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One author is warning against feminism, calling it the new \u201cmegachurch.\u201d Author Carrie Gress has authored 11 books, with her upcoming book Something Wicked: Why Feminism Can\u2019t Be Fused With Christianity, <\/em>set to be released in January. The book deals with how feminism \u201cquietly captured the minds and hearts of women by mimicking aspects of Christianity.\u201d Like Christianity, the book claims that feminism has own commandments, virtues, evangelization, and its own sacrament.<\/p>\n

\u201cFeminism actually is not a subset of Christianity. It’s actually a rival to Christianity,\u201d Gress told Fox News<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>comparing it to a megachurch. She traced what she called the three commandments of feminism to Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. While Shelley\u2019s wife, Mary Shelley (best-known as the author of Frankenstein<\/em>) is looked at by post-moderns as making some sort of feminist statement in the novel, it was actually Percy who was more in line with Mary\u2019s mother\u2019s feminist ideology. Mary\u2019s mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, wrote extensively on feminist issues, as well as her father, William Godwin. \u201cThere are three of them, and they started actually back in the early 1800s,” she added. \u201cThese ideas of his in-laws, his mother-in-law Mary Wollstonecraft and his father-in-law, William Godwin, and then his own idea. And these ideas were, to have contempt for men, to really shun monogamy and to embrace promiscuity, and then to be involved in the occult. And those are sort of the three tenets of feminism,\u201d said Gress.<\/p>\n

She warned against the false promise of feminism, with women focusing more on careers and autonomy, rather than on children and marriage. Study after study has shown that more women are delaying childbirth than in the past, and that motherhood is less and less of a goal amongst young women. Other studies have shown that while young men are becoming more conservative, young women are becoming more liberal.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo feminism has created an idol, which is, of course, female autonomy. It’s taught women and continues to tell women that our greatest happiness and our fulfillment is going to come when we are living by and for ourselves, when we’re not married or marriage isn’t really the center of our life, as well as our children, that those things are actually obstacles to the happiness that we’re going to find in a career,\u201d warned Gress. She said women are made for relationships, with women replacing natural relationships with children for pets. She claimed the shift of women towards liberalism is intentional. \u201cWomen have been targeted with this idea so that we will be angry and will be more politically helpful. And you can see this, I think, any of the women’s movements. These are not movements or events that are showing happy, healthy, thriving women, but they really embody a kind of anger, rage, envy, contempt. All of those things are sort of shot through the movement at this point.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One author is warning against feminism, calling it the new \u201cmegachurch.\u201d Author Carrie Gress has authored 11 books, with her upcoming book Something Wicked: Why Feminism Can\u2019t Be Fused With Christianity, set to be released in January. 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