KDM also laments that on Mother’s Day, churches hand out flowers, sweet pastries, or poems to women, while on Father’s Day, they have grill-outs and have “dad contests,” where men do things like toss footballs, with the winner getting a box of steaks. Hobby Lobby’s Patriarchal Symbols of Oppression Are there probably some that have done that? Maybe, but even if that is the case in some churches, let’s be honest-that’s not exactly the best example of “promoting patriarchy.” Maybe I’m just out of the loop, but I have never heard of any church Sunday school or youth group doing those things.
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She says that in Sunday schools, boys learn to be superheroes for Christ and girls to be beautiful princesses, and in church youth groups, boys are trained to use guns and bows, while girls are taught how to apply makeup, shop, and decorate cakes. Evangelicals are gun owners and support the second amendment-bad! Evangelicals hate immigrants because they support border security-bad! And Evangelical churches “promote masculine authority and the subordination of women.” Now, before you say, “Well, that is true” (and in some cases, I agree, it is true!), consider what KDM puts forth as evidence of this. In her short conclusion to her book, KDM continues what can be described as simply a left-wing political hack job against Evangelicalism en masse. All of it just reinforces “Christian masculinity,” “patriarchy and submission,” “sex and power” (294). Translation? Even the more “progressive” Evangelicals are still power-hungry, sexually abusive white men! She ends the chapter by accusing all Evangelicalism of being really no different than the most extreme examples of the likes of Mark Driscoll and Doug Wilson. According to KDM, even though Hybels represented “the more progressive wing of Evangelicalism” and was actually an egalitarian, he was “a man known for wielding power” who exported his churches “top-down leadership structure” to thousands of seeker-friendly congregations. KDM even notes the sexual allegations against Bill Hybels of Willowcreek Community Church. Mahaney and his Sovereign Grace Church, Bill Gothard, Doug Phillips, Doug Wilson (again), and Bob Jones University. There is no need to rehash it all: Mark Driscoll, Doug Wilson, John Piper, John MacArthur, Roy Moore, Stormy Daniels, the Brett Kavanaugh SCOTUS hearings, Ted Haggard, a scandal involving a guy named C.J. In the final chapter, KDM runs back through the laundry list of the Evangelical leaders she highlights in her book, as well as a few more developments during Trump’s presidency. Part 9: (Chapter 15) Election 2016, Hillary, and TrumpĬhapter 16 and KDM’s Conclusion: A Summary and My Reaction Part 8: (Chapter 14) Evangelicals, Obama, and Palin
Part 7: (Chapters 11-13) Mark Driscoll and the Iraq War
Part 6: (Chapters 9-10) Promise Keepers and Purity Culture Part 5: (Chapters 7-8) Oliver North and Bill Clinton Part 4: (Chapters 5-6) LaHaye, Falwell and Ronald Reagan Part 3: (Chapters 3-4) Schlafly, ERA, Gothard, Dobson Part 2: (Chapters 1-2) Fundies, Billy Graham, and Communism
I’ve gone through most of her book, so in this post I simply want to make some concluding comments regarding, not only her book as a whole, but also what I fear is the state of (for lack of a better term) “American Christianity” today. We now come to the final post of my book analysis of Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s book, Jesus and John Wayne.
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