Anti-Mary Exposed , livre ebook

TAN Books - Carrie Gress

Découvre YouScribe en t'inscrivant gratuitement

Je m'inscris

Obtenez un accès à la bibliothèque pour le consulter en ligne
En savoir plus

95 pages

English

Vous pourrez modifier la taille du texte de cet ouvrage

Obtenez un accès à la bibliothèque pour le consulter en ligne
En savoir plus

A propos
Informations
Extrait

Description

The Demonic Influence on Women Today In the late '60s, a small group of elite American women convinced an overwhelming majority of the country that destroying the most fundamental of relationships-that of mother and child-was necessary for women to have productive and happy lives. From the spoiling of this relationship followed the decay of the entire family, and almost overnight, our once pro-life culture became pro-lifestyle, embracing everything that felt good. Sixty million abortions later, women aren't showing signs of health, happiness, and fulfillment. Increased numbers of divorce, depression, anxiety, sexually transmitted disease, and drug abuse all point to the reality that women aren't happier, just more medicated. Huge cultural shifts led to a rethinking of womanhood, but could there be more behind it than just culture, politics, and rhetoric? Building off the scriptural foundations of the anti-Christ, Carrie Gress makes an in-depth investigation into the idea of an anti-Mary-as a spirit, not an individual-that has plagued the West since the '60s. Misleading generations of women, this anti-Marian spirit has led to the toxic femininity that has destroyed the lives of countless men, women, and children. Also in The Anti-Mary Exposed: How radical feminism is connected to the errors of Russia, spoken of by Our Lady of Fatima. The involvement and influence of the goddess movement and the occult. The influence of "female" demons, such as Lilith and Jezebel. The repulsive underbelly of radical feminism's chief architects. A look at the matriarchy, a cabal of elite women committed to abortion, who control the thinking of most women through media, politics, Hollywood, fashion, and universities.

Informations

Publié par	TAN Books
Date de parution	30 mai 2019
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781505110272
Langue	English

Informations légales : prix de location à la page 0,0500€. Cette information est donnée uniquement à titre indicatif conformément à la législation en vigueur.

Extrait

The Anti-Mary Exposed
THE ANTI-MARY EXPOSED
Rescuing the Culture From Toxic Femininity
Carrie Gress
TAN Books Charlotte, North Carolina
Copyright © 2019 Carrie Gress
All rights reserved. With the exception of short excerpts used in critical review, no part of this work may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in any form whatsoever without the prior written permission of the publisher.
Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations are from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible—Second Catholic Edition (Ignatius Edition), copyright © 2006 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture texts marked NABRE are taken from the New American Bible, revised edition © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Washington, D.C. and are used by permission of the copyright owner. All rights reserved. No part of the New American Bible may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the copyright owner.
Scripture texts marked DV are taken from the Douay-Rheims.
Cover image: The Immaculate Conception , oil on canvas, (1767-1768), Giovannia Battista Tiepolo. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. Image collage by Caroline Green.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2018966731
ISBN: 978-1-5051-1026-5
Published in the United States by
TAN Books
Charlotte, NC 28241
PO Box 410487
www.TANBooks.com
Printed in the United States of America
For my sisters, who have taught me the true and beautiful meaning of sisterhood
Mary Boldy
Jill Faherty
Michelle Gress
Danielle Andrews
CONTENTS Introduction Part I The Long Battle 1 Erasing Mary 2 Satan’s Point of Entry: The Malcontent Heart 3 Goddess Worship Is Afoot Part II Anti-Mary, Inc. 4 The Big Lie: Changing Human Nature 5 The Anti-Marian Architects 6 The New Matriarchy: Fashionable Dictators Part III Mary, the Antidote 7 The True Mother 8 Fruit and Content 9 Understanding Mary’s Beauty Part IV Modern Women and Mary 10 Imitating Mary 11 Six Ways to Combat the Anti-Mary 12 Helping the Walking Wounded Appendix: Prayers to Combat the Anti-Mary Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
W omen have been a mystery since Adam encountered Eve. But sometime over the last fifty years, a dark change has taken place in the lives of women and the men who love them. There is much confusion today about what it means to be a woman and even more confusion about how to treat them. The definitions of womanhood seem as numerous as there are people, with each woman trying to work out for herself who she is and how she ought to live her life. Meanwhile, men live in a constant state of shadowboxing, trying to stay in sync with the new progressive demands of womanhood.
Most of us, however, don’t know the full story of the battle lines drawn in the 1960s that form the backdrop of what women think about themselves today. It is a story that is told by the victors—as most history is—where the events of the last fifty years unfolded as something chic, empowering, glamorous, important, and progressive. Or so goes the narrative. The reality, however, is something quite different. The clues, dropped like crumbs, can be seen along the way, though hastily covered up so that few can see the full underbelly of the movement.
One such crumb came from the early 1970s. Twelve (not an insignificant number) highly educated, upper class women sat around a table in New York City and chanted this “litany” to express what they wanted to see happen in the world:
“Why are we here today?” the chairwoman 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.
“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 probed.
“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, abortion and homosexuality!” they resounded. 1
These women had a very clear goal in mind and became the vanguard to what would become the women’s liberation movement. Among them, perhaps, there were those who doubted they would succeed, but for those of us looking back, we know they succeeded. What they wanted—to promote “promiscuity, eroticism, prostitution, abortion and homosexuality”—has come to pass quite thoroughly in our culture today.
How is it, then, that the women’s movement became such an unwieldy force that demolished so decisively the moral and social structures of American society? While many have suggested that it was “the sisterhood” that pulled radical feminists together, their grassroots effort cannot explain all of their success. The stories of the era tell of division and discord among second-wave feminist women and of heated debates over such things as Cosmopolitan’s exploitation of women, lesbianism, and the politics of the group’s leadership, which all threatened the project. That is, until they all found one topic to which they could hitch their wagons: abortion .
Sue Ellen Browder, author of Subverted: How I Helped the Sexual Revolution Hijack the Women’s Movement 2 and former employee at Cosmopolitan , said that when she worked at the magazine, she regularly fabricated stories about fictional women known as the Cosmo Girl. “I could make her into anything I wanted her to be—a doctor, lawyer, judge, even a high-priced call girl—but there were two things she could not be if she was going to be glamorous, sophisticated, and cool: a virgin or a mother.” 3
Second-wave feminism made it clear that children were the enemy, preventing women from fulfilling their dreams. Thus, abortion became a necessity and was legalized in 1973 as the Vietnam War was coming to an end. Fatalities of that war—58,220 US servicemen total—were quickly dwarfed by this new kind of killing, mothers killing their own children (sixty million and counting; three thousand daily in the US alone). Today, abortion is by far the leading cause of death in the United States annually, significantly outpacing heart disease and cancer. It kills more than the equivalent of total US fatalities in Vietnam every three weeks.
What happens, then, when you have generations of people that have willfully killed their own children through abortion? The medievals were against abortion because it takes an innocent life, but also because they knew it was mortally damaging to the human soul of those who engaged in it. It isn’t just a child that dies in an abortion, but something in the mother and the father and the whole family that dies as well.
As St. Thomas Aquinas said, bonum est diffusivum sui , the good spreads itself out. Similarly, evil spreads itself out. The grave evil of abortion has reached into every area of familial life and left society morally threadbare. Our news feed confirms this daily with headlines like “Abortion Activists Kill Baby Jesus in Graphic Abortion on Virgin Mary Outside Catholic Church,” 4 “Colorado Woman Killed Newborn Baby and Tossed It on Neighbor’s Deck,” 5 or Teen Vogue’s “Anal Sex: What You Need to Know.” The layers of confusion, twisted thinking, decadence, sacrilege, and viciousness descend ever-deeper with each passing day. Rage, obscenity, sexual license, nudity, erasing of gender differences, and the cheapening of life have all become commonplace in the public square. Women haven’t just listed a bit to the wayward side of the moral compass; they shattered the compass. Almost overnight, our once pro-life culture became pro-lifestyle, returning to an epicurean paganism that embraces everything that feels good. Like a wildfire blowing through dry tinder, these dramatic changes burned through the lives of millions and millions of women, men, and children, with little to nothing to stop it.
Outside Influence
The scale and scope of the evil we see in our culture begs us to ask: could there be something behind this? Are there outside pressures, “like a roaring lion, seeking some one to devour” (1 Pt 5:8), that have been influencing humanity, particularly women, over the last five decades? Paul Kengor, in his book Takedown: From Communists to Progressives, How the Left has Sabotaged Family and Marriage , lays out the political and intellectual pieces that have led to the destruction of the family. He concludes at one point, however, when talking about the influence communists and progressives have had upon young people through universities, that there has to be more to the story than just rhetoric. “Why do people in our universities fall so easily for this vapid claptrap so contrary to their human nature?” he asks. “Their impressionable youth alone is not a sufficient explanation.” 6 Kengor makes clear that the pieces just don’t add up to the sum of their parts—there must be more to it.
Bishop Robert Barron concludes something similar about the violence and dramatic loss of life in the twentieth century—the bloodiest century ever. The auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles says:
Look at the twentieth century, bloodiest on record, no question about that. The number of people killed for ideological purposes and warfare was the worst ever. Can you explain that entirely on psychological or political categories? It just seems comically inadequate to the reality. To say that Hitler, Stalin, Mao, et cetera. … are simply explicable politically or psychologically? I don’t know. There is something about the pervasiveness of violence and the destruction of life in the twentieth century that has all the marks of the Murderer from the beginning. 7
Something beyond human vice, Bishop Barron concludes, must be behind the bloodshed of the twentieth century. The marks of the devil are all there: bloodshed, extinguishing o