Patriarchy and Shaving Daddy. Really?
Voddie Baucham is presently all the rage at the 2012 Shepherds Conference. Who does the vetting over there? Oh, I forgot, Voddie is a New Calvinist.
Voddie Baucham is presently all the rage at the 2012 Shepherds Conference. Who does the vetting over there? Oh, I forgot, Voddie is a New Calvinist.
Paul's Passing Thoughts 
This is sick. It’s not real, it plays on the imagination. It is play-acting, not true love. It’s a fantasy experience they are selling. “Sign up now” (or you are not a real man, or good father)…space is limited”. I HATE THIS!
Nothing is worse than false love! Manufactured events like this are cult-like. They play directly (like the music, flowers, butterflies) on emotions! THIS IS HOLLYWOOD FICTION, NOT TRUE LOVE, NOR BEING A REAL FATHER, BUT AN IMAGINARY ONE! The Patriarchy groups like this have some elements of truth, but they make it into a forgery, a fiction of the imagination. This is not real life…it is a play-acted moment! Romanticism!
Anyone who thinks this is authentic love, or true fatherhood, instead of sentimentality, a vain attempt to recover something good from history, by dress rehearsal, is emotionally deluded, and unstable in thinking.
“Let your love be without hypocrisy” (i.e. “dissimulation”, play acting), immediately comes to mind. THIS IS PLAY ACTING! This is false Christianity, that is a mirage of fantasy, much in the sentimental style of today’s modern Weddings, where people dress like princes and princesses for One Day, and then entirely different the rest of their lives.
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Don’t hold anything back William, tell us what you really think 🙂
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William,
Seriously though, I hear ya. I have been saying for years that this movement will spawn cult-like behavior, and that’s what we are seeing.
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As a nurse, I’ve shaved patients — many of them. But a nurse holds in sacred trust the dignity of the ill, and the goal from the day of admission is to devise a plan to restore that ill person to full function or as full of a functional capacity as is possible for them at time of discharge. It is a difficult and often embarassing process for grown men to relinquish his own care to another. The nurse protects him and as soon as possible helps him regain that function. So I’ve shaved men who were too sick to do their own self-care, and it’s a humbling experience. It’s rewarding to help a patient regain function, too, seeing them get well and recover their full function in recovery. There is a shared respect that develops in the process. The nurse respects the patient, and the patient trusts and develops greater trust in the nurse. I see it as humbling for both parties.
In this capacity, the daughter holds nothing in sacred trust. These girls are resigned to servitude, and the girls are required to do this as an act of exploitation to demonstrate raw power. The men have their daughters’ shave them, just because they can. There is no mutual respect going on in this process, and it displays an elitist attitude.
One day, when these men are old, ill, or debilitated, their daughters may be called upon in love to do these things for their fathers because they are physically unable to do such things for themselves. And that’s a sad thing, not something one might do .
At these events, they also blindfold girls and lead them around by a rope, or they lead the blindfolded girls by verbal directions. Can you imagine procuring the supplies for this event? “I need 30 razors, 30 cans of Barbazol, 30 ft of rope, and 100 blindfolds….”
My husband and I have discussed this several times. He says he doesn’t know exactly what it is about this new ritual within the group that is so sick, but he finds it deeply disturbing.
Another notable leader in this movement used to brag about how he used to have his young daughters remove the shoes of their male guests when they came into the home — like they’re raising the Christian version of Geisha girls. This is how these men “take dominion for Christ” over the earth. ???
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The frustrating part for me is how people cannot see this is where a focus on comp or patriarchal doctrine leads. When that is the focus for being in Christ (your role) where else is it logically to lead? What was supposed to be mainstream Christian thinking over at CBMW is now unbelievable in what they are teaching. From Mary Kassians “men pierce”/”woman are pierced” teaching to the Mormonish teachings on male authority in heaven. Roles and gender should NEVER be a focus in the kingdom of God. It is our spirituality/holiness that should be the focus. Even dogs know their gender.
My question to all who think the focus on gender roles is Christianity, is this: Who is my model for being Christlike since Christ came as a male and I am a woman? Obviously, Christ cannot be my role model for my female gender roles. So, where do I go? Who is it?
If you say that Christ is still my model then connect the rest of the dots and understand what is most important in the kingdom. What has taken place is a false dichotomy that goes like this: If one does not subscribe to gender roles then one is a feminist and wants to be a man. Or, effiminate if a man and does not subscribe to gender roles.
I warn these men all the time that one day they may be incapacitated and they had better hope their wives know how to do things “outside” their proscribed gender role.
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