Grieving over Mom is dark and deep and all that. I chose to stop it for a while and take some ire out on a deserving Yahwist twatnik this evening. They probably never read what we "Luciferians" write to them after the first sentence, but it still left me feeling clearer in the head.
Dear Mister Makow--or whoever you are who wrote the book "Cruel Hoax" about how feminism is an evil Illuminati device to induce families to stop existing:
You've placed me in the unusual position of actually defending feminism--although I'm a female who's totally not "traditional" about values and gender, I find feminism blather and rhetoric annoying enough that I never associate myself with the term.
You apparently loathe "feminism" for the standard reason that conservatives loathe it : that the Judeochristian God, Mr. Yahweh, does not approve of it. Of course, Mr. Y has a way of disapproving of just about everything except "Himself".
All of you people essentially claim that unless we only view sex as a means of creating yet more babies in a world that hasn't enough resources to sustain the extant generations, and then act according to that view, we're thinking, being and doing tragically immoral things. And people who enjoy sexuality that is not done according to the Judeochristian value-system, meaning the man = "power"/ woman ="beauty" - this is all very Qabalistic of course - then we're evil and corrupt and satanic and therefore, we need to be saved--or at very least, never ever listened to.
What is with Christians--does it have anything to do with it being so utterly dissatisfactory a lifestyle that the only way that you people get excited about things is to think of them as some massive conspiracy of evil orchestrated by Satan, the minions of same, and their corporate minions? Are families useless unless they are blood-relatives? Does a woman have to procreate to participate in moral living? What happened to morality having anything to do with treating people with respect, understanding that people all have different backgrounds and influences and tastes and not thinking ill of those whose are different than your own? That,. to me, is what being a moral person involves. Allowing people room to enjoy life without condemning anyone for anything other than violence against one another or abuse of the natural resources we depend on to live. My families are extended, have people of many races, religions, ages and ideals in them, and make life beautiful. Corrupt? Anything that isn't exactly like your way of life gets called that. Why must something be bad if it's different? Why must a family be based on raising children?
Where do you people get off making like a family is "sacred by default"? Specifically, a hereditary family in which a hetero-pair gets a house, has two or three kids and then yippee, these people have become Socially Unobjectionable. Why is that really? A family is a nice thing to have around, but only if it is loving, smart, accepting and enjoys itself, and the lives of its members. Nearly all the intensely Christianized families I have met or known of were featuring dismal individuals so busy talking about how the "heathen" families are gonna take over the world, and how disgusting the homos are, that they'd never have time to talk about whatever it is that's so great about families that are "moral" that gives the word and concept any meaning at all one can grasp instinctively. "It's just the moral thing, the right thing, the way God planned it." That's the stock answer. But why is YOUR family such a holy thing, that I would want to follow your example?
The other thing that Christians love ranting about nowadays is whether there may or may not be a "conspiracy" without getting the point that duh, of course the hyper-rich Illuminati corporazi fuckazoids are taking over the world , and of course it's a "conspiracy". What else is new, dude? But they're doing it with money, not with "feminism". Most of them would never allow women - "whores" I mean - in their Gold Star Boys' Elite World-Ruling Cub, except maybe as tokens. And they are just as fucked up by having far, far too much money, and control of too many mega- and meta-corporations, as the men who are hyper-rich Illuminati corporazi fuckazoids. You think they promote the freedom of women from the role of housewife and baby-plopper deliberately, because they aim to destroy as many families and prevent as many new ones from forming, as possible? Do you actually think they are running this idea in their heads:
"Okay, Satan wants me to attack 'the family' in America, so I'm going to call up the program director at the TV stations we own and make sure that this years' programs aren't comedies about nice little families, and make sure that there's enough pictures of naked chicks in our magazines so that all the Daddies who are still Daddies will spend enough time staring at them, as they sit around aimlessly lifting boners, and dreaming of being with them and doing things with their neat little vaginas, instead of being at work or home after dinner. That will make everyone so mean because eventually Daddy will cave in to his lust after seeing enough teenage girl photos, since that's what men do when that happens, and eventually it will result in Daddy ending up with a nice new pet vagina to goof off with, and then his wife will become the latest victim of the 'sexual expiration date' program, become an alcoholic and die in the next two years - the family will be kaput.
"Okay, I'll get it rollin' - lotsa naked chicks' pics, no more Cosby stuff, and then no new families will try to exist any more and all the others will be getting hypnotised to think about having sex with people they aren't supposed to do that with. Next year, everyone will hate their families and they will just stop being in them. That should make Lucifer happy enough. Maybe he'll give me...wait a minute, why do I care, I'm a corporazi fuckazoid who can have anything he fucking wants for the rest of his life so FUCK trying to get brownie points from Mister Morningstar! Destroy families? I'll call the new guy at the office and put him on it...he's cute, so he's probably gay and so he'll know more about what he's doing than I would. Maybe I should invite him to the Japanese baths and fill him in on the details just to make sure...Yeah..."
I've not got much of my blood family left, they're all dead, even though divorce and promiscuity and alcohol and drugs were (excepting me on that last point, natch) not factors they'd had interfering with their "being family" at all. But lots of families I've known and loved later on in life have basically formed themselves out of individual unrelated friends. These people who didn't have their own blood families - or who'd been estranged by them - kind of formed one of their own by default, usually without it being intentional, but one did anyway. Not good enough for you, as apparently in your book, this doesn't count as a family because....why? It isn't illegal. All you people can't deal with is the idea that there's not a man and a woman and a marriage certificate and a motivation to construct new human hardware. Eventually, if I kept asking you why this sort of family would constitute an affront to your religion, you'd finally say something about the fact that since there's no marriage and only adopted kids, it means that the men and women in this group might decide to have sex at some point.
You need to eat some of that fruit that Eve got from Hissyfit Snakypants in that Tree of Knowledge of Eden...because that stuff that's got "the knowledge of good and evil" in it. You don't have clue one about what's evil and what's just not something that you have any personal reason that's conceivable at all to bother worrying about. Really, you need to realise what is an enemy and what is not relevant to your future existence and thus not one. We people who loosely associate ourselves with a common approval of what happened in the 1960s when the Baby Boom, and availability of birth control pills which didn't prove to be so unhealthy for another decade up the line or so, coincidentally caused some mass consciousness regarding sexuality and Biblical paranoia to shift into a popular tendency to realize that marrying someone so that it was morally OK to have sex with them just wasn't always such a great idea, nor was it necessary, A lot of that is over with now, since the youthful bulge of the populace isn't so much of a huge majority any more, but it has not reversed its changes either. The idea that you COULD be a person who does things differently, if you choose to, somehow stuck around and is not going to go away.
We are not enemies, yet. Not until we start trying to kill or maim one another. Before that point, we're just people who do and think things differently and have no need to affect each other. We "permissive" types are just weird to a lot of you so we scare you. Get over it. We aren't going away. But the so-called "nuclear family" isn't going anywhere, either. It's not becoming extinct any more than the freedom to experience secular pleasures is, really. Quite enough families are procreating. I can't turn around even in San Francisco without traipsing into another example of human larv--errrr - a child. Children. All over the place. How have you managed to end up believing that a few looser standards will cause the whole species to suddenly shut off the mass-productive baby machine, all at once...and so they'll just quit fabricating all those new generations of future moms and dads, who will first be near-future teens, who we will manage to completely become alienated by in a decade or so?
Just admit that you're getting into this worry JUST TO FEEL APOCALYPTIC and dark and think of how the Big War of Revelations is gonna be REAL SOON NOW, you've seen the signs! You like that stuff since it reminds you to look forward to JC2, and the Rapture, or Rupture, or whatever. There's not a whole lot else to look forward to, is there? Sorry to see your life is so sad the only thing that's going to excite you is the end of the WORLD. But it's ours too. I am not going to buy your Apocalypse or a subscription to the dumb "Signs and Wonders" feed, because if you don't mind, I am not as keen on that whole schmeer as you. I haven't got much of a life, admittedly, but it seems to be better than yours. Your books about scary social trendings are all just dramatic fervor, and it looks very tawdry. "Lookit how society is CRUMBLING" Alarm for alarm's sake.
This problem you whine of DOES NOT EVEN EXIST A LITTLE BIT. Look around--miles and miles of suburbia, houses full of families and nothing but families. Exactly where did you pick up this paranoid notion that the non-Christians are "destroying the family"? PLEASE at least make sense while attacking what you don't understand (and obviously do not even want to) or else you just look dumb, and bored, so you try to make your staid upstanding moral life seem more exciting by thinking of the mere idea that there are now different lifestyles that exist at the same time as something that means you're in the middle of a "culture war". If there was absolute monoculture - a single newspaper, TV station, and publishing house, etc. in America that the Liberati ones and the Godinski were brawling over, with the issue being the right to show their ways of life on their programs, and in magazines, and so on... And then...if everyone was ALSO somehow legally bound to adhere to whatever lifestyle ended up getting picked to be depicted on all of these these singular media, THAT would be a goddamn "culture war". Stop acting like this is what is happening to you, unless it actually is.
Instead what gets called culture warring is just a bunch of crabby people having over-and-over arguments, and these people can't see their opinions are of absolutely no true consequence to one another! There are morons on both sides of this, but it's always been the Bible-babblers that've been most overactively obsessed about the sins of people they never met, as though they were going to end up getting docked for a bunch of their Yahweh-points every time they'd look out the window and happen to notice lesbians kissing in the park. Where's that rule in the Christianity For Dummies book? (Oh yeah. Oxymoron. Duh.)
Oh, I guess that it must be that Yahweh will give you a special prize, sort of like that one you get when you manage to "save" some non-believer from sin -- by which I mean "sex" - since sins that do not involve sex never seem to bother you people...but this Special Prize is something you get even if you actually do not manage to "save" them...but instead, you just happen to, you know, NOTICE that they EXIST, without managing to have to interact at all with them. But you have to make sure that they do manage to notice your ardent disapproval. And if there are Liberati everywhere you turn around, the Yahweh-prizes are gonna get all used up, aren't they? Is that it? I don't think it's supposed to work like that, dude. Just sayin'.
You're such a busybody. You want the public to think that you're an important and aware journalist of some sort, a person who's an ardent social gadfly, and one whom communities which attract "Revelations fans" shall respect as a good influence. There are far better conspiracy researchers, though, who don't litter their books with Christian dogma in florid language that seems to be trying to get everyone agitated and terrified about the future. You're kind of a stereotype...and apparently not even aware of that. Are you happy? Ever? Really?