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To: Maximilian
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At least there are some on our side.
36 posted on 05/23/2003 7:01:13 PM PDT by Coleus (God is Pro Life and Straight)
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To: Coleus
At least there are some on our side.

No, no, never believe this. Feminism is inherently evil. There can never be a "good" feminism anymore than there can be a good Marxism. In its root and branch, from its origin, in all of its works, in all of its resulting death, depravity and destruction, feminism is evil. Here is what pope Pius XI said to those who thought you could have a "good" socialism (just replace "socialism" with "feminism" and the same argument holds):

One section of Socialism has sunk into Communism. Communism teaches and seeks two objectives: Unrelenting class warfare and absolute extermination of private ownership. Not secretly or by hidden methods does it do this, but publicly, openly, and by employing every and all means, even the most violent. To achieve these objectives there is nothing which it does not dare, nothing for which it has respect or reverence; and when it has come to power, it is incredible and portentlike in its cruelty and inhumanity. The horrible slaughter and destruction through which it has laid waste vast regions of eastern Europe and Asia are the evidence; how much an enemy and how openly hostile it is to Holy Church and to God Himself is, alas, too well proved by facts and fully known to all.

The other section, which has kept the name Socialism, is surely more moderate... The question arises, or rather is raised without warrant by some, whether the principles of Christian truth cannot perhaps be also modified to some degree and be tempered so as to meet Socialism half-way and, as it were, by a middle course, come to agreement with it. There are some allured by the foolish hope that socialists in this way will be drawn to us. A vain hope! Those who want to be apostles among socialists ought to profess Christian truth whole and entire, openly and sincerely, and not connive at error in any way.

And numerous are the Catholics who, although they clearly understand that Christian principles can never be abandoned or diminished seem to turn their eyes to the Holy See and earnestly beseech Us to decide whether this form of Socialism has so far recovered from false doctrines that it can be accepted without the sacrifice of any Christian principle and in a certain sense be baptized. That We, in keeping with Our fatherly solicitude, may answer their petitions, We make this pronouncement: Whether considered as a doctrine, or an historical fact, or a movement, Socialism, if it remains truly Socialism, even after it has yielded to truth and justice on the points which we have mentioned, cannot be reconciled with the teachings of the Catholic Church because its concept of society itself is utterly foreign to Christian truth.

It is also a lie put out by certain feminists that the original founders of the feminist movement were "pro-life." Read this article by Carol Iannone to find out more about these original founders:
Feminism has no Moderate Side

Here's an excerpt:

"It was here that the Seneca Falls "Declaration of Sentiments" was signed, setting forth the ideals of the women’s rights movement... Much of the Declaration smacks of today’s "Feminazism" — owing less to the American Founding than the French Revolution, redolent less of 1776 than its own year, 1848, the year in which the Communist Manifesto was first published.

The Declaration advances a Marxian view of the total oppression of one sex by the other from the beginning of time, proclaiming that the "history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her." Also Marx-like, it portrays the curious willingness of woman to cooperate in her own "social and religious degradation" as a type of false consciousness imposed on woman by man.

Think of the "consiousness-raising sessions" of the feminist movement of the sixties and seventies. There is a direct line from the Hegelian view of history to the Communist Manifesto to the Feminist movement.
46 posted on 05/24/2003 8:24:20 AM PDT by Maximilian
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