by Vaughn Ohlman cross posted from his blog True Love Doesn’t Wait Well, another set of questions from No Longer Quivering. So far I have found her questions to be very appropriate, on point, and respectful. Today’s set of questions is no less. This set of questions, if I had to put a summary to [Read More...]
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Quivering Questions Vaughn Ohlman Questions 11 -15
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Quoting Quiverfull: Finding a Spouse is Like Finding a Steak Sandwich?
by Vaughn Ohlman from True Love Doesn’t Wait – Searching for a Steak Sandwich Editor’s note: Putting the search for a suitable spouse on the same level as finding a consumable commodity. Fundamentalist religion reduces people to objects. So let us return to our analogy for a minute. Joshua had as his goal the finding [Read More...]
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Quoting Quiverfull: Courtship Isn’t Spiritual But It Is Sexual?
by Doug Wilson of Blog and Mablog from ‘His Hand in Marriage’ as quoted by Vaughn Ohlman at his blog True Love Doesn’t Wait – Courtship: That Volatile Sexual Relationship Editor’s note: This is one of those few times I don’t entirely disagree with Vaughn Ohlman. Yes, sexual attraction and chemistry exist and they do play [Read More...]
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Quoting Quiverfull: Adult Children Must Be Under Father Headship?
by Vaughn Ohlman from True Love Doesn’t Wait – Call a Eunuch a Eunuch Editor’s Note: This sums up what the patriarchy is all about, not what is genuinely best for either the family or the individual, but putting control over every aspect of the individual into the hands of the patriarchy. Which is not [Read More...]
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Quoting Quiverfull: No Point At Which You Are An Actual Adult?
by Vaughn Ohlman from his review of Israel Wayne‘s book “Full Time Parenting” as posted at True Love Doesn’t Wait Editor’s note: Mr. Ohlman still holds with the not even Biblical assertion that the eldest male in every family is the head of the family, the patriarchy. Which means that his review of Israel Wayne’s [Read More...]
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Quoting Quiverfull: The Two Hundred Year Plan To Keep Your Family Large And Poor?
by Vaughn Ohlman of True Love Doesn’t Wait -What’s In Your 200 Year Plan? Editor’s note: Don’t know how many of you here have heard the ’200 Year Plan’ taught at your church but at one point in Evangelicalism it was a pretty popular idea. The one time I heard it preached from the pulpit [Read More...]
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Quoting Quiverfull: Not Being Married Is Perverting God’s Will?
by Vaughn Ohlman from True Love Doesn’t Rape – Fruitless Celibacy Editor’s note: Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t Paul also say it was better to remain unmarried unless you could not keep yourself from committing sexual sin? That’s a far piece from trying to claim that Paul wanted all young women married and [Read More...]
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Quoting Quiverfull: Raising Sons to Marry Young?
by Vaughn Ohlman from True Love Doesn’t Wait – Raising a Son to be Married Editor’s note: Would it not be a better thing for society in general if we all raised our sons to be well rounded individuals ready to contribute to society and life on this planet instead of raising them to marry [Read More...]
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Quoting Quiverfull: Too High Standards For Marriage?
by Vaughn Ohlman from True Love Doesn’t Wait – Picture Perfect Daughters Editor’s note: Taking another break from Michael Pearl’s endless nautical theme used to blame parents. This is a problem that we’ve discussed endlessly at NLQ that Von brings up, the oodles of homeschooled daughters in patriarchal fundamentalism that remain unmarried and home until [Read More...]
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Quoting Quiverfull: Patriarchy Is Biblical – Get Over It?
by Vaughn Ohlman from True Love Doesn’t Rape – What is Patriarchy I: Defining Our Term Editor’s note: So here’s the end results of another long posting by Von where he twists things and cherry picks the Bible. Because the word Patriarch is mentioned 14 times in the New Testament that makes it a real [Read More...]
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Quoting Quiverfull: Caring What Others Do In Their Bedrooms?
by Vaughn Ohlman from True Love Doesn’t Wait – Of Sodomy and Marriage Editor’s note: Von is speaking here for the decision by the Supreme Court of the United State’s ruling that all forms of civil marriage between two consenting adults of any sex are legal. For years many Christians have denied that they want [Read More...]
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Quoting Quiverfull: Don’t Trust Your Own Feelings?
by C. S. Lewis as quoted by Vaughn Ohlman at True Love Doesn’t Wait Editor’s note: Of course we know that Vaughn is sharing this paragraph for a two fold purpose. 1) To claim that feelings of love have no place in the decision of whom to marry and 2) to make that fundamentalist claim [Read More...]
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Quoting Quiverfull: Speaking Plain Words Shows Love For Enemies?
by Vaughn Ohlman from True Love Doesn’t Wait – Love, Acceptance, and Pragmatism Editor’s note: This is one of the most frightening things about the Quiverfull movement, the attempt to seize and redefine language in order to force ones religious and political beliefs on another group of people, to legislate morality. There’s a great deal [Read More...]
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Violence is Okay Because it is ‘Manly’?
A very short post today. This popped up on my Facebook the other day in response to The Transformed Wife Lori Alexander’s complaining over the Gillette ad we’ve talked about several times now. From one Vaughn Ohlman, the author of that silly courtship book ‘What Are You Doing?’, blog filled with bad marriage advice and […]
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