I think this is the most overtly fundie post I've ever seen from MMW.
Posted Dec 2, 2020, 5:25 PM UTC
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For context, this is from the quoted author's website:
I'm Emily and I live amidst the corn fields of central Iowa with my husband and our five children. My greatest passion is knowing Christ and making him known—in my home, my community, and to the ends of the internet. So between loads of dishes, laundry, and library books, I write and speak about the gospel through posts and podcasts.
An excerpt from the information about her book. Note the callout of modern culture in the first paragraph and the school choice comment:
Motherhood is hard. In a world of five-step lists and silver-bullet solutions to become perfect parents, mothers are burdened with mixed messages about who they are and what choices they should make. If you feel pulled between high-fives and hard words, with culture’s solutions only raising more questions, you’re not alone.
But there is hope.
You might think that Scripture doesn’t have much to say about the food you make for breakfast, how you view your postpartum body, or what school choice you make for your children, but a deeper look reveals that the Bible provides the framework for finding answers to your specific questions about modern motherhood.
I freely admit I'm not an expert on raising children, but if MMW endorses this, it does not make me optimistic for her son.
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Dogwhistles are by nature difficult to prove unless they're very widely known, but I also side-eye their usage of "culture" as an example of one. I get the sense that it's a dogwhistle for "secular culture," but they keep it vague and leave out the "secular" on purpose. That way, if someone calls them out for wanting a theocracy, they can deny it.
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I can’t speak for these specific people and their specific usage, but the one person I know who repeatedly says “Abandon modern culture” has explained the phrase as “No race-mixing, educating women, or tolerating LGBTQ”.
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This is such a weird take. Do people really pray over the Bible to figure out if they should make eggs or bacon in the morning? It's so foolish to look to a book based in the Middle East in ancient times to solve specific modern American problems.
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The worst thing for me is that I almost agree with some of the ideas here. That even if you’re just a SAHM or SAHD there’s value and meaning in what you do. I struggle with a lot of guilt and depression since for now I’m unable to work and take care of my home and my child’s needs. So I love the idea of acknowledging the importance of this kind of “work”.
Of course it all falls to shit in fundieland, and the idea that all women should live this life is so fucked. My sister is living an independent life and working her ass off full time- I am so proud of her and the idea of forcing her to live the same way I do is insane! I’m a feminist through and through, yet probably live a more “traditional” life than most of these instagram obsessed fundies do. I just believe that women deserve equality, and should be able to live their lives however they see fit.
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The dangerous thing about her is that some of her ideas sound very attractive and aren’t actually terrible. Finding joy in the mundane - that sounds awesome. I’m struggling with depression, I live alone, I’m socially distant because covid and I have just started looking for jobs after graduating last month. Literally everything in my life is mundane. So on the rare occasion that I can find joy in watering my plants, having a clean kitchen or lighting a candle I cherish those moments.
But then she sneaks in those crumbs of fundie bullshit about thanking God for her groceries and calling a toddler an undeserving sinner, and it gets real gross real quick. And I fear for the women who actually look up to her as an example.
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Did she call a 4 year old an undeserving sinner?
I thought the same thing, what a horrible thing to call a 4 year old and even worse your 4 year old!
Yes. Either that or she didn't find an editor to tell her that's bad paragraph structure. Or both.
Exactly what I got out of that
The fundies love this. Call your kids little sinners and you can beat them all the more!
Ya’ll don’t know anything about doctrine. Everyone’s a sinner - God gives grace. If you’re going to criticize at least do some research. I’d suggest John Calvin’s “A Little Book on the Christian Life” - when she calls herself a reformed Christian, it means she follows the belief system that the Reformers pointed out was in scripture while the Catholics were lying about it (at that time not translated) to gain power. John Calvin was one of these Reformers. So was Martin Luther.
That doesn’t mean that it’s not fucked up to say that it’s remarkable to show mercy and kindness to an undeserving four year old, what the fuck is wrong with y’all
That’s not what it’s saying. It’s about gratitude and seeing purpose in the mundane.
Martin Luther was also a terrible anti semite who wrote letters to friends describing his poo. What example should I take from him? (I’m not mad at you, sorry if I seem like I’m being mean. Just yikes. He had a point with his 95 Thesis. I’ll give the dude that. Selling forgiveness is dreadful.)