I DON’T know what is it about the period in human history between the 50s and the present, but this period certainly has produced some of the sickest ideas ever put forward by man.
Sister Lucia of Fatima fame is supposed to have confided to Cardinal Carlo Caffarra about how the Devil approached God one day and boasted to God how –given just 100 years—the Devil is going to overturn the world from God-loving to God-hating.
Perhaps, this story is true, and right now we are in the midst of those 100 years, but it is a fact that from a peaceful world just a scant 50 years ago, the world is now reeling under all imaginable kinds of problems: contraception; abortion; same-sex unions; the lifestyle called LGBT; the sale of baby parts; biogenetics where lab workers introduce human genes into animals.
Not to be outdone, there emerged from the student unrest in Germany in the 70s the present –day phenomenon called the feminist movement.
There’s no relation between this modern version of the feminist movement and the previous one which clearly worked for women’s rights—women’s right to vote, for instance, or women’s rights to good working conditions as befits women's dignity as a human being, no less human than a man, man’s equal insofar as their human nature is concerned.
Today’s version of that good thing then is not after the juridical and social equality of women, the movement seeks the complete overhaul of the man-woman dichotomy created by God in Genesis. The movement rejects sexuality outright, and with it the movement reject maternity, marriage, and the family. It needs no reminding of anyone that these objectives strike at the heart of God’s plan for mankind and for all of Creation.
Consider, for instance, the feminist movement’s practices. Dr. Jutta Burggraff, during the fifth annual session of Imak (Internationaler Mariologischer Arbeitskreis Kevelaer) on May 29, 1985, described the feminist practices as follows:
“In this sense, syncretism is also a characteristic element in feminist theology: a mysticism of nature, oriental mysticism and magic, as well as astrology and witchcraft are developed; evolutionary theories and in-depth psychology are also admitted. Magical dances are also staged. Mother Earth is venerated according to Indian custom, modern group dynamics are practiced, and they dreamof the restoration of matriarchal civilizations with all their festivities and rites.”
And, if you think you’ve seen the worst of their practices, consider the following:
Some feminists reject Scripture as painting a male-dominated conception of the world, and reject Scripture completely. Church doctrines are criticized for being too “masculine,” overly woven around a “masculine God, created by men, and for men.”
Catharina Halkes, a leading feminist and, since 1977, a professor of Feminism and Christianity on the faculty of theology of Nimega in Holland flatly states: ”For women, the images of God that are masculine and patriarchal are evil.”
Feminists even take issue with the traditional names used in Scripture for the Divine Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit – too masculine and patriarchal, they complain, preferring to refer to the Divine Persons as God the Mother, God the Daughter, and God the Holy Spiritess.
Other feminists go the other extreme, insisting it is totally unnecessary to attribute a specific gender to God, considering God as an impersonal neuter being, “the vital energy in evolution,” “the fount of restlessness and of creative chaos.”
The moment one starts deviating from Christ’s teachings, everything then becomes possible. And so it is with the feminist movement.
Rather than believing in Jesus Christ as the ONLY way to salvation, some feminists actually propose that “woman can liberate herself autonomously from all that is opposed to her fullest realization; she can actualize through her own strength all the possibilities that she contains within herself. Liberation of the woman emerges integrally from within herself. Woman is considered to have unlimited potentiality, and her nature is considered to be in full harmony with the cosmos. There is no disorder or sin. Thus no redeemer is required.
The death of Christ on the Cross as a propitiatory sacrifice is totally rejected. It follows that feminist theology places itself as a modern doctrine of autosalvation with clearly anti-Christian roots. Jesus is not Savior, according to feminists, but rather the prototype of the “new man."