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Greetings. This is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church

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with a moment of truth where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and

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faith. And today, what is the awful phenomenon and how is it destroying the strength and power

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of the American spirit? The awful phenomenon. First of all, awful is an acronym for a very

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specific personality type that has arisen in American culture. And that acronym is A for

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affluent, W for white, F for female, and L for liberal. Affluent, white, female, liberal.

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Awful. So appropriate. The awful acronym has become great shorthand for a class of people who have

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taken over the far left progressive politics in America. Who makes up the bulk of anti-ice

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protesters, for example? Affluent, white, female liberals. In fact, this is precisely who were

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shot in Minneapolis at a progressive operation to hinder ICE officers from carrying out their

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duties. Renee Good. Becoming infamous now, Renee Good was not a loving, innocent mother who was just

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scared at being stopped by ICE officers when she drove into one of them by accident and got shot.

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Au contraire, dear listener. Renee Good was a trained operative of ICE Watch, a group of progressive

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activists whose mission is to follow around ICE agents and harass and obstruct their efforts to

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arrest criminal illegal aliens and deport them. She and her quote-unquote husband, now Renee Good

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was part of a lesbian marriage, she and her quote-unquote husband were avid Trump haters and they were

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involved heavily in progressive causes. Also, in the 2024 election, over 57 percent of American women voted for

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Kamala, 70 percent of single women. Abortion rights and DEI policies, that is diversity, equity, and inclusion

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continue to rate high on the list of issues that progressive women care about. In fact, these issues will get them

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out in protests and marches like nothing else. Whose voices do you hear stridently screaming above the

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din of a protest march? Oh, those of aging, gray-haired, baby boomer women, harpies who are nostalgic for the

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anti-war protests of the 1960s. Also, the politics of the Democrat Party has been pushed far, far left,

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primarily by aging white liberal women. Awfuls. Affluent white female liberals. Awfuls. Now, the group Echelon

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Insights recently found that these aging white liberal women support increased immigration, enforced equal income

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for all races, and biological males who identify as females competing in women's sports. They also found

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that college-educated white women are more than twice to the far left than black and Hispanic women

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Democrats. Additionally, when it comes to men compared to women, 60 percent of college-educated white women

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voted for Democrats in 2018 than men who voted 47 percent for Democrats. And then when it comes to

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culture, dear listener, our changing and evolving culture. Awfuls lead the way. Affluent white female

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liberals. Awfuls lead the way in trying to shape America in her image. It was awful Alyssa Heinerscheid,

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for example, who led the overhaul of Bud Light brand, using the trans pervert Dylan Mulvaney as the new

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brand spokesman. Looking down her nose at Bud Light's customer base, she judged it was time for a DEI

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update for the brand. What a condescending misjudgment that proved to be right for Bud Light. InBev

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Brand, which is the holding company for Bud Light, inBev brand fired her soon afterward. The same can be

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said for the awful executive, Julie Massino, who revamped the Cracker Barrel logo. You remember that

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controversy not too long ago. Julie Massino jettisoned the old-fashioned logo featuring a

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country farmer seated at a Cracker Barrel for what one commentator called pedestrian modern sterile.

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And if you saw the old, or the so-called new logo, it was precisely that, pedestrian modern sterile,

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complete with an overhaul of the restaurant's quaint rural ambiance. No. And after the bottom dropped

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out of Cracker Barrel stock and business began to plummet, the revamp was scrapped and Massino too

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was fired. Disney's descent into political correctness, brand desecration, and financial

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hemorrhaging is also being led by awfuls, that is, affluent white female liberals, like creative

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director Jennifer Lee. Disney is exhibit A for the meme, go woke, go broke. But you can't tell that to

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awful purists, that is, affluent white female liberal purists. No, they will espouse their DEI

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religion at the cost of everything. And we would be remiss if we did not mention the role of

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awfuls, that is, affluent white female liberals, in speech censorship. When you hear an awful say,

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it's time we have a dialogue about X, Y, or Z, you should just read, shut up, sit down, and listen to

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my monologue. That's really what they're saying when they say, it's time to have a dialogue. In an

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important study by the Knight Foundation, 60% of women said protecting free speech was less important

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than promoting an inclusive society, while 71% of men felt directly opposite. Free speech was much

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more important to them. They also found that women were far more censorious than men, if you will.

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Women are more supportive, for example, more supportive of illegalizing insults of immigrants

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or homosexuals or transgenders or African Americans, Hispanics, Muslims, and Jewish people.

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Awfuls were far more likely to intervene, interfere, and shut down any speech that could even remotely

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be construed as offensive to minorities. Three-in-one women compared to men. Awfuls want to ban Elon Musk's

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ex, for example, from the internet. Awfuls, that is, affluent white female liberals, support making

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protests at abortion clinics illegal. They were at the forefront of changing the name of sports teams,

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like the Washington Redskins, right? Amanda Blackhorse was at the head of that effort. Or the changing of

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the sport team, the Cleveland Indians. Stephanie Freiberg led that initiative. Awful, that is, affluent white

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female liberal Nina Jankiewicz, for example, was the notorious director of the disinformation governance

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board. Oh, what an aptly named agency that was under Biden, the disinformation governance board,

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created under the Biden administration. Nina Jankiewicz was the head of that, which ironically

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was designed to censor American speech and label as disinformation anything that contradicted,

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contradicted, excuse me, the official propaganda line of the Biden administration. And Ms. Jankiewicz

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was a rabid, awful harpy who actively worked against the First Amendment of our Constitution.

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Well, these are only a few samples of the affluent white female liberal, the awful phenomenon. What is

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at the root of this phenomenon and what can be done about it? Well, first of all, a few points I'd like

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to make with you. Number one, the awful, the affluent white female liberal is a direct product of the

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feminist movement. Oh, yes, we touched this third rail of politics, the feminist movement. If Betty Friedan's

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book, The Feminine Mystique, which was published in 1963, began the feminist movement, well, then we

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might say that Naomi Wolf's book called Vagina, a new biography published in 2012. Her book closed

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the feminist movement as we have come to know it. Read both of these books and you'll see a striking

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contrast between what Betty Friedan optimistically envisioned for women far into the future and what

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Wolf soberly assesses is the truth about women today at the end of some 50 years of feminist activism.

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And ironically, women have been successful beyond their wildest dreams in wresting power, wealth,

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and influence from men. But in the process, they have lost their true and greater power as women

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in that process. Oh, the 21st century female has been so intent upon adopting the male role and persona

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that she has lost what it means to be a woman. Awfuls, that is, affluent white female liberals,

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awfuls are often childless. They're often without husbands. And even these, when they're present,

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these husbands are often gelded cuckolds. Awfuls rate themselves as somewhat or highly dissatisfied as

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well, somewhat or highly dissatisfied with their lives when compared with their traditional female

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counterparts. They patrol the halls of corporate America, the halls of media, they patrol the halls

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of Congress, and more often than not, in the role of hall monitors, if you will, making sure everyone

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follows the DEI rules set by affluent white female liberals. This has been evident even within the

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movement itself. Books like Against White Feminism, the book Against White Feminism by Raphia Zakaria,

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or Feminism Against Progress by Mary Harrington, both of these books, while not rejecting feminism,

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have exposed the soft underbelly of radical feminism, especially under the microscope is the privileged

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virtue-signaling white female, often the aging baby boomer who has benefited from the changes wrought by

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the feminist movement while leaving so many other women worldwide behind. Oh, I urge you to read the

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book Against White Feminism against white feminism because it is particularly critical of what we

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would call the awful, that is, the affluent white female liberal, although Zakaria eschews the term per se.

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Now, Raphia Zakaria is a Pakistani author and scholar who documents how only a small fraction of women

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globally have been beneficiaries of the feminist movement. Women around the world largely still live

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in abject economic poverty and lack basic nutritional and medical needs for themselves and their children,

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and they face a wasteland of opportunities. And they often live under brutally oppressive regimes

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that truly subjugate women rather than the soft oppression, which exists mostly in the imaginations of the

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privileged white female in the Democratic West. These women, in largely in third world circumstances,

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these women have been left behind in the wake of a self-congratulatory feminism,

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which is blind to the plight of their ostensible sisters in the world. Shouldn't these fundamental

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needs of women be on the agenda of feminism? A truly human feminism? Asks Raphia Zakaria. Well,

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feminism has focused rather on a few privileged, mostly white classes of women. These have been centered in

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the West. They have been narrowly focused on the pride and privilege of already well-positioned,

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affluent white women who have mistaken invading male roles in Western culture for true feminism. Has

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feminism succeeded because white women populate corporate boardrooms formerly occupied by men and

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perhaps are on the verge of electing a woman president? Is feminism successful because of this?

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Oh, rather than focusing on changing the logos of sport teams and lobbying to ban Elon Musk from the

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internet and ramming ICE agents in the streets, perhaps the awful, the affluent white female liberal

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might hearken to the voices of feminists like Raphia Zakaria and Mary Harrington. But that is highly

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unlikely, for the awful has fallen victim wittingly or unwittingly to the stereotype of history.

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And that brings me to point number two. The angry meddling awful. The angry meddling affluent white

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female liberal is nothing new in the history of the world. Oh, yes. The rage of awfuls is abundant

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throughout Greek mythology, for example, giving us in grand metaphors for the modern archetype of the

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world. Medusa. Medusa was one of the three gorgons of Greek mythology that is a raging monster of a woman

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with living snakes populating her head instead of her hair. Of such mythic power was Medusa's gaze

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that men who looked at her were turned to stone and her temple and garden were decorated with the petrified

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statues of formerly living men who had the temerity to look her in the eyes. Now, Medusa, while acting as if

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she was attracted to men, in reality bore a contempt and hatred for them and never wasted an opportunity

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to destroy them. Often portrayed as a winsome beauty, she was infamous for sweetly lulling a man into submission

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and then exploding into raging furies which momentarily stunned these men into silence and impotency. When, as a

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consequence of her fury, they gazed upon her visage, they would be turned to stone. The myth of Medusa. And only by the

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labors of the Greek hero, Perseus, were she defeated when, armed with a shield and sandals and sword from

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the gods, Perseus outsmarted her and cut off her head. But even then, her severed head retained its power

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to turn men to stone if they happened to gaze into its eyes. Oh, what a metaphor for the raging female, eh?

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In fact, modern feminism has embraced Medusa to express their rage. The feminist, Emily Irwin Culpepper, in an article for the

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magazine, Women of Power. Culpepper writes in her article, Gorgons, A Face for Contemporary Women's Rage. She writes in this

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article, the Gorgon-Medusa image has been rapidly adopted by a large number of feminists who recognize her as one face of our own rage. Unquote.

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It is not difficult to make that connection, I tell you, it's not difficult to make that connection between Medusa

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and the awful, the affluent white female liberal. Another mythical creature, excuse me, another mythical creature

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often compared to her is the harpy, the half-vulture, half-woman thing from Greek mythology.

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Harpies were notorious for their irritating, paralyzing screech.

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Sounds like an awful, doesn't it? And the harpy's ability to hover nearby and snatch the very food from the hands of hungry men

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just when their appetites were about to be satisfied. That sounds like the modern feminist as well.

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Harpies were known to snatch men themselves away and torture them before bringing them to Hades and the underworld.

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Well, dear listener, the Greek pantheon of gods and heroes were certainly well-developed, accurate portrayals

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of human nature writ large, weren't they? And the awful is true to form. She reprises the ancient Medusa and harpy

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today in the 21st century. Thirdly, let me point out, thirdly, awful, that is, affluent white female liberals

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are captives to the Stockholm Syndrome. The Stockholm Syndrome. Awfuls have come to identify with and give

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deep sympathy to their oppressors. This phenomenon, the Stockholm Syndrome, gets its name from a famous

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historical incident when four hostages of a failed bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden in 1973

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were held for six days in a bank vault by the bank robber. It made worldwide headlines.

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And over the period of those six days, in close quarters with their captor,

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these captives came to know and understand him and develop a relationship, as one of them put it, with him.

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Oh, they came to identify with his plight and they refused to testify against him at his trial.

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Also known as destructive cult disorder. That sounds pretty descriptive, too.

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Destructive cult disorder. Other situations have borne this label, too, like the hostages held

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in the American embassy in Tehran in 1979 for some 444 days. They, too, came to identify with their

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captors and express sympathy for their cause. How is it, dear listener, that a person can identify with

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and become dedicated to and sacrifice greatly on behalf of causes which work directly against the

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interests of that person? How fervently the awful, the affluent white female liberal demonstrates on

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behalf of the criminal illegal alien. Although it has been demonstrated that illegal immigration has

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devoured American jobs, swollen the welfare rules of state and federal government, and made victims of

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countless American women in crime after crime of murder and rape and theft across the country,

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the awful is nevertheless ready to kill ICE officers who are stemming the tide of illegal immigration?

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Now, while perhaps not a complete explanation, the Stockholm Syndrome at least has some

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explanatory power for why a victim can bleed, literally as well as figuratively, for their oppressors and

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abusers. One anecdotal example I have for you. It's the story of Martha McKay. In 1996, a man named

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Travis Lewis murdered Martha's mother and cousin in an act of cold-blooded murder. Now, while a normal

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person would be satisfied that such a killer is locked away, Martha is not a normal person.

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She is an awful, that is, affluent white female liberal. Not only was Martha able to secure parole for

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the man that murdered her mother, she gave him a job working at her mansion. When Martha noticed

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$10,000 in cash missing, she just happened to have that type of money laying around, I guess,

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she confronted Mr. Lewis with it. Well, Travis Lewis ended up stabbing her to death, thus completing the

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tragic tale of the true-believing awful, the affluent white female liberal. Martha died for her beliefs,

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like believers of all faiths are called to do, right? The true believer is the left-wing equivalent of the

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Japanese kamikaze pilots, if you will, without the honor that came with being a kamikaze pilot.

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This Stockholm Syndrome phenomenon extends not to just illegal aliens, but to issues like the censorship

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of free speech or the takeover of women's sports by trans athletes. Cannot the awful see how her

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advocacy of these issues works directly against the interests of women, not just her. But there is

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something, there is something about the fervency of belief, the righteousness of the cause, the feeling

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of solidarity with others just as dedicated as you, the virtue of stemming the tide of perceived evil

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before you and the satisfaction of destroying the wicked enemy, excuse me, like Donald Trump, who has no

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redeeming virtues. That is all compelling to the awful, the affluent white female liberal. The principles and

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objectives of the cause do not have to be rational, only emotionally satisfying. And the enemies of the

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American Republic are only too happy to provide those things for these women's cause, which works directly

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against the interests of the faithful. Oh, what can be done? Well, dear listener, I propose the solution to

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the awful agenda is a return to traditional biblical family roles. Although this is anathema to the awful,

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a step backward from the movement, it is perhaps the best solution. It has been for thousands of women

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in this generation who are returning to their first love, that is a home, a husband, and children. It is

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reflected in articles like, This Unexpected Happiness That Women Feel When They Return Home. I like the title

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of that article, This Unexpected Happiness That Women Feel When They Return Home, written by Anel G.

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And she published it in this publication called The Body Optimist. The Body Optimist. The Unexpected

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Happiness That Women Feel When They Return Home. And there's a sense for many women of coming home

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in a figurative sense, as well as a literal one, a feeling of fulfillment as a woman not capable of being

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achieved in a man's world, right? And it will, in the long run, be better for the individual woman

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and for the survival of Western civilization in general, I submit to you. As this trend continues

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to pick up steam, we, the church, must be ready to receive and support what is really today a

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counter-cultural movement, the return of women to the home. And we must be ready to appeal to the awful,

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the affluent white female liberal, appeal to them with the words of Solomon concerning the biblical

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woman when he says, Strength and dignity are her clothing, that is, the woman at home tending to her

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family. Strength and dignity are her clothing. And she laughs at the time to come. She opens her mouth

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with wisdom and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue. She looks well to the ways of her household

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and does not eat the bread of idleness. Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also. And

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he praises her. He says, Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all. Oh, charm is

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deceitful and beauty is vain. But a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Give her the fruit of her

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hands and let her works praise her in the gates. From Proverbs chapter 31. This has been Pastor David

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Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church. We meet for holy worship on Sunday morning, and we do

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so understanding indeed that it is a time for the family to be together, one with another, in worship

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on the day of rest on Sunday morning. And we invite you to join us for holy worship on Sunday

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at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard. And you can call us for more

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information and feedback. Perhaps this hasn't sat well with you. Perhaps it has been precisely what

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you needed to hear. But in any case, if you'd like to give us some feedback, go ahead and give us a call

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at area code 208-523-0196. That's area code 208-523-0196.