tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879552692521649812.post2109985769579231827..comments2024-01-04T15:56:19.156-05:00Comments on Commandments of Men: Steadfast Daughters Leaves Me Quivering Once AgainLewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05596138376570543467noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879552692521649812.post-18397346620907379652011-05-05T14:57:26.296-04:002011-05-05T14:57:26.296-04:00Well, this has been a lesson to me. I should be gr...Well, this has been a lesson to me. I should be graphic and very detailed if I ever write about the abuse I suffered. I will go blow by blow, literally. I will talk about the welts, bruises and torn flesh. I will talk about how I had to soak my underwear off of me because the blood from being "spanked" had formed clots. I will be sure to be very specific about how long the beatings lasted and what I was beaten with. And I'll be sure to talk about the scriptures my mother quoted while she hit me, and how our pastor assured me that it would all be okay if only I kept my eyes closed during prayer and remembered all of my Bible verses. Thanks for the tip!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879552692521649812.post-11471394943108864452010-12-04T13:48:20.291-05:002010-12-04T13:48:20.291-05:00I have to post a comment but it is more for SM ove...I have to post a comment but it is more for SM over at Steadfast Daughters. I see that over there no comments are being posted, and I think leaving one over here is probably a better idea. I am a homeschool Mom, not a daughter, and I have been homeschooling for 15 years. I am concerned with you setting up a blog "against" Hillary because of her book. It reminds me of the discernment blogs that you have spoken up about, as well as the article that Richard Abanes wrote that you quoted favorably about on your blog. Let me cut and paste a segment from your blog from 2009: <br /><br />(this is you, SM, writing on your blog about how you should behave if you have to address the views of another you disagree with)<br /><br />1. Use facts; not hearsay or speculation to prove your point. Quote from the teacher's own words, in context. Don't imply a different or "hidden" meaning to their words and don't put your own words (or your own hang ups) in their mouth. Graciously give others the benefit of the doubt. (Proverbs 18:13)<br /><br />2. If you "hear" a rumor about something that the teacher supposedly did or believes, verify it with the teacher before repeating it as fact. Unless you can prove his/her words with legitimate published material, treat it as suspect. Don't spread gossip (Exodus 23:1).<br /><br /><br />4. Don't treat others as if they are "guilty until proven innocent." Treat them as you would want to be treated (Matthew 7:12).<br /><br />5. The goal of rebuking a brother or sister who is in error should be restoration, not condemnation. Your goal should be to win your brother. This is why it is crucial to correct in love.<br /><br />6. Remember that you are responsible to God for your words. It is likely that unbelievers are reading your words - the Internet is a big place. Is your post a good testimony to the holiness of God? Are you tearing others apart? Are you taking pleasure in the supposed sins of others? Are you arguing and debating over things that have little to do with what is eternal? Are you loving your neighbor as yourself? Read Janet's excellent article, Loving the Brethren.<br /><br /><br />Now me again...I read this and then I look at Steadfast Daughters and I think....huh? I understand if you disagree with Hillary and her book...that is your prerogative. Perhaps just a book review on Amazon would have been sufficient, although it shouldn't have contained Hillary's sister's email. But to set up a "counter-blog"? How does that square with what you wrote as I quoted earlier. How can that possibly edify the body of Christ? Remember, Hillary by confession in Jesus is your sister in Christ. I would prayerfully recommend that you suspend that blog...it is hurtful and vindictive. I don't have an account and have to be "Anonymous" but my name is Jane.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879552692521649812.post-2251741162581188262010-11-22T12:40:38.691-05:002010-11-22T12:40:38.691-05:00I'm laughing now. I can't help it. They ar...I'm laughing now. I can't help it. They are so utterly laughable and out of touch with reality. I can't take them seriously anymore. That Christendom builder guy? He reminds me of a 50-yr-old guy I know who tries too hard to get the teens to like him and be relevant to their lives. It is painful to read his epic failures at wittiness. I feel embarrassed for him. <br /><br />They finally admitted why they even have a website: to be a support group for parents who have failed to control their adult kids. Which we all knew from the first. They don't want healing for QDs. They could care less about the hearts of daughters. They just want us all to admit we were wrong and go back home. Well that's obviously not going to happen. Let all the parents who lost the hearts of their children wallow in self-pity together. They made their beds, let them lie in them. I'll keep my freedom and healing and wonderful, non-daddy-approved husband.Darcyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03702441292981376229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879552692521649812.post-15893025977978205592010-11-22T12:16:48.269-05:002010-11-22T12:16:48.269-05:00Three cheers, Lewis.
Thanks for standing up for u...Three cheers, Lewis.<br /><br />Thanks for standing up for us. You didn't have to, and you sure didn't have to care at all after what they did to you, but here you are.<br />You keep us laughing, make us think, and bring us through the hard days.<br />Much love:DoaHFnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879552692521649812.post-7866745932690263032010-11-21T21:48:38.674-05:002010-11-21T21:48:38.674-05:00For those of you who might have come here from the...For those of you who might have come here from the Steadfast Daughters "Christendombuilder" article (which, thus far, is very few of you), if you expect that I should respond, my apologies.<br /><br />I simply don't have the motivation it requires, being I'd need to take my blog offline, regroup, put it back up, do some extreme editing of content, change blog hosts multiple times, edit scripture references, edit my bio drastically, and close down my comments.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br />Lewis (aka The Hammer)Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05596138376570543467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879552692521649812.post-45194220894567586682010-11-20T12:10:41.819-05:002010-11-20T12:10:41.819-05:00Abuse defined by a Christian organization that has...Abuse defined by a Christian organization that has been battling domestic violence since the 1980s:<br /><br />http://www.lifeskillsintl.org/Power_and_Control_Wheel.htmlshadowspringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15172112981244682382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879552692521649812.post-58543110192074264142010-11-20T11:38:53.901-05:002010-11-20T11:38:53.901-05:00It just makes me so angry to read Stacy's/Chri...It just makes me so angry to read Stacy's/Christy's thoughts on this. I can't legitimize her opinion by responding to her thoughts on the word "abuse" being used too often. She needs to do some real research into abuse before she attempts to write an in depth analysis.<br /><br />In response to Christy, abuse doesn't have to be obvious and "heinous" in order to be abuse. Exploitation can be very subtle and manipulative. Often the abused doesn't realize she's been abused until much, much later. The goal of abuse is to make the abused feel like what's happening is normal -- at least, if the abuser is any good at what he/she is doing. The victim has to learn that what's going on/happened is not normal as part of the recovery process. And often that may make the victim seem excessively angry (but she has a right to be). Citing that all abuse should be some sort of heinous torture only contributes to the societal belief that, well, abuse should always be some sort of heinous torture perpetuated by a creepy man behind a bush who kidnaps children. It adds to the general belief that we should blame the victim for being harmed by the abusers words and actions. It's wrong.Estherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04892778181543416624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879552692521649812.post-60011459229041208712010-11-20T08:42:18.834-05:002010-11-20T08:42:18.834-05:00Jeanette, you're awesome. Thank you for writin...Jeanette, you're awesome. Thank you for writing that and posting it here. You're an inspiration for me to let go of my anger and to focus more on God... because He really is all that matters.Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13031294858454742239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879552692521649812.post-9554022934021274632010-11-20T07:57:42.760-05:002010-11-20T07:57:42.760-05:00Jeanette - Such a beautiful letter!Jeanette - Such a beautiful letter!Erika Martin - Stampin' Mamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15654013636892916062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879552692521649812.post-63476268056808972482010-11-20T00:47:26.948-05:002010-11-20T00:47:26.948-05:00Those are beautiful words, Jeanette.
QDs are my h...Those are beautiful words, Jeanette.<br /><br />QDs are my heroes.Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05596138376570543467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879552692521649812.post-90582045732783119892010-11-20T00:31:09.273-05:002010-11-20T00:31:09.273-05:00Beautiful, Jeanette.
Just beautiful, and a testim...Beautiful, Jeanette.<br /><br />Just beautiful, and a testimony of your healing, God's faithfulness and of what True Love is.<br /><br />Be blessed.Mara Reidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16385458933795539928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879552692521649812.post-6324106360083197712010-11-19T23:33:00.261-05:002010-11-19T23:33:00.261-05:00(Part 3)
Ultimately, I am responsible to God for ...(Part 3)<br /><br />Ultimately, I am responsible to God for my choices and how I live my life. I answer to Him, and only Him. He has made me free, and in obedience to Him, I seek to remain free.<br /><br />So you see, Stacy, you’ve missed the entire point. You’ve been so busy trying to convince your audience that you are right and that your belief system represents the only biblical way, that you haven’t noticed.....we’re really not listening anymore. We’re busy living our lives in freedom. Oh, we read what you write and we comment and respond out of a desire to prevent others from going down that same painful path we have walked, but then we go on living. We are free. I don’t spend my nights fretting about what you might say on your blog while I’m sleeping. I don’t spend my days worrying that you might be right after all. I’m not afraid because truth.....truth is on my side.<br /> <br />These women who have left the life of patriarchy so they could pursue their Jesus in freedom……OH……let me tell you…..they are strong. Many of them are still very broken, but their strength is returning – I’ve seen it. And they will be even stronger than they were before. You may think that you’ve made your point, but to borrow the words of the Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto after Japan had attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor, you, Stacy, have done nothing more than to awaken a sleeping giant. <br /> <br />We’re not going away, and we’re not going to be silent, whether it be the words we say in public, or more importantly, the prayers we utter on our knees. We’re done being silent. We’re done being told that our prayers don’t matter.<br /><br />The TRUTH has set us free.Jeanettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11966510230018059373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879552692521649812.post-52888462012425358972010-11-19T23:31:24.358-05:002010-11-19T23:31:24.358-05:00(Part 2)
Freedom means:
I don’t need to convince...(Part 2)<br /><br />Freedom means:<br /><br />I don’t need to convince you that I’m right. Rather, MY responsibility is to do what is right in the eyes of God. (Deuteronomy 6:18)<br /><br />I don’t need your stamp of approval on my choices. I don’t live for your approval. I live for HIS, and His alone. (Galatians 1:10)<br /><br />I don’t have to be offended when you use words and sneaky maneuvers to attempt to justify yourself. I get to walk freely, unencumbered, not worrying what you do because I know that ultimately you will answer to our all-wise, all-knowing God. I need not be worried. (Psalm 37:1)<br /><br />I don’t need your website or your book to affirm me. His WORD affirms me. His daily, minute-by- minute presence in my life comforts me, guides me, and protects me. (Psalm 119:105)<br /><br />I don’t need you to renounce your belief that I, and other women like me are in sin. I am a woman in constant pursuit of the heart of God. I love Him and He loves me. He delights in me and I delight in Him. He forgives me freely and openly when I confess my sin to Him. He gives me grace liberally, without condition. I am saved through the grace and mercy of Jesus Christ…plus NOTHING. (John 3:16, II Samuel 22:20, Psalm 37:4, I John 1:9, Romans 3:24, Ephesians 1:6-7, Ephesians 2:8)<br /><br />I am not called to open your blind eyes. Only the One who opens blind eyes is called, and His name is Jesus. Instead, I am called to speak truth where I see it, where God calls me to speak it and not worry about whether or not you get it. (Isaiah 42:16-17)<br /><br />I am called to walk in freedom, not being burdened with my past yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1)<br /><br />I am called to walk in joy. I am to rejoice in the Lord ALWAYS. (Philippians 4:4)<br /><br />I am called to love - To love my parents, to love those who hurt me, to love those who slander me. I’m called to love you. (Some callings are harder than others, but they are callings nonetheless.) (Matthew 19:19)<br /><br />I am called to care for the Temple of the Holy Spirit – my body. That includes my mind, will and emotions. That means I can no more subject myself to those who would attack my mind, will and emotions, than to those who would attack my body. I am called to establish healthy boundaries in all relationships in my life, whether it be with a coworker, a friend, my parents, or my siblings. (1 Corinthians 6:19)<br /><br />I am called to use the unique giftings that He has given to me for the growth and blessing of the Body of Christ and for the purpose of seeking the lost. I don’t have a husband. I don’t have children. But I do have gifts and I am called to use ALL of them, whether they involve keeping a home, caring for a child, studying culinary arts, serving and leading in the church, balancing a checkbook, making financial choices, making intelligent decisions in the work place, providing leadership to projects, getting an education and so on. (I Timothy 4:14)Jeanettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11966510230018059373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879552692521649812.post-45692789856059473262010-11-19T23:25:24.609-05:002010-11-19T23:25:24.609-05:00(Part 1)
Dear Stacy:
(Posting here since we all k...(Part 1)<br /><br />Dear Stacy:<br />(Posting here since we all know you read here.)<br /><br />Over the last several weeks I have followed the launch of your site, “Steadfast Daughters.” I have watched as you have attempted to pick apart the heart and motives of an author who chose to tell her story and the stories of others like her, who chose to take an enormous risk because she loves her Heavenly Father, and she loves the broken. I have watched as many women I know found themselves being attacked, belittled, judged, and minimized. I personally know a woman behind one of those anonymous stories in Hillary’s book and I can not only assure you that it’s true, but I can promise you that it was a very small part of a dramatically more painful journey than was actually published.<br /><br />Upon reading your dismissal of these broken women and their stories, I have felt outrage, sorrow, and at moments, seething anger. Until you have watched someone you love suffer because of the teachings you and other patriarchal-minded people promote, you have no right to judge them, or to condemn them.<br /><br />I have also felt as if I was personally being attacked all over again, just as I was by my own parents. I wanted to write you a long letter and tell you why you were wrong, why what you believe is unjust, why you are causing further injury to already hurting women, AND their families. The Quivering Daughters that Hillary writes to – they are not children. They are grown women, your sisters in Christ, and yet you judge, you attack, you condemn, you minimize.<br /><br />Many times I tried to write – thinking I would leave a comment on your site, if you ever actually accepted comments. Many times I imagined what I would write to you, how I would say it. I wanted to convince you that you’re hurting others. I wanted to convince you not to be so heartless. I wanted to appeal to your mother’s heart. I wanted to convince you that you are wrong. But every time I attempted it, I found myself sputtering in utter frustration, with absolutely no idea how to put my thoughts into words and how to defend my beliefs and explain myself to you.<br /><br />But today, it dawned on me......I DON’T HAVE TO EXPLAIN MYSELF TO YOU AT ALL. <br /> <br />I. AM. FREE.Jeanettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11966510230018059373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879552692521649812.post-4252038164186890652010-11-19T15:24:27.367-05:002010-11-19T15:24:27.367-05:00L...You're awesome. Thank you for sharing this...L...You're awesome. Thank you for sharing this.Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05596138376570543467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879552692521649812.post-75399430152466363332010-11-19T14:24:03.059-05:002010-11-19T14:24:03.059-05:00cont. During these years I used to sometimes read...cont. During these years I used to sometimes read materials talking about abuse and how to deal with it. Interestingly, implementing those suggestions always helped, even though I was “not being abused.” When I finally admitted that abuse did happen, it changed things entirely and almost immediately. In this particular situation it did not take a confrontation or moving out (I was already out), but one day shortly after I had admitted it TO MYSELF something happened and ever since it has been a really good relationship, like we went back to when I was a little kid or something. It has been months and months now and not once have I even felt like I was becoming hyper-alert around that person. It used to be an automatic nervous system thing that I could not control and now I often have trouble remembering how bad it was. BUT IT WAS BAD. I start to remember how bad it was whenever I read your writing, which gives me the same tense, anxious, “maybe it’s me, maybe I’m the crazy one” feeling I used to live with almost 24/7. Admitting that it WAS abuse is what made the abuse (from a good person who never wanted to be mean) stop. I am not saying that all or even most perpetrators of real abuse would respond the same way, as this person was not quite the typical profile of an abuser; however, by discouraging people from even acknowledging to themselves that something was done to them that was WRONG, you are preventing them from finding true healing. You have to admit, and not minimize, that you were wronged before you can forgive or break away or repair bridges or do anything at all productive. I suggest you check out things like the cycle of abuse diagrams to understand what differentiates abuse from mistakes. <br />By purposely setting yourself up as an expert and ignoring the work of thousands of researchers and decades of study into human relationships and brains (and don’t tell me that the Bible says completely different things) and blithely dismissing real pain on the chance that some of it might just be pouting, you are complicit in keeping people stuck in a mindset that is torture. I am not kidding, it is torture. <br /><br />Oh, and yes, I did go through months at a time of wishing earnestly for death because I was such a terrible person and could not do things right. <br /><br />I don’t know your situation, but I hope everyone in your family, including you, really are happy and free of chronic abuse and that you never know what it’s like to have that happen to you. I want you to have a good life. Do not use your good life (or life that you are making the best of) to oppress others. <br /><br />I have had a relatively good life compared to many of what I consider the “real quivering daughters.” If I was suicidal and basically caught in a catch-22 situation for so many years DUE TO WHAT I BELIEVED, the girls who are deeper into this theology have it much, much worse. They are brave to be able to admit something is wrong. <br /><br />LAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879552692521649812.post-40442683176384316152010-11-19T14:21:08.089-05:002010-11-19T14:21:08.089-05:00Hi Stacy,
I’m pretty sure you’ll see this here, so...Hi Stacy,<br />I’m pretty sure you’ll see this here, so hi! <br /> <br />Re: Abuse being too easily flung around, people using it for no good reason, you are generalizing there. Yes, some people do use it when not warranted. Many people do not use it when they should. <br /><br />I was one of the latter. It took me more than ten years to admit that I was abused. <br /><br />Admitting to myself that what I experienced, DESPITE THE BEST INTENTIONS of my parents, WAS ABUSE, changed my life hugely for the better. <br />For me, it was emotional and spiritual abuse. It is too complicated to get into here, but I spent pretty much all my teen years and my first couple years in my 20s on hyper-alert whenever a certain person was around, even in the same house, because at any moment they might decide to talk to me. I could not trust this person because they were not just “failing” me – I could not trust them because there was a specific pattern of predictable unpredictability. You did not know how this person would react to the same circumstance on different days and you could talk until you were blue in the face to try to resolve things between you, but it DID NOT WORK. I would go to Bible studies and ask for prayer and cry – I am NOT a public crier at all, it takes a great deal to get me to cry in front of people and took even more back then. I would ask for prayer that I could forgive and be more obedient and honor this person… everything that you are prescribing people to do in this situation. <br /><br />LAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879552692521649812.post-62004213083423894992010-11-19T12:52:52.908-05:002010-11-19T12:52:52.908-05:00If only the fine folk at Steadfast Daughters would...If only the fine folk at Steadfast Daughters would demonstrate an equal eagerness to clearly define what they mean by "reconciliation".Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05596138376570543467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879552692521649812.post-52996081158115797942010-11-19T12:26:34.563-05:002010-11-19T12:26:34.563-05:00@Bean-- If only I was just a shade less scrupulous...@Bean-- If only I was just a shade less scrupulous, I could have so much fun taking that ever-so-slightly out of context:<br /><br /><i>Under pressure from allegations that the Patriarchy movement as a whole is abusive, Stacy MacDonald finally admitted, "Of course, we all abuse one another.... Each of us has been abused, and each of [us] are abusers."</i><br /><br />Hmm... maybe that's truer than she thinks! :PErichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09440250912113010049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879552692521649812.post-92145345906340012212010-11-19T11:31:24.182-05:002010-11-19T11:31:24.182-05:00"We have a bit of a dilemma. Webster’s “maltr...<i>"We have a bit of a dilemma. Webster’s “maltreatment” definition may simply describe the way we all regularly sin against one another. Jesus tells us in Matthew 22:37-40 that all the commandments are summed up in the two commands: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind,” and “Love your neighbor as yourself.”<br /><br />So, maltreatment (or abuse) could be described as failing to properly love one another. Of course, that means, to varying degrees, we all abuse one another, since we all fail to perfectly love. Defined this way, each of us has been abused, and each of are abusers. “Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.” (Romans 13:10)</i><br /><br /><b>GOOD GRIEF!</b><br /><br />"<i>We're all abusers! We've all been abused!</i>" <br /><br />Such BS. Just BS. <br /><br />I can't even think rationally or coherently right now. My blood is simply boiling. <br /><br />How the hell do you reason with a person who is so determined to protect their paradigm that they would make an assertion that not only are we all abused, we are all ABUSERS??<br /><br />No. No, just no. <br /><br />I just can't believe what I'm reading. It's just TRASH. UTTER trash.Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13031294858454742239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879552692521649812.post-56203071873211320192010-11-19T10:33:41.917-05:002010-11-19T10:33:41.917-05:00It gets even more amazing-- she doesn't even q...It gets even more amazing-- she doesn't even quote <a href="http://www.1828-dictionary.com/d/search/word,abuse" rel="nofollow">the 1828 definition</a> correctly. And she conspicuously didn't mention that there are other definitions below the first one:<br /><br />2. A corrupt practice or custom, as the abuses of government.<br /><br />3. Rude speech; reproachful language addressed to a person; contumely; reviling words.<br /><br />....<br /><br />5. Perversion of meaning; improper use or application; as an abuse of words.<br /><br />By <i>her own preferred 19th-century definition</i>, the entire "Steadfast Daughters" blog is an example of abuse! It advocates corrupt practices, uses reviling speech, and twists the meanings of words like "abuse."Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09440250912113010049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879552692521649812.post-71579310865828559332010-11-19T10:29:30.101-05:002010-11-19T10:29:30.101-05:00So "What Is Abuse"... yet another gem......So "What Is Abuse"... yet another gem... <br /><br />She didn't write it to look through the types of abuse... she wrote it to say Hillary (and all others with her) were NOT abused, because clearly, what their parents did is not defined by the 1828 Webster's dictionary.<br /><br />Just because someone has been a leader of women's place in the church and homeschooling, and written a book about said subjects... does not make them an expert on everything, especially something as touchy as abuse!<br /><br />Who is she, or anyone, to say "you have not been abused, based on what *I* think about it"?? Where is grace? Where is mercy? This is not more than saying "Get back in line you wayward daughters and sons who so DARE to disagree with your familial and church authorities!"<br /><br />Uh, those were the abusers... fyi...Joanna Mariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03240506825764536504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879552692521649812.post-15647125035078813812010-11-19T10:23:36.939-05:002010-11-19T10:23:36.939-05:00I think I agree that no one will take her seriousl...I think I agree that no one will take her seriously. The only problem is that I have so many friends here that are on the verge of accepting the extreme positions she advocates. They are the "revive our hearts" and joshua harris/ludy followers. They start there and end at "I like to have a reminder every year and a half of how Eve was cursed so I don't use pain medication when I give birth."<br /><br />Thankfully I also know many many people who are absolutely horrified at even the most widely accepted (in homeschooling/patriarchal/qf circles) doctrines. It's something they've never thought about or considered or actually thought any Christian could believe.<br /><br />This site of Stacy M's makes me so angry I literally can't talk about it or the nasty posts without a good amount of anger and vitriol. So I don't. <br /><br />But I'm not going to stop talking about the truth.raehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14659411240699818388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879552692521649812.post-33127444295027854142010-11-19T10:19:51.045-05:002010-11-19T10:19:51.045-05:00Lewis – don’t you know that the 1828 Webster’s Dic...Lewis – don’t you know that the 1828 Webster’s Dictionary is really the only one any good Christian should use? <br /><br />According to Vision Forum, and I quote:<br /><br />“This gigantic, oversized, heavy book is perhaps second only to the Bible in terms of importance in your home. When Noah Webster first published this book, he understood that whoever defined the words of a culture would capture that culture. So he sought to give the American people a dictionary in which words have meaning in terms of their relationship to Jesus Christ. In fact, this is the only comprehensive dictionary of the English language in print that seeks to communicate a distinctively biblical worldview, even to the point of using Scriptures in the definitions.<br /><br />Your children can join the ranks of those generations of American leaders who were weaned on Webster. Our book is sturdy and well bound with acid-free paper and a gold foil stamp. A worthy investment."<br /><br />And you can have this “second only to the Bible” book for only $55. Better get one quick - it will redefine your entire worldview.<br /><br />:PJeanettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11966510230018059373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879552692521649812.post-33030588021631648262010-11-19T01:30:30.258-05:002010-11-19T01:30:30.258-05:00The freakin 1828 Webster's dictionary???? Wooo...The freakin 1828 Webster's dictionary???? Woooooooow. Ravisher or Sodomite.<br /><br />I think her site has now officially jumped the shark. No one, outside of people already in her cult, is gonna take her seriously any longer - and it's her own fault.Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05596138376570543467noreply@blogger.com