Choose Carefully

I don’t know if any single men read this blog, because my readers seem to be old, and they are conservative, and conservatives believe in marriage. Between men and women. Actual men and women.

Anyway, I’ll throw this out: if you’re a single Christian man, you really need a Christian wife.

I don’t mean a Mormon or a woman from a gay-pastor church who practices astrology and does yoga. You need to be baptized with the Spirit of Holiness, you need to pray in tongues a lot every day, and you need to demand the same things of the person you marry, BEFORE you start dating. If not, you’re missionary-dating, you will almost certainly fail to convert your wife, the two of you will be weak because you will be trying to lift the couch while your wife is sitting on it, and your life together will have fewer blessings and more curses than necessary.

My wife surprises me all the time when we talk about God. I’ll mention something God is showing me, and she’ll respond with something 100% on-target, usually quoting chapter and verse, which is something I generally can’t do.

I’ll provide one example.

She asked me what I thought of John Hagee, the megachurch preacher. I said I thought his beliefs concerning prophecy came from intense study, which is carnal, not from impartation from the Holy Spirit. I also said he promoted a crazy belief. Hagee says every Jew will be saved.

Rhodah said that was impossible, and as proof, she cited the story (not parable) about the rich man and Lazarus the beggar. Both were dead. The rich man was burning in sheol, and Lazarus was with Abraham. The rich man called Abraham “father,” proving he was a Jew. Jesus himself told us a Jew was in hell.

This kind of interaction between husband and wife is so much better than having arguments about whether it’s okay to dress the kids up like devils and witches and send them out on Halloween. I could never have gone near a woman who would do a thing like that. It’s also better than having a “Christian” wife tell me it’s fine to be a Buddhist and a Christian, because she thinks Buddhism isn’t a religion. It’s better than having a feminist wife who hasn’t accepted the lesson of Genesis 3.

Incidentally, I suppose you could make an argument that the rich man could have been saved. It is commonly believed that after Jesus was crucified, he preached in hell and saved people who were there. That wouldn’t help Judas, though. He was a Jew, and Jesus said he would be lost. He called him the son of perdition. Judas was Jewish.

My friend Mike is dating, and he tells me about the “Christian” women he deals with. He just rejected an astrologist and a Buddhist. I’m using the term “astrologist” to mean “person who practices the religion of astrology.” I don’t know of a better term, so I’m making an executive decision.

The Buddhist tried to tell him Buddhism was only a philosophy. What ignorance. How can anyone adopt a religion or even a philosophy without making even a cursory effort to find out what its nature is?

Buddhism is an offshoot of Hinduism, which is very obviously a religion. Hinduism has false gods, and Hindus worship them. Buddhism has false gods, it says there are demons, and it says there are hells, in addition to reincarnation. It’s a religion.

I’m also glad my wife eats meat and has no patience with bullying leftists who push vegetarianism.

Vegetarianism comes from Satan, and I can explain why he created it. Judaism and Christianity, as well as pre-Jewish worship of Yahweh, require blood sacrifices. Jews and pre-Jews had to kill animals for God. They had no choice. Cain and Abel were required to sacrifice animals. Abraham sacrificed animals. Ancient Jews weren’t permitted to be vegetarians. God required them to eat lamb once a year, and they also had to do something with the gigantic number of animals that were roasted at the temple.

Jesus had to be killed in order for human beings to be saved from hell. The Bible calls him “the lamb that was slain before the foundation of the world.” It calls him our passover. Jesus told us we had to eat his flesh and drink his blood. The passover lamb was given to the Jews as a picture of Jesus.

Vegetarianism is just one of Satan’s many attacks on God’s system. He uses it to divide men and women. He uses it to make women think they’re better than men, who are less likely to be vegetarians. He uses it to make people think Judaism and Christianity are cruel and evil compared to his ridiculous false religions, every one of which leads to the lake of fire.

Only about a third of American men are vegetarians, and only about one-fifth are vegans. I don’t know if these statistics account for the many men who only pretend to be vegetarians or vegans in order to get sex or shut their wives and girlfriends up.

God wants us to know what it is to kill innocent creatures, because he is innocent, and we killed him. He wants us to feel a little bit of what Abraham felt when he tied his son down and prepared to cut his throat. Our sins, not a Roman flagellum, cut into Jesus’ back and tore it open. Yahweh had to participate in the torture and killing of Jesus, and we are not better than Yahweh.

It’s not a coincidence that Hitler, Goebbels, Hess, and other Nazi bigwigs were vegetarians. Nazism was designed to offend God. Its death camps were sick parodies of the temple. The Nazis treated the Jews like offerings, and they did things that were insulting to the God who wrote the Jewish law.

God insists on modesty, but the Nazis made Jews strip naked in large rooms where people of both sexes and all ages were mingled. God says shaving is a punishment, and the Bible even refers to shaving of the private parts. The Nazis shaved Jews from head to toe because of lice. God hates tattoos, so the Nazis tattooed Jews. When Jews slaughter, they have to do it humanely, with knives that don’t have any nicks, and they have to drain out the blood. The Nazis killed using gas, leaving blood in the bodies, and their victims died in terror and physical suffering. God said Jews couldn’t cremate the dead, so the Nazis burned them.

I doubt the Nazis conspired to find ways to insult Yahweh. I think Satan guided them, and they didn’t always understand the spiritual significance of what they did.

I don’t think you have to eat meat to be a good Christian, but it’s wrong for a Christian to think he or she is morally better than people who eat meat.

The older I get, the more God shows me, and the more I realize that traditional roles for husbands and wives are correct, and that newer models are pathological. Women want to be led, and they need it. Men need to accept the responsibility of leading, whether they want to or not. A man must be led by the Holy Spirit, he has to agree to lead his wife, and his wife must be led by the Holy Spirit and her husband. This is the system God ordained, and when you deviate from it, you get problems.

It’s astonishing how powerfully women work to spread idolatry. They love cults. They love botanicas, wicca, astrologers, crystals, cards, meditation, and all the Eastern pus that trickles out of countries where everyone is poor and miserable. The female inclination to rebel is very old. Satan knew Eve had a weakness for idolatry. That’s why he tempted her instead of Adam.

It’s not surprising that Jews have a matriarchal society. They are precious to a masculine God, so Satan attacked their masculinity and made many Jewish men afraid of their wives and mothers. It’s nothing new. Solomon was dominated by his wives, and they led him to worship filthy spirits instead of the God who made him a great king. Ancient Jews commonly worshipped a female spirit called “the queen of heaven” and put her altars in their synagogues.

I see why God said, twice, that it’s better to live in the corner of a rooftop than in a big house with a rebellious woman (Proverbs 21:9; 25:24). What he said, through a man dominated and destroyed by his wives, is literally true. Solomon was a bigger failure than Saul. If he had stayed poor and unable to attract more than one wife, he might have stayed clear of idolatry.

Adam listened to his wife and caused mankind to be cursed for thousands of years. Moses listened to his wife, and God tried to kill him. Bathsheba bathed naked in view of David, and the ensuing sin resulted in a murder, the death of David’s son, and a curse on David’s house. Solomon listened to his wives and wrecked his kingdom, causing an extremely destructive division among Hebrews that was never healed. Then there was Ahab.

I’ve done a lot of stupid things in my life, but I am extremely glad I can say I did not marry a feminist, an idolater, or a fake Christian who decorates the house for Halloween and flies to pro-abortion rallies. Where I could have had friction, failure, and despair, I have three-way synergy with my wife and God.

I know female Christians who are not married and who are obviously feminists who don’t listen to the Holy Spirit. I have prayed for God to help them find men, but now that I think about it, it’s best that they don’t. Not until they give up their pride and rebellion. If I knew a single Christian man looking for a wife, I couldn’t recommend them. I might even tell him to avoid them.

If I ask God to help a rebellious woman find a man, I am asking him to ruin the man’s life and deprive him of something the Bible says is worth more than rubies.

If you can’t submit to God and your husband, it’s best you remain single and get more cats. It really is. Better for you to be lonely and childless than for you to be a snare to someone who might otherwise be happy.