Catholic Candle note:
In February 2022, Catholic Candle began a multi-part examination of how the feminists follow the same program as Satan and Marx. This article is entitled The Feminist Program is the same as that of Satan and Marx.
Part 1 analyzes Satan’s program and begins to analyze how Marx has the same program. Part 1 can be found here: https://catholiccandle.org/2022/02/24/the-feminist-program-is-the-same-as-that-of-satan-and-marx/.
Part 2 completes the analysis showing how Marx’s program is the same as Satan’s program. Part 2 can be found here: https://catholiccandle.org/2022/03/27/the-feminist-program-is-the-same-as-that-of-satan-and-marx-part-ii/.
As shown in those first two parts of this article, Satan’s and Marx’s eight-point program:
1. Is anti-God (and anti-worship of God);
2. Promotes disobedience and opposition to the authority ordained by God;
3. Seeks to divide people;
4. Promotes discontent, envy, and discord;
5. Promotes hatred;
6. Is result-oriented and self-interested; Satan neither acts according to immutable principles nor encourages his followers to do so;
7. Is full of lies; and
8. Is against Nature and is anti-Natural Law.
Part 3 begins the study of modern feminism and feminist leaders to see how they follow this same satanic and Marxist program. Part 3 shows how feminism and feminist leaders are anti-God and anti-worship of God. This article can be found here: https://catholiccandle.org/2022/04/20/the-feminist-program-is-the-same-as-that-of-satan-and-marx-part-iii/.
Part 4 covers three additional aspects of how the feminist leaders and feminist principles follow Satan’s and Marx’s program:
A. They promote disobedience, revolt, and opposition to the authority ordained by God;
B. They seek to divide people; and
C. They promote discontent, envy, and discord.
Part 4 of this article can be found here: https://catholiccandle.org/2022/05/27/the-feminist-program-is-the-same-as-that-of-satan-and-marx-2/
Part 5 covers the fifth and sixth aspects of how the feminist leaders and feminist principles follow Satan’s and Marx’s program:
A. Modern feminism promotes the program of Satan and Marx by promoting hatred; and
B. Feminist leaders are result-oriented and unprincipled just like Satan and Marx.
Part 5 of this article can be found here: https://catholiccandle.org/2022/06/27/the-feminist-program-is-the-same-as-that-of-satan-and-marx-part-v/
Part 6 of this article covers the second-last aspect of how the feminist leaders and feminist principles follow Satan’s and Marx’s program:
Ø Modern feminist leaders are full of lies.
Part 6 of this article can be found here: https://catholiccandle.org/2022/07/26/the-feminist-program-is-the-same-as-that-of-satan-and-marx-part-vi/
Part 7:
The Feminist Program is the same as that of Satan and Marx
(Continuing where we left off last month)
This month, we cover the last aspect of the feminist program, which is also the eighth element of the eight-point program of Satan and the Marxists:
➢ The feminists are anti-Natural Law
The feminist leaders seek destruction of the family.
The family is an institution of the Natural Law. The family is the foundation of the Catholic Church as the chief source of bringing into the Church new Catholics and transmitting the true Faith and true Morality from one generation to the next. The family is also the foundation of a good civil society, handing down to the next generation learning, discipline, morality, and culture.
For these reasons (as we saw in earlier parts of this article), Satan and Marxists hate the family. Similarly, the feminists hate the family.
For example, secular feminist leader, Kate Millett, made it a routine part of the opening of her “women’s empowerment” meetings that they mention their goal of destroying the family. Here is part of the chant she used to open these meetings:
“Why are we here today?” she asked.
“To make revolution,” they answered.
“What kind of revolution?” she replied.
“The Cultural Revolution,” they chanted.
“And how do we make Cultural Revolution?” she demanded.
“By destroying the American family!” they answered.[1]
Similarly, here is how secular feminist leader, Linda Gordon, declared war on the family:
The nuclear family[2] must be destroyed …. Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process.[3]
The feminist leaders promise the destruction of the state (which is an institution belonging to the Natural Law), when they succeed in destroying the family.
All authority comes from God. The state as such, is an institution which is part of the Natural Law. God intends that there be a state because He created man as a political animal.[4] The state, like the Catholic Church, is necessary to complete and to aid the work of the family in achieving its own ends.[5]
It is striking how the feminist leaders even use the same expressions as the Marxists (thereby signaling the affinity between them). The Marxists/communists promise the withering away of the state when their enemy (the bourgeois class) is destroyed. Similarly, the feminists promise the withering away of the state when the feminists’ enemy (the patriarchal family) is destroyed.
For example, here is one way Vladimir Lenin phrased this claim:
The state withers away insofar as there are no longer any capitalists, any classes, and, consequently, no class can be suppressed.
But the state has not yet completely withered away, since there still remains the safeguarding of “bourgeois law”, which sanctifies [sic!] actual inequality. For the state to wither away completely, complete communism is necessary.[6]
Using this same Marxist phrasing, secular feminist leader, Germaine Greer, asserted that, after they destroy the enemy (the “patriarchal family”), the state will wither away into a Marxist paradise. Here are her words:
Women’s liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let’s get on with it.[7]
Again, notice that both the feminists and the Marxists (falsely) promise the end of the state (which is part of the Natural Law) after they destroy their enemy.
The
feminist leaders seek destruction of marriage.
Marriage is part of the Natural Law[8] and faithful marriages are necessary for good and stable families. Thus, the feminist leaders hate marriage.
For example, here is how secular feminist, Sheila Cronin, declared war on marriage:
Since marriage constitutes slavery for women, it is clear that the women’s movement must concentrate on attacking this institution. Freedom for women cannot be won without the abolition of marriage.[9]
The
feminist leaders seek destruction of women’s God-given maternal
instincts and seek to foster in women a hostility (or at least indifference) to
babies and children.
God put in women a maternal instinct to love and cherish babies and children. This instinct is in women to help them fulfill well the great work of their lives, which is the raising of children to become well-adjusted and virtuous adults.[10]
Because feminism seeks to destroy families and marriage, obviously feminists want to entirely root out a woman’s natural inclination to love and cherish babies and children. Here is how one secular feminist leader declared her own anti-maternal instincts:
I don’t particularly like babies. They are loud and smelly and, above all other things, demanding . . . time-sucking monsters with their constant neediness …. Nothing will make me want a baby ….[11]
To
effectively root out a woman’s natural maternal instincts and to make her a
career woman, the feminist leaders strongly promote a woman murdering her
unborn babies.
The extreme opposite of a woman’s natural maternal instinct is for her to murder her own babies. This further makes a woman more like Satan, who “was a murderer from the beginning.”[12] When a woman murders her innocent baby at the beginning of his life, she is like Satan and is, in her own way, “a murderer from the beginning”.
Marxists so strongly promote abortion that, in 1920, Communist Russia was the first country in the world to legalize abortion.[13] Communist Russia offered abortion for free. Id.
Communist China is the abortion capital of the of the world, with more than 400 million abortions in the forty years beginning in 1971.[14] China’s murderous assault on innocent babies continues unabated. Communist China’s murder of its babies is currently at a rate of more than nine million per year.[15]
As horrific as it is for a man to murder a baby, it is even more unnatural for a mother to murder her own baby. Feminists strongly promote killing not only male babies but also female babies – showing that feminists are lying when they say that they are concerned about protecting women and girls. In fact, feminists do not object to sex-selection abortions, which disproportionately murder baby girls.[16]
Feminists
seek to destroy virtue, especially purity – and especially in women.
Vice – especially impurity – weakens a person’s will and opens wide the door of the soul to a life of further sins of all types. As we saw earlier, Satan and Marx focused many efforts on corrupting people, especially women. This is plainly because women are truly guardians of society through their selfless vigilance for the good of their families. Here is one way Pope Pius XI explained this truth:
Neither this emancipation of the woman is real, nor is it the reasonable and worthy liberty convenient to the Christian and noble mission of the woman and wife. It is the corruption of the feminine nature and maternal dignity, as well as the perversion of all the family, since the husband lacks his wife, the children their mother, and the entire family her vigilant guard.
Pope Pius XI, Casti connubii, #75 (emphasis added).
Following Satan’s and Marx’s program, feminists urge everyone, but especially women, to promiscuously follow any urges of their basest appetites.[17]
Secular feminist leader, Kate Millett, included this focus on promoting impurity, in the chants opening their feminist meetings:
“And how do we make Cultural
Revolution?” she demanded.
“By destroying the American family!” they answered.
“How do we destroy the family?” she came back.
“By destroying the American Patriarch,” they cried exuberantly.
“And how do we destroy the American Patriarch?” she replied.
“By taking away his power!”
“How do we do that?”
“By destroying monogamy!” they shouted.
“How can we destroy monogamy?” …
“By promoting promiscuity, eroticism, prostitution and homosexuality!”
they resounded.[18]
Because feminists are tools of Satan and of the Marxists and because they are not really advocates for women, the feminists also promote and support deluded men who insist they are women (i.e., so-called “transgenderism”).[19]
There are so many other ways in which feminists follow Satan and Marx by being against Nature and the Natural Law. But these examples suffice to show that truth.
Conclusion
of this Entire Article
All feminists are against Nature and are anti-Natural Law. As shown in earlier parts of this article, the feminists follow Satan’s and the Marxists’ entire evil program. Thus, all faithful and informed Catholics (and all others who use their intellects as they should) are compelled to conclude that there is no version of feminism that can be reconciled with the Truth and the Good.
There is no good feminism; there is no Biblical feminism; there is no Catholic feminism; there is no “good” feminism. Feminism is inherently evil because it deliberately contradicts Divine revelation and the Natural Law.
There can be naïve feminists who are so confused that, perhaps, they are not culpable for the evil in which they participate. This is like, perhaps, there are naïve and confused Marxists or freemasons. God will judge their interior, subjective culpability. However, on the objective level – the level on which we Catholics and all people using their reason – must judge, their work is evil, is anti-God, and promotes Satan. Let us fight feminism in all of its manifestations!
[1]
https://mallorymillett.com/?p=37
(emphasis added).
[2] A “nuclear family” is a married father and mother and their children living family life together.
[3]
https://thoughtcatalog.com/jake-fillis/2014/05/23-quotes-from-feminists-that-will-make-you-rethink-feminism/Marx
[4] A political animal is one who by Nature comes together with his fellows to organize themselves using reason, to perform joint tasks, such as self-defense, building roads, etc.
[5] Here is how Pope Pius XI explains the necessity of the state as one of the three necessary societies:
[T]here are three necessary societies, distinct from one another and yet harmoniously combined by God, into which man is born: two [viz., of the necessary societies], namely the family and civil society, belong to the natural order; the third, the Church, to the supernatural order.
Divini Illius Magistri (On Christian Education) by Pope Pius XI, 1929, ¶¶11-13, (emphasis added; bracketed words added for clarity).
[6] Vladimir Lenin’s The State and Revolution, section three, which can be found here: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch05.htm (emphasis and bracketed word added).
[7] https://www.thoughtco.com/germaine-greer-quotes-3530088 (emphasis added).
[8] Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas, Suppl., Q.67, a.1.
[9] The words of Sheila Cronin, the leader of the feminist organization NOW (National Organization for Women), https://www.coursehero.com/file/p1sbvhs/Since-marriage-constitutes-slavery-for-women-it-is-clear-that-the-womens/
[10] Read these articles:
v https://catholiccandle.org/2020/10/01/the-importance-and-need-for-stay-at-home-moms/
v https://catholiccandle.org/2019/12/02/the-role-and-work-that-god-gave-to-woman/
[11] Words of secular feminist leader, Amanda Marcotte, March 2014, found here: https://theothermccain.com/2016/11/15/feminists-hate-donald-trump-the-joys-of-happy-fun-victory-week-maga/
[12] Here are Our Lord’s words about Satan the murderer (speaking to the pharisees):
You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and he stood not in the truth; because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.
St. John ‘s Gospel, 8:44 (emphasis added).
[13] https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/russia-became-first-country-to-legalize-abortion-100-years-ago-beginning-greatest-genocide-in-history/
[16] India Has Killed 46 Million Girls in Sex-Selection Abortions, Where are the Feminists? https://www.lifenews.com/2021/12/28/india-has-killed-46-million-girls-in-sex-selection-abortions-where-are-the-feminists/
[17] Here, e.g., is one way in which the National Organization for Women promotes vile impurity: https://now.org/blog/issue-advisory-asexuality-sexual-empowerment-isnt-for-everyone-and-thats-okay/
[18] Marxist Feminism’s Ruined Lives, found here: https://mallorymillett.com/?p=37 (emphasis added).
[19]
Here, e.g., is the National Organization for Women
promoting gender delusion: https://now.org/issues/lgbtq-rights/