Over many years, I have observed the commercial and religious world giving great emphasis to Mother’s Day and little emphasis to Father’s Day.

John Whitten 6/16/21

Over many years, I have observed the commercial and religious world giving great emphasis to Mother’s Day and little emphasis to Father’s Day.

At first I thought it was because Mother’s Day occurred during the school year and children brought home things made in class. Father’s Day occurred during summer break, so there was no school reinforcement for the children. However, as the commercial involvement increased it became apparent that there was a different motive. It was easier for companies to focus attention on mothers, their love and devotion to families. It is easier to create the warm fuzzy feelings for Mom than Dad. The sacrifices that Mom made, from the pain of giving birth to the years of nursing sick children to teaching them life skills and all the personal touches involved. These and more are valuable blessings that come from a good Mother. I am not disparaging Mothers in anyway. I am however, disparaging the lopsided attention that is given to mothers as compared to that of fathers. Let me say here, there are bad men who give fathers and fatherhood a bad name, but the same goes for women and motherhood, so let’s not use that argument. In the larger picture, fathers and Father’s Day are diminished both intentionally and unintentionally.There are those in our world that have an agenda that is impeded by men and fathers. These are the enemies of God and God’s people. They have declared war on men and fathers. I’ll get back to them in a minute or so.The unintentional diminishing of fathers and Father’s Day is more complicated than we might think. It is not a goal, but rather a consequence of misplaced emphasis and negligence. It appears as does a creeping fog, enveloping the landscape, slowly, almost imperceptive, until suddenly the envelopment is complete and your vision is obscured. I believe the unintended diminishing of fatherhood occurs under the heading of three W’s.WAR – war robs a generation of most of it’s finest men, leaving widows and children to make the best of a bad situation. I have noted the major changes that have affected the population of the USA after each of the following wars; the “Civil War”, WW I, WW II, Korean war, Viet Nam war. Each of these conflicts robbed the country of the lives, influence of fathers, investment of fathers, and the example of fatherhood. Fatherhood was diminished after each conflict and the nation suffered because of it.WORK – work is a necessary thing. It is honorable, productive and rewarding. Through most of our country’s history, men and fathers have been the primary, if not sole breadwinner. Prior to WW I and to a lesser extent prior to WW II, most families were rural. The father’s work involved family members, wives and children. Children learned their work ethic from their fathers, they saw his dedication to providing for his family and participated in it on a lesser scale. After WW II, more and more families became city and urban dwellers where the father left home to go to an invisible job. Dad’s labors were not seen by the children, they did not participate, so they did not learn the work ethic and fathers lost esteem and value in the eyes of wives and children.WOMEN – it has always been part of God’s design for people to honor fathers AND mothers, as it should be. I am not blaming women for intentional diminishing the value of fatherhood, rather it is a matter of unrecognized omission. With war and work removing fathers from the home environment, children have no anchor for social and personal value of fathers and fatherhood. The only source for developing esteem for fathers is the mother and wife. In my own life, I realized too late that I did not honor and esteem my father. He was a much greater man than I realized. I was not taught to honor and esteem my father, by my mother. My mother was a second generation feminist. Both her and her mother had been affected by war and absentee fathers. They didn’t know any better. What a loss we all had because of the unintentional effects of misrepresented fatherhood.Let’s get back to the intentional war on men and fatherhood. The primary face in the war on fatherhood is FEMINISM. Feminism is not new and it changes with each generation, becoming more pervasive with each inch of social ground they win. Today, feminism has gone from equal rights for women, to being equal to men, to being the same as men, and now the leaders are saying “we don’t need men”. Legislation is being passed each year that further entraps men, restricting their manhood. Educational institutions are cranking out graduates that are ignorant of reality, but well versed in so called social justice. Even religious institutions are rapidly compromising their long held convictions about the historic roles of men and women in churches to accommodate feminism.However, there is an insidious power behind feminism who remains cleverly disguised as knowledge and enlightenment. It is Satan that is the behind the scenes force in the war on fatherhood. It is significant to notice that throughout the Bible God is referred to by His people as Father. He refers to Himself as their Father. In what we call the Lord’s Prayer Jesus addresses the prayer to “Our Father which art in Heaven”. Throughout the Bible, God prescribed the religious and social instruction to be the responsibility of the father. Yes, mothers had a great role in the same, but God holds the fathers responsible for the task. If Satan can destroy fathers and fatherhood, he can destroy the paternal relationship to our creator with greater ease. He has been increasingly successful with doing so, with each new generation. It is incumbent upon Christian mothers to teach their children to honor and love their fathers. Men and fathers are not perfect, just as no mothers are perfect. Ladies, focus your teaching on the positive, minimize the negative. Elevate the value that your children’s father brings to you and them as well as the family as a whole. Praise him, not ridicule him, honor him as your man, being more important to you than your children. If you will not do that, then you are a stumbling block to your children’s future, both social and spiritual.Conclusion: honoring fathers and fatherhood is honoring to God and the greatest benefit to families as a whole. Don’t wait for someone else to begin, you lead the way. Begin today to honor and praise your Dad (regardless if he is worthy or not). Do it for yourself, for your children, and do it for the future of our country.

John Whitten 6/16/21

The current social unrest from modern feminism is the culmination of many millennia of results from the deception of Eve in the Garden

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I’m tired of political and social agendas that are pushed at the expense of women.I hear all this talk of empowering women to make lifestyle choices that they want. But what I see is if a woman chooses the path of being “just” a wife and mother she is thought of as settling or having low ambitions; or worse yet, gets labeled as brainwashed or oppressed. Women are told that we are equal to men. But when it comes to being “successful” adopting masculine traits gets pushed instead of being encouraged to step into our unique feminine traits. By default, this sends the message that what we would accomplish through embracing our feminine qualities is not enough. In the name of liberation the gifts of intimacy and sexuality have been cheapened; and women have been encouraged to make choices that leave them feeling broken and empty. Instead of celebrating and supporting the natural role women have as life bearers and nurturers of the next generation, women are encouraged to put education and career first. Even to the point of choosing to kill her child if she becomes pregnant at a time which seems inconvenient. Publicly championing for women’s rights gets used for self promotion by politicians and corporations… until it comes to another group that is deemed more oppressed by society. In that case, what’s best for women gets thrown out the window. (A good example of this is women’s sports allowing transgender women to compete against biological females.)Women are being sold a ideology that ultimately only benefits the system we are living in. And the lies and hypocrisy of it all are quite honestly disgusting.I’m tired of it… are you? I’d love to hear your thoughts on this topic down below. Also, if this resonates with you, please feel free to share.