I tell you the truth, unless you turn from your sins and become like little children, you will never get into the Kingdom of Heaven.4 So anyone who becomes as humble as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.
5 "And anyone who welcomes a little child like this on my behalf* is welcoming me.6 But if you cause one of these little ones who trusts in me to fall into sin, it would be better for you to have a large millstone tied around your neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea. Matthew 18:1-5

That, is why, we call Him,

Abba Father...

GOD DOES LOVE US, BUT GOD'S LOVE BELIEVE IT OR NOT, DOES HAVE CONDITIONS, YET, ITS ALSO, UNCONDITIONAL,

WHAT THAT MEANS IS,

GOD'S LOVE IS MORAL, JUST, GOD WILL NOT LET INJUSTICE GO ON WITHOUT DEALING WITH IT,

GOD'S LOVE IS HUMAN RIGHTS...ANY VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, MALE OR FEMALE, GREEK OR JEW, ADULT OR CHILD,

IS A SIN AGAINST GOD,

GOD'S LOVE IS HOLY, GOD CANNOT SIN, LIE, NOR WILL HE ASSIST SINS, OR LIES,

GOD'S LOVE IS MERCIFUL,

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

—John 3:16

[see also: http://www.scripturemenu.com/BibleVerseList.html?topicid=12

to those who have been wounded by patriarchy, by those who claim God, Jesus, who have abused scriptures or have abused others, by those scriptures,

two things I'd like to say,

one, either they do not know or understand the Justice of God or

two, they do not understand the love and forgiveness of God [once we REPENT] for themselves and they project that onto others...

Because God, does NOT ABUSE, GOD DID NOT CREATE WOMEN, CHILDREN, TO BE APPENDAGES AND OBJECTS FOR MEN TO ABUSE, OR FOR MEN TO OWN,

AND GOD,

DOES NOT LOVE THOSE WHO COMMIT HUMAN RIGHT ABUSES WITH IMPUNITY, MEANING,

YES, HE LOVES THEM....BUT, HE LOVES THEM, MEANING, HE DESIRES NO ONE TO PERISH, OR DIE IN THEIR SINS,

BUT, THERE IS FREE WILL,

IF A PERSON, ABSOLUTELY REFUSES, TO TURN FROM SIN, TO TURN TO GOD IN JESUS, IF THAT PERSON, CONTINUES TO RATIONALIZE AND KEEP ON SINNING AND COMMITTING HUMAN RIGHT ABUSES,

MEANING, INJUSTICES TO 'OTHERS', MALE OR FEMALE, ADULT OR CHILD, IT DOESN'T MATTER,

THEY WILL, HOLD THEMSELVES ACCOUNTABLE BEFORE GOD, BEFORE JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD,

ON THAT DAY.

GOD IS NOT MOCKED....HE IS LOVE, HE LOVES UNCONDITIONALLY, FORGIVENESS, GOD ALSO LOVES, WITH CONDITIONS.

SEE: http://talkingethics.50megs.com/index4.html

IN NO WAY, DOES GOD, SAY, ITS HIS DESIGN, WILL, FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN, TO BE SECOND CLASS

TO BE SUBJUGATED

TO BE ABUSED.

THE MORE I AM LEARNING WHO GOD, JESUS AND THE HOLY SPIRIT IS,

THE MORE, I AM CONVINCED,

THAT NO

GOD IS NO

MISOGYNIST.

In Christ Jesus,

Natasha

In Christ,

WHEN WE CAN'T RECONCILE, IS GOD A MISOGYNIST SERIES

2009-04-28T22:23:00.003-06:00

update: I'm having some major trouble, reconciling the Bible, with the conclusion that God is not a Misogynist.

I tried, I truly did, but, make no mistake about it,

there is one scripture, well, no, there are a few others that don't relate to women but could reinforce or, no, they Do reinforce, this scripture,

lets take a look shall we? (1 Peter 2:13 - 3:7) WARNING, WILL TRIGGER

18 Servants, be submissive to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and gentle, but also to those who are unreasonable. 19 For this [finds] favor, if for the sake of conscience toward God a man bears up under sorrows when suffering unjustly. 20 For what credit is there if, when you sin and are harshly treated, you endure it with patience? But if when you do what is right and suffer [for it] you patiently endure it, this [finds] favor with God. 21 For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps, 22 WHO COMMITTED NO SIN, NOR WAS ANY DECEIT FOUND IN HIS MOUTH; 23 and while being reviled, He did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting [Himself] to Him who judges righteously; 24 and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed. 25 For you were continually straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.

1 In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so that even if any [of them] are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives, 2 as they observe your chaste and respectful behavior. 3 And let not your adornment be [merely] external—braiding the hair, and wearing gold jewelry, or putting on dresses; 4 but [let it be] the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in the sight of God. 5 For in this way in former times the holy women also, who hoped in God, used to adorn themselves, being submissive to their own husbands. 6 Thus Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, and you have become her children if you do what is right without being frightened by any fear.

Now, just to be fair, I did find this, there is some research or some who say, some of the texts, were written, AFTER PAUL AND PETER had died, http://www.religioustolerance.org/nfe_bibl.htm ** see note at bottom

I don't know, honestly, it wouldn't surprise me in the least, it does seem a bit odd, out of character, why, Jesus would treat women one way, and then, boom, back to the old testament woman hating garbage we go...that and with slaves,

I will say, the real hypocrisy of the church, is the fact that,

SLAVERY, HAS BEEN FOR THE MOST PART, ABOLISHED, no way, would Churches today, even speak, unless they are run by KKK, about slaves submitting to masters,

but WHY IS THAT?

WHY IS IT, THESE SO CALLED, BE MEN OF GOD [WHO FORGET, BTW, THAT JESUS, WASHED THE DISCIPLES FEET, NOT SO MANLY BUT EH], DON'T PREACH

WITH THE ZEAL THAT THEY DO

JUSTIFICATIONS FOR SLAVERY?

I'll tell you why,

MEN CAN BE ENSLAVED, slavery wasn't just for women...so,

on one hand, we have, the church, for the most part, still pushing the woman submit, you inferior slave to the God ordained male SUPERSUPREMACY, women are the glory of man, kind of like his DOG, and man, of course, the glory of GOD,

[wonder what the hell will happen to women in heaven, taking That teaching, what, 72 virgins????? Now I know why, radical feminists, don't slam Islam, why should we, its not that much different than Christianity WHEN IT COMES TO WOMEN].

Ok well, so,

don't you think, its a bit strange, that slavery, the church doesn't preach, over and over and over and over and we don't have the ongoing debates today,

though their racism steams doesn't it?

But now, the submission of women, why,

gee, since MEN BENEFIT FROM THAT, HEY, NO NEED TO ABOLISH THAT,

AND SO WHAT,

IF MARRIED WOMEN ARE RAPED, BEATEN, CHILDREN RAPED, BEATEN,

BY THOSE OH SO STRONG MANLY MEN OF GOD?

A tad, double standards,

I say,

Church, if ya going to harp on subjugation of women, to protect your male entitlement, then,

why don't you, also, start harping on the SLAVES SUBMIT TO YOUR MASTERS,

AND, BTW, DO IT IN A BLACK NEIGHBORHOOD,

I'd be kind of curious how that would play out. Instead of FOCUS ON THE FAMILY,

HOW ABOUT

FOCUS ON THE SLAVERY,

all for the Glory of Jesus, that longsuffering, etc., redemptive...

I am glad, though, that I look like a fool, trying to portray God, as not a misogynist, when in fact,

well, can't say for sure He is,

but the BIBLE, DAMN SURE IS

and well, there is just no getting around it. I love Jesus, but,

yes, THE BIBLE, IS MISOGYNIST TO THE CORE.

Its patriarchal, its misogynist and it condones or perpetuates SLAVERY.

Now, see post below, this I believe, is because of a fallen world under sin,

HOWEVER,

WE HAVE FREE WILL,

AND, WE DON'T LIVE, IN ROME, PEOPLE,

WE LIVE, IN AMERICA, WITH SECULAR LAWS,

SO, WHY IN THE HELL, ARE WE PUTTING UP, WITH PREACHERS, FORCING, SLAVERY OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN?

I SAY,

ITS TIME, TO CRACK DOWN AND CRACK DOWN HARD...WE DON'T TOLERATE SLAVERY IN AMERICA

SO WHY THEN

ARE WE TOLERATING

PATRIARCHY AND SUBJUGATION OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN?

ESPECIALLY WHEN WE HAVE RELIGIOUS GROUPS

FORCING GIRLS TO MARRY, RAPING CHILDREN, COMMITTING INCEST, MEN BEATING THEIR WIVES, MEN ENSLAVING THEIR WIVES

human right abuses, pure and simple,

WE NEED TO SHUT UP, IN THIS COUNTRY, ABOUT THE ABUSES IN ISLAM

IS WE AREN'T WILLING, TO END THE ABUSES IN OUR CHURCHES...AND I DO MEAN,

END THEM.

BECAUSE, MANLY MEN OF GOD AND TALIBAN

SAME DAMN THING.

But then, maybe,

just maybe, THAT IS WHY, THE WEST, IS BEING TAKEN OVER, BY YES, ISLAM

WELL,

GUESS WHAT BROTHER,

YOU MAY BE, TRULY UNDERSTANDING, WHAT IT MEANS,

TO SUBMIT

WHEN THOSE MUSLIM BROTHERS TELL YOU

CONVERT, OR DIE

THEN, BROTHER,

YOU WILL KNOW, WHAT IT IS

TO BE

SUBJUGATED.

AND WHEN THE MUSLIMS ENSLAVE YOU, YOUR WIFE, YOUR DAUGHTERS,

YOU WILL KNOW,

WHAT IT IS, HOW IT FEELS,

TO HEAR,

SLAVES, SUBMIT, NO MATTER WHAT,

QUESTION IS,

I BET, 99%, OF THESE ASSHOLES, WHO SCREAM SUBMISSION AND THE WOMEN WHO PERPETUATE THAT WHEN THE MUSLIMS ENSLAVE THEM AS SEX SLAVES

WON'T BE SO QUICK

TO

STAND UP AND SAY,

HELL YEA,

1 PETER 2:13!

That my friends,

is where, the truth, really does set you free,

those who are pushing the submission doctrine, the most,

are also those, who would be the first, to rise up and do whatever, to NOT have to submit

themselves,

especially to Islam,

Islam meaning

SUBMISSION.

Poetic Justice

you betcha

**note:

I have never been one to question the validity of the Bible as far as translations go, until now,

while, I don't concur with universalism or watering down scripture, I do believe, there are Enough consistencies in the Bible, in that, some of the scriptures, deserve looking into, especially those in the New Testament, that totally contradict the way Jesus treated women...

no offense, but I've often thought, the scriptures on submission, read more like something King James would have insisted upon, with the church in his day [and he was no gift to women, mind you]

or, the drafting by those, who wrote the Bible, during the days of early Catholicism [and that whole split] OR

during the Dark Ages, when they were butchering women by the thousands.

So, after raging at Jesus all day, and then, for some reason, that whole slavery part popped up at me [Holy Spirit maybe?] because, hey,

it shows the blatant hypocrisy of the church/men who have used those submission scriptures to enslave women, globally, including in legal systems, such as economics, that whole andro-centric nuclear capitalist 'family' they so love to worship,

at the expense of WOMEN.

anyway,

maybe my rage at Jesus, is unjustified, maybe, its not God or Jesus, or even Peter, maybe,

its, a deliberate mistranslation, to keep in times with the misogyny that ruled in the days the Bible was written,

it has been debated, that one of the books, was written years, after Paul's death, AND I did look at it, I believe its Titus,

it Does read different, from all Paul's other works. The language is different, the intro,

on some parts, it reads the same, on others, it doesn't,

so, I DON'T KNOW,

and, well, I'm not going to say, Don't believe in the Bible, no way,

but I will say, maybe, we should pray and seek, because Jesus Did say,

the Holy Spirit will lead you into all truth,

He didn't say,

the Bible would lead you into all truth. Though it does say the Word of God is inspired, etc.,

but, here is something else that has always sort of bothered me too, at the end of Revelations, it says,

cursed is anyone who ads or takes away from the Book,

IF, it wasn't a possibility, then Why would God, even warn?

Or was that just the Book of Revelations?

I am not a Bible scholar nor have I studied translations and Hebrew and all that....I do know however, that there are consistencies,

and even if not,

the fact remains,

WE, OUTLAWED SLAVERY, IN A SO CALLED, CHRISTIAN NATION, THE CHURCH, IS VERY OUTSPOKEN, AGAINST SLAVERY,

INCLUDING IN MISSIONS TO AFRICA, TODAY...

WHY THEN, ARE THESE SAME ADVOCATES, CHRISTIANS, FIGHTING SLAVERY, YET, THEY WILL TURN RIGHT AROUND AND SAY

TO WOMEN, IN ABUSIVE MARRIAGES

SUBMIT?

Something, just smells like a rat to me...

and maybe, maybe, I'll just stop blaming God, Jesus, and put the blame where it belongs

MEN.

and the WOMEN, who benefit from those MEN [especially the money made, off the suffering, of those who have suffered abuse, its one WHOPPING $$$ INDUSTRY!]

No wonder, they don't want it to change,

something to ponder on...

Solidarity,

Natasha

TRUTH HURTS

2009-04-28T21:14:00.000-06:00

When I first read this post, on the blog Arooo, I had objections to it,

however, I have come to the conclusion,

especially since reading the Bible again,

this woman, is RIGHT,

its sad, but she's right.

no matter how you look at it, any compromise with patriarchy, means, perpetuating oppression,

that includes, yes, relationships with men [marriage esp].

From a Biblical perspective, I think its important to remember, man ruling over women, came AFTER the Fall,

not before, AND, in Heaven, there is neither male or female, all are one in Christ,

there is also, no marriage or given in marriage.

Lately, I've been really struggling with the Bible, patriarchy, and there is no denying it, even in the NT, there is the perpetuation, of patriarchy,

whether intended or not, its THERE.

Why?

I think, because we are under sin and this is the world, under the rule of Satan,

Satan, is the god of this world, God may be in control, Sovereign, but Satan is the god of this world,

because this world is under 'sin'.

Patriarchy, is SIN,

it is not, the ideal plan from God, IF IT WERE, THEN THE SCRIPTURES WOULD SAY, WHERE JESUS SAID,

ABOUT MARRIAGE, JESUS WOULD HAVE SAID INSTEAD, WHICH HUSBAND THE WOMAN WOULD BE MARRIED TO, OR THAT SHE WON'T ENTER HEAVEN, Jesus didn't say that, He said,

they are neither married or given in marriage. In other words,

patriarchy, won't be in Heaven, nor will there be, Male supremacy, in ANY FORM.

There also, won't be gender, as we know gender...at least, I don't think.

Because Jesus also said, we'd be like the angels...

secondly, IF patriarchy was to be Heavenly, it wouldn't say, 'there is no male or female, greek nor jew, in Christ Jesus.

It would say, there would be, males, females, in a particular order,

but the Bible doesn't say that,

so, patriarchy, is the sin, order, hierarchy of a FALLEN WORLD,

in the meantime however, are we to perpetuate it?

I've been asking myself this, a lot....plus, there is no denying, patriarchy, even the most paternalist in the kind way...still, perpetuates and abuses, women, girls,

all over globe.

so, I am posting [pasting] this article here,

while, I do think, there can be a dangerous extreme [misandry leading up to killing men], and that, yes, it excludes, I think, women who are in relationships with men,

I do have to say, on so many points, this woman, is exactly right, its Truth,

its Truth that hurts, to the core...

question is, what in the hell, do we do about it, in the meantime?

article:

This should probably have been my first post here, but you know what they say about hindsight and all that. So, just to clarify about my blogging intentions, the place I'm coming from is a radical/separatist feminist one. Radical feminism is actually not all that dynamic a philosophy, for good or for worse, so there are some givens about my perspective that are not up for debate now and never will be. Here are a few:

1. Men, as a class, have power over women, as a class. Classes are comprised of individuals. So, individual men have, as a result of being part of class-man, power over individual women. I will not debate this fact in any of my threads.
2. Heterosexual intercourse is integral to maintaining this uneven power distribution between men and women. There can be no equality so long as boys and men are encouraged to see the bodies of girls and women as tools for their own sexual enjoyment. Men using women's and girls' bodies as masturbatory meat socks falls into that "tools for their own sexual enjoyment" category. Any pleasure a woman might get out of it is secondary and therefore not anything I'm willing to devote any time or attention to. Penis-in-vagina intercourse supports male supremacy. End of story. I will not entertain trains of thought that do not start from that premise.
3. Women who do not fuck men are not in any position of power with regard to women who do fuck men. I will not tolerate (any more) comments about "forced lesbianism," "forced celibacy," "forced confiscation of tampons," or any other ridiculous caricatures of the concerns and agendas of women who do not fuck men. Any suggestion that non-heterosexual (as in, not fucking men; "bi-sexual" women are heterosexual for my intents and purposes) women are in any way "fascist" or "oppressive" will only serve to mark you as a homophobe. No one is coming to take that cock out of your cunt. No one is coming to take any of your phallic symbols away. So, stop running around like my mere conversation about this stuff is encroaching on your right to get a good penile skewering whenever you want one. Plenty of men are ready and willing to fuck you and hate you for it under the current circumstances. So you're in luck. You're on the winning team. And there are plenty of other places on the internet for you to go and celebrate your hetero-fucking victory. Go you!
4. Gender is not real. No one has a gender innately. Human personality has nothing to do with genitalia. A person can like fashion without being "female" in some way as much as a person can like tools without being "male" in some way. Comments that seek to entrench the sexual polarization of what are in actuality *human* traits will not be received gladly. These include appeals to such queer notions as "femininity," "masculinity," "butchness," "femmeness," and "androgyny" as they apply to individual human aesthetics, likes, dislikes, strengths, and weaknesses. If some made-up gender is a near and dear part of your identity, you will not enjoy what I have to say on the topic. And I don't care.
5. Sex is real, which makes it different than gender. Only a female person can give birth, for example. That doesn't mean that all female people are defined by the process of bearing children, but it does mean that anyone giving birth is necessarily female.
6. Sexism, itself, affects some women more than others (This is one of my own and isn't necessarily part of a radical feminist philosophy. Yet. :D):
-Poor women. Poor women are exploited by men of all classes. Haitian and Thai children are being chewed up and spit out by a global often-pedophilic rape trade fueled by wealthier (whiter) Western men, after all. And while it could be argued that those children would be raped anyway, by "their own" men, I feel compelled to point out that Western children have to worry about that too. And yet they remain largely free from the extra exploitation that is tourism-sanctioned trafficking of the bodies of globally poor women and girls. So, yeah, the poverty is compounding their sexual abuse beyond what it would be if there was no "third" world.
-Disabled women. Plenty of men who don't have the guts to rape fully able-bodied women will turn to nursing homes and psychiatric institutions in order to cull the weakest women for sexual abuse. A man who rapes able-bodied women might also rape disabled women, but a man who specifically targets disabled women is likely not going to take his chances on a more physically/mentally stable woman. So, again, the disability compounds that which any woman or girl in other circumstances might have to contend with.
-Racially disadvantaged women. The most racially disadvantaged woman is ALWAYS the darkest-skinned, kinkiest-haired woman available. Now, not every locale has black women available to occupy this place on the totem pole, but never fear! She doesn't actually have to be or identify as black. This is why dark-skinned, curly-haired Aino Japanese people and Fijians are so vilified in Japan, for example. It's why skin-lighteners are so popular in South Asian countries. It's why part-white people all over the globe occupy a higher place in society than fully nonwhite people. And we all know that lighter-raced men rape darker-raced women all the time while calling those women "ugly" and "undesirable" in order to deflect negative attention.
-"Ugly" and "undesirable" women. This is a little different than, but related to, race. Women who are considered "ugly" or "undesirable" by whatever culture-specific criteria reigns wherever you are - are routinely raped and sexually abused with impunity. Why, after all, wouldn't an "ugly" or "undesirable" woman be grateful for any male attention she could possibly get?
-Gender non-conforming women. Any female person not visibly and obviously marking herself as female is persecuted for it, no matter what culture you're talking about. This only serves to reify women's subordination. Imagine if the only real way to tell a person's sex was to ask directly! Why, men would have to approach female people as if they might be male, which is the same thing as having to approach them as if they are human. Now, that's *real* transgression of gender.
7. Finally, the only "agency" women can be said to have in patriarchy is to serve male interests or not serve them. And that's not much of a choice, so "agency" seems like a bit of a stretch in such a scenario. If you're intent on maintaining the delusion that you just do whatever you wanna, without any influence from the society at large and misogyny in particular, may your dope always be potent and plentiful.

I hope that this list of givens will help future conversations go smoothly and get us all started on the same page. When I said I've always been a radical feminist at heart, I meant it. And I'm not going to stop being a radical feminist just because you personally *like* sucking dick/being fucked/putting Nigel's dinner on the table/smearing colored carcinogens on your face/stripping/bleaching/waxing/shaving/burning, conking, blow-drying hair straight/boob jobs/labiaplasty/etc. Thanks.
Posted by MargaretJamison at 10:30 AM
Labels: Margaret Jamison, Radical Feminists, Radicalism, Sexism

see link-site here: http://egarooo.blogspot.com/2008/12/givens.html

OUR BLOOD, JESUS, VINDICATE OUR BLOOD

2009-04-27T15:08:00.001-06:00

I am preparing an answer, to Bruce Ware, and his ilk.

For now, let me just say it like this,

The Necessity of the Male Gender of our Savior, and to the rest, of the slams against women and feminism.

To Bruce,

I say, Yes, a Male, Jesus, died on the Cross, Yes, that is what God chose to do, no argument from me there.

But, may I remind you, of something you and your kind, refuse, even rejoice in, to even acknowledge,

the other side, of salvation,

I am talking, about the salvation of entire communities in the Physical realm, I am talking about the salvation of race, ethnic groups, nations.

I am talking about the MILLIONS of GIRLS AND WOMEN, through out our history and the epochs before,

who too, HUNG ON TREES,

BY IMPALING.

Remember them? Thousands upon Thousands of WOMEN, HAVE POURED OUT THEIR BLOOD,

AT THE HANDS OF MISOGYNIST MEN, WOMEN WHO INTERNALIZE MISOGYNY, AND THE CHURCH,

lets start, with the WITCH HUNTS, shall we, the Inquisition,

little girls even, for having the cross yes, were impaled, through the VAGINA, yes Bruce I will DARE go there,

for the CRIME OF BEING FEMALE,

a Witch they called her, Judged her, in GOD'S NAME, they butchered her. IN GOD'S NAME.

'Thou shall NOT misuse thy Lord God's Name'

yet, men and church have misused and BLASPHEMED God's HOLY name, forcing women and girls through the fire, shedding INNOCENT BLOOD, in GOD'S NAME, they have done this.

The earth, the rivers, the streams, the seas, are swimming in testimony in WOMEN'S BLOOD, since the beginning of time,

by the hands, of MEN, THOSE WHO, DO SO IN GOD'S HOLY NAME.

Whole races of people, wiped out, IN GOD'S HOLY NAME,

impaled, burned, raped, bones pulled apart, dismembered, disembowed, ALL IN GOD'S HOLY NAME.

Blood of women, poured out, on Poles, on Poles made of TREES, girls, maidens, virgins, VIRGINS, old women, spinsters, married women, women who heal, women who love, women who

GIVE LIFE, CARRY LIFE, NURTURE LIFE

men and church, have CRUCIFIED, IN GOD'S HOLY NAME.

The sides of women have not only been pierced, the VERY WOMBS, THAT HAVE BORE YOU, BRUCE, ALL MEN

have been IMPALED, IN GOD'S HOLY NAME,

in the NAME OF JESUS, these women have been impaled, raped, gang raped, tortured, maimed, beaten, subjugated, enslaved, stripped to the marrow, pierced, stabbed, cut apart, cut asunder,

WOMEN'S BLOOD, MOTHER'S BLOOD, OUR BLOOD, MY BLOOD

in GOD'S HOLY NAME....

thousands upon thousands upon thousands and it is still going on TODAY,

in the Congo, Christian women, gang raped, by so called Christian PATRIARCHAL STRICT GENDER FORCED ROLE MEN,

vagina's blown to bits by guns, knifes, batons, IN GOD'S HOLY NAME, IN THE NAME OF JESUS

after they rip these women and girls, one as young as THREE YEARS OLD, gang raped by so called CHRISTIAN MEN, THOSE WHO PROFESS TO BELIEVE,

Catholics, Protestants, it does not matter,

they gang raped that poor girl, THREE YEARS OLD, IN GOD'S HOLY NAME,

a girl, catatonic and DEAD IN SPIRIT, DEAD IN MIND, DEAD IN BODY

not only did they rape and impale her little body, they LAUGHED WHILE DOING SO,

they always laugh, IN GOD'S HOLY NAME.

AFTER they have abused and impaled these women with the weapon of their body, in GOD'S HOLY NAME, they then,

cast their wives to the streets like dirty dogs, their mothers to the streets like dirty dogs, their sisters, their daughters,

and WHY?

because they are DAMAGED GOODS, IN GOD'S HOLY NAME,

they are no longer 'screwable' [yea I'll go there Bruce], they are no longer capable of bearing children, of entire RACE, TRIBE, ETHNIC GROUP, because their vaginas are all but gone, obliterated,

DESOLATE

IN GOD'S HOLY NAME

IN JESUS NAME

these girls, women have been slaughtered like lambs to the slaughter, by MEN, WHO PROFESS GOD AND THE MALE SUPREME RIGHT

TO STEAL, KILL, AND DESTROY

FEMALE

IN GOD'S HOLY NAME.

City's of Refuge, set up, by those, who may NOT be believers, to Heal these women, WHAT IS LEFT OF THEM, WHICH ISN'T MUCH,

but there will be no more CHILDREN, NO MORE PEOPLE, FROM THESE WOMEN, FROM THESE GIRLS, FROM THESE VIRGINS, FROM THESE TODDLERS,

because of MEN who spew Male Supremacy, Male Entitlement, all in GOD'S HOLY NAME.

In the Name of Jesus,

I pray, for Vindication, for EVERY ONE OF THE GIRLS, INFANT GIRLS, WOMEN, VIRGINS, MAIDENS,

WHO HAVE BEEN IMPALED, WHO HAVE POURED OUT THEIR BLOOD,

by the MEN AND CHURCH, WHO DID SO, IN GOD'S HOLY NAME,

and I pray, Bruce Ware and the likes of your kind,

that I am alive, to See it.

In Jesus Name,

Amen

WHEN MISOGYNY IN THE CHURCH LEADS TO BLATANT AND SEXUALLY IMMORAL

2009-04-17T13:06:00.000-06:00

Been having one of those struggles with God, about several things,

and in doing some research, was appalled at finding one web site, that pretty much says this:

that sex in Christ, in marriage, means for women, bondage, abuse, tolerating other women in the marriage bed, fisting, rape acting out,

you name it, and they had the Gall, to use scripture, to justify these immoral acts of violence against the wife.

This is no doubt in my mind, the last days,

while I am no prude,

I draw the line, draw the line in the sand, when I see, someone or a church, in the name of God, using distortions of scripture,

to mandate and justify, sexual abuse in the marriage. Basically it boils down to this,

the man/men, are selfish assholes, who care nothing about love, intimacy, positive sex between married adults who have mutual respect and love, no,

these are men, who are lusting only after their desires of the flesh that cannot be satisfied, because its like a consuming fire,

that never is put out...not only do these men/teachers of false prophecy demand obedience by their wives no matter what,

they are demanding, their wives, to partake in bondage, sexual bondage, violent sex to the point of bleeding/harm, threesomes and so forth, orgies, in the marriage bed and then having the nerve to say,

the marriage bed is undefiled.

What EVIL!

What is next, those men, demanding women to bring in children into the bed too?

You know, the church, needs to stop pandering to the desires of men and their penises,

seriously,

do we not have ANY SELF CONTROL?

Are we to be just like the pagans and unbelievers who throw the children into the fire of Moloch?

The reason I am bringing this up, is THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS, when there is a focus on submission or surrender,

that is this type of surrender, be it to Christ or to man as in Christ, or to authority,

which, is this passive surrender, that no matter what happens, you just sit and take it,

and then, partake of it, even if its sin.

That is why I have a real problem with the submission teaching, because it is being So abused,

where women, are not even protecting their children, from the sexual abuses of their husbands.

Something is WRONG WITH THAT .....

do we submit too, when our husbands want to throw our children into the fire?

WHERE DO WE DRAW THE LINE, WHEN IT COMES

TO

SUBMISSION

AND SURRENDER?

This abuse of scripture I must say, has caused me more trouble in my relationship with Christ because Every time I hear, any preacher

talk about complete surrender to God,

I CRINGE.

I'm not talking, about obedience to God's Word,

but this whole idea of complete surrender and this, whatever happens or comes my way I will just be passive and take it,

something in my cringes, and I've prayed, I know about rebellion, about putting the flesh to death,

about complete giving ourselves to Christ,

but there is this thing there that, is like this,

when do we test the spirits, to make sure, we aren't completely surrendering ourselves to Satan himself, to be possessed?

Maybe that is it,

maybe, its how the whole surrender thing is taught, as if its complete possession,

without any human will whatsoever,

and that, to me, is what so much of the submission teaching is,

its like, this 'submit to being possessed by another' no matter WHAT THEY DEMAND OR DO TO YOU.

To where, we no longer have minds or decisions or even the ability to reason,

we just blindly and passively just take and yes, That is, like a BSDM relationship,

which,

if that was what Christ wanted,

why not just follow the dark side?

And sacrifice ourselves and children and the whole lot,

being 'sarcastic' here for the sake of argument,

this is something, that has caused me much distress in my Christian life and though, I am in NO WAY,

saying, to be trusting of the sinful self or in disobedience in any way to God,

I do have a problem, with this whole passive do nothing take all kinds of abuse especially when its sexual,

just because, a husband demands it.

And so many churches are pushing that,

and so many women are perpetuating that. When do we ever stand up,

and say

NO.

IF we were meant, to just be passive and take whatever and sin when our governments or husbands demand it of us,

then why, did Paul say,

better to suffer for doing right, than for doing wrong?

IF we partake in sin,

that is doing wrong, so, are we then suffering for doing right?

Why would God say, on one hand,

do not sin here, here, and here,

then on another, say

because you are woman and husband says so, partake in this sin and just trust me?

Sounds more,

like satan worship to me.

[adding a bit later, Thank you Jesus, you know, I love it when the Holy Spirit confirms something for me, don't know how I came across this blog, but the author here,

nailed it, exactly what this blind submission and warped teaching of Christianity, does lead to]

excerpt: Andrea Yate's Husband: Why Does He Bother Me So?

Recently remarried former husband to child killer Andrea Yates bothers me. No, he didn't drown his children. She did it. She is responsible. She is a grown woman. And she is being tried, again, for the murder of five kids--her own. Their lives are snuffed out before they really had begun because a woman too proud or too mad to ask for help chose a permanent, violent solution to the problem of her burden. And yes, I'm aware that if a man committed this heinous crime (except if he was a combat vet) he would not be the subject (probably) of a post like this. But there is a reason for that.

read the rest here: http://drmelissaclouthier.blogspot.com/2006/06/andrea-yates-husband-why-does-he.html

Lord Jesus, Raise up an Army of Women, Who Will Separate From the Traditions of Men

2009-04-15T14:46:00.003-06:00

enforced and taught by the androcentric patriarchy-or, androcentric Christianity,

and rather

that they follow a CHRIST-CENTERED CHRISTIANITY.

Raise up an Army of Women, who will serve, Women,

and who will, serve girl children,

and who will, bring about, the Unity, to the Body of Christ, that NO PART, shall be deemed

inferior, less than, or MARGINALIZED

and that God, be Glorified!

Raise up, an Army of Women, like the one woman, that was a huge influence on my life, though,

sadly, I did not live up to that first desire...that however, is changing.

Thank you Jesus,

fellow sisters, may I introduce to you,

a series, of powerful women, committed to Christ, who, defied the 'traditions' taught by men FOR MEN, and who,

stepped out in faith, risked it all, lost their lives, to save the lives of others.

Amy Carmichael, was one of those women.

Birth: Dec. 16, 1867
Death: Jan. 18, 1951
Missionary. Known as "The Rescuer of India's Children". Born in Northern Ireland to an evangelical Christian family, Amy Carmichael was 24 when she attended an 1891 Bible Conference and there committed herself to a life of Christian service. In 1900 Amy settled in the town of Dohnavur, where she soon learned of the Hindu custom whereby little girls were "married to the gods" and then offered as prostitutes to men who visited the temples. In 1901 she rescued a temple child, a young girl named Preena, or "Pearl Eyes". From that point on Amy felt called by God to save as many children as she possibly could from this life of forced prostitution. Amy soon became known to her Indian neighbors as "child-catching Missy Ammai." Her interference in Hindu custom brought angry opposition from both villagers and authorities, and she faced kidnapping charges on several occasions. News of Carmichael's courageous exploits reached Christian circles back in England, and in 1912 Queen Mary gave her official recognition for her efforts. By 1913 Carmichael's "Dohnavur Fellowship" had 130 girls under its protection. Her staff of both European and Indian women voluntarily forsook marriage in order to focus on the rescue, care, feeding, and education of the children, and in 1916 she formed a new Protestant religious order called the Sisters of the Common Life. The women took no vows and were free to leave if they decided to marry, but most stayed on, devoting much of their energy to developing Christian character in the young girls they nurtured. In 1918 Dohnavur Fellowship expanded to include a home for young boys, many of them infants who had been born to the temple prostitutes. Throughout her ministry, Carmichael used her gift for written expression to share her faith with others, and this became an even greater spiritual outlet for her after a serious fall left her crippled at the age of 64. Confined to her room, she wrote 13 books during the 20 years remaining to her and also updated books she had written earlier. Thirty-six books by Amy Carmichael have been published, and many are still in print today, including "The Gold Cord" and "Mimosa". Amy Carmichael died peacefully in Dohnavur at the age of 83, having spent 55 years in India without a single furlough from mission work. In addition to an enormous body of inspirational writing, this beloved Christian left behind an energetic organization that continues the work she began in 1901. Today Dohnavur Fellowship is a 400-acre community with 500 residents, a hospital, 16 child nurseries, and other public services. An inspirational biography of her life entitled "A Chance to Die" was written by Elisabeth Elliot, wife of missionary Jim Elliot. She is buried at the Dohnavur Fellowship, Dohnavur, Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu 627 102, INDIA. (bio by: Everyday Mommy)

Search Amazon for Amy Carmichael

Burial:
Dohnavur Fellowship
Madras, India

Maintained by: Find A Grave
Record added: Jun 21, 2006
Find A Grave Memorial# 14664432 [taken from: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14664432

Here is her story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Carmichael

and her work continues to this day: http://www.dohnavurfellowship.org/

More on this series to come...

In Christ,

Natasha

THE SEPARATION WILL HAPPEN REGARDLESS

2009-04-14T12:01:00.003-06:00

I WILL BE EXPANDING ON THIS LATER TODAY OR THIS WEEK, WITH TONS MORE SCRIPTURE...

Over at Aroos's, there is several really good articles, about the separatist movement, of women.

Though, I have a different outlook, due to my faith...they are NOT wrong, and in fact,

whether they realize it or not, they are hitting on MORE spiritual truths, than most.

see: http://egarooo.blogspot.com/2009/03/power.html

http://egarooo.blogspot.com/2009/03/timeline.html

I was going to reply to them, but decided, I'd post it here instead,

I didn't go into as much scriptural detail as I would have wanted, but there is reason, for this, I won't get into now...

I posted both links...because they are both, related, to the 'false paths to destruction powered by the one who is at enmity to all women',

and the top one, about transgender...has Huge spiritual significance, that reveals, the Why's, of why God destroyed, Sodom and Gomorrah, that other fruit of MISOGYNY...that may 'look' like women's emancipation, on the surface,

but underneath, lies the viper of all vipers, Satan.

The belief too, of 'working along side the enemy OR under the headship of the 'god' that is man, is also, another viper, Satan...

to those who have ears, let them hear....

The separation is happening regardless, [going to give, a totally, different, perspective on this, that, well many here may reject, but sharing it, anyway]

whether women and/or men want it to or not, the Congo is a good example, so is Afghanistan, so is Pakistan in areas [Swat valley].

These women, many are catatonic from the gang rapes, abandonment from husbands and communities because they see women nothing but chattel and they are now seen as damaged goods [and physically, many will never be able to have child due to being shot in the vagina, by the rapists, e.g. Congo].

Misogyny, leads up to, GENDERCIDE - FEMICIDES, LEADING UP TO, GENOCIDE.

That is the fruit, of misogyny.

It is also, the spiritual ROOT, OF MISOGYNY, to destroy woman, to destroy the seed of woman, to eventually, destroy all of humanity.

It however, manifests its ends in various ways, not just in one, which is why, separation will result, regardless.

Not only will separation result, the transfer of misogyny will also, continue to seek, destroy and kill, all that is female.

Women, if they choose to work under the belief that men, will work in agreement, without a spiritual change,

will find, that those same men, will also, destroy them. It is a self-destructive path,

and why is that?

Because man, MAN, has made himself god.

That is the patriarchy in a nutshell, man, making himself god,

over woman.

Which, another way of looking at it, if I may, a spiritual way,

that goes all the way back to Eve, where so many miss it...

the result of the turning everything upside down, by the deception of one, WHO HATES, WOMEN, SATAN

that enmity, [though there is reconciliation, and there is to be, a restoration, of the former place, and this will not come to pass until there is an absolute turning away from the 'worship of men' back to the relationship that was meant to be, between God and Woman.]

anyway, that enmity, is the root, of patriarchy as well, first, the tribal patriarchy, to the nuclear patriarchy, in which, the latter, man became the private 'god' over woman, even more so and survives to this day,

oddly, this is Biblical, but, it is also, evident, in feminist theory, and one, did touch on this, a lot,

her name was, Charlotte Perkins Gilman. She wrote extensively about the spiritual ills [though she may not have intended them to be spiritual] of the nuclear patriarchy,

particularly to the generations, of children born,children raised in self-loathing, that will not have love, for God or human, due to patriarchy's influence, to the generations of societies,

which, in the most extreme misogynist state terror societies, we see this clearly evident.

Where so many miss it, is that, the records, of the days of old, were NOT justifications of the birth and evolution of misogyny and patriarchy,

no, but, the revealing, of the evolution, to where we are at today.

In so many regions of the world, the compassion of women, the souls of women, have been destroyed,

their very nature, bent, morphed, into the nature, of the fallen Adam. The 'other' as we term it,

where, even the 'other', is hated, one flesh, divided and if a house is divided it cannot stand.

Humanity, will destroy itself via misogyny, or rather, something is destroying humanity,

from that enmity.

The deception is however, that in embracing some other beliefs, that too, are spiritual, that women will be restored and justice will prevail--WRONG,

for, if one studies the history of these beliefs in they days of old, those beliefs, required several things,

the bloodshed of women/sacrifices
the prostitution of women for the ritual rites

to 'appease' the gods, the source behind, the one hater of all women, hated because woman in creation, was in the image of GOD,

not in the image of man. Created as a companion for man, yes, but in the image of man, NO, also, created for God...Both were called, to obey, rule and multiply, under God's command before the fall.

Today, if you think, this is all folly,

the renewal or Earthy physical manifestation of these DEMONS, demonic forces are in full power,

the appeasement, well, one example right off the bat, [one example out of many--this is global]

sacrifices, the rapes, mutilations, blood of thousands of women, young girls, PER YEAR, in Mexico,

it IS connected, to the beliefs of old, for males wanting POWER, to rule, a means in which, Satan, the beast, the dragon, the anti-christ, are coming into and onto the earth to rule and kill God's saints,

to also, bring back, the sources, that I won't get into here.

Another example, the global trafficking of women and children, into sex slavery,

the global temple prostitution, such as in the days of Rome and prior to, to the Old Testament times, well, to the source--Satan himself

and its no coincidence, that our legal system, is based, on those same beliefs,

another example, you have to go back to the worship of Baal and Moloch and Chemosh,

which, is the largest by terror and force, system there is today--that requires,

the sacrifices of women [and that IS what FGMs are btw, the castrations of women, they are castrations, not circumcisions and in fact, when we use the term circumcision, we legitimize the fgm more than confront its evil--they are BLOOD SACRIFICES, TO MOLOCH, THEY DON'T KILL WOMEN LIKE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT--BUT THE BLOOD SHED, THE SEXUALITY, DESTROYED, THAT BRINGS FORTH LIFE--THAT HATE OF, IS PURE DEMONIC HATRED, THAT GOES ALL THE WAY BACK, TO THE WORSHIP, OF BAAL AND MOLOCH AND ASTORAH]

the forced marriages, forced child marriages, the deliberate killing of women in body, mind and spirit, thighing/molesting children-girl children including infants, infanticide as it is in many countries, abandoning girls, all of these rituals, including, parading girls virginity in some churches, is part of that same worship...of DEMONS. Whether they realize it or not...

as well as the slicing and cutting of self--all,

practices, of the days of old. [read EZEKIEL--its all there]

And all, that have infiltrated many of the feminist movements and yes, even the mainstream church,

via patriarchy.

The death is coming to America, in fact, its already here, though its subtle and what is so sinister about it, it is being brought, with also, the promise of women's rights,

IF, they worship, the 'man'.

It is a lie,

the signs of what is to come in all around us in nature, nature that is both characteristic of both male and FEMALE,

the passing away, it can't be stopped. Because that ENMITY, is there,

only ONE can and WILL crush it, one day,
but, through the labor [spiritual] of WOMEN,

women, separated, from men.

Maybe not always in the physical sense,

but in the spiritual sense, yes,

but I along with several others, believe, that this separation, will also, be physical, in the falling away and the love grown cold, hearts waxed.

Whether one believes in God or not, the signs are there,

Revelations, means Revealing,

Margaret, what you speak,

has more spiritual truth, that Jesus Himself predicted, that the entire Word of God, predicts,

than what you may realize or even agree with. It IS a spiritual warfare,

Man, patriarchs, woman haters, have used the Word of God, twisting texts, since the days of the fall of Rome...it is NOT coincidence, that the apostle Peter, was crucified

upside down. [to those who can see let them see]

There is a dialectic, some call it something else though I can't think of the term right now,

but, the restoration of Woman, is part of that, that is to come...not in the physical, in the spiritual,

we are seeing it now. On some levels,

and, yes, the women only space, is part of that, a HUGE part of it,

whether women do so by choice, or by FORCE,

and, it will be more, by FORCE and that includes, in America. [there will be the worst butchering and persecution in America...of the Saints, and America, I believe, will fall, hard, but God, will save a remnant, those who stay in the faith...]

one many are not even aware of, see http://godswordtowomen.org/lesson_99.htm

[its about 'the woman' in Revelations, its NOT what you may think, I think, its the travail to bring in the Kingdom, and the Restoration --what Paul meant]

and, well, you may find this interesting too,

http://godswordtowomen.wordpress.com/

Again, its NOT what you may think. Long ago, there was a woman, Katharine Bushnell, who wrote, about all of this,

she also fought trafficking of women in the U.S. of course, the church, the men,

rejected her. She, like a few others, we DON'T hear about,

were separatists, who, loved God, in Christ, who worked, to save women and girls,

I have also, been finding some very interesting things about the women, in the early Catholic church, during the convent era, who too, under the very oppressive misogynist 'religious' system [that same spirit of pharisees--"they shut the Kingdom of Heaven in the people's faces, the Women's faces" Matt23:13]]

worked underground, there was a separatist movement.

To close,

man, including those who are false prophets [who profess Christ],

have made themselves 'gods', or God,

they will be removed from their place,

You are right Margaret, there isn't going to be change, through Revolution,

its NOT going to happen, there won't be change,

until there is that separation, and its been declared, by God Himself, several times, in the Word of God, He is restoring the DAUGHTERS to Himself, that Reversal--woman, desiring GOD, rather, than desiring MEN, because, God did NOT CREATE, MAN, TO BE

GOD.

OR gods OVER WOMEN, AND THE NATURE OF SUCH--OF DEMANDING god OVER WOMEN--THE DEMAND, FOR VIRGINS, SO THAT MAN CAN 'CONTROL THEM' IS

THE VERY NATURE

OF

SATAN.

“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name have cast out devils? And in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” (Matt 7:15-23)

another thing, to also consider, is the Restoring of the Cities of Refuge, which, were the cities God demanded, back in the OT,

today, there IS a City of Refuge, in the Congo,

there is to be more, made by women, for women.

Both physically, and spiritually [intercessory prayer/Warfare prayer, we wrestle not with spirit and flesh but with principalities... Ephesians 5]

Two things...what Exactly, did Jesus mean by this, and what Exactly, is meant, by numerous scriptures, such as the one, in Lamentations, there are numerous in Daniel, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, all to do, with women.??

There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: and there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary. And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me. And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith. And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? (Luke 18:2-8)

"With their own hands, compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food when my people were destroyed." Lamentations 4:10

Look at that, from a spiritual, not a literal, though its both,

women, cooking their own children, for their food,

also means, the psychological damage done, by war, rape, misogyny, to where, women, will strap bombs, on their own young,

women, who are walking DEAD.

Or women, such as some in the Congo, who castrate their small boys, thinking that the penis is a demon,

or the psychological damage, that many in the churches in the Congo, men and women, tell the young, very young, that their brothers or sisters were raped and killed, because somehow, they are witches...

the falling away, that Jesus predicted, that in the last days,

men will be ABUSERS...that is just a part of it,

there are two paths,

one, in which, women will assimilate into the misogyny--the complete destruction of women on this planet,

either in the temple prostitution and Blood goods [products made by female/child slaves] -- consumption, which is, btw, the worship of Baal, whether one knows it or not,

or

in the sacrificing to Moloch--Chemosh and even Ashterah [sic], [that manifests differently through out the globe AND that requires, the rape and butchering of the female, the blood spilled, to bring back the spirits that once were here]

its no coincidence, that the fields near Juarez, is lined with Pink Crosses,

AND there is the path,

of separation...and Jeremiah it says, it will be, both believers and non-believers, or those who resist, the beast, per se,

there will be cities of refuge, and there NEEDS to be,

whether you believe this or not or think, this is totally moonbat crazy,

the separation IS God mandated, for a reason,

and will happen. And whether you all know it or not,

you, and many other feminists, who see, the missing the mark, so to speak--are a part of it. BUT,

beware, that you don't, fall into the enemies snare, hardening your hearts, rejecting God, rejecting Christ...the ONLY salvation for women, restoration, outside of Christ, is destruction, no, revolution, won't change a thing on this planet,

this planet is DYING, THE LIFE FORCE, IS DYING, IS PASSING AWAY....for the New Earth, where SIN and those who cling to the love of Sin won't be,

and women, because they are life forces, are also, dying and will die in vast numbers, because the ENMITY, THE FRUIT, IS COMING TO PASS....BUT, it doesn't END there,

for those, who belong to Christ, and btw, its not God destroying, no, yes His wrath will come on that day,

but the Destruction of the Planet, of all life, will be, at the hands of Satan, at the hands or by the hands OF

MISOGYNISTS. IN ALL THEIR FORMS AND MANIFESTATIONS...

the fruit, of the curse, in that Garden...the spiritual reconciliation through Christ Jesus, the Resurrection, the final, RESTORATION,

there IS a reason, you have the anger, the rage, that you do,

that we all do, and the refusal, to compromise, women's human rights.

What is so ironic though, is that, the very Spirit, that is calling women, is the One, that many women,

reject, because of the sins done, in HIS name, the profaning His name and character, especially the crimes against women,

through out time. Ever see or hear, about the man eating squid, as they are called?

That marine biologists, a couple, found, that these squids, these red squids off of Mexico waters, were not truly man eaters by nature, but were made that way,

due to the raping, of them, the hunting of them in large numbers, by a tool, that is, rape, they are hunted and killed, just like a woman being raped,

away from these fishing areas, the squid, are some of the most intelligent and loving/playful creatures,

God reveals His nature, His message in nature, especially, the Female character, of God. We will see, more revealings, if we listen.

To those who have ears, let them hear...

God showed, His nature, to Women,

in Jesus,

dying on the Cross for us, Jesus, who cursed not, who did not fight back...in Perfect Love, became sin, took the full punishment and wrath,

so that,

we could be reconciled to God, in the Blood of Jesus Christ.

They HATE Jesus,

because

SATAN HATES JESUS.

SATAN HATES LOVE

AND

SATAN HATES WOMEN.

to those who have ears, let them hear...I pray, God reveals, His love, His PERFECT LOVE AND HOLINESS,

TO ALL WHO READ.

And that He, reconciles you, to Himself.

In Christ,

Natasha

NO SHARIA LAW

2009-04-13T16:38:00.002-06:00

Standing in Solidarity,

NO SHARIA LAW, NO RELIGIOUS LAWS

To the Women Who Think or Feel They are Alone in this World

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and that there is no one to turn to or no where to turn,

know this,

you are NOT alone, and our God, created You, in His image, you could say, his-her image, because God is Spirit,

God revealed something about His character, nature, image, in Woman. God did NOT create garbage, God did not create woman to be persecuted, abused, hated,

in all nature and the universe, God reveals Himself,

He does not clothe the flowers, diverse in the thousands upon thousands, in black death.

He does not HIDE the beauty of the female in our universe, or on our planet. There is NO SHAME,

in being WOMAN.

Rejoice,

Sister,

You are not alone.

See the marvelous works of God,

He hides not,

the beauty of His creation....nor does He oppress His creation.

Lets begin, with the universe, colors as bright, the Master Artist! And celebrate, the beauty that we, WOMAN, are, in all our diversity, color, texture, size, height, width, voice....

we are His creation.

Watch these, [two part series] pray, ask God, to reveal, His LOVE to You, and Your Worth, in His eyes.

For God SO LOVED YOU,

HE GAVE, HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON....

JESUS, NEVER CALLED,

WOMAN

HATED, EVIL

HE CALLED HER

DAUGHTER!

SO,

DAUGHTER, OF GOD,

LIFT YOUR HEAVY HEART, LIFT UP YOUR EYES TO THE LORD,

AND KNOW,

YOU ARE CHERISHED, AND LOVED...

Jesus Loves You, Do You Know Him?

2009-04-12T00:34:00.002-06:00

go to also: http://www.klove.com/

DO YOU KNOW HIM?

YOU CAN?

http://www.penfield.net/religious.html

Great versus on Faith and Salvation

Romans 10:17
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
The word of God is the Bible so this points out how very important it is to read the Bible.

Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

2 Timothy 3:15
And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Romans 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

1 Peter 1:9
Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.

Hebrews 7:25
Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth, to make intercession for them.

Mark 16:16
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

Acts 16:30-31
...And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

Acts 10:43
To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.

Romans 10:9
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

1 Timothy 2:3-4
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

1 Timothy 4:10
For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.

1 John 4:14-15
And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.

1 John 5:1
Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

Revelation 3:20
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

Here are some versus that indicate that salvation is 100% done by God. In other words not even our faith (independent from God) or our "accepting Christ" had anything to do with it. These concepts were brought to my attention after reading the topics on Salvation from the book "Topics from the Open Forum" (www.familyradio.com)

John 3:27
John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.

John 6:44
No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

John 6:65
And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.

John 15:16
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Hebrews 12:2
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith;...

note: I have deleted pretty much all the entire past entries, as I said I would edit them,

but, as I looked through the titles, so much has changed in me, I just couldn't justify today, leaving them up,

NOT so much the subject matter, but the anger and rage that I had, and because now I know, that the answer isn't hate,

the answer isn't becoming like the enemy to humanity, which comes in many forms,

the answer isn't lashing out...

it isn't denial either, nor is it hiding under a rock. I am, going to be writing on all the former topics,

but this time, I will be writing, from a new perspective, one that I know, is the right answer,

and yes, Yes, that answer, IS JESUS CHRIST,

the Word of God.

I do have another blog, that is very different from this one, I started it, about the same time, I came back to my faith,

I wanted to keep this blog up, to keep up the posts in regards to the misogyny suffered by women under Islam,

and I still, agree that the truth in our cultural relativist world needs to be told,

BUT it needs to be told, with the Word of God because ONLY the Word of God, can bring freedom, Only the Word of God, can set us free,

Only the Word of God, can reveal the lies of the enemy, Satan,

the king of yes, misogyny, the hater of all women,

the hater of life, the hater of God, the hater of God's creation.

There is, an excellent website for Christian feminists, that IS NOT, fundamentalist, and in fact, they are really confronting the lies of misogyny that have been tolerated in many denominations, and in fact, its getting much worse today,

but its not just women, and women's rights,

false prophets have twisted God's Word to promote capitalism, to promote selfishness, to promote slavery of other nations or inequality, to promote a androcentric patriarchy that is NOT Biblical, or Christ like,

there IS a lot of false teachings, just as Jesus, warned. There are,

Pharasectical (sic) Christians, legalists, literalistic legalists, who, just like the Scribes and Pharasees, knew the laws,

but they didn't know God.

They missed the mark, so to speak,

but, regardless, Jesus is faithful always, and I believe,

in these last days, there will be such evil and belief that evil is good, and that there is the anti-christ,

I believe Jesus Christ is coming soon, when I don't know, and whether or not its pre-tribulation or not,

I don't know, all I know, is that,

this world, everything predicted in the Word of God, is coming to pass.

And the more I read the Word and pray, the more I seek God, the more, He reveals to me, His love, His never ending love and grace, that He is NOT a misogynist, that He is merciful,

and Righteous.

He has changed my life and He has changed me,

I look back and am appalled, at my sin and myself, yet He forgives and as He said, on the Cross,

IT IS FINISHED.

Now my trust is in Him, not in politics, not in activism, not in raging against injustice,

and the answers, lie in Him.

I will be writing on the series, Is God a Misogynist, because His Word, is powerful and alive and will shed light in the darkness,

also, I will be writing on God's Economics, God's rules for taking care or being good stewards of His creation, that includes our planet and the animals,

not in the legalist sense but in how God is love and Love, does not harm. Not that God doesn't allow evil, to deal with evil and sin, He does,

and we are to stand strong in opposition to evil and the banality of evil, and on that I will continue to do,

but we are to do so, with humility and always awareness, that we are all sinners, we have all fallen short of the glory of God, and there is no way to salvation But through Him,

in peace,

Natasha

WHY THE MAINSTREAM CHURCH REFUSES TO CONFRONT THE SIN OR MISOGYNY!

2009-04-08T15:00:00.003-06:00

nor will they REPENT OF IT EITHER!

[I've done my confronting of the misogynist Islam, but I think its high time, that we confront the church, for the blatant, continued, SIN OF MISOGYNY]

Why,

because, 0h gee,

it would rock the foundation of MALE ENTITLEMENT.

That is why...

I feel, that in this search of mine, this journey, to find out if God is a misogynist or not, that IF, IF I am not careful,

and in any way, seek out even the most off topic thing from the evanglical or mainstream church, I find,

that its WORSE THAN ISLAM,

seriously, and WHY is it worse than Islam,

because at least in Islam, they just come out with the misogyny and hate, they don't sugar coat it [except when they are trying to deceive infidels, which is what is termed taqiyya, a type of warfare, to pose as liberal, when in actuality, they are luring one into a snare then its whoosh, down with the sword and forced oppression of women],

but in mainstream Christianity, its more sinister,

in Judaism, they too, are just flat blatant about their loathing of 'woman', same with Catholics, except there is no 'woman', just 'baby maker' of the god fetus,

well, anyway,

in Christianity, EXCLUDING A FEW, I want to interject that point here, there are a FEW that truly do see women as in Christ,

but for the most part, I have one word to describe the the sugar coated 'misogynist' lie still oppressing women in the church,

YUCK.

I can truly now understand WHY so many women have left the faith in its entirety and have embraced goddess beliefs or worse,

its not surprising, after all, be conditioned since birth that God has given the 'male' this entitlement card to

beat his wife
rape his daughters
rape his wife
verbally abuse his wife and children
force his wife to bear numerous children AND then, to neglect them as well, for God's work

the list goes on and on and on,

get enough of that indoctrinated with you WITH the arm of the law of God, according to Them, that Hellfire awaits any woman that

deviates, complains, even protests her treatment, for don't you know, she's the woman, the evil Eve, and should be punished to damnation,

slowly,

of course, all in doing service for God's entitled male, bearing the god fetus, but when it all comes to the end

woman, will be exterminated with the rest of female earth.

IF you were to look and really pay attention to HOW scripture is twisted by MOST preachers, including women, who perpetuate,

that is exactly how it looks,

you begin to wonder, if Jesus even died for women.

IF, IF you do not know the Word of God, Satan can come in and lambast you into thinking that you truly are nothing to God,

and then, service to Christ, becomes obligation, not love, not out of love,

because, you have no value, what difference does it do if you contribute,

just shut your mouth, never complain, moan to boost your husband's big fat ego when HE demands sex [and if you burn too bad],

IF your asshole of a husband is ensnared by porn, well sister don't you know, the FIRST thing you must do, according to the majority of male preachers [and the women who perpetuate] is

ask yourself, if you complain, nag, whine.

and get this, if, after your passing or failing the CHURCH'S INQUISITION, if you are found

innocent at least of this, of course if you aren't attractive or blow like Linda Lovelace then you still may have some blame,

but they won't say that, they'll just give you that 'look', of not being that Godly submissive 'whore' wife,

and of course, patron motherly virtuous MARTYR saint who gives and gives and gives and then gives more to free work/volunteerism to the church [no wonder exploitation of women in economy is So easy to do, the church has mastered the art],

but, if you can half ass pass these tests, at least, in appearance [because they church will NEVER BELIEVE YOU ARE NOT AT FAULT--DAMN DON'T YOU KNOW YOU ARE THE CAUSE, EVIL WOMAN]

they'll go to the next woman to blame

THE MOTHER.

Oh my gosh, don't you know, the MOTHER, is the second woman to blame, now yes, there ARE women, mothers who abuse, I know firsthand,

but to blame 'mommy dearest' for YOU being an abusive asshole, rapist, desire to rape which is all that PORN IS, ONE BIG FANTASY POWER TRIP THAT THRIVES ON POWER OR DESIRE TO RAPE THE WEAK,

is just pure crock.

Another typical male entitlement card,

but DARE a woman, come into a church, and say, she has issues from ole daddy asshole who took no thought when he raped her repeatedly [and probably was a deacon in the church all the while],

because then, its well dear,

don't you know, its a sin to hold bitterness and unforgiveness and why you should pray for him because he's wounded,

but to hell with YOUR WOUNDS,

you're a woman, YOU'RE EXPECTED, EVEN CONSIDERED AN EXAMPLE OF CHRIST, THE MORE YOU ARE WOUNDED AND BLEED,

you know, seriously,

I will NEVER, step foot in a church ever again, that preaches or protects, the male entitlement or misogyny.

NEVER.

IF one wants to subject themselves to that, why not just take a razor blade, cut off your clitoris and labia too, don on the full face Burka, whip yourself or flog yourself a few times, for repentance or take a trip to Iran or somewhere and take off that Burka and they'll flog/rape you and stone you for you,

and just BE DONE WITH IT.

AND SAY, ITS FOR THE GLORY OF CHRIST.!

The church says, our nation is in danger of falling prey to Islam because of the left, because of cultural relativists, because of our screwed up liberal government,

true, to a POINT,

BUT MORESO,

because this nation, already has the misogynist submit never defy authority even if that authority is evil as Satan himself,

all in the name of Christ--RELIGION.

Complimentarism to a T,

all that so many women will have to do, in those fundamentalist and misogynist churches, is simply,

exchange some clothing.

That is it,

because truth be known,

they are already under a form of Sharia Law,

its just more sinister, its sugar coated, its glossed over with twisting scripture and the males,

love it. Oh they love it,

no wonder, they love to claim the scripture, that one where it says, has God not called you gods,

can't recall where its at, but now it makes sense, why the male church, loves that scripture so much.

Honestly, the more I seek, the harder it is, to actually reveal to any who dare to read, that God is not some male supermale ego/male supremacist misogynist,

because the indoctrination is THAT DEEP,

even my soul, as I seek, has been unreconcillably damaged, from years of suffering abuse at the hands of Godly men,

and women. Women I might add, who were already walking dead, by abuse, at the hands of MEN.

So I have come to the conclusion,

I TOO, BLAME THE PATRIARCHY.

the Curse, due to sin,

patriarchy was NOT God's plan,

it was Man's.

It was the foundation, for MALE ENTITLEMENT.

the Government, of man, for man,

that even usurps itself over GOD,

by demanding its subjects [woman] to bow down on her knees to the gods, the men gods,

submitting to him, no matter what,

if God says otherwise, the man's word, goes above GOD.

Isn't that nice,

I wonder,

what GOD is going to say, to HIS COMPETITION,

ON THAT FINAL DAY?

According to the male entitlement/misogyny still embraced, the SIN OF MISOGYNY, in the majority of churches today,

I guess we, women won't know,

because we're so evil, don't you know, even if we do accept Christ's death on the cross, we will never get in Heaven,

not unless, our HUSBANDS,

give us permission.

Think about it

[note: it is Time, for women, who love Jesus Christ, to confront the church, to hold them accountable, for the SIN OF MISOGYNY AND THE SIN OF PATRIARCHY, because they ARE SINS,

they are totally contrary to Jesus Christ,

until we do, we have NO PLACE, in confronting other political or religious beliefs, that are misogynist or oppress women.]

The Islam Problem? There is only ONE Answer, Jesus Christ!

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That is right,

because Islam is not the problem, SIN, is the problem, beliefs in false prophets is the problem, REJECTING JESUS CHRIST,

IS THE PROBLEM.

Did you know, Jesus warned, there would come a time, that they would kill believers thinking they were doing a service to God?

Yes, IT IS WRITTEN: John 16

1 “All this I have told you so that you will not fall away. 2 They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the hour is coming when those who kill you will think they are offering a service to God. 3 They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me. 4 I have told you this, so that when their hour comes you will remember that I warned you about them.

John 15

18 “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. 20 Remember what I told you: ‘Servants are not greater than their master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. 21 They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 Those who hate me hate my Father as well. 24 If I had not done among them the works no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. 25 But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated me without reason.’

26 “When the Holy Spirit, [Comforter, Advocate, Conviction of Sin] comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me. 27 And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning.

The answer is not in flesh, warfare,

it is in Spirit, Obeying God, SUBMITTING TO GOD, RESISTING THE DEVIL,

we know, that those who hate, HATE, do not KNOW God nor is the Spirit of God in them, as IT IS WRITTEN:

1 John 4:13-21

13 By this we know that we abide in him and he is us, because he has given us of his own Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son as the Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 So we know and believe the love God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17 In this is love perfected with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and he who fears is not perfected in love. 19 We love, because he first loved us. 20 If any one says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother who he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21 And this commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should love his brother also.

Does this mean that we cannot Hate the things done to people, women, in other beliefs, including those who are false prophets within Christianity? NO! God hates evil,

God hates sin,

but we are to hate sin, love the sinner, as God loves us, as God sent His only Begotten Son for us, remember, God first loved us,

not the other way around.

We didn't seek God from our sinful nature, no, God, sought us out, to redeem us, to save us, to recreate us, from our fallen state.

“None is righteous, no, not one;
11 no one understands;
no one seeks for God.
12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
no one does good,
not even one.”
13 “Their throat is an open grave;
they use their tongues to deceive.”
“The venom of asps is under their lips.”
14 “Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”
15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 in their paths are ruin and misery,
17 and the way of peace they have not known.”
18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

19 Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. 20 For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

9 What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin,

Romans 3:11-19, Romans 4:9

We can 'fight' laws and empires till we are Blue in the face,

until we Submit to God, TRUST in God, all human effort outside of God, will fail.

Sometimes, yes, God uses evil, including those who hate him, to speak to us, to woo us into REPENTANCE,

because God wants to save Souls,

not our comfort, not our welfare only, not our prosperity, God wants to save souls. Throughout the history, God has saved a remnant, for Himself,

in hard and perilous and evil times. The world may go one way, violent, misogynist, cruel, haters of God and haters of good,

but, question is, WHICH WAY DO YOU GO?

Do you follow the world? OR, do you Submit to God? NOT to religion,

to God.

We cannot submit to God if we don't know and trust God,

Fear of God, is more than simply awe, reverence, dread,

dread for those who refuse to repent of sin. [not legalism, you can be legalist and religious and still go to hell, its by FAITH, in God's Holiness and Grace, not by our own 'supposedly' righteousness because simple fact is,

we don't have any righteousness OUTSIDE of Him, God, Christ Jesus.

Oh, we may have knowledge of good, but that isn't the same, as being regenerated, or what is termed, Born Again [in spirit].

We live in a very evil world, and in these later days, we are living in the fruit of Satan, seriously, no other way to say it,

these last days, evil will be considered good, and good considered evil,

that is why, yes, you have regimes, professing god, who want to legalize rape,

its evil, its the worship of BAAL,

read the Old Testament, its all there,

its amazing, how many of the old practices and rituals, shedding of blood/cutting one self, sacrificing virgins, forced prostitution, burning their own sons and daughters in the fire, for Moloch,

are still practiced today, the old demons are still around, still wrecking lies and havoc on the earth. People are still ensnared,

that is why, Paul said, our warfare is not of the flesh, but in the spiritual realm.

OUR DUTY, IS TO BE OBEDIENT TO GOD, TO LIVE IN CHRIST, NO MATTER WHAT,

TO NOT SHRINK BACK,

NOT EVEN IN THE FACE OF

DEATH.

Yes, we are to be martyrs,

we are to take up our cross and Follow Jesus,

the church today, for the most part, is a fallen away church--apostate,

that is going to change however, God promised, in Revelations, Daniel, Jeremiah, and Isaiah, and Ezekiel,

God is setting apart, sanctifying, the remnant, the pure bride, the body of Christ.

The saints,

and, interestingly, did you know, in Revelations, the Spirit told the Apostle John, that in the last days, the Saints,

would be 'beheaded'?

Yes,

"And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years" (Rev 20:4).

So, why fear?

Jesus told us, not to love this life, not to put our hopes and treasures of our heart, in this world, in this life, but to store up treasure in Heaven,

we need to go back, to the teachings of the Word of God, and stop, the love of this world, which will soon pass away,

the reason so many are wrapped up in fear, in wanting change on this planet, is that they do NOT BELIEVE IN GOD, IN JESUS,

THEY DO NOT HAVE THAT HOPE ETERNAL.

And God, speaks this to us all through the Old Testament too, not just in the New Testament,

it was Always about,

us coming to Him, Him restoring and reconciling us fallen creation, to Him.

The more I read the Word of God, the more my heart rejoices, the more I see, His work, the more I realize,

He is in control, even if it looks, like He isn't, and He, will watch over our souls and protect us, IF we trust, obey, and follow Him,

no matter what.

Do I hate what the Islamists and other misogynists do, Yes, sure I do,

I just don't get all wrapped up in fear or hate anymore, because I see now, a much larger picture, and not only that,

a plan, that God had, in the days of Abraham,

there ARE going to be descendants of Hagar, that will know Jesus Christ,

all the haters of Jesus in the world, can't stop it, they can't stop God no matter how much they shed blood to do so,

no matter how much the Beast may look like he is in total control over this planet,

he isn't.

It just seems that way,

Prayer, there is such a need for intercessory prayer, in fact, I am finding,

one cannot live in this day and age, WITHOUT CONSTANT PRAYER, CONSTANT DEPENDENCE ON GOD AND CONSTANT LIVING IN CHRIST,

that means, putting down the flesh and its carnal sinful nature, living in obedience to Christ, walking in love,

it is NOT an easy walk, life,

it is a daily, daily struggle. The instant, I try to walk in God, the minute, I see, this sinful nature surge in me,

this lower nature, that must be put to death,

we do that, by living in the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, in Love. Why Jesus said,

pray for your enemies, turn the other cheek, stand up against sin, but do so, in love, lest you also fall into sin,

it sounds all good doesn't it? But, its not as easy as it sounds,

it IS a real, warfare,

a spiritual warfare.

But I am finding, God is good, God is so good in His Grace, that He loves us so much, and that He changes us, our hearts, our wills, even our desires,

if we so let Him.

And they aren't burdensome, or hateful,

we see God as a hateful vengeful God because that is what OUR sin nature is, hateful and vengeful,

we mold God or try to, in our image,

but you see, its supposed to be, us being molded into His image. [regeneration]

We should pray, for the Kingdom of Heaven, to be on Earth, as it is in Heaven,

that the powers of strongholds, false teachings, be Broken, in the spirit realm, and in the earth,

WHEN the Body of Christ, submits to Jesus, and Repents,

we will see the outpouring of God's Spirit in the darkest regions,

but WE must too, repent, submit, take up the cross,

and yes, they Will hate us, they will kill many of us, cause us to suffer--if they hated Jesus, they will also hate us,

it isn't like, we weren't warned.

This is why, we must, be secure in God, and we cannot do that, by living on the fence, by living half in the world, half for God,

God is a jealous God,

its either Him, or else.

That means, NOT religion, NOT politics, NOT our 'husbands' [the patriarchal idolatry of making 'men' little gods, and GOD will judge that, believe you me] and the same goes to idolatry of making women, into goddesses,

idolatry could be money, technology, our own knowledge, anything that puts itself Above GOD,

including religion--including religious rituals, legalism,

that isn't Faith, that is putting ourselves up as 'gods',

God condemns that.

Many legalists, lovers of the 'law' hate Jesus, because you see, they are still trying to either,

mold God into their 'god image' that promotes the selfishness and hate of man,

or

they are trying to show themselves as gods, as holy gods,

rather than,

coming to God, in brokenness, in contrite heart,

confessing sin, the need for redemption, forgiveness, and salvation.

OUTSIDE of God's Grace,

we can do nothing.....

the answer, to the world's problems, to violence, to hate, to misogyny,

isn't in changes in 'laws', because changes in laws don't change human nature nor human hearts,

no,

they don't change the consciousness of victims either,

no, the answer is,

Jesus Christ. The Cross,

its as simple as that.

I am closing, with an excerpt, of a sermon, that everyone, should read,

why Jesus Wept.

I pray, that God softens hearts, that He reveals His truth, to you, as you read....

love, in Christ Jesus,

Natasha [He is changing more and more every day, I am in awe, of His mercy, His love, His long suffering patience, towards me, I pray, the rest of my days, He never, cries, because of any thing I do...or think or say.]

Why Jesus Wept

By Michael Youssef, Ph.D.

As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and said, "If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace — but now it is hidden from your eyes." — Luke 19:41-42, NIV

http://www.leadingtheway.org/site/PageServer?pagename=sto_feature

Finding Goddess in God, in Christ Jesus!

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Videos included at end of post--be sure to hit the large screen button, they are a blessing! If you love nature and animals, you'll like these, also, I will be also including numerous scriptures I am finding about God's care for the animals, and yes, there Were laws, standards, about treatment of Animals.

I would like to come back to writing about finding my Goddess in Christ Jesus and what that means exactly.

During my time of struggling and walking in my own path, I was curious about goddess beliefs and I began to search them. However, I did not find them to be real, maybe because I knew there was only One True God,

however, I did understand, the reason so many women are drawn into the goddess beliefs, world wide, and though I could not embrace them nor worship them, I did believe that there was a huge gap, a huge hole in the hearts of women,

in relating to God, as a female. When I came back to my faith in Christ, I began to question God about misogyny, patriarchy, whether or not the Heavenly Father could ever relate or identify to me and women,

not as a male being but as a female. I should say, to clarify, I am NOT agnostic, nor am I of the Mother Earth religion, I have searched them, yes, studied them, yes,

but for me, I wanted to find my answers in the Word of God, I wanted to know what He thought, His ways, not mine. It wasn't so much that I wanted to,

I needed to. I simply could not wrap my mind around loving a God who I thought might be a misogynist, patriarchal, woman hating God, no matter how much I tried, yet, too, something deep in my Spirit, just didn't witness or confirm, so many of the patriarchal and yes, misogynist interpretations of scripture,

so, I needed to find my own answers. So, I prayed, I sought God's face, I asked for the discernment of the Holy Spirit to lead me into all truth, because I truly wanted to know, the Truth, God's truth,

not man's, not the church [run by men usually], not feminists, not anyone, I wanted to hear from God, for my own well being, for my own Sanity, for my own Peace.

I had to put down or cast down rather, so many conditioning taught to me by churches, preachers, teachers, using scriptures, and get on my knees and seek God, and learn to be still, and hear His voice, not mine, not anyone else. Little did I know Then,

that God would open up not only my eyes and Spirit to so many marvelous and wonderful truths about Him, His character [Him not being male exactly either], but He would, heal me of so much damage, to my soul, from years and years, of being told, conditioned, both socially, secular and religious, and not only from those conditions,

but from the myths and misconceptions of God by none other than those opposed to Christ, including many in feminist circles who are opposed to God in all totality. Because little did I see then, that there are also, misogynist conditioning's there too, but they are subtle, they are hidden, and they are so easily missed. I am going to be really blunt and say, one has to be sincere in Heart, willing to submit to God's Will,

in searching for His truth. There are simply way too many voices out there and opinions and many may Seem right,

but they are counterfeits. Let me just state for the record, IF, IF, a statement or belief does NOT line up with the Total Word of God, in Spirit and in Truth,

I reject it.

Because its a lie.

How can I be convinced of this? Easy, one, faith, two, I've had my fill of living and believing the lies of the enemy and this world, and I've seen and suffered enough of the death that comes from those lies.

So yes, I'm not afraid now, to just come out and say, what I believe, based on the Word of God, the world be damned, seriously,

either go all the way with your faith, or don't bother, I'm done sitting on the fence. Besides, its a miserable life,

and one that God is hindered from truly revealing Himself to us, to you, to me.

So, anyhow, I begin to search and seek and wait on the Lord and pretty much I'm just staying in prayer and reading the Word, listening with my heart, dealing with what God wants me to deal with in My life, My heart, etc., and Trusting Him [trust is Huge, let me just say it again, Trust is huge, without Trust, well, its like trying to find your way blind in the darkness].

What can I say, I was SHOCKED, seriously, SHOCKED, to just how many lies and misconceptions about God and God's love for women and His creating woman in His image, I mean, I really was so bogged down and had internalized So much misogyny, So much self-hate, So much resentment for being female,

and I'm not saying this in the usual traditional neo-conservative or fundamentalist way we often hear it, you know, the 'well women were biologically assigned to give birth and well, that's pretty much that, everything else, they are evil, tempters, needing to be subjugated, you know the usual misogynist teachings, sugar coated though they may be.

And even if, lets say, you aren't Christian or even spiritual, you are Still effected by those teachings because patriarchy is in Every society, community, system, etc. Some yes, far worse than others, but my point is, we are effected by those beliefs, on a very deep level, and women,

God wants to reconcile women to Him, to His plan for women, but He won't force it, its up to us, to ask and seek and not shut our hearts. And His plan, was and is,

not what we so often hear, in our world today, never was, but too, we live in a fallen world, a world under sin, and the problem is,

we have contributed to God, what really, should have been contributed to Satan and Sin.

And in the process, MEN, have become IDOLS, so have women, in some places but all in all, MEN, by patriarchy, have become IDOLS and little 'gods',

with women, forced to subjugate and worship the MALE.

Wrong, that is just so wrong, and I've seen this in the church too. However, I have also been seeing, God is dealing with the church on this issue,

church meaning, Body of Christ, not denomination, not a building, the Body of Christ. God is reconciling and restoring, spiritually, both women, and men, Adam and Eve,

Adam, well, you may think, is it because God is making males more feminine? Not exactly, no, but He is working, among many men,

in reconciling their Adam role, in tending to the animals and the planet.

Ah, Yes! That is what Adam did before the fall, he tended to the garden/planet and the animals. Eve was his helper, companion, carrier of life, of life force, that same force, we see in everything, God has created,

from the organic to the inorganic, all matter, all anti-matter.

But, rather than simply sit here and just write, what I have been seeing in my Spirit, or rather, what the Holy Spirit has been quickening in my Spirit,

I'll simply just share, a few things from His Word, with some videos/photographs,

and well, you can pray, seek and ask, and may the Lord take the veils off our eyes and soften our hearts so that We can see Him, His love, His salvation and His marvelous works, including

creating us, both Male and Female, in His image.

[again, I do not believe God is only Male, I believe, God is more than we can picture or imagine, that God is Holy, Great, Loving, that God has Female side too, not because I want to believe this, but because, there are Too many scriptures, that He says, things that are from Mother character, Nurturing, not only that, but too many things in Nature, His creation, that totally just turn our little 'put God in some little box and human mold' all upside down, His diversity, His amazing detail, His ability to turn things on their head, for example, seahorses, males, carry the young and give birth, Ha! How is that for a twist on patriarchy!]
It is My hope though, that this blog, brings Healing, Restoration and Reconciliation to women, who are questioning, who are wounded, who are hurting, who are afraid, who are in doubt, because I've searched all the 'alternatives', I've heard all the Christian faith is this, this, and this, I've heard and read all the slams against God,

and I'm just here to say, these accusations, these misconceptions, false teachings, are just that--lies. It is time,

for the True character of God, His love and concern for All women, be heard, in regards to Women.

God--Our Creator, Creator of the Universe, The Earth, The Creator of Life, of Life force, let us begin, to sit in awe, of His/Her works. And may you see, your worth, in His image, in His creating, You, as Woman.

note: in the Genesis, I am going to Highlight, some points, that are often missed, one big one, is that, the sun and stars, were created AFTER the earth, not before. Light, was created first, before the Sun, AND,
there were Waters, water below, water above, separation of waters, could gases also be, waters? Also, one day, to us, can be a thousands of years to God, But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. 1 Peter 3:8

What caught my attention was the creation of Light, then Sun, later with Stars/celestial bodies, and then, the Earth, then the sun, like, this order of things, and one created to support the one and the next one to support the one,

its all Connected, and what is really exciting, is how Jesus often said, the least will be first in Heaven, the first last. Wow, really think about that, our order of things, is not God's order,

if That doesn't make you ponder for a bit, well, think on these scriptures, then watch the videos, and then, well,

seek God, what do any of us have to lose? another thing, if you study/watch science, the THEORIES [you know its funny how many think 'theories' are gospel truth yet they get their panties in a twist when you mention creation], btw, I think, yes, there is evolution to a point, that there is yes, organic material that formed and a lot of what is taught in the different theories, I have not a problem with them, what I have a Problem though, is when there is outright rejection of creation theory, simply because people are closed minded, Unless we can travel back into time and actually have been there, if you want to talk simply from secular/logic science view, ain't none of us, know a thing, its all a scientific Guess, so, there! :~

Psalm 24

Of David. A psalm.

¹ The earth is the LORD's, and everything in it,
the world, and all who live in it;

² for he founded it upon the seas
and established it upon the waters.

The Beginning

¹ In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

² Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

³ And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. ⁴ God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. ⁵ God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

⁶ And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." ⁷ So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. ⁸ God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.

⁹ And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. ¹⁰ God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.

¹¹ Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. ¹² The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. ¹³ And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.

¹⁴ And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, ¹⁵ and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. ¹⁶ God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. ¹⁷ God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, ¹⁸ to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. ¹⁹ And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.

²⁰ And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." ²¹ So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. ²² God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." ²³ And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.

²⁴ And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. ²⁵ God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

²⁶ Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, ^b]">[b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

²⁷ So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.

²⁸ God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."

²⁹ Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. ³⁰ And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.

³¹ God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.

Genesis 2

¹ Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.

² By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. ³ And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

[for more on Creation, Genesis, and also the Hebrew terms, see

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201-2;&version=31;

In closing,

this is Just for starters,

I will be writing more on God, what He is revealing to me in His word, and in Nature,

about how He cares about animals, women, how several things in nature, are messages to us, confirmed also in His Word, example, God revealed something to me about the squids whom they call 'man eaters' and the relevance to those squids, what the scientists who study them are finding, and also, the hatred towards women, who are resisting misogyny, who are also called, man eaters, man haters. That is just one, for starters...

how he Hates the shedding of blood, violence, misogyny, abuse of animals, abuse of children, oh yes,

its All in His Word, and though this world will pass away, His Word will never pass away [oh, He is making a new Earth--without Sin, and oh, if You haven't been paying attention to the wonders they are finding in the Universe, things that are challenging All former theories, Oh, it is just mind blowing people,

and the violence, the death and rape of our planet, to women [Congo, Sudan, beliefs of hate and killing the life force of women, children, war, etc], to animals,

Jesus Is Going to Come in His Glory,

and all these things, will be, held accountable,

every deed, done in darkness, will be exposed to the light.

Tree of Life, Book of Life, Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, Book of Deeds/Works,

Faith,

or Disbelief,

its your choice.

Choose LIFE,

God is Love, God is Life.

He is and gives the breathe of life,

to all living things.

Amen and Amen!!!

See Post Below-- a Followup Series

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I haven't had time, [and yes I do know I still need to clean up this blog but in case, just look at the change that Jesus has made in me, there is Nothing impossible with Christ,

nothing.

Anyway, this blog and another, I feel compelled to really start putting more scripture, that relates to several of the issues I have written on here. Because I believe, the more I read the Word of God and the more I come to Trust God that He is the answer,

the problem isn't Islam, the problem isn't politics, the problem isn't the church, or patriarchy

the problem is SIN.

Sin that caused patriarchy by the perversion of God's perfect plan, the Sin that caused power perversion by political systems or even the need for them, the Sin that caused false teachings and false prophets because the wolves came in and deceived as Paul and Peter [apostles/early church] both warned,

as did Jesus,

did you know Jesus also warned,

He said, there would come a day where they will kill my disciples because they 'think' they are doing God a service.

"They will make you outcasts from the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God. John 16:2

an Hour will come for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering a service to God.

That is what Jesus warned,

and this, does this explain today's world?

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of stress. For men will he lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, fierce, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding the form of religion but denying the power of it. (2 Timothy 3:1-5a RSV)

The Imam's Daughter Is God a Misogynist Series

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Intercessory Prayer Request

for her and women like her in the same situation

excerpt: from Women of Islam [also from news article]

Hannah Shah had been raped by her father and faced a forced marriage. She fled, became a Christian and now fears for her life.

We are all too familiar with the persecution of Christians in countries such as Pakistan and Afghanistan. Yet sitting in front of me is a British woman whose life has been threatened in this country solely because she is a Christian. Indeed, so real is the threat that the book she has written about her experiences has had to appear under an assumed name.

The book is called The Imam’s Daughter because "Hannah Shah" is just that: the daughter of an imam in one of the tight-knit Deobandi Muslim Pakistani communities in the north of England. Her father emigrated to this country from rural Pakistan some time in the 1960s and is, apparently, a highly respected local figure.

He is also an incestuous child abuser, repeatedly raping his daughter from the age of five until she was 15, ostensibly as part of her punishment for being "disobedient". At the age of 16 she fled her family to avoid the forced marriage they had planned for her in Pakistan. A much, much greater affront to "honour" in her family’s eyes, however, was the fact that she then became a Christian – an apostate. The Koran is explicit that apostasy is punishable by death; thus it was that her father the imam led a 40-strong gang – in the middle of a British city – to find and kill her.

Hannah Shah says her story is not unique – that there are many other girls in British Muslim families who are oppressed and married off against their will, or who have secretly become Christians but are too afraid to speak out. She wants their voices to be heard and for Britain, the land of her birth, to realise the hidden misery of these women. READ MORE HERE...http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5907458.ece.

PRAY:

For her protection, For God to send His angels to protect her, to blind those seeking her, to put obstacles in their way, to make them forget, to be lured in another direction

For her father's IMMEDIATE handling by God, and that God reveals His power and His glory in Christ Jesus. For her family's hearts, that they may be softened, that the lies and entrenched influence of the enemy, be bound on earth as it is in heaven.

For more to read her story and for more prayer warriors to be raised up on their behalf as well as other women/girls/children. [boys included]

I need to pray on this and will come back to this,

also, I am requesting prayer request for the blogger, of Women Of Islam,

pray for their protection, blessing, discernment, and that God moves through her/them.

ALSO--PRAY TOO FOR THE HUNDREDS OF CHRISTIAN GIRLS WHO ARE RAPED IN THEIR HOMES, BY SO CALLED 'GODLY MEN',

WHO ARE NOTHING BUT,

AND PRAY, THAT CHRISTIANS, TRUE BELIEVERS, DEMAND THE CHURCH TO STOP PANDERING, HIDING, IGNORING, OR JUST CHALKING THESE HORRORS UP TO JUST

THE SUFFERING AND SUBMISSION TO GOD,

WE NEED TO BE ACCOUNTABLE,

WE CANNOT, DEMAND THE END OF ABUSE IN ISLAM, IF WE TOLERATE IT IN THE CHURCH.

AND GOD, IN NO WAY,

TOLERATES THESE ABUSES/SINS IN HIS NAME, NOR WILL HE IGNORE THEM...THEY WILL BE COMING INTO THE LIGHT, TO BE EXPOSED,

GOD IS NOT MOCKED,

WHAT IS SOWED IS REAPED.

THERE IS NO EXCUSE,

FOR THE ABUSE AND MISTREATMENT OF WOMEN, NONE, WHATSOEVER. JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE WOMEN.

We aren't just appendages of men, or some 'other' fixture, hanging on to the side of men and hoping to maybe, get in Heaven,

no, we are DAUGHTERS, of God, in Christ Jesus,

not bitches
not whores
not sluts
not demons
not Jezebels
not temptation
not evil
not weak
not sensual

no

we are Daughters

"And a woman who had suffered from a flow of blood for twelve years and had spent all her living upon physicians, and could not be healed by anyone, Came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His garment, and immediately her flow of blood ceased. And Jesus said, Who is it who touched Me? When all were denying it, Peter and those who were with him said, Master, the multitudes surround You and press You on every side! But Jesus said, Someone did touch Me; for I perceived that [healing] power has gone forth from Me. And when the woman saw that she had not escaped notice, she came up trembling, and, falling down before Him, she declared in the presence of all the people for what reason she had touched Him and how she had been instantly cured. And He said to her, Daughter, your faith has made you well! Go in peace " Luke 8:43-48

Most who refer to this scripture focus on the healing aspect,

but there is more to this,

than simply, the healing [not that the healing isn't important].

For one, in that day, women who had illnesses, especially anything with menstrual were deemed unclean, evil, in fact, women were deemed evil anyway, in Religion, in that day the pagans weren't any better, women were nothing but bodies to be pimped out in temples, or goddess images, were propped up, not to empower women [as some feminists like to claim--that's one of the counterfeits of Satan to also destroy women] but to make goods, to sell, for male wealth [read Acts, about Ephesus, ACTS in the Bible that is, temple prostitution was huge commerce then as it is today].

they were deemed less than, not even human, simply just baby makers, fields to be tilthed, [as in Islam today still], and for a woman to enter into the presence of ANY in public, without disease was to know a woman would be persecuted simply because she was She,

but to do so, with blood, was to risk death.

These women were rejected, not just by society, but by the religious, and they internalized that,

why she came trembling, in fear.

We internalize those beliefs too, why we may come to Christ, God in prayer but always with this cloud of doubt, IF we have any faith, its usually based on how good of women we are, according to the rules of patriarchy, church conditions, etc. [misconstruing of scripture for MEN'S sexual benefit, usually],

anyway, we see our oppression and subjugation as the Will of God, AND our dejection, rejection, self-hate, as pleasing to God,

nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, they are Satan's lies, how much work in the Body of Christ has been limited or simply non-existent due to the internalization of Satan's lies that women are hated by God, or

if not hated, simply just

tolerated as evil necessities to give birth.

IF you read the Word of God and do not pray before, asking the Holy Spirit to reveal to you all things, its very easy, to see misogyny in the Bible, to see God as a misogynist, very much like that Imam,

it takes a lot of prayer and searching, because you see sons, sons, sons, men, male terms, women usually in references to evil symbolism AND if that is all you see [and Satan will be sure to point those out to you],

you will think, like I would safely guess, 95% of women in the Body of Christ [church] do believe, that this is just how it is,

or that, if God accepts us, its only based on our womb's ability to bear children and if we just bear children and keep our mouth shut and take the abuse, we'll be saved.

And even those who do become free from those internalization's or at least, mentally, the social conditioning AND the years, is just like the Jews in Egypt after God set them free, they Still had the mind of the 'enslaved',

women even more so. We are the slaves to slaves,

the wretched of the wretched, all over this planet. Including in the church [thanks to the misogynist and false teachers who turned Christianity, those wolves Paul warned of, into another Pharasectical legalism].

But this one scripture, was the one that God used, to open my eyes and set me free, from the lies that had enslaved my soul for years,

this woman, internalized with all the misogyny of her age and prior to her age, internalized religious misogyny, took it upon herself,

to defy the odds, to take the risk, what else did she have to lose, she had already spent all she had,

and to step out on faith but if you notice, she didn't just like, step out in this full blown I know who I am and I'm o.k. faith, no, she still had that low self worth as a woman,

why she crawled and touched, barely touched, the hem of Jesus garment, thinking, if I just grab the hem, maybe He'll have mercy on me,

not like the men who simply just walk right up to Jesus face, oh no,

she touched the bottom hem of His garment, coming to Him, in the very same low self worth as women, that internalized misogyny--that is reinforced by even current church teachings,

as not one worthy but maybe, just maybe, God will be merciful,

and what did Jesus say?

Who touched me,

and did she immediately come forth? NO, I would bet she was terrified that He would rebuke her, that they would gather her up and stone her to death,

but what happened, she poured out her heart, still in that internalized misogynist God I am woman and I know I am not worthy NOT just because I am sinner but because I am a WOMAN, that Daughter of Eve, that horrible demon creature, that is the blame for all men's sins,

you know, that mentality we are conditioned to believe and embrace, its so embedded its in our skin, we breathe it,

and What did Jesus say?

DAUGHTER

DAUGHTER

DAUGHTER

Wow, really think on that, really pray on that, and let God reveal to you, just how Powerful and Healing and Loving that one statement is, truly is,

DAUGHTER

your Faith has Made you Whole, Go in Peace.

Wow, Jesus, in revealing the true Character of God, how God really sees women, how God truly Loves women,

is the most beautiful thing...truly will set you free, if you give it to Jesus,

[I'm sharing from an intimate experience I had, this was the scripture Jesus revealed Himself to me, after a long horrid spiritual warfare I had with those very forces that I was convinced, that we as women, were less than...in God's eyes, long story but, well, God is So Good, why yes, I can boldly say, He is all I need, my goddess, [identifying with Him and in Him or finding my identity in Him as a woman/female], my friend, my lover [not physical but intimate/friend], my savior, my heavenly father/mother, everything....if we just seek Him and Trust Him,

but we can't Trust, if we believe, have the enslaved mind, that we are nothing but hated subjects....

and we can't Pray and have any faith for other women if we do not realize this nor can we, share God's love and will to deliver those women, in those regions who are brutally oppressed,

if we are still in that mindset ourselves.

We so forget, that yes, God is Holy, God is Just,

but He is not just a ruler who sits up way in the skies judging us,

who does not relate to our suffering,

oh no,

we forget,

God stepped down from heaven, Jesus stepped off His throne, and came down to us, became like us, with no sin, and suffered, just like us,

man beat him, spit on him, tortured him, sexually humiliated him [casting lots for his clothes], mocked him,

Jesus went through all of this, NOT my will but YOUR will He cried to the Father and the Father said,

my will....

He suffered like us, in skin like ours, with a heart beat like ours,

but He was without sin, totally and completely innocent,

to save us,

but to also, show us,

I am not just a God up in the Heavens who can't understand your pain, or simply have pity from afar, oh no,

I am a God, who took the human form and suffered too,

if you really think about that, just how powerful that is, the ONE TRUE HOLY GOD,

DID THAT, FOR ALL OF US,

BECAUSE HE LOVES US,

SONS

AND

DAUGHTERS

HE LOVES US.

He really, really loves us....

that means, He really, really loves women, He is no respecter of persons.

**note: one more thing, sons, in Bible, actually, means both genders [a word for humans], if its son, its male, if its sons, its both male and female, also refer to the scripture, there is neither greek nor jew, male or female, all are one in Christ Jesus...not that we lose our femaleness, no, but that, God does not discriminate based on gender, and I believe, based on what God has revealed to me, reading in His Word, that the Spirit of God has both, male and female qualities,

He is both Father, and Mother, and its in the Life giving power, God showed this to me, I won't get into detail on this right now because it would take posting a LOT of scripture, basically the entire Bible,

but I see it, like I've never seen before. I wished all women could see it, because its just too awesome for words,

but also too, I read, God also, uses the Bride, symbolic for the church [believers, body of Christ, not the physical building], and males are included in that....

well, here, read here, I love this one blog btw: http://godswordtowomen.wordpress.com/

I can't find/locate the exact post on the sons - meaning plural, I know I have bookmarked it too from another translation sight, a commenter from Spain said it was common usage there too, but I thought I'd mention it,

there are several terms in the Bible, if you read them literally in today's context, the texts can be easily misconstrued,

unless you read the Entire Bible a lot and can see the whole text, but even then, if you are not aware of the Hebrew and Aramaic languages, its easy to misunderstand--or texts be taken and abused,

by those who want to use scripture to abuse or to prop themselves up as little 'gods'.

peace,

A Universal Doctrine of Women's Rights!

2009-03-24T15:11:00.001-06:00

A Universal Doctrine of Women's Rights
Feminism
By Phyllis Chesler and Marcia Pappas

It is time for feminists, both women and men, of all faiths, and of no faith, to stand together for a woman’s right not to be murdered in the name of family honor. Indeed, we welcome men and women of all faiths, including Islam, to stand with us against female genital mutilation/castration, forced veiling, child marriage, arranged marriage, polygamy, and “honorcide,” and in favor of a woman’s right to live as a westerner in the West without being threatened and beaten for refusing to wear hijab, wanting to have non-Muslim friends, wear makeup, attend college, drive her own car, or end an abusive marriage. Muslim and Sikh women have been honor murdered in North America for all these alleged crimes against their religion and their culture.

read the rest here: http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2009/03/24/a-universal-doctrine-of-womens-rights/

Also, read the current, several articles here: http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/

Finding my Goddess in God, in Christ Jesus, He is All I Need! Is God a Misogynist?

2009-03-20T16:04:00.004-06:00

I have been wrestling this morning, well for two days actually, with God, His Word, in prayer,

about the role of women, the identity of women, in Christ. [I will explain what I mean about the finding my Goddess in Christ at the near end of this post]

And I do mean, wrestling, having it out, per se...while I won't go into all the details here [it would be really long if I did], I will say,

He is showing me, how So much of the texts have been misconstrued and can be also, read in the way that they are influenced by our Social Conditioning [patriarchy] and that, if we do not continue in prayer and in seeking the Holy Spirit to lead us into All truth, rather than listen to the voices of our culture, our churches, even other people,

those self-hate internalized self-abasement beliefs will speak to us, rather than what God's Word actually means, and this includes those scriptures that are most popular in use to force women into subjugation, e.g., Timothy, etc.

Is it ANY WONDER, SERIOUSLY, WHY SO MANY WOMEN, HAVE FORSAKEN CHRIST AND HAVE TURNED TO THE WAYS OF COUNTERFEIT?

That is another thing, reading Women's Space the other day, and may I say, once I had a lot of anger towards Heart but God has now placed an understanding and compassion in my heart towards her, though I have not told her this yet nor have I apologized as my words were so harsh to her I doubt seriously if any apology would be received, for that I truly do understand, we can't take back words,

it simply is not that simple, but we can pray, seriously, with all diligence, not in some better than thou paternalist way, NO, not what I am saying, but prayer in humility, acknowledging our sin and wrong, asking God to restore what we have aided in robbing, asking God to heal, what our words have wounded, asking God to teach us, why Jesus says, pray for your enemies,

not because you are Better than them, no, but so, you can see YOUR SIN, YOUR SHORTCOMINGS, and also, truly see Them as Christ sees them, not through YOUR EYES, BUT HIS,

and when you do this,

you change, your heart changes, and so now, I often go to Heart's place, read, and God speaks to me, a lot through many of her posts, and through this intercessory prayer has begun [spiritual warfare] on behalf of all women,

rather than simply just screaming at the world, God is showing me the power of prayer and how He really Loves Women, helping me to See how He does yes, see and has even in His Word, rebuked 'patriarchy' and He is showing me daily that what I have been conditioned by religion, is wrong, that God is not a misogynist nor does He demand that women become sado-masochists and self-hating, self-abusing, and that includes embracing misogynist abuse, just because you are a WOMAN, to glorify Him either. Suffering for doing good, Suffering for Being in Christ, that is one thing, Suffering in this self-debasing self-hate martyrdom type of 'femaleness' is NOT what Christ demanded of us, yet this is what we often hear and have been conditioned to believe, it is one of Satan's most clever of lies IN the church,

and it is, how we see God, our identity in God, and what yes, eventually leads to separation from God, not on HIS part, but on ours. The thing is though,

its not God that we are seeing, when we debase ourselves, simply because we are Female, no, its not the True God, its a counterfeit, and it is here, that we must stay in prayer without ceasing, in God's Word [that means, God's Word, NOT what this preacher says or that preacher or this man or that man, including your husband, it means, just that, IN Christ, IN God's Word, IN OBEDIENCE TO GOD, NOT MAN], so that we might have spiritual discernment through the Holy Spirit.

The problem is however, is that in the flesh, these things are so easily misunderstood, and why they are so easily, abused,

power especially, how they are so easily construed and rationalized to permit and to commit, the worst sins, sins that God was extremely vocal numerous times against, such as the shedding of blood, of playing God, in other words, and the best example I can come up with right now, on the top of my head, was when the church, in its embracing misogyny, killed thousands upon thousands of innocent women and girls, the 'witch hunts',

and in fact, guess what? These witch hunts are Still going on today, just in different ways, but that demon of misogyny is running rampant, posing as an angel of light in today's world, in many churches still.

But before I go on, I must also urgently say, there is also, another demon at work, the demon of counterfeit and that includes counterfeit liberation of women, because its not true liberation,

not even from self-hate, and its so sinister and so cleverly done that its very easy, to not see it. One must pray for discernment,

and this is not something that just happens overnight, because the conditioning and the lies of Satan [the father of lies] we have come to know so well, that and our sinful nature,

so in other words, what I am trying to say here, as I am seeking God, His Word, about my identity in Christ as a woman, about Woman made in God's Image, about the misogyny in our world today and the violence against women, and the indifference we often see in mainstream Christianity towards that violence, even justifications for, the misogyny, and also, tragic it is, even those who profess Christ, committing grave sin, against God's creation, WOMAN, WOMEN.

He is showing me in two ways, one, the conditioning and lies used in religion, and two, the counterfeit that we find in the world or in other beliefs.

Both however, produce the same results for women,

death, self-hate, fear, self-loathing, hate of men, and most of all

A HATE TOWARDS GOD.

That leads to this separation, and that is what I am wrestling with the most, is just how separated from God I became, [after becoming Christian years ago and then turning away] DUE to

the misogyny in the church, due to the abuse of scripture to abuse women, due to so many things and its not just women, its about the treatment of the poor, the treatment of the immigrant, our enemies, our politics, all of it. Though I shall have to add, so not to disrespect or use the Word of God wrongly,

that my own sin and selfishness was also a big part of my turning away from God, it Wasn't just the misogyny, the misogyny however, was one of the tools that the enemy used to rationalize in my mind,

rather than coming to God and staying in His presence and seeking Him, I rationalized my finding my 'own way' apart from Him. Its a good thing, He doesn't leave us, however,

His Grace is Abounding.

I wish I could sit here and say, that this is a one time deal, that I can pray and God reveal something to me and wow, its just like all over,

but conditioning, especially misogyny is not something that goes away with one prayer or one revelation NOR does rebellion, anger, hurt, disbelief, especially disbelief in the goodness of God go away because that is what conditioning and Satan's lies do,

they poison, they destroy faith. And the lower nature loves it, oh it loves it so much, to hang onto, the lies so that we don't want to come to God and repent, to truly allow HIM to work in us, for our own good,

so that others might too, see God's goodness and love and seek Him. No woman wants to seek God if they see God as a misogynist tyrant, not unless they are really into sado-masochism.

Oh, that's the Other thing, I should bring up, the conditioning into Sado-Masochism and in patriarchal teachings-religions this is the fruit that results,

not fragrance, not the fragrance of Christ, not the Resurrection Power of Jesus Christ that comes to give Live Abundantly to all who will receive of Him,

no,

but this counterfeit 'submission' and 'subjugation of women' in Religious Christianity [religion, not the Faith, Faith in Christ and in the Cross] leads to not the fruits that Christ desires, no,

it leads to something more that Satan desires,

sado-masochism, this total surrender to abuse, this surrender to being a sacrifice, not to produce Godly Sorrow or a body in which Christ can minister to others, no,

but this Worldly Sorrow, which brings Death.

2 Corinthians 7:10 For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death. 7:11 For behold what earnestness this very thing, this godly sorrow, has produced in you: what vindication of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what avenging of wrong! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be innocent in the matter.

Sorrow, that leads to self-hate AS a WOMAN, not as a Sinner, read carefully, but sorrow that comes from the knowledge that one is WOMAN, suffering ONLY because She is WOMAN, as if she is inferior, evil, less than, subjugated,

is NOT GODLY SORROW, it produces not fruit, not the fruit of love, peace, understanding, joy, NO,

what it does produce however is despair, despondency, self-loathing, lack of faith, mistrust of God, a false belief in God meaning, not seeing God for who He truly is, and this type of sorrow, is Satanic, it leads to drugs, it leads to rebellion, it leads to self-abuse, including taking abuse from husbands and/or other men, it leads to suicide,

self-destruction.

That type of sorrow, heaped upon women by misogyny, by men, BY RELIGION, is not Godly sorrow,

Godly Sorrow works repentance, it bears fruit, to God, to Christ, In Christ, to Others,

meaning, if we allow God to work and trust in Him, Godly Sorrow, can be used for our good, His glory, and for the Kingdom of God.

So, in laymen's terms so to speak, a woman, being abused, physically, sexually, mentally by some jerk who demands that she 'submit' and she does in thinking that is what God demands of her,

isn't going to produce good fruit, nor is it going to produce Godly Sorrow. And its one of the most used tactics I have seen, to keep women down and oppressed and actually, even hating God,

in my experience, in the church. Its like seeing two women, in one body, one that is saying she loves God, another that is beneath the surface that says, how can you, how can you be so cruel.

And can we really be surprised then when we, ourselves or when we see women, saying, you know,

to hell with this God, to hell with this life of self hate and abuse because I am WOMAN, not because I am suffering for bringing the Gospel of Christ or even living for Christ, just because I have a vagina,

and they turn to other beliefs, counterfeits, altars to other 'gods' or

goddesses.

Because you see they can relate to Goddesses, those beliefs, they can relate because the Goddess relates to them, as women,

you see and that is why we are seeing so many, turn to the Goddess beliefs OR to other religions that are even MORE misogynist,

its not just that women are rebelling and don't love God,

no, its because there is a huge gaping wound in the hearts of so many women and by Whom?

By those, professing Christ, who have abused them and done all they can to destroy their souls for their own SELFISH DESIRES, SEXUALLY, FOR SERVICE, FOR POWER,

in the Name of Christ they have done this.

[other religions to this too and even more so but I'm concentrating here on Christianity]

So what is a woman to do, who loves God, but does not love misogyny or sado-masochism?

One, prayer, I am finding that without prayer, and I don't mean, prayer in some ritual way or prayer in some patriarchal way we've been taught/conditioned, I mean, pray to God as intimate as you can, besides He sees all anyway so why hide? And I'm finding EVERY TIME a word spoken, or something I read or hear brings that anger up to the surface, that anger at the dismissal of women, that indifference to women,

especially when I hear it by well meaning Christians,

Immediately, I go to God with it, and I am learning, keeping it in prayer to Him, in the Spirit of Humility at the same time, meaning, being ready to listen to Him and be obedient to Him, His Will,

but being honest, really, being honest,

He answers. He really does answer,

but only when you learn to sit still and listen, He can't speak to us when we are all in a rage, I've learned that too and I'm talking, that inner rage,

this is Why, every time, we sense that misogyny, we Must bring it to Him, He knows, He knows, He is showing that to me as well and He is working,

don't think He isn't. He is also showing me the importance of turning off our ears, our eyes, to advice,

seriously, rather than seeking this person or that person or that teacher, seek God, seek God,

seek Him through His Word, in Prayer, I can't emphasis how much I am learning just how important prayer is, pray without ceasing,

even when there is no feeling....keep praying,

because these things, are hard for me to explain and I am not a teacher, nor do I want to be one,

all I am doing here, is sharing with you, flawed being that I am, what I am seeing, how God is healing me, of so much,

taking fear away and doubt and yes, that self-hate that I didn't even know, was there, from social conditioning, patriarchy, misogyny, on levels I wasn't even aware of,

and just how much, it poisoned my relationship with Him. No wonder I walked away from Christ,

no wonder,

but it wasn't HIM that was doing all those things to me, in mind, spirit, body, it was never Him.

And I am learning NOT to be so quick, to believe every thing spoken by someone is true from God, referring to Christians here. Even if, we are not in a place where we are abused, mistreated because we are simply, women,

just the fact that so many women are mistreated, abused, horrifically slaughtered, raped, mutilated, it touches us, all of us women,

in a deep way, spiritually, even if we may not be aware, because God feels that pain, He feels that pain, no matter how many men want to say that God does not feel the pain that women feel,

that is a lie because God not only feels the pain He GRIEVES,

the HOLY SPIRIT GRIEVES,

every tear a woman sheds, every curse she screams at the heavens at God for making her a woman,

God hears, God sees,

every single one.

And God knows, the hearts of all men, all women, He knows, NOTHING is hidden from His sight, absolutely Nothing.

And Sister, let me tell you what else God shared with me, one of the scriptures that is so often abused, to abuse women,

they often don't read the rest of it [and they read it wrongly as well], but its on submission,

the relationship between husbands and wives, and here is the part, that most, don't even speak, or if they speak it,

they do so in this really fast way, as if, you might not pay attention to it, but Sisters, let me tell you,

it is POWERFUL, very POWERFUL, and it shows in a huge way, how God sees and will Deal, with MEN, who abuse women

1 Peter 3:1-7, WHERE Peter writes here about women in the same way, be submissive to your husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives....[I'm not going to post the whole thing here because most women know it by heart, its been drilled into them, over and over and over...well look it up]

but what I want to focus on is the one part, that so many, like to 'skim over'

1 Peter 3:7 "Husbands, in the SAME WAY, BE CONSIDERATE AS YOU LIVE WITH YOUR WIVES [WOMAN], AND TREAT THEM WITH RESPECT. [what was that, Respect????] As the weaker partner and as HEIRS WITH YOU OF THE GRACIOUS GIFT OF LIFE [what is that, Heirs with you????],

not here is where it gets really good Sisters,

SO THAT NOTHING WILL HINDER YOUR PRAYERS.

Simply put, folks,

God will not honor the prayers or the paths of those men who abuse women, be it their wives, their daughters, any woman,

any man, who thinks, that he can be an abusive asshole, a misogynist, a chauvinist to women, and thinks that God is going to bless him and honor his prayers,

is deluded. There is another scripture about a man of wrath in the Old Testament whose wife sought God [she went to King David], that man was struck down dead,

God doesn't fool around, with misogyny. Nor child abuse,

eventually the man of wrath, the man who abuses, will have to deal with God's retribution.

NOW does that mean that we take that scripture and abuse men with it? NO,

NO and NO,

let me make That clear. [so that no one misconstrues or blasphemes God by what I say, I do not want to be a stumbling block], my point here is only to show women, to share with other women,

what God has been showing me, so that women will see, just as I have seen and am still seeing,

that Yes I can trust God completely, that I can come to God, as a Woman and know He identifies with me AS a Woman, and that I don't need, to seek

counterfeits.

I want to post here, a really good blog, here is an excerpt, this is for you women, who are in marriages, where there is abuse, or where your husband is demanding you submit, and put up, with his abuse, vices, etc., [and this can apply to all women, not just to Christian]

"Husband hooked on vices? Wife REPENT from your vicious self-effacement. Rise up and be help MEET!" http://godswordtowomen.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/husband-hooked-on-vices-wife-repent-from-your-vicious-self-effacement-rise-up-and-be-help-meet/

btw, no they are not blaming women, the blaming the victim for the abuse,

they are simply saying, what I am saying, that no, God does not demand you, to take all sorts of abuse just because you don't have a penis.

Here is another really good blog for women, Christian women [or other faiths] who are dealing with abuse, and are struggling with their image in God because of

http:
//www.godswordtowomen.org/rise_of_abuse_prophesied.htm

In closing,

I want to explain, what I meant, by finding my Goddess in God, in Jesus Christ. I did read through/seek or study, better term, Goddess beliefs, and even identified with some of the beliefs however, I simply could not believe they were more than mere mythology,

not that the messages weren't good, or positive, they were [well, not all of them are, some were very obvious where the source was] but, there simply was no power, I didn't find,

not saying this to offend or to start argument here, just saying, for me, it was like, just reading stories, there was no true life or presence, nothing. But I did learn a lot AND I did begin to question, so much,

and when I came back to my faith in Christ, I brought all those things to Him, not just repenting from looking towards other things but I brought them to Him and I asked Him, ok, then if YOU can identify with me the way they could, at least in reading about them, and if YOU can free me, etc., I won't go into all the prayers here but,

I took it to Him,

and He did and is still showing me, that He is everything, to me that I saw in all those Goddesses I read about,

through Nature, I see Christ, through music, I see Christ, through poetry I see Christ, all of it,

I can't begin to explain it all here and on some things, because they are so intimate I dare not less they lose something really precious,

but let me just encourage, all of you, to seek Him.

I will share one thing though,

there was this painting, I saw on a blog, won't say which, but it was a woman, under a tree, this tree touching her/comforting her, Mother Earth, that kind of image,

and here, the earth is being violated just as women are, the violence against women, is much the same, the violence against the earth,

that violence, that hate, that destruction of the life giving forces.

but then, God showed me the same image, but with one difference,

rather than the tree alone, bending down to caress the woman,

His hand, His Spirit [God is Spirit], the Father/Mother God, this Hand, was reaching all around, through the tree, to this woman, through the birds, to this woman, through the wind, to this woman, and all around her,

was this blanket...of comfort,

the Spirit that created Life,

identified with the woman.

And grieved, with her, at the assaults on her, on the earth, on life. As well, as this image,

also showed me, that while death, may seem powerful now, God, God is in control, Jesus has already defeated death and one day, He will wipe,

away

every single tear.

If we only will come to Him, and Believe.

Jesus came to proclaim the favor of the Lord.

The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor. He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; to proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD. (Luke 4:18-19)

God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. (John 3.16)

peace

Christianity and the Healing of Women who have been Raped

2009-03-16T14:32:00.005-06:00

[in addition, to the post below on Christianity and the Need to Denounce Patriarchy, Rape, and Colonization]

in regards to rape, I want to make clear, that when I speak of God allowing rape due to the sin nature of the world [free will of individuals, etc], that in NO way, means that any who are raped, are in any way, responsible for rape OR that God singles out for rape,

and that is why I added that because too often, when Christian women or women in Christian cultures have been victims of violence, whether its rape, domestic violence, molestation[rape] they believe that either God didn't protect them, for some reason OR that God singled them out [due to predestination teaching] and I think,

both are very wrong and are very harmful to women, because they see God as a partaker in the rape. And I speak,

btw, from experience, you see this is from not just what I think but from my own journey in healing, that has taken, years.

I also want to add, and I've known and am very well acquainted with all the typical Christian advice on what one needs to do to be healed,

so much of its bunk, seriously, in fact, so much of it, I feel strongly actually prolongs the pain AND does more damage, its like an emotional being raped over and over and over...

or violated, the FEAR doesn't go away and let me just say,

not all is restored. You walk with the scars, Because we live in a world where there is IMPUNITY to rape, to violate women, and the triggers are always there. THEN on top of that, especially, ESPECIALLY, in the Christian 'male' world, there is this constant push, to get over it because hey,

that husband is ENTITLED to sex, and its not just Christianity its in our entire secular culture, the whole, get over it garbage and I do say, garbage because the ones who say, get over it,

are usually the very same ones, who want something from you OR they are of the mindset that you, me, woman, have been put on this earth, to be of some kind of sexual/womb service.

And that is why I am in a huge way, sharing this journey here because for years, I wanted NOTHING to do with religion, Christianity, I was at a huge conflict for reasons that I have shared but many that I have not. I will say however, that I found many of the same attitudes in the left/even liberal left, patriarchy and misogyny are everywhere, they aren't just attributes of the church and in fact, they are in many ways,

far worse outside the church.

For me, healing came from taking back, well, part of it, I couldn't forgive until I took back, and that took going and yes, walking through a lot of the anger and rage AND that includes the rage I had towards the very ones who were saying,

you must forgive and not react and blah blah blah--usually, nine out of ten, its a fricking man who says this. Hey, they mean well,

but MEN benefit from rape, men in society benefit from rape I don't care What they say, they do because rape is a tool of terror, to force subjugation on ALL WOMEN, even if a woman has not been raped physically, she has already been raped, in some form, spiritually when she walks out that door and something happens to make her think--fear,

because women in our world today, I don't care how much faith one has in God, still fear, being raped. WE are not safe in this world, and even more so because violence against women is so tolerated.

IT isn't enough either to just forgive when our own brothers won't even hold their brothers accountable and demand the end to rape/violence towards women, and I mean, demand it,

not just sugar coat it with scripture or kind words, because rape is a tool, of a patriarchal SYSTEM. That is why, rape is yes, used as a weapon of war and rape in the Congo is NOT THE FIRST TIME, that rape has been used as a weapon of war,

read the Old Testament--it was common practice, even then.

Rape is harmful because it reminds women of their status--the property of men, that is why, the feeling of 'damaged goods' comes in so strong,

even the most hard core feminist, confronts those feelings. [referring to rape victims, again I am speaking from experience]

I also want to say, that one of the things that irks me the most, is when Christians give the same pat answers too all women, because you know something,

not all women experience rape the same because our experiences are different AND we aren't just 'goods' who all feel the same way,

nor do we need, thank you, cookie cutter answers. When the same 'answers' for healing are given, that really,

reinforces the patriarchal ideals of women being property or women being whole before rape/violation and that if they just do step 1,2,3, they'll be fixed, forgive the offender who nine out of ten won't ever get justice and will do it over and over and over while the system of patriarchy, men, will benefit from that sorry jerks' behavior [or jerks] AND

that do little, honestly, to help one forgive. Not only that, forgiveness is not a cure all--

yes, we should forgive, and its not a one time thing, it can be a daily process, I have found, praying for those who yes, do rape, does do a lot in helping you to see the perpetrators of the hate crime, yes, HATE CRIME, of rape. This is why I believe Jesus says to pray for our enemies,

and men who rape, yes, are the enemies of women.

Not only that, another thing that God used to heal me, was he showed me that men too, are raped, and not just in prison...that is one of those 'myths', that men are only raped in prison. There are men, who are fighting rape--

they are a small minority AND they are kept somewhat invisible, by society because what these men survivors have to say, is very powerful. Not only are they men, who are part of the patriarchal pyramid, they are men who know what it is to be violated on that intimate of a level. For me, it helped me a great deal, why I can't really say but it did.

Well no, I guess I can say, it was researching the men who assist male victims of rape, is where I learned about how power is abused and that rape is a crime of power--its about control and it is a manestifation of society that is obsessed with power and control. This is why in war zones OR in nations that are extremely militarized, that depend on militarization to expand,

are notorious for rape.

Rape is the carrying out of misogyny in patriarchy, it is about controlling the sexuality of women--in the Congo, its carried even further [and in Bosnia, Chechnya, in Columbia and Nepal, the Maoists who rape women and also force abortions, in Iraq where women have lured women into situations where they are gang raped then these women are so destroyed that to gain acceptance by God they then become suicide bombers, same thing happens in Afghanistan, Palestine...rape is a tool].

When a man is beat up by another man, he does suffer yes, from powerlessness, but what many men don't get, Christian men especially, is that their entire self-worth as men, is not at total threat--like it is for women, and the reason for this is,

man's worth is not tied totally into his physical strength, where a woman's, in patriarchal societies, her worth IS tied into her sexuality, especially the control of that sexuality. This is why rape is so much more than simply a physical attack.

And it is THAT area, that I want to confront and deal with--using God's Word, so that rape--

becomes less powerful, where its hold on women, can be destroyed.

NOT just rape that happens, but the fear of rape.

So for me, confronting rape, rape in war, rape in families, molestation, etc [including rape perpetuated by women, women to women--yes it happens], is not just about the intimate, the personal,

its not just a 1,2,3 cookie cutter step process for ALL WOMEN, a quick forgiveness, a going on, one day just 'being over it',

because the ongoing crime is that all women, are controlled by rape. Everywhere, even if they may not realize it, the fear, is very powerful,

and what really Does anger me, is that the church, I feel, has a responsibility to not just offer a shoulder, in hopes to 'repair damaged goods' or even society, in hopes to repair damaged goods so that one day,

she will multiply once more.

NO, I feel strongly that the church and all societies have the responsibility, MEN to MEN, in asserting very strongly,

rape should be abolished, done away with, its NOT acceptable, its a SIN, and its time, it is ended. No ands, ifs, or buts,

boys should be taught at young ages by their brothers, that RAPE is not acceptable and that men are NOT ENTITLED TO WOMEN'S BODIES,

just because they are men.

Start there,

then maybe, some real healing, can occur, for all women.

Not just reconciliation--Christian brothers, you want reconciliation, then start holding your brothers accountable, stop hiding them, stop making excuses for them, stop benefiting from the oppression of women by violence.

And women--STOP putting more value on the unborn, and trivializing rape, that is another thing that just irks me to no end,

EVERY time, I read a woman, saying that no matter what, that baby is more important, she trivializes rape, she trivializes our suffering,

and she perpetuates, the patriarchy, the idea that all women are is wombs.

Nothing more, nothing less, just baby factories,

I don't agree with abortion either, but nothing offends me more, than to see, hear, read women, telling other women, girls who have been raped, that they have a duty, to carry a pregnancy to term,

they put MORE emphasis on that, than on justice for the victims of rape.

It speaks volumes to women who know what it is to suffer violence, it does more to damage and it needs to be said--

its cruel, its callous, its cold blooded.

UNLESS you want to step into that woman's body and be raped instead of her AND then carry that baby to term,

I say, shut up. Instead, pray for her, grieve with her, comfort her and whatever her decision, [and it Should be HER decision, not yours, not the Popes, not any man's, Hers]

love her.

Yes be honest about the trauma, but that trauma, will be there, regardless of her decision, unless you want to walk in HER shoes,

I say, please, stop with the demanding the fetus rights while totally throwing the woman to the curb. You do more to pat the rapist on the back, when you do that.

And I for one, Christian yes I am, am sick to death, of women and men who do this.

YOU don't want abortions, neither do I, but lets start with stopping the tolerance, indifference, and permissiveness of a rape culture, of patriarchy, of perpetuating the male benefiting from the terrorizing of women,

everywhere on this planet.

In addition,

in regards to healing,

as I said, I don't believe there is always total restoration, not in the way its professed by many. I Do believe however, in the Resurrection Power of Jesus Christ, yet too, there are scriptures, such as the one where Paul speaks of the thorn in his flesh,

that work, like a limp. However, greater is He who is in Us than he that is in the world. 1 John 4:4...........Greater is He that is in me, than he that is in the world.

I don't have time right now to go into all that Christ has revealed to me thus far, I probably should though, well anyway,

just the other day, I was reading about Mary Magdelene (sic) and how Jesus cast out seven demons,

and then, the scripture in Romans, I believe or maybe its Corinthians, where it talks about joining of the flesh, men not joining to prostitutes, etc.,

well, its the same thing with rape, whether its one perpetrator [gender does not matter either] or numerous ones,

there is something that happens with the joining of flesh on a spiritual level, even if the woman is raped [no consent], and THAT, I believe,

is a good possibility that those seven demons that Mary was tormented with, what you bet, several of them, were demons from rape?

I think they were, I really do, and on this, I do believe, that there has to be some casting out AND there has to be some diligent spiritual warfare, on behalf of the woman/child/man who has been raped AND that they must be taught, to also, and its a part of the taking back,

how to use the Word of God, to not just heal themselves or find comfort [God does the healing] but to use, against those demons, those tormentors and to speak in the authority of Jesus Christ to them, and yes, that includes, casting them out.

I believe this is where a lot of the sleep trauma comes in, the post traumatic disorders, they are demonic, this is my belief and again, I'm speaking from experience. There are soul ties, that need to be cut,

and the only means I know to do this is to speak the Word of God to them, pick up the Sword of Truth,

and start cutting away at the fear, the terror, the trauma, the memories, the bad feelings of low self worth, the lies from the pits of hell that God ordained the rape/molestation/abuse, etc etc etc.,

I can't sit here and say which scriptures because again, every woman's experience is different, and sexual violations are so personal, so intimate that they intertwine with other abuses, rejections, thoughts, both in past, present and future.

For me, it took years, years of finally being able to scream at God my anger at HIM, and that is where I asked Him, and no He didn't strike me down, no, He began to show me, in His Word. And that is what I am revealing on one blog, not so much on this one but since I am bringing up the crisis in the Congo and will be on other nations, I thought, due to the triggers,

might as well share them here too.

I also believe that until some of these other things are done that forgiveness is near impossible because the wounds are just still too fresh, don't matter how much you cover them up, because its not like someone coming up and slapping you,

or someone taking your car, or calling you names.

And I read, one Christian male counselor saying that Jesus can identify but that Jesus wasn't raped, etc.,

well, I beg to differ, Jesus DID suffer a form of rape. When they took his clothes, stripped Him naked, and then cast lots for His garments, Jesus showed me this and it is, for men, a type of spiritual and emotional rape,

they did this, as intention to humiliate Jesus sexually.

So yes, Jesus CAN identify with our suffering, both rape, molestation, gang rape, He can identify on all of these hate crimes and not only that, He can identify on that intimate level,

not just from this distant, He is male, we are woman, level, that thing of 'pity'.

This is something Christ revealed to me and I share it here because maybe someone reading, has struggled or is struggling with this.

BTW in case you are wondering, how did I come about, this turning back, this journey, well,

actually it was in writing about rapes of women in Europe that have been on the rise, rapes by Islamists, rapes that are sanctioned because its perfectly acceptable to rape 'infidels', anyway,

there was this photo, of a woman whose face was horribly beaten, bloodied and she had been gang raped, and this anger rose up and this voice,

"my face, looked just like this, this is what my face looked like, for the sin of the entire world"

and I just cried, because those were my sins, my sins...just as much as yours.

That day, was a turning point, and from that day it wasn't just confronting injustice but looking for spiritual answers, for understanding. Maybe due to the years I worked in radical feminism and saw the rage and the hate and I do mean hate, towards God, towards religion, towards Christianity,

because of all the wounded women, and I do mean, WOUNDED, not just ungrateful bitter women, no,

wounded women, who are hurting and I mean hurting...

and I can't even imagine, in many regions where rape is systematically not just tolerated but it is ordered.

My issue was, how to identify with God, as a woman, and it just snowballed from there...I do believe that its not just a cookie cutter answer,

that women are individual HUMAN BEINGS, not just things that are violated and that if you just tell them to do 1,2,3 that all will be well,

no. In doing that, that just diminishes them even more as humans, as individuals, not just the baby machines of society, state, what have you. And Jesus sees them as individuals too,

every hair on their head counted.

In these days of violence and these end times, I believe that we are going to see even more sexual violence, and that we, should learn, how to minister,

and we can start, by listening to those women, who yes, in their anger, and in their rage, are SAYING SOMETHING,

listen to them, listen to me, rather than speak for us, as if we aren't even people. We are more than vagina's,

we are more than sexual beings, mothers, wives,

we are human.

Made in the Image of God, so start, treating us, this way.

Stop pandering to patriarchy and the subjugation of women, in all its forms. There can be no reconciliation, until this...

peace,

WHY PATRIARCHY IS FROM THE PITS OF HELL AND WHY CHRISTIANS NEED TO DENOUNCE IT

2009-03-16T09:03:00.005-06:00

I have often struggled in my faith with God because of the lies of patriarchy, lies that are perpetuated in our mainstream churches, Americanism.

I call it Americanism because its Americanist 'culture' that has hijacked the Gospel of Jesus Christ. "

"It is not born solely out of America however, it is the remnant or, rather the inheritance, that 'sin of hierarchy, monarchy, racism, patriarchy and privilege' that many held onto in the transference of political and social power in the formation of our government." [tcm, WIP, 2009]

And we see this pattern of inherited 'sin' not just in America but in other nations that have been known to be predominantly Christian, either in practice or by assimilation through force [colonization]. I will call it 'sin' because it IS SIN,

its the same SIN that filtered down in the Jewish people during the days of old, when God's system became molded into 'man's patriarchal' system, distorted, due to the hardness of men's hearts. The 'he shall rule over you' was not a blessing or curse 'blessed' and 'sanctioned' by God, [Genesis], no, but rather, the sentence of the reality that would be the result, spiritual death, of being then enslaved to the kingdom and ways of Satan.

However, many have taken that curse as what God intended, as if that is God's nature and we see this very much carried out in the treatment of women. As legalism, opposed to God's Grace and Love, becomes the social norm,

so does the mentality of misogyny, including within the Christian church. The most vivid example of this misogyny today is in the Congo, where Patriarchy was given complete blessing and sanction, even using scripture, and that lead to an ordained sanctioned systematic and socially and culturally accepted Misogyny. Women were routinely beaten by their husbands, raped by their husbands, all in the name of God, in the name of Christ even.

It was a woman's God ordained duty to accept her divine lot in life, the curse of her being the daughter of Eve. In the war thousands upon thousands of women were brutally gang raped BY so called Christian men, mutilated, raped again, to where women were so destroyed they became many of them, catatonic,

completely destroyed, seeing all men as mere dogs who do nothing but rape and hate women. And what is more worse,

seeing God, as the one who ordains such.

But contrary to what RELIGION AND INSTITUTIONALIZED MISOGYNY THAT PROFANES THE NAME AND CHARACTER OF GOD says and does, God has shown through men and women, that He is not only the Redeemer and Healer of Women, He is also, the opposite, of patriarchy and misogyny. This is an ongoing work,

and one that I feel needs to be seriously taken heed to, even warning, here in America and throughout Europe, because we not only live and permit a rape culture, we perpetuate and even contribute to that culture, with many of the distorted teachings, using the Word of God, to sanction

patriarchy and misogyny.

How can ANY woman, ever love and trust a God that she is convinced, blesses and ordains her rape, her gang rape, her molestation by fathers, uncles, brothers, preachers and priests, who not only hands her over to this but then demands that she just simply forgives and that somehow, she is guilty, and has brought it on herself [never mind that even in today's world, under patriarchy, women still have no political power, not even gender equity]? How can ANY woman truly love a God that she thinks and identifies as the friend to rapists, to women haters, to

her

inquisitor's who seek out women to burn them at the stake, for they are evil they inquisitor says, they are witches, they say, burn them at the stake, How can ANY woman love a God or identify with a God who sits on the throne of patriarchy and who deems her, only because she is 'she' and condemns her to a life of violence then to hell she goes? Those same inquisitor's who also condemn any woman for deviating from the patriarchal norm, for even Questioning its legitimacy, who revolt through a collective female consciousness, called feminism?

What is so sinister about the ways Satan destroys women is that he does so, more than anything, through none other than the church. Through religion,

and that includes, through the distortion of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the New Testament.

How many women have been brutally violated by fathers only to be told that they must submit to God's will and honor him, and to not harbor any anger and Then she must be willing to embrace the advances of her husband and dare she ever object or complain?

How many women have been brutally raped and then told by a pastor or another woman even, that she is sinful for her anger and that she should only forgive and that God will work it out for her good and that any trigger or reaction is only her selfish nature?

IS it any wonder, why so many women are the walking wounded, destroyed in spirit and in faith?

Is it any wonder why there are so many women who have not only been destroyed but they have totally rejected Christ, God, the message of God because they do not see God as a loving God towards women, no,

but only a God who is merely a Pimp, a Pimp in Heaven of women?

Whose fault is that? Simply the misogynist, or the silence of the church, the refusal to look and challenge those distortions and lies that Satan has been allowed to run through this earth rampant IN the church, destroying women, generation after generation of women. Whose fault is it? God's?

Its a question that though is ugly, is one that is asked in the hearts of most women, though they may dare not vocalize it, because its one that is very fearful, to wonder if God, is nothing but a mere Pimp of women, that is women were nothing but ashtrays for men. Its that question that has contributed to the rise of the worship of goddesses, of the new age, of atheism and a question that has contributed to a very loud backlash against not only God but against Christianity in general.

And yet, in America, there is this silence.....that is looming,

and its a silence that millions of women in the world are hearing as they too ask, Where is God and why am I, woman, put here? To be nothing but a slave, a woman in chains, an ashtray for men?

And to make matters worse, we then have the 'quick fix' brigades from none other than the former Colonizing nations that come in and say, here, try THIS formula, take Jesus here, forgive and then, off you go sister, be obedient and when your husband demands your body, give to him without any hesitation,

and the cycle of abuse continues and continues as does the raping of these lands by the economic colonizers who rape and pillage the land for minerals, resources and slave labor.

Patriarchy, the worst and oldest COLONIZER of nations there is...

and COLONIZER of women's bodies, souls and spirits. The tool of patriarchy, by none other than the King of Colonization and Pillage and Rape,

Satan.

Cleverly manifested and carried out, in the Holy Name of God, even using His texts from His Holy Word, to carry out the crimes...

Paul warned about this as did Jesus, 2 Corinthians 13-15:

For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

But there is another scripture too, that I think is often not taken to its full meaning, and that is the one about testing the spirits,

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. This is how you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God. But every spirit who does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist; you have heard that he is coming, and he is already in the world now. You are from God, little children, and you have conquered them, because the One who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. (1 John 4:1-4 HCSB)

Jesus said, Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them. Matthew 7:15-20.

Often we hear about false prophets in reference to those who preach another God or another Christ,

but what about those who preach God or Christ, using the Bible, yet, who preach to women, that MEN are to be their gods, that their HUSBANDS are to be their gods, that whatever that man does to her, is not to be questioned, even if its rape, abuse, etc.?

Is that not also, a propping up false gods?

Patriarchy is the molding God into MAN'S IMAGE, into MAN'S HIERARCHY, with woman at bottom of course,

its NOT man being molded into God's Image, into God's likeness. Same for women, women being instructed to worship men, is NOT a woman being molded into God's likeness, or Christ's, that goes for worshiping her husband too,

and in fact, it IS idolatry. Loving our husbands and children Yes, worshiping them in this subjugated surrender, that no matter what, we are to be passive and take whatever they throw at us,

is not submission in the Lord, no, its patriarchy, be it by necessity, influence or by Force [economic dependence], its NOT of God. IT might be the world's system, but its not God's system.

And while we may not be able to escape from the world's system or from patriarchy, because we live in this world and we live in a world under sin,

I do think, that we MUST begin, to seriously, confront the lies of Identity, that women have, in their image, meaning,

being made in God's image, what that identity is, and often the teaching is,

pretty much summed up to this, even in the most mainstream of churches,

woman's image is her sexual and labor servitude to her husband, to man, her role in life. Her role as a Godly woman,

and they've taken even Proverbs 31, totally misconstrued its meaning, and put that whole verse, as the PLATFORM for what women are supposed to be,

RATHER THAN WOMAN, SEEKING GOD'S FACE AND GOD'S WILL FOR WHAT HE WANTS HER TO BE.

And it might not be, that God wants her to be a wife and mother. Maybe God wants that woman to be a missionary, maybe God wants that woman to be a doctor, or a teacher, maybe God wants that woman to remain single to serve the body of Christ,

but you see, we don't hear that anymore because all we hear is, Proverbs 31--that ONLY by being a beautiful and sexy desiring wife [is she desirable to her husband, that is usually number one, which mind you, is not any different from, excuse me for being really blunt here, [going to use a perverted curse term here but doing so to really get the point across] the porn culture that says, woman's worth is only in how 'fuckable' she is to men]. We only hear, its how much of a Supermom she is, can she,

raise five kids and keep an immaculate house that would make Martha Stewart envious and can she keep that 16 year old 'sex' figure and can she be the perfect teacher and cook and on and on and one,

and of course, her role and image as a Christian should be first those things AND then her doing those things as Glory unto God bringing Him glory in her subjugation and of course, her sexual services [very similar to temple prostitution btw, its just one man rather than 100, and on That point Marx was absolutely correct in his summation of this problem of the puritanical hypocrisy].

And IF, IF she has any amount of time after all that, then she might serve Jesus, 15 minutes in the morning with Bible reading and maybe prayer through out the day, but all in all, her Duty, number one, is to be that super sexy wife [keeping him hard twenty for seven and she ready to go at the snap of a finger] AND keeping that perfect home and those perfect children...that showcase for Christ,

and IF that husband is abusive, she must ask herself, where SHE has failed, he of course is let off the hook for accountability,

and if there are any problems, its always HER that is the problem, the patriarchy 'enabling' of men's horrid SINFUL behavior must always be protected first and foremost.

And it just goes on and on and on....

meanwhile, prostitution increases, exploitation increases, porn industry increases as does

sexual violence.

Duh, YA THINK?

PATRIARCHY--its no different in Christianity than the Patriarchy of Islam, only difference is,

the age of marriage, the means of divorce, and the type of covering.

That is the only difference....oh, well, the stoning of women, in Christian patriarchy there is also a stoning,

but its not so much seen physically, but its a spiritual stoning that is slow and agonizing and that is just as deadly,

not just to the woman being stoned, but to all the daughters who see that stoning and who learn at a very young age,

submit, or this is the TERROR THAT WILL BEFALL YOU BY THE SANCTIONING OF

GOD.

It is the lie and distorted message that does more to put up walls between women and God, than any lie out there, that is My opinion,

and it does more to harm the spiritual life of women.

God becomes this being that though we fear and worship, we say we love, but we love in this very distant way, with this constant fear that if we don't do exactly as we are told, we too, might suffer the wrath of

rape and violence and by His hand.

Or we might suffer the abandonment, rejection, etc....

But this is NOT how Jesus treated women, nor is it how God treated women either. Its how PATRIARCHS treated women, but not God.

Now does this mean that God won't allow suffering, violence, even rape? No, because we live in a sinful patriarchal world that is misogynist--he shall rule over thee, the penalty of sin.

But I think, what we forget, is that it doesn't end there....we forget,

salvation and redemption.

Man has been redeemed, according to church doctrine, there is this restoration that happens for men,

not so, for women. Men aren't under the curse or if they are, there are those 'escape routes' that God has provided,

not so for women...the message to women is that they are still under the curse and therefore, that is their lot in life. In some places, like the Congo, that lot is living hell...

the Reformation, the Enlightenment...all for 'men',

maybe a bit for women, but only in the area of 'forced marriage', you see men didn't like the idea of not having choice, it was NEVER about women having choice...so yes, there was some liberation for women there,

and as far as Capitalism, sure, women were liberated there too--but ONLY for that extra work, and of course, to help Adam's sons be relieved of their 'curse' but now, she must now be expected to not only carry out her life sentence of the curse but she must now, carry out Adam's too.

That what in the left has been termed, 'double burden'.

And yet, patriarchy not only thrives, it becomes more and more entrenched, even in the secular systems patriarchy is so entrenched that while racism is rejected and prejudice is rejected and wage slavery is rejected,

the curse of women, is not only NOT rejected, its expanded. Its still accepted and even praised,

to rape women, to mutilate women, to enslave women, to exploit women, to kill women.

Be it society, her husband, even her God.

Men have been redeemed, women have not, according to the patriarchs, women are still to be SLAVES TO MEN, no matter what...and any spiritual redemption, still is ONLY with her being slave to men, she still has no 'self', she still has no value outside of being a 'cumdump and womb' and she still has no real

identity in God, only through 'man' is she even recognized, as a child of God.

Under Patriarchy that is...not in Scriptures.

and what is the FRUIT OF THIS, SEE HERE:

HERE, IN PDF FILE-- http://www.mendingthesoul.org/files/2008/12/congo08mutualityarticle.pdf

There can be no healing or knowing redemption until we first begin to question patriarchy, including the patriarchy that is still being perpetuated in our own churches.

There is that need, for our minds to be set free, from the lies of Satan, our minds to be renewed by the Word of God,

not as taught by Patriarchs, the Colonizers of women's bodies and souls, no,

but renewed and set free, by the Holy Spirit. Until that happens, we can never truly have a healthy relationship with Jesus,

because while we may surrender and do all the right things, we will still always have that small question of that wounded woman inside who wonders, what her value is, really,

in God's eyes? Is He her Heavenly Father, or simply, her Pimp, her Master, her Abuser?

This is an area that I feel many women dare not even bring to light, it is one however, that I personally, have been seeking God's face on, on a series I started, that is called,

Is God a Misogynist?

I one day, just flat out asked Him, and I asked Him, to show me, through His Word. I never, NEVER, thought I would have so many entrenched and conditioned lies of my colonized mind, to wade through and its been

a very, very painful process but one, that I am finding, just how much, women have been lied to, enslaved, and kept in bondage to the lies of Satan and just how much damage has been done,

and just how much of a barrier and a wall, there is, between many woman and God, not because God is a misogynist,

but that, we have been conditioned to believe and see Him as one.

More on this later...

I will be showing scriptures, a two fold series,

one, scriptures of the Old Testament that are very difficult to read as they are triggers, for women who have ever suffered abuse or rape, but I want to stress, that what God may allow, even for saving our souls [from eternal death], or due to the 'how sin results in death and suffering--not God that does but Sin and the Wages of Sin and not just from a personal act but from the acts of other individuals [free will] and of the acts of leaders of the church or then, of Israel, or nations in how they've acted upon other nations...there were punishments, or rather, retributions and IF one is not careful, in seeing the entire picture on a spiritual level, its really easy to paint God as some uncaring and misogynist cruel God...

and often these scriptures have been used to sanction violence against women, but more to be very indifferent to the violence against women. BUT what they fail to take into account, and this is what I am finding, is that you have to read the Entire texts, to see the entire dialectic or full circle, and in that, you see, that God hates rape, that God hates the shedding of blood, that is was NEVER GOD'S WILL OR GOD'S PLAN, FOR WOMEN, TO BE VIOLATED, RAVISHED [IS THE TERM USED THEN], NEVER, NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER...

it IS, however, the result of the slavery to sin, the result of the fall, because you see Satan doesn't care about your free will, Satan HATES WOMEN, because of the promise, given to Eve, about the redemption [buying back humanity from the power/slavery under Satan], that would come from the birth--through a woman.

Secondly, there are other scriptures [more than I can count] that I am finding that show God's identifying with woman, with her suffering, not just through Christ, you see that in the New Testament but you also see it in the Old Testament, when patriarchy was extremely embraced...there was in the most darkest and cruel misogynist systems, God's revealing His female nature**, His mothering, His love for women AND His understanding but not just His empathy,

His hatred, towards the sin of misogyny. Misogyny is Sin, it is inspired and IS the character of Satan and the Word of God makes that very clear, and I am finding, that God, not only heals women [if she'll allow Him] but He makes her victorious no matter how much violence is thrown at her...

because her worth is not in her sexuality nor in her 'desire' to men, her worth, is simply this,

she is the daughter of God, she is, made in God's image, not in man's, she is made, created in God's image, IN GOD'S IMAGE, really really think about that, not in Satan's image, in God's,

and She, is Loved, by God, God loves women.

And you, woman, God loves YOU, God Loves You.

When men rape, beat, abuse women, they are raping, beating, and abusing GOD.

Why God says, Love thy neighbor as thyself...why Jesus said, no one can hate and/or murder even in the heart, and say they Love God...that also included adultery, in the heart...

God takes the violation of women VERY SERIOUSLY, it is SIN, and it is SIN THAT GOD WILL PUNISH.

Those men, in the Congo [or anywhere for that fact] who rape and think that just because they may know mentally about God, that God won't punish them, are highly mistaken,

they will reap the fruits of their violence, in more ways than one. When they rape, they already, have separated themselves from God,

that, is what hell is, and its about time, that the church, starts dealing with this, and stop, giving permissions, in act or in indifference, in silence, towards the rape and patriarchal culture.

This patriarchal culture, that if you have read the pdf article posted above, you will see, was and IS the culture of the Congo, as in many other parts of Africa. The second series I will be working on, is going to address that,

because that same patriarchal culture, IS THE COLONIAL IMPERIALIST CULTURE. In other words, Christians who worked in missions and allowed the Distortion of Christianity or even the Use of, as THE MEANS, TO COLONIZE AFRICA AND OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD,

COMMITTED

RAPE.

Yes, RAPE, the pillaging of resources, peoples [enslavement, etc] and its NOT good enough, to just say, oh there were mistakes,

oh no, there Must be an accountability before God AND a REPENTANCE, a complete repentance and that includes, ending the continued colonizing of the world today through the economic colonizing. [mostly btw in technology, militarization and labor/sex industry, a.k.a. tourist industry] And as far as Africa is concerned, two things,

there can be no healing, no matter how many hymns they sing, until there is JUSTICE FOR THOSE WOMEN AND CHILDREN, that means, bringing the rapists to account, no exceptions. That also includes, holding those accountable, in companies, who traded arms/or goods with these armies/militias who rape. NO EXCEPTIONS. There must be reparations, NOT RETRIBUTIONS, meaning more violence, but reparations,

AND, last but not least, there must be, a spiritual breaking of the SOUL TIES, OF THE PAST ANCESTOR COLONISTS-SLAVE INDUSTRY. ON both sides of the Atlantic, that includes, the church [all denominations involved AND the elites/tribes in Africa and in the Arab lands who benefited and/or formed the slave trade].

This must be done, this is the missing link as to why, no matter if its communism or nationalism or finding ancestor religious roots or Islam, doesn't matter, Africa will be plagued with violence, NOT because only they are violent today, no,

but because the demons, from the past, by the works of false prophets and imperialist who used 'Christianity] and that includes those Christians who ignored the injustice and who took part in the sin, must be cast out, spiritually AND then, the house, once swept clean, will have to be filled, by the Choice of Africans, not Westerners, and NOT Arabs either, but Africans. IF they so choose Christ--it must be on their will and choice, and only then,

in other words, Yes they can come to Christ now but there has to be repentance by those who have benefited from the exploitation and rape of Africa, both in present and in the past. We simply cannot continue to bury the injustice, or just look at the sins of the Islamists [who yes are enslaving and who formed the slave trade--fact, and who still are forcing belief via the sword--but judgment begins with the House of God first, meaning the church, that is OUR responsibility as Christians, God will deal with Islam]. This too IS the reason, that God will not protect us from the enemy until these crimes of the past and present, patriarchy, imperialism and colonizing-raping nations, is dealt with, God is not mocked, what a nation sows, a nation shall reap.

Last, might be three series, the church in the west MUST deal with the indifference, that includes, those westerners through their travels who have become so desensitized to violence [this includes far leftists too, I've read comments by them and they could care less about women being raped or three year olds, as one Maoist commenter asserted, to them, its always the 'excuse' of colonizing, never the sin of sinful man, who even WITHOUT THE PAST COLONIZING would still, rape]. We must deal with that--

patriarchy, hierarchy that is distorted, misogyny and imperialism--are all sin, period. Its as simple as that, and until those sins are dealt with, NEVER MIND, what Islam does--I'm talking about Christianity--UNTIL those sins are taken account--meaning, taking ownership, and REPENTING AND REPARATIONS, then the blood of Africa, is spiritually, on the hands of the church [those who willfully took part and/or those who willfully refuse to denounce those sins]. IF we continue to ignore, make excuses for, be indifferent, perpetuate patriarchy, even here at home--

we are accountable AND we profane the Name of God and the character of God. Prayer warriors, there must be prayer on this matter AND the breaking of the soul ties--it is serious spiritual warfare, and one that must NOT be taken, lightly.

**I refer to God as He, as does the Bible however, there are texts in the Old Testament, the references to SHE, in Proverbs [wisdom, the Holy Spirit, she cries to humanity, etc], there are symbolism's used quite often, allegories, metaphors in both Old and New Testaments that reveal a female God, or a God as Mother, and while I am aware of the question as to whether God is both male-female or if God is spirit and is neither,

I can't say I know, but I do believe, just in how God created woman, from the 'side' of man, that He shows, something about Himself/or Him-Herself, because it says, Male and Female He created them, in OUR image, male and female are created...so its not clear, but I think, there is enough through out the Bible that shows, or reveals,

that God is not simply Male. I don't see God as a Man, not even, the symbols to relate to humanity yes, are used but I think its much larger than that and that we may not be able to truly comprehend, due to our fallen nature however,

I am finding a LOT of healing in God's word and I am seeing, a female nature, that identifies and that I can identify with, both in God of the Old Testament and God of the New Testament [He is the same, yesterday and forever Hebrews 13:8]

Also, when I say, we may not escape patriarchy, I am referring to the state of THIS WORLD, due to sin, the Bible is very clear, that in Heaven, in the New Earth, there will be absolutely no patriarchy, or division of gender. Why, simple,

there is no sin.

peace,

Anti-Slavery Coalitions and a Challenge for 21st Century Women

2009-03-13T12:06:00.002-06:00

[see post below]

Two things,

one, not sure if I'll put it on this blog, maybe just a link, but eventually, I will be adding an intercessory prayer group link, with all of the issues I have written about on this blog, with references to materials if any are interested, in what to pray and how to pray for,

meaning, we can come to God and pray for issues but we don't always know what to ask for, especially specific needs. Here, let me give you an example, lets say, I am praying for the global food crisis, well where to start? Well, I would listen to what God puts on my heart, lets say, a relief organization or missionaries, I would then, pray,

for protection for them as they are transferring food or funds to get the food, from juntas, riots, violence, etc. Then I would pray for transportation, for people to be there at every instant that any obstacle would be placed in their way, I would pray for strength, both physical, spiritual and emotional on those working for the relief [because its demanding work and very exhausting, the workers are few and the need is SO great], I would pray for their protection, AND if something horrible did happen, I would pray they would rely on God's power to stand strong spiritually, etc., I would pray for those receiving the aid, to see not just God's love but also, that love would spread, I would pray for those who are not able to get that aid that there would be other aid,

and so forth.

You see there is a lot, its not just, God, feed the hungry....I heard something the other day that is really good, on the KLove radio/and Compassion International, and this man was saying,

people all the time ask, why does God allow people to starve? If He is such a loving God, well,

we are, His hands, His feet, His arms, etc., here on earth, that is what the Bible says and its not that HE desires people to starve, He told us, commanded us, to go out into the world and share His love, that means, not just preaching, and it Doesn't mean go out into the world and enslave and FORCE conversion which tragically the 'false ones' have done so and many still do so, the wolves in sheep's clothing [Satan does appear as an angel of light to deceive and to turn hearts bitter against God],

anyway, its not that God doesn't move, is that WE don't move. Part of that moving is prayer, I used to think it wasn't, but it is, a huge part, because prayer changes hearts. Including our own...

So, I will be adding that, and I still will be going through here and cleaning up this blog/revising, deleting, etc. Eventually, anyway,

because there is So much need in our world, not just in assisting the poor but just so much suffering, injustice, its really easy to become bogged down in wanting to change the entire world,

and we simply cannot. It would be nice if we could, but we can't, but we can pray, for God's will on earth, as it is in Heaven...and He is very clear about His will,

He desires no one to perish. He gives us free will, and we can take that free will,

and serve Him in love, love others, or not. He doesn't 'force' us, and not everyone has the same calling, so I am finding that prayer, because one can pray/talk to God all day, in our thoughts, our work, everything, if we so choose, and I am finding, the more we pray for others, He opens doors,

for ourselves too, He changes our hearts, our perspective, He heals our wounds, He takes away the hate, the fear, and replaces with His love, peace, understanding and wisdom and comfort...

its NOT easy, at all because we are accustomed to just living life, pretty much, not thinking of Him, if we don't know Him even more so, Oh, one more thing,

pray for those who Do do God's work, but they may not know Him. God does work through unbelievers, all the time, because many believers are just disobedient to Him, and Jesus spoke of this, a lot,

the kingdom of Heaven, its not a hierarchy, its not the most powerful at top, oh no,

the first will be last, the least will be first. Jesus revealed to us that God turns the hierarchy, including yes, patriarchy, totally upside down, because its NOT about POWER,

its about LOVE. http://www.soundofgrace.com/piper95/04-16-95.htm

1 Corinthians 13:12-13

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.

But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.

OK, second thing,

did some research this morning, and found this,

its an interview, with Mende Nazer, and I will later, add some things to the side bar, on current efforts in working to end slavery.

I would love to see Mende's book taught in every school, well anyway,

here is the link:

http://odeo.com/episodes/22148470-Mende-Nazer-An-Agenda-for-21st-Century-Women

An Apology, to Good Muslims

2009-03-13T01:27:00.004-06:00

As you may have noticed, I've been slowly changing attitudes, since I turned my heart back over to Jesus, or rather,

I should say, He's been changing my attitudes. Really working in me, one, for healing and two, to see through HIS eyes, rather than just mine. Its funny because when you see the world through His eyes, you see more than just what meets the eye or what is in front of you, be it in word or in deed.

I want to say, first of all, before I begin with what prompted me to write this, that those who see us, from other nations, have to understand or try, our anger and our reactions when we see, hear and read about the injustices done, the hate spoke, the desire for genocide against people chanted,

that it paints a vivid picture in our minds of what all the people of that group must be, especially when there is an ideology or a system of beliefs that sanction that hate. But it isn't just that,

you see, those of us who do react with strong anger, we do so because we DON'T, take our freedom for granted here, we are NOT apathetic, or complacent, we understand the importance of safeguarding freedom, not just for ourselves,

but for others. We get angry because we believe that freedom and human rights aren't just reserved for the precious few, for white people, for Americans, for men, but for every individual on this planet. For us, its not the obtaining goods that is the value of life,

maybe some of us learned that through hardships or loss, maybe some of us, like myself, learned that in a life of poverty [by American standards] and by suffering, though it may not be the same kind of suffering you may know, it is suffering nethertheless, it doesn't hurt less just because its not by the brute force of government or by the gun of the enemy, though those abuses Do happen here, to the poor and to non-whites and to women, but not on the same level as in other countries so,

for us, you see, we have comparisons, we KNOW, very brutally in front of us, when there is injustice. Suffering that is a daily reality for all around us is not the NORM here, not in the same way it is for many parts of the world, and what Does anger us,

is not you as much [excluding those of you who want to destroy all freedoms and rights and enslave the world from your ideals of hate] as much as its our anger

against fellow Americans and Europeans, though its projected onto those from other countries, Especially when they come to our shores and demand to instill their form of totalitarian beliefs/governments, etc.

so our anger is double sided, on one hand its towards the haters of freedom, of good, of fairness, of human rights,

and on the other, even more so, our anger is directed towards those who are either lazy or too self-centered to even care, not just about preserving their own freedom but they flat don't care about anyone else outside their circles.

IN that anger, it is very easy to see all injustice everywhere, the intent to cause harm, as the exact same. I am finding however, that it is not,

at least not across the board. I read a book today, one that I've had in my library for several years but just never got the chance to read it, and its not that I have not read similar case studies but this one, was a personal testimony, of a woman,

who was enslaved in Sudan, a Muslim woman, kidnapped during a raid on her village by Northern Sudanese Arab Muslims [she is Nuba tribe, black African and Muslim], raped, sold into slavery, her entire childhood,

gone. She was lucky to escape, in fact a miracle to be blunt about it, and not only was her testimony powerful in that it is one of hope and courage, but one of faith. And what really struck me was when in the first family that enslaved her, though they were Muslim [Arab] they refused to allow her to pray,

though they were of the same faith, she, because she was black African, was deemed not just inferior but not even human. Her father, had taught her that all people were equal, and while her memories became faint over the years with the realization that she'd be a slave forever [and many of these kids are slaves for the rest of their lives], she remembered that,

and she had to fight to pray, beaten, abused, raped, as a child, by those of her faith, by those who thought they were 'superior race' and 'superior Muslim',

well, it really opened my eyes, that not all Muslims, are these haters screaming kill all Jews or hating the West. In fact, this woman tells of one time, when the Americans were bombing Sudan [after the bombings of embassies in Somalia and the links to Osama], she smiled, she was so happy to know,

there was one bigger and stronger than her Arab masters. It made me think, very long and hard, how many more Muslims, are grateful for intervention, even if its not successful but they are just grateful, that someone in the world cares, that there is hope.

The realization really blew me away because we get this picture that ALL MUSLIMS are anti-west, are haters, etc. Because that is the view that many Muslims put out there...

there was in the book some hints to her being taught that others were bad, that Christians were extremists who kidnap children [and I'm sure there probably are, lets not forget colonization of Africa and the enslaving of Indian children in America, those who 'use' Christianity in the same way, to justify they claims to superiority over others, Especially in how most whites, claiming justification by God, to oppress African Americans and Latinos, Asians, women, the poor, etc., and in fact, many still do, and including those who profess this twisted Christianity and say, that their ordained right is to kill all Jews, which is just the most blasphemous distortion there is, Jesus was a JEW! Moses was JEW, Abraham was a JEW, and I read something else interesting too, though off topic, but the Arab peoples are also, from the semitic race, I read that the other day in a history of Biblical times book [in depth, archeology about all those civilizations back then, the lands, so forth, including the ancient beliefs of Persians and Assyrians, etc., even before the birth of Christ, very interesting stuff btw]

What struck me too was the amount of deception, taqiyya, used against her, this child, a Muslim lying to another Muslim, to enslave, terrorize, abuse, exploit,

and then, the shocker, those few Arab Muslims who, though they may have been just as responsible, there was one or two in the book mentioned, that did at least, try to intervene on this woman's behalf in regards to how she was treated, physically.

You see the haters and those who profess God, who are far from true religious, and those, who may not be as religious, maybe even nominal, but who have more faith, and what was surprising,

was how similar in ways her faith, was very much like Christians faith in God...and while I am no supporter of universalism, not in the way its promoted,

I will say, God knows whose hearts belong to Him, no matter where they are or what faith they are. That I did see,

and yes, they are a small fraction of the larger segment but they do exist. The book, is called

SLAVE, and its the true story of Mende Nazer.

Parts of it were hard to read because while I have never been a slave, I do know, what it is [like many children in this country] to live in violent homes, to live in fear, to feel stuck,

to want to run away and I did, at 16, I ran away. Paid for it, I did but point is, I know That desperation,

not on the same way though, at least I could go at least cry for help, though run aways in this country are exploited, especially girls...but at least, I knew, there was hope, some refuge,

nothing like being in another country or part of a country, hated because of being a different race/tribe or religion and a small child,

seeing loved ones butchered, raped in front of their eyes...by the ones who profess the same faith.

I think, it would be easier, at least, to cope, if these things were suffered at the hands of foreign enemies, at least, one could put it into perspective,

how one could do this when its your own, be it religion or race or gender [and gender yes, it happens and what is so tragic about it, is that there is this denial so its near impossible to get help because no one believes it happens, e.g. men being raped by other men in fraternities or women who have been sexually abused by women in authority, it happens, all the time but there is so much denial so there is this hesitance to even seek help or healing]

so on a small level, I suppose one can understand how awful that is because its the ones you identify with, that are oppressing you,

and when its religion, its worse because then its the struggle of, if your own faith oppresses you, then how does your God perceive you?

I never thought, a book written by a Muslim, would help bring some much needed healing and understanding, to some things I've struggled with, in my faith, God does work in mysterious ways,

and it softened, the fear. The fear and the anger, of years of seeing so much horror in women's faces who have fled abuse and horrid situations in other countries, and there was

comfort, reading how God, does reach, even in the most darkest of dungeons. No matter who it is, He is there.

I've read of course the stories of Muslims persecuting other Muslims and killing Muslims more than non-Muslims but never really grasped it, until I read this book...when I was involved in Islam for a short time, the oppression the family endured [other than the women, who dealt with it both by the men AND in the war] was by the enemies they were at war with at the time, who were Non-Muslim, and the attitudes yes, I can see are very different,

from the ones I saw in this book. Now whether that is a matter of race, I don't know, I have read there is, but its not something I've spent hours upon hours studying. My focus has always been women's rights.

This in no way means I will go soft on confronting the banality of evil or the misogyny, abuse towards women, yes, in Islam, though I am well aware of the reformist movement and the small moderate segments, and the texts they stand on, I am aware of those,

but this book, has helped me to see, that like everywhere, there are good people are bad people, we can't lump them all together in the 'other'.

This doesn't mean we should go soft and accomodating to PC either, to cultural relativism or naive when it comes to the use of deception, taqiyya, to deceive and to conquer, a tool of warfare,

but it does mean, that we must be careful, in how we confront...that we must seek discernment, wisdom, and stay true, to the cause of Human Rights, because while it may look like an army of 100,000 who all are in one mind to commit genocide and to spread hate,

there is always that remnant, maybe just one person, who is not of that mind.

The world fights with the ways of sinful ways, flesh destroying flesh, and this is why, when the hate begins with just a spark, it can turn into a wildfire destroying every single remain of human hair in its path.

Leaving not only destruction to the targeted but destruction to those who are part of the aggressor, because violence turns in on itself, it always does. Hate always does,

the 'other' then becomes more broad, becomes more than just 'them', it then becomes those with similar traits as 'them', those who have had ideas similar to 'them', those who might become like 'them',

and then, to protect what has been taken by violence due to the knowledge of just due retribution, the them becomes larger and more inclusive of those who were not even part of the intended target....

and like a cancer it spreads. And to ever rid of it, there must be a continuous purging which is extremely painful and long enduring...and even then, it still may not work, there still may be,

the wages of death.

Maybe this is why God says, "our weapons are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds...."

Our Weapons for Spiritual Warfare are Not Carnal; Nor are our Battles Against Flesh and Blood

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.
—2 Corinthians 10:3-5
AND

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Ephesians 6:12

For years, I warred by the flesh, meaning, in human ways, strength, and why?

Well, our reason says, we do so because to not war means to be complicit, and that is true to a point...but there is a very dangerous area we get into, when we take on the forces of evil,

because we become ensnared by those very same forces.

I did, and the thing is, if one is open any way whatsoever to the consciousness, we know it, but we rationalize it,

but, but, but, but

if we don't, evil will win.

There is a very fine line, in standing opposed to evil, and not becoming evil in the process.

And this is why its so contrary to human nature to even consider the choice to act in Love, and no I'm not talking about being passive, being a doormat, no,

that isn't Love, that simply is just being subjugated. Love, Love dares to rebuke, to confront, to stand,

even if, it means one's own harm or death.

AND it is not easy, it is, yes, A WARFARE, don't believe me, just try it for two weeks, I promise you,

you won't last three days. Just try to react in love every time someone is unkind,

you really see, the nature surge up, and not just react in kindness, but pray for those who are unkind,

it tears like no other. The first thing that comes up is, If I do this, I'll be a victim for ever,

but you see, its not about being a victim, because God has given us armor and He has given us His word, to do battle, against the very forces at work,

and prayer, is one of those.

Eph 6:10-17 (NIV) ...Be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armour of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armour of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled round your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

This is real warfare, not some fantasy game or a two minute lesson, it takes several things,

one, is practiced obedience to God's Will, that means, every single day, putting God's will first, and its the hardest to do,

but not impossible and for this, relies on prayer, not ritual prayer, no, not empty words but a pouring out our heart before God, everything, casting it all onto Him, because that builds trust...strength, a relationship [its not about religion, its about a relationship],

and most of all, knowing the Word of God, because its in the Word, where the power lies...the double edged sword,

in the spiritual realm.

Mende, relied on prayer, not ritualistic prayer, not in the open public practices, but a true relationship with God, as a small child, she continued to reach out, in horrible circumstances, in pain, in fear, all alone,

and several times, God intervened, whether it was another child enslaved who shared kindness/or her to them, or a kind stranger even though among those who enslaved her, but in all sorts of ways,

God was there. In the most painful suffering, He was there for her...not that she was always strong or had faith, or didn't have despair,

or didn't contemplate taking her own life, because she did.

And in her case, I would definately say with boldness, if she had taken her life, it would have not been by her hand, no,

it would have been by being driven to it, an act of MURDER on the part of her captors and her abusers. God is merciful and sees it all, knows the heart and when a CHILD is driven to that kind of despair,

those who are causing it, yes, are committing a form of murder, slow and torturous but murder all the same.

But that is how Satan works, that is how evil works, its not just the human in front of us, there is a force working,

and I see this more and more as I read testimonies by people who are either fighting the banality of evil and indifference in the world OR those who are suffering because of it.

Trial by fire, oh how we fear it and detest it but I will say this, and I know a little, just a little, of what it is to go through it, it can either make you stronger in faith or it can destroy you...sometimes it can destroy you and then God one day, brings you back through His grace,

and you look back and see just how far you have fallen, but the more you are forgiven the more you love, AND the more you realize,

how Holy He is, not how holy you think YOU are.

And as I write this I know, one little thing, boom, I react...maybe not at first, but in time, and I see, more clearly,

personally I don't know how in the world, I went through those years, away from Him, I seriously don't, and when I read Mende's story I think,

what little it took me, to turn, but you see, unforgiveness does that, it defiles like no other, as does, deep hurts that have not been given over and healed,

we don't hand them over because of the loss of pride, or maybe because there is comfort in hate. Yes, we can comfort ourselves in hatred, it makes us feel just, makes us feel just to the point where,

it insulates us, so we think, from the need to turn to God, to accept salvation.

Why religion is so embraced because religion, works, the law, one truly doesn't have to go to God and turn over their hearts, oh no, they can keep the defiled heart, and just practice the habits of outward appearance of good moral living,

or standards or laws, what have you...its a whole other matter,

when one comes to God and says, I am a sinner and I can't do it alone and I need salvation.

That takes a humbling and a surrender, a complete surrender, to God and to His way of salvation, not through works or through hate or through self-crucifixion, but by simply,

accepting what Jesus did for us, drinking the punishment for every single one of us in our place, because no matter what amounts of works or good or sacrifice, it can't erase the stain of sin,

no way, we can't escape it, it separates us from God AND it makes impossible for any real relationship because God is Holy, Merciful and Loving but Holy, His Holiness would consume us in a flash of an eye,

He provided a way, its funny how I sought every other single way there is, and to realize, His way is just so easy, in comparison AND,

results in life, eternal life.

Grace, His Grace, and the more I see it, the more, I see His Grace for the entire world, not that He won't judge wrongdoing, because He will, but when He does it, He does it,

in His righteousness, not in our hate or our prejudice, and its a good thing. I am learning that He does work all things for the good for those who Love Him,

as He did for this woman, and not only that, He is working through her and others to reach so many about the horrors of the slavery that still exists in our world today. We have been redeemed,

yet we choose to remain slaves to sin, and we choose to cling onto the very hate and very sin,

that rationalizes and justifies the enslaving of others...in this world.

And yes, I'm becoming more bold about sharing, because there is this urgency, I really feel this urgency for the world, that the time is at hand...

IF you knew just how far I fell away, and just what He has done in just a matter of months, and just how much I remember from when I was, a strong Christian years and Years ago, how so much is coming back to me and I think,

what in the world happened to me, seriously? I know now, I'm seeing it, I'm seeing just how hurts and injustice work, to kill the spirit in people, to do such a level of harm that they are plunged into this darkness and abyss,

I was there...I WAS THERE,

I never want to go back there. And I feel the tug of sin pulling, that force and it is a warfare, and in this world, where indifference and apathy and unbelief is not only widespread BUT faith is hated, God is hated, Jesus is hated,

and the most cold blooded ideologies are not only embraced but celebrated, or the reliance on the 'self' and what is so funny about that,

is that, I relied on 'self' and well, its the quickest way to wind up in trouble. In more ways than one....IF, IF humans, were meant to not find God, to not find salvation,

why are we in the state we are in today, in this world? Why haven't we progressed? Why haven't we evolved from some debased cave man state? We are doing things in our world, even in the name of God, not just in one area either,

but throughout the entire world, that animals don't even do, and not only are we seeing a world that does,

but a world that doesn't even wince at the horrors.

Well anyway, all this just sort of poured out, I'm not taking any comments on this, and probably wrote this more, to speak to myself here...

but this I'll close with,

I'm finding more and more how good God is, how good and gracious and loving, truly LOVING, He is, and not just in empty words.

I really mean that...maybe by seeing the slow difference in my writing, maybe you can see His goodness too. [not that I won't ever snap or sin again...just saying]

JUSTICE FOR THE CONGO WE DEMAND TODAY

2009-03-12T12:35:00.004-06:00

THE RAPE OF THE CONGO, FOR OUR ELECTRONICS AND DIAMONDS, AND EXPLOITED UNDER THE NAME OF GOD
There needs to be serious DEMAND FOR JUSTICE, ON BEHALF OF THE CONGO,

NOT JUST DEMANDING JUSTICE TO THE MATERIALIST EXPLOITERS

BUT TO THOSE PREACHING 'GOD' WHO ARE EXPLOITING THE MISERY...TELLING KIDS THEY ARE DEMON POSSESSED THEREFORE THAT IS WHY THEIR KIDS ARE DYING AND WOMEN RAPED AND VAGINAS SHOT WITH GUNS,

IN THE NAME OF GOD

NOT THE MUSLIM GOD

THE CHRISTIAN GOD

ENOUGH

I SAY

ENOUGH

IF THIS DOESN'T MAKE YOU ANGRY, YOU IN NO WAY IN HELL, KNOW WHO CHRIST IS.

I HAVE DECIDED TO BEGIN A CAMPAIGN ON THE BEHALF OF THE CONGOLESE PEOPLE, TO DEMAND JUSTICE

CONTACT ME IF INTERESTED. I prayed about this and have gotten confirmation, not sure how I am going to go about this,

there ARE women and men who are working in relief and healing for the people, especially women in the Congo,

but there is not enough demands in the West for our governments to take accountability and to pay reparations to the Congolese people. There can be NO PEACE WITHOUT JUSTICE,

nor can there be healing for these people, without justice. Also, read this,

from a woman missionary who is working in the Congo [the website is Global Girl Network, a Christian feminist website, of women working in relief/healing world around, their stories are hard to read,

what is so heart wrenching is to read so many people asking where is God and why isn't God answering and not only that, but MEN raping and torturing in the name of God

AND THE CHURCH IS SILENT.

IT IS BEYOND INFURIATING,

I'm so furious I can't even write with logic, the heart simply cannot utter the words, in the knowledge that such gross evil is Sanctioned by silence by those who claim the name of God,

the blaspheming of His Holy Name, is what it is,

by their silence, by our silence, we blaspheme His Holy Name.

No more...this cannot go on anymore, there can be no good conscious to have knowledge of this evil in the Congo and OUR PART IN IT,

there simply cannot be, nor SHOULD THERE BE,

ANY REST FOR OUR SOULS,

UNTIL WE TAKE ACTION.

excerpt from this blog on Global Girl Network, then link
and then following that, the article, one of many, on the War in the Congo and Why, it is long,

read carefully, what you'll read will make you sick [if it doesn't, something VERY wrong with you]--and it really infuriates me to find out, that minerals used in playstations are one that is raped from this land...and that has been responsible for the slaughter of four million,

one of the minerals. And so called Religious people [not true Christians] in this nation really think God is going to 'protect' and 'preserve' this nation with THIS BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS?

hardly....same goes for EUROPE,

no way, judgment is coming, sad as it is, but there is NO WAY GOD IN HEAVEN IN HIS HOLINESS WILL NOT JUDGE THESE HORRORS,

ITS NOT ENOUGH TO CONDEMN THE MISOGYNY IN ISLAM, OR THAT IS DONE IN ISLAM, AND THEN THINK,

THAT WE, AS A NATION, CAN BE SILENT IN THE SAME CRIMES OR WORSE, DONE IN THE NAME OF GOD.

OR NOT OBJECTED TO, JUST BECAUSE THERE ARE THOSE WHO PROFESS 'GOD'
WHO COMMIT THESE CRIMES, WHILE THEY DENY, IGNORE, THE COMMANDS OF THE TRUE GOD, WHO IN HIS HOLY WORD, AND COMMANDMENTS, SAID

THOU SHALL NOT KILL

THOU SHALL NOT COVET THY NEIGHBOR'S WIFE [ALSO MEANS, IF YOU KNOW WHAT COVET IT, THOU SHALL NOT RAPE]

GOD MADE MAN AND WOMAN IN 'OUR' IMAGE, GENESIS SAYS, TWICE. GOD MADE MAN AND WOMAN IN HIS IMAGE,

HIS IMAGE,

NOT YOU LITTLE MEN, MAKING 'GOD' INTO YOUR IMAGE, IN YOUR LANGUAGE, IN YOUR TEMPLES, PROPPING YOURSELF UP AS 'THE GOD' THAT ALL WOMEN SHOULD BOW TO...THE GOD CALLED PATRIARCHY,

is it any wonder they have to take scripture OUT of context, they even twist the words of Jesus, NOT only will the blood be on their hands [on ours as a nation] but the ones who stumble, who turn to idols and false religions, due to that they perceive the God in Heaven as a dictator brute who rapes, kills, maims,

who have molded God into an image of evil,

is in no way NOT going to be given account for--that is to all of us, who profess to know God,

its a serious responsibility, in how we portray HIM, in how we act towards others. NOT that we are perfect, or that we don't sin, but we had Better take it VERY SERIOUSLY, AND THAT INCLUDES OUR BEING SILENT AND/OR INACTIVE WHEN WE KNOW THERE IS INJUSTICE,

AND WE DO NOT DEMAND REPENTANCE AND JUSTICE.

THIS NATION'S SILENCE IS THE PERMISSION.

Start with One

April 29, 2008 by globalgirlnetwork

By Tonya Sargent

“If I can’t yet mourn a million people who left this world in a single day, I’ll start with one, and move from there.” These are the words of Barbara Kingsolver’s character “Leah” from her Poisonwood Bible—a novel set in Congo in the 1960s. And this is why I went to the Democratic Republic of Congo last year.

A few years ago I heard about the horrific war that had been occurring there for the past decade with over nine countries involved and a shocking death toll of over four million people—more than all wars added together since WWII. Half of these deaths are children. Hundreds of thousands of women and girls have been brutally raped and mutilated and countless young boys have been forced to become child soldiers. I couldn’t wrap my mind around it. I couldn’t bear to think I had lived my life in oblivion to this atrocity and I felt I needed to go see these faces and hear their stories first hand, to be a witness to their suffering. Statistics are mind numbing, but faces are real. And if you can’t yet mourn for four million people, maybe today you can just start with one and move from there.

READ FULL ARTICLE HERE: http://globalgirlnetwork.com/2008/04/29/start-with-one/

Congo's tragedy: the war the world forgot

In a country the size of Western Europe, a war rages that has lasted eight years and cost four million lives. Rival militias inflict appalling suffering on the civilian population, and what passes for political leadership is powerless to stop it. This is Congo, and the reason for the conflict - control of minerals essential to the electronic gadgetry on which the developed world depends - is what makes our blindness to the horror doubly shaming. Johann Hari reports from the killing fields of central Africa

Friday, 5 May 2006

This is the story of the deadliest war since Adolf Hitler's armies marched across Europe - a war that has not ended. But is also the story of a trail of blood that leads directly to you: to your remote control, to your mobile phone, to your laptop and to your diamond necklace. In the TV series Lost, a group of plane crash survivors believe they are stranded alone on a desert island, until one day they discover a dense metal cable leading out into the ocean and the world beyond. The Democratic Republic of Congo is full of those cables, mysterious connections that show how a seemingly isolated tribal war is in reality something very different.

This war has been dismissed as an internal African implosion. In reality it is a battle for coltan, diamonds, cassiterite and gold, destined for sale in London, New York and Paris. It is a battle for the metals that make our technological society vibrate and ring and bling, and it has already claimed four million lives in five years and broken a population the size of Britain's. No, this is not only a story about them. This - the tale of a short journey into the long Congolese war we in the West have fostered, fuelled and funded - is a story about you.

I Rapes Within Rapes

It starts with a ward full of women who have been gang-raped and then shot in the vagina. I am standing in a makeshift ward in the Panzi hospital in Bukavu, the only hospital that is trying to deal with the bushfire of sexual violence in eastern Congo. Most have wrapped themselves deep in their blankets so I can only see their eyes staring blankly at me. Dr Denis Mukwege is speaking. "Around 10 per cent of the gang-rape victims have had this happen to them," he says softly, his big hands tucked into his white coat. "We are trying to reconstruct their vaginas, their anuses, their intestines. It is a long process."

We walk out into the courtyard and he begins to explain - in the national language, French - the secret history of this hospital. "We started with a catastrophe we just couldn't understand," he says softly. One day early in the war, the Unicef medical van he was using was looted. Coincidentally, a few days later, a woman was carried here on her grandmother's back after an eight-hour trek. "I had never seen anything like it. She had been gang-raped and then her legs had been shot to pieces. I operated on her on a table with no equipment, no medicine."

She was only the first. "We suddenly had so many women coming in with post-rape lesions and injuries I could never have imagined. Our minds just couldn't take in what these women had suffered." The competing armies had discovered that rape was an efficient weapon in this war. Even in this small province, South Kivu, the UN estimates that 45,000 women were raped last year alone. "It destroys the morale of the men to rape their women. Crippling their women cripples their society," he explains, shaking his head gently. There were so many militias around that Dr Mukwege had to keep his treatments secret - the women were terrified of being kidnapped again and killed. He became an Oskar Schindler of the Congolese mass rapes.

As we walk down to watch 200 rape victims being taught to sew under a large, dark bridge, he tells me what they can expect now. "When the rapes begin, the husbands and fathers often just scarper and never come back. The women never hear anything from them again. Other times, the men blame the women and shun them. It's very hard for us to persuade the women to leave the hospital, because where are they going to go?"

He introduces me to Aileen, who is 18 but looks much younger. She holds her hands tightly in her lap. Her story is stark, the details sparse. Her village was raided by a militia on 10 October, and "they beheaded people in the central square". Her voice is high-pitched; she is almost squeaking. She was seized and taken back out into the forest by the militia where they kept her for six months. "I was raped every night. The first night my body really ached and hurt because I was a virgin," she says. She would be passed on from one man to the next. It is only as she speaks that I notice the large protruding bump sagging into her lap. The baby is going to be born next month. She says she has spoken to her family, but Dr Mukwege tells me later this is a fantasy. "What," she asks me with wide eyes as we leave, "do you think I should do? Where can I go?"

It is coldly appropriate to start here. The rape of Aileen and the rape of the thousands of women who stagger into the Panzi hospital are, I soon discover, merely part of a larger rape - the rape of Congo.

II The Last of the Belgian Colonialists

Bukavu is a cratered, shattered shack-city in eastern Congo that lies on the edge of Lake Kivu. In the street markets, people trade scraps of food for Congolese notes worth a few pence. In the houses, they stagger along without water or electricity. Wandering through this cacophony, I find a lone white woman, a lingering remnant of the origins of this war. She can reveal how all this began.

As we sit over lunch, Tina Van Malderen says, skimming the menu: "I don't drink water - only wine." Her hair is greying but her smile is warm. "I came to Bukavu as a little girl in 1951 when my father came to work for the Belgian administration," she explains. "It was paradise. There were only Europeans then. No Africans. Black people lived in the surrounding areas. It wasn't like South Africa, they weren't forced. They didn't want to live with us. They came into the town to work. They had their own market." She speaks of the days of the Belgian empire with a soft-focus sepia longing. "I have four sisters, and we would swim in the lake all day. It was like a non-stop holiday."

Her family owned a chain of shops, and the only castle in Congo. She is incredulous when I ask if there was any cruelty towards black people back then. "Absolutely not. We loved our blacks. When they had children, we gave them gifts." Perhaps sensing my scepticism, she adds: "Maybe on the plantations they were a little bit rude to them." The Belgians unified Congo in the first great holocaust of the 20th century, a programme of slavery and tyranny that killed 13 million people. King Leopold II - bragging about his humanitarian goals, of course - seized Congo and turned it into a slave colony geared to extracting rubber, the coltan and cassiterite of its day. The "natives" who failed to gather enough rubber would have their hands chopped off, with the Belgian administrators receiving and carefully counting hundreds of baskets of hands a day.

This system of forced cultivation continued until the Belgians withdrew in 1960, when Patrice Lumumba became the first and only elected leader of Congo. "He was a stupid man," Tina says swiftly. "On the first day of independence, he said we had beaten and humiliated the blacks. He signed his death warrant by doing that."

She's right - he did. Lumumba claimed to be a democratic socialist who wanted to overcome Congo's ethnic divisions. We will never know if he could have fulfilled this dream, because the CIA decided he was a "mad dog" who had to be put down. Before long, one of its agents was driving around Kinshasa with the elected leader's tortured corpse in the boot, and the CIA's man - Mobutu Sese Seko - was in power and in the money. Tina's family sold their castle to the dictator as he renamed the country Zaire. "People always ask if he paid. Of course he paid!" she laughs. Mobutu became another Leopold, using the state to rob and murder the Congolese people.

Tina's family started to worry in the 1970s when he announced a programme of "Zaireanisation" - a Mugabe-style transfer of the resources of foreigners to his cronies. "My mother arrived at work one day and there was a black man come to take possession of everything, including her car. She had to walk home," Tina says, glugging red wine.

"Everything began to fail after that. The food became disgusting. Even our dog didn't want to eat it." This is Tina's first visit home - she still calls it that - since they fled. "I saw the house we lived in. From outside it still looked nice but when I went inside..." she shakes her head. "The black people cannot live properly. If I had to compare Congo, I must say it hasn't changed at all. They are not naked any more, but they are still savages." Tina's countrymen established the nation-state in the Congo, and they designed it to be a vampire-state. The only change over the decades has been the resource snatched for Western consumption - rubber under the Belgians, diamonds under Mobutu, coltan and cassiterite today. "Cheers," Tina says, downing her wine.

III The War for Games Consoles

If you want to glimpse what all this death has been for, you have cross Lake Kivu and drive for four hours, on pocked and broken roller-coaster roads, until you reach a place called Kalehe. Scarring the lush green hills are what seem to be large red scabs that glisten in the sun. The term for these open wounds in the earth is "artisinal mines", but this dry terminology conjures up images of technical digs with machines and lights and helmets. In reality, they are immense holes in the ground, in which men, women and children - lots of children - pick desperately with makeshift hammers or their bare hands at the red earth, hoping to find some coltan or cassiterite to set on the long conveyor belt to your house, or mine. Coltan is a metal that conducts heat unusually brilliantly. It is contained in your mobile, your lap-top, your son's PlayStation - and 80 per cent of the world's supplies sit beneath the Democratic Republic of Congo.

As I crawl down into the mine - its cool, damp darkness is a strange contrast to the raging Congolese sun - the miners laugh. The idea of a muzungu - a white man - in their mine seems to them impossibly comic. But they soon get back to picking away at a roof that looks like it could collapse at any moment. Ingo Mbale, 51, explains how the West's hunger for coltan is fed. "We were enslaved three years ago," he says. "An RCD captain [from one of the militias] arrived and forced us to mine for them at gunpoint. They gave us no money, it was slave labour. There is nothing left in many of these shafts now, they exhausted them. They killed many people. Our gold and coltan and cassiterite went out to the world via Rwanda."

Watching these men, the shape of Congo's recent history becomes clear. There is an official story about the war in Congo, and then there is the reality, uncovered by a trilogy of bomb-blast reports from the UN Panel of Experts on the DRC. The official story is convoluted and hard to follow, because it does not ultimately make sense. But its first chapter is true enough, and goes something like this. In 1996, a Maoist with an eye for money called Laurent-Désiré Kabila grew tired of simply running his little fiefdom in eastern Zaire, where he peddled ivory and gold with a nice sideline in kidnapping Westerners. Kabila decided to depose Mobutu, the omnipresent and omni-incompetent tyrant, and seize power for himself. He cobbled together a ragtag army of child soldiers known as the Kadogo and, with the support of neighbouring Rwanda and Uganda, the edifice of Mobutuism collapsed even before their tinny, tiny advance. Kabila installed himself as another Leopold-alike, banning political parties and bathing in corruption.

But then in 1998 Kabila asked the Rwandans and Ugandans to withdraw their troops from Congo - so long, and thanks for the armies - and the official story begins to drift away from reality. The Rwandans pulled back for a fortnight, but then mounted a massive invasion of Congo, seizing a third of the country. The public reason for this assault sounds reasonable. After the 1994 genocide in Rwanda - a slaughter that made even Auschwitz look slow-paced - tens of thousands of the Hutu Power machete-wielders fled across the border to Congo and set up long-term bases. How could any country rest with its murderers armed and crazed on its borders? "We must prevent the génocidaires from regrouping," said Paul Kagame, the Rwandan president, with the supportive Ugandan military following in tow.

From his palace in Kinshasa, Kabila appealed to his friends for help resisting this Rwandan-Ugandan attack. Zimbabwe, Namibia and Angola obligingly sent armies marching into Congo to fight back, and Africa's First World War began. The armies and militias marauding across Congo then became rebels without a cause, fighting each other because they were there and because pulling out would be a humiliating concession of defeat. In this version, the war in Congo is a mess, started with the best of intentions - the Rwandans' desire to track down génocidaires - only to spiral out of control. It presents the mass slaughter as a giant cock-up, a cosmic mistake. This is strangely reassuring. It is also a lie.

Once the Congo was drenched in death, the UN commissioned a panel of international statesmen to travel the country and uncover the reasons behind the war. They found that the Rwandan government's story hid a much darker truth. The Rwandans had a clear intention, right from the beginning: to seize Congo's massive mineral wealth, to grab the coltan mine I am standing in now and thousands like it, and to sell it on to us, the waiting world, as we quickly flicked the channel away from the news of this war with our coltan-filled remote control. The other countries came in not because they believed in repelling aggression, but because they wanted a piece of the Congolese cake. The country was ravaged by "armies of business", commanded by men who "carefully planned the redrawing of the regional map to redistribute wealth," the UN declared.

The UN experts knew this because the Rwandan troops did not head for the areas where the génocidaires were hiding out. They headed straight for the mines like this one in Kalehe, and they swiftly enslaved the populations to dig for them. They did not clear out the génocidaires - they teamed up with them to rape Congo. Jean-Pierre Ondekane, the chief of the Rwandan forces in Goma, urged his units to maintain good relations "with our Interhamwe [génocidaires] brothers." They set up a Congo Desk that whisked billions out of the country and into Rwandan bank accounts - and they fought to stay and pillage some more. The UN found that a Who's Who of British, American and Belgian companies were involved in the illegal exploitation of Congolese resources. The ones they recommended for further investigation included Anglo-American PLC, Barclays Bank, Standard Chartered Bank and De Beers. The British Government - while boasting of its humanitarian goals in Africa - barely followed up the report, publicly acquitting a few corporations like Anglo-American whose subisidary AngloGold Ashanti has been shown by Human Rights Watch to have developed links with a murderous armed group in the region, and leaving others like De Beers in an "unresolved" category.

Oh, and the reason why this invasion was so profitable? Global demand for coltan was soaring throughout the war because of the massive popularity of coltan-filled Sony PlayStations. While Sony itself does not use Congolese coltan, its sudden need for vast amounts of the metal drove up the price - which intensified the war. As Oona King, one of the few British politicians to notice Congo, explains as we travel together for a few days: "Kids in Congo were being sent down mines to die so that kids in Europe and America could kill imaginary aliens in their living rooms."

As I climb back out into the hard sunshine, the miners turn to me. "Could you send us a hammer? We really need one. The militias took all our equipment."

IV The Tyrant's Jeer

On the long journey in an armoured UN vehicle, the questions seem so obvious, so trite. How could a government led by genocide victims suddenly commit its own epic crime against humanity, for nothing more than money? The answer lies across the border, through the rainforest, towards Kigali. I meet Charles Muligande, the Rwandan foreign minister, on the top floor of the Hotel Des Milles Collines, the real Hotel Rwanda. This is where hundreds of Tutsis hid out the holocaust while their brothers and sons were hacked to pieces on the streets outside.

Muligande has a strange combination of a youthful, unlined face and graying hair (with matching moustache), and he carries with him the unimpeachable moral stature of the victim. The sadness around the eyes, the haltingly recounted story of being driven across the border to Burundi as a child refugee, the relatives slaughtered in the genocide - they are all cruelly present. How can I challenge him? He speaks softly about the trauma counselling that is happening in Rwanda, and the fragile attempts at reconciliation. And then it comes - the chuckle.

I ask him about Congo's future, and he lets out a strange, hard-to-place laugh. "The DRC is a country that for the last 45 years has had pockets outside the control of central government," he says. "Even on the eve of the election, there will by places that are beyond the control of central government. This shouldn't be a cause for concern." And again with the chuckle.

What about the people who pay the price of the instability he waves away so casually? How does he sleep at night, knowing Rwanda has inflicted on its neighbours suffering akin to the horrors he and his family endured? He chuckles harder now, almost coughing. "This is rubbish. If we do a balance sheet, we incurred a lot of losses in fighting that war."

He says it with such airy conviction I have to grope in my mind for the right response. Why then does the UN's report say that Rwanda's pillage was "systematic" and "deliberate"? "That is an invention," he snaps. By the UN, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch? "Yes. It doesn't become true just because it is repeated. If you have such a blind faith in Amnesty International," - he spits the words - "and the UN and Human Rights Watch, there is nothing I can tell you. It is like you are asking me to believe Jesus Christ is not my saviour come to change my soul. It is a faith-based position." No amount of probing will shift him. When he talks about the genocide, he is compassionate, honest, brave. When he talks about his own country's crimes against Congo, he sneers. Their trauma, it seems, is worth nothing. As he speaks, I wonder - does he believe this, or does he, in midnight sweats, think about the children driven from their homes just like a baby Muligande was all those years ago?

The more I probe, the more his face contorts into the tyrant's jeer. I have seen this before, in Iraq and in Israel/Palestine - the furrowed brow and the rote claim that the evil UN and Amnesty have it in for us. Blood? What blood?

V Thomas Hobbes was Right

The victims of the war - of that laugh - are scattered everywhere in eastern Congo. By the roadside the next morning, I find the living remnants of Ramba village, a home to 15,000. They make up a clump of 400 starving people building a makeshift camp by the roadside. Maneno Mutagemba Justin, their chief - a young man with sore, reddish eyes - explains what happened. "The Interahamwe came into our village. They killed and they raped our women. Now they have stolen our houses and told us never to come back." People fled in all directions, losing their husbands or children. Nobody is quite sure how many relatives they have lost forever. "We have no food here, and we left everything behind. We have no pots, no pans, no water." These people live a long drawn-out postscript to Thomas Hobbes, the 17th-century philosopher who warned that in the absence of a state, life will be: "Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

Yet the most piercing image of pain I see in Congo is not in places like this. It is not in the pygmy village where children with sweet distended bellies sleep with their families in the tea-bushes because they are terrified of being beheaded by the militias. It is not even in the eyes of the man Oona King and I see being casually beaten to death by a mob on the road one moody afternoon, another unrecorded Congolese write-off that we swiftly speed away from. No, it is the women carrying more than their own bodyweight in wood or coal or sand, all day, every day. By every Congolese roadside, there are women with ropes tearing into their foreheads as they bind a massive load on to their backs. With so few horses, so few cars and so few roads, starving women are used here as pack-horses, transporting anything that needs to be moved on their backs for 50p a day. They are given the quaint title of "porters".

Francine Chacopawa is 30 but she looks much older, her faced lined and cratered in a complex topography of pain. Her spine is curved, her skin is rough and broken, her hands calloused. When she laboriously puts down the wood she is carrying, she has a red canyon in her forehead where the rope was, rimmed with sores that weep from the rubbing. "This is the rope that keeps my household alive," she says. It is the war that has reduced her to this state. "Since the war started, you can't farm in peace, and the children are starving, so I prefer to die in this work... My husband cannot get a job, so this is what I have to do. I leave at five o'clock in the morning and get back at seven o'clock at night. I am worried my children are running away to look for food, because we only get to eat once a day. When I get home, my husband gets angry and asks why I have been away so long. We have suffered so much. The children we bring into the world are forced to be porters as well. We are the most unhappy people in the world."

She tells me the pack she is carrying weighs 200lb, and I write this off as understandable hyperbole. Then my translator and the UN driver load her pack on to my back (with great difficulty). I immediately fall to my knees. I stagger up and manage to stumble a few feet before falling over again. I am almost crying in pain; my back aches for weeks. This is Francine's life. She does not even stop on Sundays. "How can I? We must eat," she says. Portering has made her miscarry twice, and Francine says she has seen women die by the side of the road, buckled under their loads. I ask her when she will stop portering. She shrugs, and says nothing. Her eyes say: "When I die." The wood is heaved back on to her back, and she staggers away, the rope rubbing against her sores.

VI The Head of State Without a State

Joseph Kabila is surrounded by crocodiles. We are standing by the back wall of the White House, the slimline presidential palace in Kinshasa, and the rippling, reptile-infested Congo river rings around us. His house looks like a well-kept municipal library in an American town, a world away from the psycho-kitsch of the Mobutu era. The President's eyes have narrowed. "How long have you been here, to think you can write about Congo?" he asks, unsmiling. I say I have been here a fortnight. He nods slightly. "Then that's OK."

Kabila does not like talking to journalists. Indeed, he does not like talking to anyone - he has conspicuously failed to turn up at his own election rallies over the past few months. I have been smuggled in at the end of his meeting with the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Great Lakes Region, a collection of decent British politicians who have come to try to erode the worst humanitarian crisis in the world by inches. "I want to see some quick wins [for the Congolese people] from the presidential election," he says, assuming he will win the looming polls - the first in Congo since 1960. He then rattles off a list of improvements he hopes to implement to prove that democracy works - better water supplies, better schooling.

He offers up these platitudes in absent English, his handsome face covered with a light sprinkling of stubble that seems to be greying in the sun. He became President at the age of 29 when his father was pinned down and executed in a failed coup in 2001. At that moment the reluctant son of the Big Man was thrust from a life of army drills and watching martial arts movies to being in a charge of the world's biggest war zone. Neckless and nervous, he says his two minutes' worth of stump speech now and then closes up. He signals to his Versace-suited security guards that it is time for him to leave. My five minutes of questions - more than any other journalist gets - have been greeted with a polite stonewall of banality.

The White House has a feel of unreality. It is a hologram of power, the simulacrum of a functioning country. Kabila is in the surreal position of being head of state without a state, President of the Democratic Vacuum of Congo. He has no levers of power to pull. As I discovered later in my journey, he has no army worthy of the name, he has no police force, he cannot guard his own borders or build his own schools. From the sealed calm of the palace, I look over a wall and see the real Congo walking past - people slumped against walls or busy doing nothing or frantically fending off hunger any way they can. The fantasy of a functioning country dies outside his own brickwork.

Since his father died, Kabila has been trying to glue together a nation from the shattered fragments. In 2002, he negotiated the Lusaka Accords, in which the invading countries promised to remove their armies. The global price of coltan had collapsed, so Rwanda's interest was waning. Besides, the withdrawing countries realised they could suck the mineral marrow from Congo without the costly business of occupation, simply by setting up Congolese militias as their proxies on their way out the door. Kabila tried to out-bribe powerful militia leaders by offering them a place at the heart of government. That's why, of his four vice presidents, three have their own private armies. To watch over this "peace process", the UN sent in 17,000 peacekeepers for a country the size of Western Europe.

At the core of Kabila's project to make Congo into one nation with one government is brassage - the integration of the militias. At squalid camps across the country, the militiamen who have been raping and murdering are invited to hand in their weapons and join the new national army. I head for Camp Saio, a camp outside Bukavu where men with Samuel L Jackson sunglasses and cheekbones that could cut butter are milling and mulling as they wait for "reintegration". Places like this are the key to Congo's future. The country's success stands or falls on whether the militiamen can be coaxed to come here and slowly build a state. Dr Adolphe Tumba, the head of the camp, takes me trudging through the mud on a tour.

In the first room I see, there are nine stinking beds. Men are sitting, rotting plaster covering their wounds. In the corner is a soldier shivering in his bed, his face covered with the lesions that come with the final stages of Aids. He opens his eyes - they recoil, wounded by the light. They close again as he curls wearily into a tight ball. I ask the men what life was like on the front line. "We ate. We had food there," they snap back. I ask again, assuming they misunderstood. "We had food at the front line. It was better. Why did you come here without something for us to eat?" They last ate two days ago. They have not received their $5-a-month wages for 40 days. They are starving.

A UN source warned me: "The people in that camp are going out and rampaging into the nearby villages. They do it for survival. They steal to get by. Yesterday they killed a man, the day before they killed a woman and some kids. It's all done by men in uniform coming out of that camp." Joseph, a 22-year-old, tells me he joined up when he was a teenager because his village was attacked by the Rwandans. "They killed my father, my grandfather and my little sister. So I decided to join Mai-Mai [a Congolese militia]. I can't count how many people I killed. I did it for six years."

His friends gather round, and some of them are more eager to brag about their kill rates. They remind me of kids on some estates I have visited, bragging about their Asbos. Are they telling the truth, or is this teenage display? As they become more and more animated describing their killing sprees, as their eyes become wider and their stories more vivid, our UN escort begins to panic and tells us we must leave. "Quickly!" he calls.

As we drive away, I realise it is not enough that our greed for resources started this war - it is vandalising any chance of bringing it to an end. While these state-building camps can offer only starvation and a sometimes-never $5 wage, Unicef says the militias are offering the same men $60 a month to carry on seizing and raping and killing. They can afford it because they still control most of the coltan, gold and diamond mines, and Western and Chinese companies are still snapping up the sparklers they offer. So long as the militias can continue to use our money to outbid the national government, there will never be a unified state in Congo, and life will continue to be a live-action replay of Thomas Hobbes' bleakest descriptions.

And yet, even the best case scenario - effective brassage, a unified army, a coherent state - carries with it blood-drenched risks. What if once Kabila gets control of the country, he morphs into a Mobutu or a Mugabe? Then all this nation-building will turn out to have been an exercise in capacity-building for a murderer. Who is this man with a neckless, nervous gaze? A rogue source at the British Embassy who has high-level dealings with the regime ponders over dinner: "There are essential two theories about Kabila," he says. "The first is that he is a good man surrounded by shits. The second is that he is one of the shits. Let's assume the first is true - what difference does it make? He is surrounded by Rumsfelds and Cheneys, friends of the father who would kill him if he stepped out of line. There is a large group around him whose finances and even their impunity from charges in the Hague depend on him staying in power. Would they allow him to lose power, or even to share it too much? Really?"

At times, it seems Congo is lost in a fog of moral ambiguity. Everybody agrees the state needs to be unified, and there seems to be only one state on offer - Kabila's - given the near-certainty he will win the election. An aid agency head says: "In this country, all you can ask about a politician is - is this person corrupt and self-seeking and doesn't give a damn about Congo, or is this person corrupt and self-seeking but wants what's best for Congo too? Of course Kabila's circle is corrupt. To have power in this country you must be corrupt. It's a corrupt system." The best hope, it seems, is to drag Congo up from being a broken stateless war zone where millions die to a bog-standard corrupt state. To the starving soldiers of Camp Saio, watching open-mouthed and hungry as we drive away, even this sunken ambition seems optimistic.

VII Spiritual Warfare

The coven of witches is dancing and cackling in the water. They have a hose-pipe and they are spraying each other's naked bodies, squealing and laughing. One of them comes up to me, wearing a worn-out Barney the dinosaur T-shirt, and splashes some water at my face. I am in a children's home, Chez Mama Coco, an hour's drive from Kinshasa, and the place is filled with starved witch-children who have been thrown out by their parents for displaying signs of being under the influence of Satan. Some have been burned and slashed, and some mutilated. One of the workers introduces me to a child - they do not know his name because he has not spoken since he arrived, but they call him Fidel - and tugs down his trousers. Where his penis once was, there is nothing but an angry red scab. "His mother cut it off during the exorcism," he says.

This is another consequence of our war. Herve Cheuzeville, the outgoing Head of Mission for Warchild, explains: "The idea of withcraft has always existed in Congo, but it is new to accuse children of it. It never happened before. It is a result of the terrible traumas of the past six years."

The Combat Spirituel church in Bukavu consists of an immense veranda filled with benches, with a neat white building attached. These churches have been pioneers of Congo's 21st-century witch-hunts, and when I arrive at their Sunday service, they greet me with whoops and hallelujahs. The evangelical preacher at the podium has a kind of Christian Pan's People dancing behind him, and he exclaims: "We salute God by dancing!" The congregation contains over 1,000 people, and they look more like the crowd at a football match than at a dreary Church of England ceremony. They blow whistles, jump up and down, and dance wildly. A man with a miraculous story about how he was cured of Aids through the power of prayer takes to the platform. I am told that if I want to talk witchcraft, however, I need to return late on Thursday, when the purgings and exorcisms happen.

I come back, and Papa Enoch Boonga - the "spiritual co-ordinator" - is waiting for me with a 14-year-old witch. I am led into the little house. The lights are switched off, and Papa Enoch produces a lantern that lights his face and casts a long shadow. In his slow, rhythmic French, he begins to tell me how: "Satan is waging war on the Congolese people. He comes to kill and hate. The answer to Satan's campaign against us is spiritual combat." That is his cue to drag out Clarice. She is a small girl wrapped in a big woollen cardigan. In a low, blank rote, her eyes cast down, she says: "I was taught sorcery when I was 12. My grandmother turned me into a witch by giving me a doughnut to eat."

Enoch looks at me triumphantly. "This is how it works! They give evil food!" He takes over from Clarice's halting speech. "Then the grandmother came at night in spiritual form and said, 'I gave you the doughnut to eat, now you must give me your little sister to eat.' She was so frightened she said, 'OK, OK,' and the next day her little sister fell ill and died. Then her grandmother demanded she break the leg of her mother, so when he mother was out gathering wood, she fell and broke her leg. Now the girl started to feel the power of sorcery and began to transform herself into a dog or a cat."

I keep looking at Clarice in disbelief, but then I realise she thinks I am glaring in condemnation and I look away. As Enoch speaks, the chanting behind us from the main service is getting louder and louder - "Out Satan, out!" hundreds of people cry, clawing at invisible demons in the air. He continues, "Her father is an artisinal miner and he stopped being able to find anything because of her sorcery. They fell into poverty."

I have to interrupt. I ask Clarice, softly: "Do you really think it is your fault your little sister died?" "Yes," she says. Her eyes remain fixed on the floor. "It was actually her parents who realised she was a witch," Enoch says. "They were very worried about their lives going bad, and they went to church and prayed and God told them what the problem was." He says they conducted an exorcism of Clarice, and, yes, it was tough. "When you cast Satan out, you almost destroy the person, but they come back with Jesus Christ in their heart."

As I look into Clarice's downcast eyes, I realise it is not only the physical landscape of Congo that lies in ruins. The psychological landscape has been trashed. The war has left girls like her in a society littered with superstition landmines that will not be cleared away for decades. She limps away, back to a life soaked in self-hate.

VIII - Packing Out the Albert Hall

The last time there was a holocaust in Congo, British and American people reacted with a great national revulsion. Books like Arthur Conan Doyle's The Crime of the Congo topped the bestseller lists, millions petitioned parliament to act, and the Royal Albert Hall was packed out with mass meetings detailing the Congo's long nightmare. A century on, the words and analyses of that great campaign still ring true. Joseph Conrad called it "the vilest scramble for loot that has ever disfigured the human conscience" - words that would make a perfect introduction to the reports of the UN Panel of Experts now.

But today, these four million people have died in the dark, unnoticed and unmourned. The generations living in the West today have said nothing while the country has been reduced to near-Leopoldian levels of desperation by the scramble for loot, conducted on our behalf and for our benefit. The average life-expectancy in Congo is 43 and falling. I did not see any elderly people on my journey; they do not exist. In a country where the war is laughably referred to as "winding down", a World Trade Center-full of people is butchered every two days, and in the lost rural areas I could not reach, bubonic plague has made a triumphant come-back. A health minister says in despair: "I have been told by the UN to prepare a plan for avian flu. I had to write back and say I am powerless to deal with the plague, so what am I supposed to do about chickens?"

This war was launched by nations that sensed - rightly - that our desire for coltan and diamonds and gold far outweighed our concern for the lives of black people. They knew that we would keep on buying, long after the UN had told us time and again that people were dying to provide our mobiles and games consoles and a girl's best friend. Today, we still buy, and the British Government - along with the rest of the democratic world - obstructs any attempt to introduce legally enforceable regulations to stop corporations trading in Congolese blood. They ignore the UN's warnings that: "Without the wealth generated by the illegal exploitation of natural resources arms cannot be bought, hence the conflict cannot be perpetuated," and insist that voluntary regulations - asking corporations to be nice to Africans - is "the most effective route".

In Bukavu, a 29-year-old human rights campaigner called Bertrand Bisimwa summarised his country's situation for me with cruel concision. "Since the 19th century, when the world looks at Congo it sees a pile of riches with some black people inconveniently sitting on top of them. They eradicate the Congolese people so they can possess the mines and resources. They destroy us because we are an inconvenience." As he speaks, I picture the raped women with bullets burying through their intestines and try to weigh them against the piles of blood-soaked electronic goods sitting beneath my Christmas tree with their little chunks of Congolese metal whirring inside. Bertrand smiles and says, "Tell me - who are the savages? Us, or you?"

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/congos-tragedy-the-war-the-world-forgot-476929.html

THE GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS YES WE CAN HELP

2009-03-11T12:41:00.003-06:00

http://www.compassion.com/global-food-crisis/?referer=98493&utm_campaign=gfcradio-homead-98493

for $13.00, we can feed one child for one month.

I know Compassion International is good for their word [and Feed the Children, I have worked with them in past--for Bosnia, years ago] and Doctors Without Borders...

and I know missionaries who have spoken highly of Compassion, because unlike governments [regardless of what kinds], the food isn't sitting in a warehouse rotting or tied up in red tape or in the hands of juntas,

because it goes directly to local churches [ever wonder why revolutionary juntas and other extremists always want churches destroyed? Sure, so they can starve the people into terror], well anyway,

its just better if there are local people who can distribute, rather than large admins, why I always prefer to work with coop type of relief agencies, either through churches, missions, relief agencies/individuals, etc.

As you might know, we are in a global food crisis and while its bad here, its not ANYTHING, like it is in other places,

like Haiti and India, Africa,

and the thing I do like about Compassion and Feed the Children is that they also do address the reasons why, they are not hesitant to speak about corruption, war, droughts, population, etc., so they are very aware of the obstacles and not only do they do sponsoring children

they also have micro-loan programs [they aren't perfect but they are a start], AIDs prevention, etc.

Today, K Love, a Christian radio station I listen to and Compassion International are sponsoring a one day drive to raise money to feed as many children as they can, because its SERIOUS,

on an EPIDEMIC level. NOT that it should take that to move hearts to action, just telling you how bad it is,

and you know I think its going to get that bad here, but not because of drought, but because of government making it that way--yea I went there, [they'll do it under Food Safety--just as Stalin did to the Ukraine, its the same thing, same exact porgram].

Regardless though, we must continue to do what is right, to act in Love and if we have any resources to share them with those in need,

including those in our own communities. Its not always easy to do because we often find we talk ourselves out [cynicism] or we hang on out of fear [fear of future],

but you know, I learned, doesn't matter how much you hang on, if crisis is coming its going to come and you have to live by faith and love, seriously, who do you put your trust in?

Sure you can put it in yourself but believe me when I say, when circumstances come about that are OUT OF YOUR CONTROL, and you find yourself in need of help, you learn really quick,

that no matter how strong or capable you are, you are NOT in this world alone. What is metered out by us is metered back to us, I truly believe that,

some call it Karma, I call it the Law of God, do unto others...

but you know it shouldn't just be a compelling but just something done because we are part of humanity, forget the rewards [spiritual I'm referring to here], just do it because its just right to do,

I think that is what our purpose in this life really is, well, anyway, I'll get off my soapbox but I thought I'd go ahead and post this here, on the webpage, just click on the Global Food Crisis,

and, oh, here is an excerpt from the K Love webpage [radio], and I'll post the link below.

K-LOVE and Compassion are
partnering TODAY to raise funds
for the Global Food Initiative...

Compassion in AfricaThere are millions of children starving today. That’s why K-LOVE and nearly 1,000 Christian radio stations are dedicating this one day of broadcasting to help children around the world who have been affected by The Global Food Crisis.

“I have been fighting poverty for more than 30 years,” said Wess Stafford, president and CEO of Compassion International. “Throughout that time I have never seen the potential for devastation that I see in the current Global Food Crisis”. This is the most urgent time in recent history for world hunger. The cost of many food items like, rice, wheat and beans have risen to staggering levels due to fluctuating fuel costs, rising food demands, natural disasters and a turbulent global enconomy. Learn More

http://www.klove.com/

and I want to leave you with a video, I read somewhere that many of these videos may be taken down off of you tube, I hope not, many have powerful messages, nethertheless,

this video, older song, from a very beautiful man who is no longer with us [he's with the Lord now], his music touched my heart in so many ways,

and this song, is VERY appropriate to what is transpiring in our world today,

nations, will you heed this message?

listen to the lyrics carefully

ITS NOT JUST PRODUCTS FOR CHILDREN, NO, ITS ALSO 'FOOD'

2009-03-09T16:21:00.003-06:00

can we say, WELCOME TO STALINIZATION--FIVE YEAR PLAN, FORCED COLLECTIVIZATION OF FARMS!!!

HERE IT IS FOLKS-- BETTER GET YOUR GARDENS 'REGISTERED' WITH THE BEAST, ER, I MEAN, GOVERNMENT

http://cryptogon.com/?p=7362

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Goodbye-farmers-markets-C-by-Linn-Cohen-Cole-090303-287.html

more on this: .criminalizing organic farming and the backyard gardener...

HR 875 The food police, criminalizing organic farming and the backyard gardener, and violation of the 10th amendment

by LydiaScott
on 03/06/09 03:36 AM

HR 875 [link to thomas.loc.gov]

This bill is sitting in committee and I am not sure when it is going to hit the floor. One thing I do know is that very few of the Representatives have read it.

As usual they will vote on this based on what someone else is saying. Urge your members to read the legislation and ask for opposition to this devastating legislation.

Devastating for everyday folks but great for factory farming ops like Monsanto, ADM, Sodexo and Tyson to name a few.

I have no doubt that this legislation was heavily influenced by lobbyists from huge food producers.

This legislation is so broad based that technically someone with a little backyard garden could get fined and have their property siezed.

It will effect anyone who produces food even if they do not sell but only consume it. It will literally put all independent farmers and food producers out of business due to the huge amounts of money it will take to conform to factory farming methods.

If people choose to farm without industry standards such as chemical pesticides and fertilizers they will be subject to a vareity of harassment from this completely new agency that has never before existed.

That's right, a whole new government agency is being created just to police food, for our own protection of course.

DO NOT TAKE MY WORD FOR IT, READ THIS LEGISLATION FOR YOURSELF. The more people who read this legislation the more insight we are going to get and be able to share.

Post your observations and insights below. Urge your members to read this legislation and to oppose the passage of this legislation.

Pay special attention to

Section 3 which is the definitions portion of the bill-read in it's entirety.

section 103, 206 and 207- read in it's entirety.
Red flags I found and I am sure there are more...........

Legally binds state agriculture depts to enforcing federal guidelines effectively taking away the states power to do anything other than being food police for the federal dept.
Effectively criminalizes organic farming but doesn't actually use the word organic.

Effects anyone growing food even if they are not selling it but consuming it.

Effects anyone producing meat of any kind including wild game.

Legislation is so broad based that every aspect of growing or producing food can be made illegal. There are no specifics which is bizarre considering how long the legislation is.

READ THE REST AT: http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message744654/pg1

OPPOSE SHARIA LAW UK INTERNATIONAL WOMENS RIGHTS DAY

2009-03-09T12:44:00.003-06:00

GO TO: http://www.onelawforall.org.uk/

ALSO SEE POST BELOW

note: to the POPE, in regards to the refusal to excommunicate the man who raped/impregnated his nine year old stepdaughter [see http://www.womensspace.org/phpBB2/2009/03/07/vatican-declares-war-on-women-and-girls-rapist-stepfather-will-not-be-excommunicated-abortion-is-more-serious/

As a Christian I will dare to stand opposed to your decision, based on Scripture:

THE CHURCH NEEDS TO STOP PANDERING TO MEN WHO ABUSE--MISOGYNY IS NOT SANCTIONED UNDER GOD OR UNDER JESUS

BUT IN THIS MATTER, SCRIPTURE IS VERY CLEAR: [I have to type this, its from NIV, and though it doesn't mention whether its consensual or rape, the fact is, if you read the entire text -- and numerous other texts esp in what Jesus said about the treatment of children, which HE takes very seriously as does God, abuse is in fact, sexual abuse included, what Jesus said the perpetrator would be better off having a brick tied around his/her neck and thrown into the sea...its SERIOUS, God does not wink, wink at raping/hurting children]

1 CORINTHIANS 5:1-12

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of the kind that does NOT OCCUR EVEN AMONG PAGANS: A man has his father's wife. And you are proud! Shouldn't you rather have been filled with GRIEF and have put out of your fellowship the man who did this? Even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. And I have already passed judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present. When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit and the power of our Lord Jesus is present, hand this man over to Satan, so that the sinful nature may be destroyed and his spirit saved on the day of the Lord. Your boasting is not good. Don't you know a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough? Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast--as you really are. For Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed. Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of MALICE AND WICKEDNESS, but with bread without yeast, the bread of SINCERITY AND TRUTH.

I have written you in my letter not to ASSOCIATE WITH SEXUALLY IMMORAL PEOPLE--NOT AT ALL MEANING THE PEOPLE OF THIS WORLD WHO ARE IMMORAL, OR THE GREEDY AND SWINDLERS, OR IDOLATERS. In that case you would have to leave this world. BUT now I am writing you that you must not associate with ANYONE WHO CALLS HIMSELF A BROTHER [CHRISTIAN] BUT IS SEXUALLY IMMORAL

OR GREEDY

AN IDOLATER

OR A SLANDERER, A DRUNKARD OR SWINDLER. WITH SUCH A MAN DO NOT EVEN EAT. What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? God will judge those outside. "Expel the wicked man from among you."

~~~

There are other scriptures too that also include expelling men who are VIOLENT, that includes violence towards women.

The church today has no issue with trying to force God's laws on the world, yet they do NOTHING

about the blatant disregard and violations of God's laws within their OWN. That is totally reverse of what God commanded in both the Old and New Testaments,

and That is why, all over the Old Testament, and in parts of the New, it says, over and over, when God's people do NOT rule among their own by God's laws, meaning, not enforcing what God's laws are [which are love, not abusing, not violence, not raping, etc]

then God Himself will allow the enemies to rise up against the church [or against Israel].

And it don't matter how much God's people scream and protest...their enemies will flourish, and why?

Because they themselves were in violation, they didn't render justice, they allowed oppression, they allowed oppression of the poor, the fatherless [that includes all those citizens that are refugees without fathers or immigrants, etc], they oppress the women, etc.

God is not mocked, HE is a just and loving God [and if you really want to see what is interesting, Wisdom is referred to as She, read Proverbs, as is punishment...for unjust suffering, including by nature, meaning, the maternal side of God]

God doesn't fool around,

church--keep propping up oppression and evil and injustice and misogyny

and God will judge. You can not pervert God's laws, and think HE/SHE won't deal with them.

What was done to this girl is criminal AND A BLATANT VIOLATION OF GOD'S LAWS,

but what is worse, is that the church condemns the people who assisted this girl, yet refused to excommunicate this man, who raped her, repeatedly.

It is written....church--either clean up your act, or God will.

A THREAT TO ALL WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS THAT ALL SHOULD BE TAKING HEED TO

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Right now, the Deflamation of Religions, is under vote at the UN...while the Christians have been fighting this because basically the law [that the entire world would be under] is this:

any criticism of Islam [including human right abuses] would be CRIMINAL.

This also includes, presenting ANY other religion, that says 'your God is the way or your Goddess is the way, its NOT just Christianity, its ANY GOD OTHER THAN ISLAM'S ALLAH, WOULD BE CRIMINAL.

Countries that do NOT abide by enforcing this totalitarian law would be sanctioned.

What many are NOT paying attention to is that this law would INCLUDE

ANY REFERENCE OR OBJECTION TO THE TREATMENT OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN UNDER ISLAM...

here is some info: http://www.aclj.org/TrialNotebook/Read.aspx?id=697

The Christians [some] say this law is specifically targeted towards Christians, but any one who has ever worked for women's rights or human rights or for ANY other religious freedom in Any Islamic country KNOWS that this law would not just be targeted towards Christians.

This law is in fact the rule of law in Islamist states, which is why its not shocking that on a daily basis there are rapes, kidnappings of girls-raped and forced into Islam from other faiths, persecution of Muslim sects that the majority does not agree with [esp against the non-violent Muslim sects, who are extremely persecuted] AND they also do use this law to

persecute, imprison and kill Pagans, Atheists, and what they deem as 'infidels' which can include, again, Muslims they don't agree with.

Its a school-yard religious BULLY type of law, that simply states on a very laymen terms: YOU do what we say or else...YOU believe what we say or else.

You know, yes, I am a Christian, that is MY CHOICE, I won't be bullied into a faith, period. Kill me if you wish, but its FREE WILL,

and I believe others have that SAME HUMAN RIGHT.

Christians may believe that Jesus is the only way but believing and then, forcing that belief by the SWORD and GUN are two different things,

we Expect criticism, persecution, hate...

"Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. These things I command you, that ye love one another. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me." (John 15:15-21, KJV)

But under this UN law [sponsored by nations such as Sudan]you won't HAVE that choice,

because they DON'T CARE, if you want to exercise your free will, they don't care about your pagan beliefs or your agnostic or your atheist, you will submit or else,

and this INTERNATIONAL LAW will be the means in which they begin that. To reject or object in any way to ANY tenant of Islam, would be CRIMINAL,

now, for many of us, we are already CRIMINAL as far as the world is concerned because we do not concur with the world's beliefs...

so we expect persecution...but, do many others really understand what that is AND would they be willing to stand in the face of death?

IF this UN Resolution is passed then that will be what YOU will be facing. And you can expect, many will NOT be prepared to die and therefore Islam will spread,

and YOU, agnostic, pagan, goddess, doesn't matter, as Islam spreads because there is no alternative allowed,

you can kiss your human rights AND ESPECIALLY YOUR WOMEN'S RIGHTS

goodbye.

Sign the Petition,

be aware, and pass this forward.

http://www.aclj.org/TrialNotebook/Read.aspx?id=697

HERE IS ANOTHER PETITION...SIGN BOTH

To: United Nations, media, legislators

Whereas individuals, by virtue of being human, have the universal right to free speech and to dissent;

Whereas individuals, by virtue of being human, have the universal right to choose their own beliefs about religion, or to reject religion and voice their objections peacefully;

Whereas oppressive governments have used and still use religion as a weapon against political dissidents;

Whereas throughout history, religious criticism and dissent have been necessary to curb the excesses of religious authority;

Whereas the Catholic Church might still be selling indulgences if Martin Luther had been preventing from nailing his protest to the church door;

Whereas the abolition of slavery in most of the world was aided by outspoken critics of religion such as Thomas Paine and the marquis de Concorcet;

Whereas historically, many early supporters of human rights, such as Voltaire, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, William Penn and Roger Williams were vocal critics of religion;

Whereas advances in science would have been impossible without religious “defamers” such as Copernicus, Giordano Bruno, Galileo Galilei and Frances Bacon;

Whereas people born in Muslim countries have the same universal human right to apostasy as everyone else;

Whereas Muslims have the same universal human rights to improve upon their religion as anyone else;

Whereas the Armenians have the human right to speak out against the genocide of their ancestors at the hands of Muslim Turks; and sympathetic Muslims have the right to express their support;

Whereas religious minorities, (including Christians, atheists, Muslim apostates and others), are denied these rights and unfairly subjected to censorship, prison, torture or death;

We, the undersigned, oppose the U.N. resolution entitled “Combating Defamation of Religion” as being both bad for religion and bad for human beings.

(Background: The UN resolution being opposed is here (see esp. point 10): http://www.eyeontheun.org/assets/attachments/documents/HRC_4th_session_defamation_of_religion_3-23-07_draft_res.DOC)

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

http://www.petitiononline.com/blasphmy/petition.html

also see:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,432502,00.html

TO LEFTISTS, YOU REALLY SHOULD READ THIS:

http://groups.google.com/group/talk.religion.misc/browse_thread/thread/0cc99bec55d0b72d?pli=1