Women and the Civilization of the Bee
Every conservative woman with a public platform is on a trajectory toward liberalism.
“The acquisition of new fields of endeavor by women, their gradual usurpation of leadership, will dull and finally dissipate feminine sensibilities, will choke the maternal instinct, so that marriage and motherhood may become abhorrent and human civilization draw closer and closer to the perfect civilization of the bee.”
—Nikola Tesla, Colliers Magazine, 1926
In July, Andrew Klavan, the Jewish and now nominally-Christian host for the Daily Wire, misrepresented recently-deceased pastor John MacArthur for praising his sodomite son Spencer Klavan’s journalistic work. According to Klavan, “Nature produces a certain number of gay people…maybe about 5 percent. And I basically agree with Marine Le Pen, the French conservative, who said homosexuals are like salt in soup. If there aren’t enough it’s a bit bland; when there’s too much it’s inedible... I basically believe that people should be left alone, and you should concentrate on your own sins, if indeed that is a sin. Most of you know my brilliant son Spencer is gay… I trust Spencer, and I trust other gay people who talk to God and do what God thinks is right in their life, and if they don’t talk to God, that’s on them.” This is Jew Paul Simon theology: “heaven holds a place for those who pray.” (And Talmudic to boot. Tractate Berakhot 4b tells the perfidious Jews that one who recites prayers with psalms three times daily “is assured of a place in the World-to-Come.” But I digress.)
Klavan recounts that during the height of the Covid scamdemic, he visited MacArthur’s church, and after the service, Klavan says that MacArthur wanted to meet him.
“He comes over to me, shakes my hand, looks me in the eye, gives me a meaningful look in the eye, and says, ‘I just want to tell you how much I like and admire Spencer’s work at the Daily Wire’… And I knew exactly what he was telling me… He was telling me that he too believes, as I believe, that no man falls out of the sphere of God’s love. And the first thing we’re supposed to do is express that love in imitation of God… There are plenty of important gay people in Trump’s administration…and they actually give flavor to life…[and] you have to think, well, maybe this is the way it’s supposed to be.”
Spencer is now associate editor at the Claremont Review of Books and is regarded by all the usual suspects as a “gay conservative.” Andrew misrepresented MacArthur’s limited praise, broadening it into an endorsement of universalism and libertarianism, perverting love as tolerance.
Megan Basham, Klavan’s colleague at the Daily Wire, could have rebuked this exploitation of MacArthur’s death to push a sodomite agenda, but instead she supported Klavan’s flawed idea of “love.” In an X post, she wrote: “Hey guys, if you’re actually gonna…love the sinner, hate the sin, you do actually have to love the sinners. There’s a huge difference between objecting to Christians promoting same-sex marriage and just going around being mean to the same-sex attracted.”
These two sentences are packed with liberal self-deception. Basham believes that the use of mean words is ungodly, and befriending sodomites is loving. God hates both sin and sinners, and Christians should never refer to abominations using soft euphemisms like “same-sex marriage” (there’s no such thing).
Basham also wrote: “Spencer is a kind, brilliant, and wonderful person. Love him.” Many, myself included, responded that she only phrases it this way because Spencer’s abominations are socially acceptable. If he were a pederast, a cannibal, or a serial killer, she would never dare to fawn over him with such words.
It was a fascinating glimpse into yet another proof for Werry’s Law, the second tenet of which states, “Every conservative woman with a public platform is on a trajectory toward liberalism.”
In the June edition of American Mantle, P.E. Leacock wrote an excellent exposé of Rosaria Butterfield, the former lesbian activist and feminist professor who has been accepted in many churches as a teacher against sexual degeneracy. Shortly after she had repented of her “gay activist days,” Michael Spangler wisely wrote, “Praise God. Now the church should repent of platforming women teachers, and of too quickly trusting former sexual deviants.”
Butterfield promotes college and graduate school for women during the most critically fertile years of their lives, encouraging them to subject themselves to “the rigors of professional training” and “the highest level of academic preparation” (The Gospel Comes With a House Key, p. 105). She compares the refusal of Christians to submit to gene therapy to sodomite men refusing condoms, as though sinful behavior is just another protected right under the liberty of conscience (Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age, pp. 310-11). Much like Alistair Begg, she encourages Christian attendance at the baby showers hosted by sodomites, because “as Christians, we love life” (Five Lies, pp. 301-4). She believes that sodomite adult children should be invited home for Christmas, even over the objections of Christian family members. And their co-sodomites are invited as well, but only if they sleep in separate rooms! Like Basham, she uses gentle words for “the lesbian and gay community” and praises their “radical hospitality,” lamenting only their “cultural sameness” and their “identity politics” for “divid[ing] people.”
Here we see the reason for Werry’s law. As the weaker sex, women innately seek security, if not from their fathers and husbands then from the paternalistic state. Everything they have in life is provided for them by men and secured for them by men. Men will always use violence to stake out territory, and women will always seek to maintain the status quo to compensate for their vulnerability. They naturally follow, for good or ill, and so there is always a strong pull for them to choose what is safe over what is right. As Joel Webbon puts it, that which is acceptable is prioritized more highly by them than that which is true, and so “NPC” in their case stands for Naturally Pursue Consensus. This conciliatory instinct is a good thing in their designated roles as wives and mothers, but when the state usurps the authority of men over their families, women become the most fanatical defenders of the state. This is why, in a time of moral crisis, with courage in short supply, the average female vote is far to the left of the average male vote.
For the same reason, whenever a baby is murdered or a minor is mutilated, it’s far more likely that the mother has made the decision rather than the father. When yet another trans pervert opens fire on Christian children, it’s almost guaranteed that it was primarily his mother who facilitated his delusions at every step.
In short, women are far more likely to believe that morality is fluid and subjective, which is why granting them the right to vote was one of the worst decisions in history. If they accept the liberal doctrine of equality and believe that they are authorized to be teachers of men and hold positions of authority over men, it’s only a matter of time before any government over which they hold power is derailed.
Allie Beth Stuckey, who proudly identifies as a “strong-willed woman” who “values independence, freedom, autonomy,” disparages the “patriarchal view” that women who “teach the Word” are “exercising inherently an authority that has not been delegated to them.” She forthrightly rejects the Christian stance that “women should never exercise any authority anywhere over a man, whether it’s government, whether it’s at work, at all,” and that they are to be under the authority of their fathers until married.
Donald Trump agrees with her. He appointed prosperity preacher Paula White to head the White House “Faith Office,” which is really an idolatry office.
There are many women like these who are preaching to men in churches and teaching at conferences, in violation of 1 Tim. 2:12-14, and most of them believe that God gives them direct visions and revelations.
Perhaps the most prominent of these is Beth Moore, who has written of God as a tool. “God wields incomparably great power for those who choose to believe… Our belief unclogs the pipe and invites the power to flow” (Praying God’s Word: Breaking Free from Spiritual Strongholds, p. 37). In this X post, she aligns herself with those who are perceived by “racists” and “White supremacists” to be Marxists, liberals, leftists, the woke, and false prophets who have departed from the Scriptures. In this post (note the date, the Summer of Floyd), she awkwardly uses Critical Race Theory to attempt a point about Christ’s “brown Middle Eastern body,” writing, “to say the color of his skin doesn't matter is to disregard part of the eternal & perfect plan of God.” She’s predictably evasive on sodomy.
In 2014, Jen Hatmaker was called by Christianity Today a potential “Beth Moore 2.0,” because of how popular she was with women. Then in 2016, she said in an interview with Religion News Service that sodomite relationships are “holy,” and “any two adults have the right to choose who they want to love.” After adopting two Ethiopian boys, she said that her “pro-life ethic” now extends to being “pro-Muslim” and “pro-refugee.” She was divorced in 2020, and she proudly went public with the news that her daughter is a sodomite. She has sold more than a million books and has hundreds of thousands of subscribers on social media, feeding women the usual pabulum they crave, such as “empowerment” and embracing their “authentic selves.” Time Magazine recently published an article about her. She now calls herself a “deconstruction coach,” helping evangelicals leave “purity culture.” She says that “patriarchy and racism and all the ‘isms’ were so baked into the system I was raised in. I had to unlearn it all and start over.”
Joyce Meyer, the therapeutic spiritualist and charismatic prosperity peddler, is closely associated with Beth Moore. She has taught since at least 1991 that Jesus was “born-again” in hell (The Most Important Decision You Will Ever Make), and until that happened, “he was no longer the Son of God.” Here are other examples of her false doctrines, including, “The Bible can’t even find any way to explain this. Not really. That’s why you have got to get it by revelation. There are no words to explain what I am telling you. I have got to just trust God that he is putting it into your spirit like he put it into mine.”
Not long ago, one might have expected to find a pastrix only in an apostate, empty, inner-city mainline church or at Brother Willard’s Emporium of Shekinah Glory down at the local strip mall, but the epidemic of Jezebels now crosses the theological and political spectrums, and even the most conservative denominations are struggling with the push to ordain women.
R.C. Sproul’s Ligonier Ministries has published the “complementarian” Jen Wilkin, and has promoted her materials. Wilkin credits Beth Moore as an influence. When J.D. Greear, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, famously said, “The Bible whispers about sexual sin,” he was quoting Jen Wilkin. Wilkin says she is “all-in” on public schools, in part because it directly relates to loving one’s neighbor. In fact, when the public schools are called a “hellscape,” she responds by asking, “Is that true? Are we saying what’s true, honest, just, pure, and lovely when we say that?”
Her theme is that male/female mentoring relationships in the church should be assumed as naturally platonic. In this clip, she says that if Genesis 2 is read as recognizing innate differences between men and women, this objectifies women and places them in a “category.” Instead, she says that we should “lead with sameness” and “shared humanness” and “common ground.” She says that men should be able to have “discipleship relationships” with women without anyone questioning the impropriety. She believes that men should have “mothers in the faith” (as mentors), not just fathers in the faith. She denies that a man and woman meeting alone bears inordinate risk when compared to two of the same sex meeting alone. Curiously, her “pastor,” Matt Chandler, was placed under church discipline a few years ago for “inappropriate” texts with a woman in the congregation. You might recall Chandler saying in 2021 that he opposes “tokenism” but would gladly choose “an African-American 7 over an Anglo 8.”
In this clip, where the black host for The Gospel Coalition has a book prominently displayed behind him, titled Biblical Critical Theory, Wilkin says that mere “optics” is the concern among men about female teachers. When the apostles refer to the church as “one another,” she says they don’t mean “men over here and women over here.” She claims that while headship and submission are terms that are often used for the family, Christ “reframes” the family as those who do the will of the Father. Thus, the submission of women to men doesn’t apply in the “true and better family.” She even says that men who reject her teaching are guilty of failing to treat women as their “neighbors,” in accordance with the parable of the Good Samaritan.
Later, at 22:48, she says, “Too often, in theologically conservative churches, we function as single-parent authoritarian families, with a father and children and an absentee mother.” She’s looking for “influential women” who are not relegated to a “siloed ministry” in what she calls the “pink ghetto.”
Here she says that male Bible commentators are too hard on female Bible characters. She is skeptical, for instance, that Rahab chose to be a prostitute. “Because you know what every little girl says? When I grow up, I just want to be a prostitute.” This is obviously intended to remove from Rahab the moral agency of her sinful actions. Wilkin even criticizes the great Matthew Henry for calling Rahab a harlot, despite his commentary surmising that the stocks of flax on her roof were evidence that she had turned from the iniquitous commerce.
“You know what God’s first word on men and women is? Not ‘they are different.’ They are the same. We have to reclaim this. You know why? Because the very first step in degrading someone, objectifying someone, is to look at them and say ‘not like me.’” (Joshua Week 3: Rahab Redeemed, from Flower Mound Women’s Bible Study, 2014.)
She believes that women have unique insights on Scripture. “Women’s bodies, every 28 days, tell them a parable about the shedding of blood for the renewing of life. You don’t think that changes the way that we encounter the Scriptures? Men only bleed when something is wrong. So, what should we take from this as people who have the opportunity to lead in the church?”
At 4:19 at the same link, she tries to sanctify the greatest hits of the Democrat Party. “Since women have received the vote, we’ve seen things like the Family and Medical Leave Act, WIC, divorce law has been improved upon. Before women had the vote, in many cases only the husband could sue for divorce, and if he divorced her, he kept all of the assets, and he kept the children. She couldn’t get a loan either. Domestic violence laws have come to the fore, and women’s health.” What a change from 1890, when only 2.2% of White married women were in the workforce, because it was considered unethical to hire married women. This was when Kaiser Wilhelm II praised the domain of women as encompassing Kirche, Küche, Kinder (church, kitchen, children).
At 12:40 Wilkin says, “There should be complementarian practice that so demonstrates the equal value and worth of women that no one questions it. If Deborah or Huldah were a member of your church, would she have a place to exercise her gifts? We must actively help these women to find their places. Because most churches are almost entirely male-led, it is very hard for women in the church to find advocacy and mentorship, because we’re so fastidious about the way we relate to the opposite sex.”
Aimee Byrd is a “complementarian” like Wilkin who views male/female mentoring relationships in the church in the same way. Byrd was the bestselling author in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, and she was never punished in any way for her feminism, for challenging male-only leadership, and for arguing against terms like “biblical manhood” and “biblical womanhood.” The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood in 2022 called her book a “way-station to egalitarianism.” Michael Spangler was censured and ultimately divested from ministry for opposing her. Spangler correctly argued that his divestiture was a weaponization of process to silence dissent. Byrd claimed “gross spiritual abuse” due to such faithful rebukes, and the OPC treated her as an abuse victim.
Byrd writes here of “the Aristotelian views that I am combatting in my book,” namely “natural theology and why it’s so centered on male authority, and female subjection.” She asks, “Is authorization an ontological right that belongs to a particular sex, a power bestowed on men to always have the say-so in all things?”
Last year, when her brother asked her to officiate his wedding, she received ordination (to be compliant with Maryland law) through American Marriage Ministries, a self-described “church” that affirms sodomy and sologamy (self-marriage).
The late Sarah Young is another prominent woman whose false doctrines continue to influence many readers. She served with her husband in the Presbyterian Church in America’s missionary agency, and her husband remains a PCA pastor. The PCA received at least $582,000 in 2023 from the royalties of her book Jesus Calling, according to an IRS report.
Last year, the PCA voted to launch an investigation into Young and her book, and this year it decided to take no action, except it resolved no longer to recommend the book for sale.
The book promotes extra-biblical revelation. From the introduction: “I have written from the perspective of Jesus speaking, to help readers feel more personally connected with Him. So the first person singular (‘I,’ ‘Me,’ ‘My,’ ‘Mine’) always refers to Christ; ‘you’ refers to you, the reader.”
The inspiration for this book, as she explains in early editions, since revised, came from a booklet called God Calling, written by two anonymous practitioners of the occult practice of automatic writing. Young wrote (xiv): “These women practiced waiting quietly in God’s Presence, pencils and paper in hand, recording the messages they received from [God]. This little paperback became a treasure to me. It dove-tailed remarkably well with my longing to live in Jesus’ Presence.” She added (xii): “I began to wonder if I…could receive messages during my times of communing with God. I had been writing in prayer journals for years, but that was one-way communication: I did all the talking. I knew that God communicated with me through the Bible, but I yearned for more. Increasingly, I wanted to hear what God had to say to me personally on a given day. I decided to listen to God with pen in hand, writing down whatever I believe He was saying. I felt awkward the first time I tried this, but I received a message. It was short, biblical, and appropriate. It addressed topics that were current in my life: trust, fear, and closeness to God. I responded by writing in my prayer journal.”
An example of language teaching readers to believe in extra-biblical revelation is found in the entry for February 12: “I am ever so near you, hovering over your shoulder, reading every thought. People think that thoughts are fleeting and worthless, but yours are precious to Me.” Another is at March 8: “Save your best striving for seeking My Face. I am constantly communicating with you. To find Me and hear My voice, you must seek Me above all else.”
Much more could be written about other female preachers, including Priscilla Shirer, the daughter of Tony Evans, who teaches transdispensationalism and “kingdom race theology.” Shirer partners routinely with Joyce Meyer, Beth Moore, and other heretical charismatics and modalists like Christine Caine, Joel and Victoria Osteen, and T.D. and Serita Jakes. According to Ray Fava, this gibsmedat sermon that Shirer preached at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church is Youtube’s most-watched sermon of 2021.
There’s also Lysa TerKeurst, who appeals to women by using Bible verses for therapeutic utility. Isaiah 30:21 is reduced to God “whispering his best yes to us in our daily stress”; Moses was “refusing to release his fear” when he struck the rock; Hebrews 10:24-25 is about “connecting with those we love”; Jethro helps Moses “unrush a season of his life”; etc.
As Samuel Johnson observed, “A woman’s preaching is like a dog’s walking on his hinder legs. It’s not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.”
Such women always believe that God has coffee talk with them. They promote contemplative prayer as the avenue for emptying the mind and listening for God’s voice. Repeated words and affirmations are used, similar to a Buddhist mantra, to produce a trance-like state that they call “surrendering” to God’s presence. It’s a quieter version of what they do with the “praise and worship” songs they use in their services.
Ann Voskamp is infamous for this. Her “Christianity” is little more than New Age spirituality. Chris Rosebrough calls it “mystical estrogen,” basically witchcraft and pantheism with positive platitudes, to which women are particularly susceptible. She says things like “I empty to become full of grace.”
In her 2010 book One Thousand Gifts, she sexualizes union with Christ, as expected for a witch. Quotes from the book:
“We are head to head. I am bare; He is bare. All Eye sees me.” (p. 115)
“I long to merge with Beauty, breathe it into lungs, feel it heavy on skin. To beat on the door of the universe, pound the chest of God… No matter how manifested, beauty is what sparks the romance and we are the Bride pursued, the Lover pursuing, and known or unbeknownst, He woos us in the romance of all time, beyond time. I ache for oneness.” (p. 119)
“The full life, the one spilling joy and peace, happens only as I come to trust the caress of the Lover, who never burdens His children with shame or self-condemnation but keeps stroking the fears with gentle grace.” (p. 146)
“I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.” (p. 201)
“I am falling in love… I'm accompanied by this Voice whispering to me new words, new love—urging me, ‘Respond, respond.’” (p. 206)
“I run my hand along the beams over my loft bed, wood hewn by a hand several hundred years ago. I can hear Him. He's calling for a response; He's calling for oneness.” (p. 211)
“On this account, brothers, we know and have seen that from the beginning women have been a way for the Adversary to gain access to people, and until the end he will [continue to] accomplish this. For [women] are the weapon of Satan, and through them he fights against the [spiritual] athletes. Through them he plays music at all times, for they have been like a harp for him from the first day. It was because of her that the curse of the Law was established, and it was because of her that the promise of death came.”
—Aphrahat the Persian (280-345 AD), Demonstration 6.6
“[Frank] soon found that domestic peace had its price, and that price was letting Scarlett have her own way, no matter what she might wish to do. So, because he was tired, he bought peace at her own terms… Home life could be so pleasant when Scarlett was having her own way. But the peace he gained was hollow, only an outward semblance, for he had purchased it at the cost of everything he held to be right in married life. ‘A woman ought to pay more attention to her home and her family and not be gadding about like a man,’ he thought. ‘Now, if she just had a baby—’… [But] Scarlett had been most outspoken about not wanting a child…”
—Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind, ch. 36
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