Posts tagged patriarchalism
Tony Soprano, Christopher Columbus, and the Patriarchy

In a clear display of this sort of “tough guy” persona employing subjective and self-serving ethics, slavery is fine because Columbus is an Italian hero, or, to apply things to today, slavery isn’t a big deal because we have to react to those “woke” people. Either way, we are dealing with reactionary and autonomous ethics. Further, not only will we minimize and shrug off slavery, we will do so with faux-masculine aggression and caustic smugness.

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God does not call men to be hard, God calls men to be like Jesus: The Patriarchal Sexualization of Everything

We serve a King that wept over Jerusalem (Luke 19:41-44) and who also turned over tables (Matthew 21:12). We serve a King that gently comforts and sternly judges. In a world of hypersexualization and gender confusion, Christians should be very careful not to reductionistically assign some characteristics of our Lord Jesus as “masculine” and others as “feminine.” Not only is this overly simplistic and almost cartoonish versions of masculinity and feminity not biblical, but they can also be very dangerous and lead to only more gender confusion. I can’t answer all of these difficult and complex questions, but I can offer a warning.

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