It is unfortunate that pastors always make a big deal about counting people in the Bible.  Oh, they only counted the men, those evil mysoginist cavemen.  But we enlighted futurists count everyone.  We think because someone in China can build cool technology that we are so much better than people in the past.  Meanwhile the social decay around us in every form would lead an honest person to conclude that we have no idea what we are doing and will very shortly wipe ourselves out.

Before modern times, households (Attempting to number families today involves complex calculus, because the families we do have are divided and split and made-up and now you can ‘marry’ your gay cat or even yourself.) or fighting men were numbered and not people.  What business is it of the government how many children or even wives you have?  But today we are fine allowing the government in to do whatever it want’s in our houses, in fact every area of our actual houses is mandated by the government.  And for all the good it has done houses are built worse and worse every year.  And so are social structures.  But we moderns are so much more precise.  And so we have things like the metric system which are very helpful when one wants to quickly measure a room.  Oh it’s 500 centimeters, thanks. I’ll just step it off with my foot here.  Now obviously there are uses for the metric system, like in a lab, but do we really want to turn our families and our governments into a science experiment?  Apparently so, because that is just what we have done.  To the detriment of both.  We now have almost no idea how to raise children or organize governments, problems our forefathers had thoroughly figured out.  Or I should say, they followed the wisdom God laid out for them in scripture.

God set up three realms of government on this earth the family, the church and the state.  In an ideal situation, which is almost what we had at the founding of this country, the church is made up of families and the state is made up of churches.  Fathers are the head of the home, elders and pastors are the head of the church, and monarchs or councils were the head of the state.   This is federalism.  Larger governments made up of smaller governments.   Wisdom led founders to follow this scheme in the arrangement of the state.  The United States Governments was made up of, surprise surprise, united states.  Each state was made up of smaller entities like counties or townships and cities and boroughs.  Most things are decided at the local level and issues that involve more than one locality are dealt with at a higher level. So, most of the power was local.  We see this laid out in Exocus 18 as Jethro advises Moses.  We even see it in Mark 12:17, render to Caesar the things which are Caesar’s and to God the things which are God’s.  Taxes are Caesars, your children are not.  Military service might be Caesars, church doctrine is not.  Paul discusses these layers in his criticism of the Corinthians in chapter 6, don’t go to the state for matters that you should be able to figure out.  Yet he submitted to the charges against him by Rome.  We can see the pattern in the early church at the council in Acts 15.  For the most part matters were handled in the home unless an appeal to the church was necessary.  And larger problems might require all the churches getting together to decide.

But today we have idealized the individual.  We all have our rights, or so we think.  We misunderstood the concept of ‘equal before the law’, and turned it into ‘the same in every way’.  But the right to vote is not the same as the right to a fair trial.  Voting is not an inalienable right, if it were you would get to vote when you were born.  Voting is about the smaller governments, the families, choosing representatives to represent them in the larger layers of federalism.  So the heads of those families voted.  Single women, you are not a family.  A family is that thing you left when you cut your hair, pierced your face and stomped off to your career in Advanced Feminist Literature of Pre-America  Minorities.  But all this civil rights chatter, which is more about the triumph of tyranny than any one’s rights, has led to every one demanding the right to mess up our republic.  How has it worked out for us?  Well it can all be summed up by Paul’s words to Timothy, “For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.”  In just the last election, Democrats successfully deceived women into believing that the Republicans were waging a “war on women”.  And what we got as a result is less women working, and less work for their husbands and children as well. Not to mention furthering an actual war, or jihad on women in the Middle East.   Such tactics in the past brought us Bill Clinton who single handedly destroyed the lives of countless women, personally, and millions more with the example of his public immorality.  Women vote badly,  in particular single women. Their voting has led the there almost not being any households anymore.  Men no longer do the honorable thing and marry women, no they just sleep with them when the can and take off when any responsibility comes.  Almost fifty percent of first children are born to single mothers.  We are the ones who hate women?

And since women now have all this power, passive though it may be, all of culture is altered.  Politicians, marketers, universities, the media must all be driven by what women want.  And what do women want?  Haha if even they knew.  They want to drug boys for being boys, and ensure that men don’t happen, or so it seems.  And so men don’t happen.  They are leaving colleges in droves, they are leaving the workforce in droves, they are leaving leadership in droves.  Which is why we read things like “the gay lesbian freak show mayor of Houston subpoenas pastor’s sermons”.  This is why we have countless laws about the safety of everything, rules and rules and rules, sounds a lot like your mother, hmm.  Women were created to rule with an iron fist–in the home.  Because this is what children need. This is the most beautiful thing in the world, woman saved by childbearing.  But when she leaves the home

Modern women defend their office with all the fierceness of domesticity. They fight for desk and typewriter as for hearth and home, and develop a sort of wolfish wifehood on behalf of the invisible head of the firm. That is why they do office work so well; and that is why they ought not to do it. -G. K. Chesterton, What’s Wrong With the World

It is difficult to quote a small section of Chesterton because he is making points within points, all of which are very good.  In his day, feminism was newer, or as new as it could be, the battle has always been waged but never so much ground conceded.  There was a discussion about the woman’s right to work in the factory down the road, as some sort of liberation:

But meanwhile do not talk to me about the poor chain-makers on Cradley Heath. I know all about them and what they are doing. They are engaged in a very wide-spread and flourishing industry of the present age. They are making chains.

And so slavery. For you see, following the rules prescribed by scripture, is liberation.  If it sounds weird it is only our lack of faith speaking.  Or for a people as blessed as we are, with unparalleled access to history, lack of research.  God’s rules actually work.  This is what Chesterton wants this is what I want.  This is the God of the universe desiring his children to accept his blessings rather than playing in the mud.  If you want freedom follow the crazy men foolish enough to dress up and paint their faces for battle, and fight for it, as they fight their wives in the paradox of marriage.  If you like tyranny put all the single women in charge and the men will be happy to play video games and take soma I mean Ritalin.  It’s easy to count 5000 testicles their live in girl friends have them all nicely organized in cute little decorative boxes. Meanwhile her boyfriend got 5000 points at Slaughter the Zombies VII.