All About Evil: Incompetence Knows No Gender
Incompetent women are killing us - often quite literally. But hey, at least we got rid of the white dudes
Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths.
I think it’s safe to say women taking the lead, Biblically speaking, are a disaster.
From Eve all the way to Priscilla, there is no woman in all of Scripture who exhibits any qualities that translate to the mark of Godly male headship.
Even Rahab, a harlot ranked with kings and prophets in the Hebrews 11 “hall of faith,” is only qualified because she received two men, Joshua and Caleb - an act of faith, for sure, but remarkable nonetheless precisely she was a prostitute.1
To say nothing of Bathsheeba, through whom the future king Solomon came and the ultimate fall of the Davidic kingdom. Or Jezebel, the wife of Ahab, king of Israel, and whose name is, to this day, synonomous with “whore.”
Fittingly, according to The Oxford Guide to People & Places of the Bible, Jezebel is the Anglicized transliteration of the Hebrew אִיזֶבֶל Izeḇel, a name "best understood as meaning 'Where is the Lord?'" This is believed to be “a ritual cry from worship ceremonies in honor of the Canaanite deity Baal during periods of the year when the god was considered to be in the underworld.”2
In other words, Jezebel is satanic in its meaning and origin.
And if you think about it, this cry of “Where is the Lord?” makes sense. Women, Biblically speaking, have always sought, in the absence of true male headship, to exceed in status or replace altogether their male counterparts.
Now that’s not to say women are second-class or “less than” or any of that contemporary claptrap deployed by feminists. It was, after all, the woman Mary through whom Yahweh sent His Son. It was another Mary and her sister Martha who were among Jesus’ closest disciples.
It was women who were with him at his execution until the end, and women who were the first to come to the tomb and proclaim his resurrection. Jesus' early followers continued to follow in his footsteps, including women in their gatherings, a marked departure from cultural norms in the mid-first century.
But women are not to be the head. They are, in fact, commanded to cover their head - a New Testament commandment to which even the believing women in my own family, to my shame, have not yielded.
But this isn’t about them.
It’s about these women.
On the left: Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley, the first-ever female (whatever that is) and openly lesbian fire chief.
Oh, and purely by happenstance, one of the most devastating wildfire outbreaks in the city’s history occurred under her watch. Under Crowley, diversity was prioritized. Keeping fire hydrants filled was not.
As a result, at least 24 people are dead and thousands of homes lost because of Crowley’s “historic” nomination.
The, um, individual on the right, who looks like she’s carried at least two women on her shoulders at a Palm Springs pool party, is Crowley’s Assistant Chief Kristine Larson, who says when people's houses are burning down, they want a firefighter to show up who looks like them. As opposed to, say, a competent firefighter.
Larson also says if a man is too overweight for her to carry out of a fire “he got himself in the wrong place.” How brave. How tolerant.
What an absolutely mockery.
Then there’s New Orleans Police Supt. Anne Kirkpatrick, whose gaunt features rendered her police cap comically oversized even at the height of one of America’s deadliest days in recent memory.
But fear not - she is on the job and knows what it take to keep her constituents safe.
Except for that small little mishap in August 2024, just months before an Islamic terrorist drove his car into a Bourbon Street crowd, when Kirkpatrick herself struck two pedestrians with her car while on duty.
Can you imagine hitting two people with your car while on the job? What would your boss do?
Would they leave you to preside over the emergency response to a domestic terror attack?
And then there’s this image.
She was spotted moments after an attempt on President Donald Trump’s life struggling to holster her service weapon. This bumbling, pathetic excuse for a U.S. Secret Service agent was actually not the disease, but yet another symptom. The cure, however temporary, was the resignation of Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle.
Cheatle is the first woman (whatever that is) to serve as the agency's assistant director of protective operations and one of only two women to ever serve as director of the Secret Service. Her catastrophic failure to secure a basic perimeter around the former and future POTUS was unprecedented in American politics.
Then there’s this looker. Audrey Hale slaughtered three kids and three adults in her March 27, 2023 attack on the Covenant School, a private Christian school located in Nashville.
According to the Tennessee Star,
Hale wrote extensively about her gender identity, including a three-page entry the killer titled, “My Imaginary Penis,” in which she wrote about expressing sexual fantasies with stuffed animals.
“I can pretend to be them [and] do the things boys do [and] experience my boy self as Tony,” wrote Hale, adding that she became engrossed in the activities and lost track of time.
“God, I am such a pervert,” she wrote. “I waste too much time in my fantasies.”
Those fantasies, as a grim reminder, clearly included the mass slaughter of children.
This list, however annoying, however inconvenient, however repetitive, could go on ad infinitum. The biologically female shooter who tried to murder congregants at Joel Osteen’s church in Houston back in February. The 15-year-old girl who shot up a Christian school in Wisconsin. That was just a couple of weeks ago.
“But that’s not fair - half of the population are women!” I hear you scream at your device, as if that means anything.
The truth of the matter is all of this is the failure of Biblical male headship.
That’s right. Men, specifically Christian men, are to blame. Me. You. We are culpable.
The closest we ever get to a woman of authority in the Old Testament is Deborah, one of the judges of Israel at a time when the people of Israel “did evil in the sight of Yahweh.”3 That’s it.
When it comes to the New Testament, the Apostle Paul couldn’t be more clear on the male-female dynamic.
A woman must learn in quietness and full submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; she is to remain quiet. For Adam was formed first, and then Eve.
1 Timothy 2:11-13
Note the prohibition specifically relates to both teaching and exercising authority, a restriction that Paul reiterates elsewhere. He also appeals to the very order in which Yahweh created Adam before Eve.
If the New Testament interprets the Old - and it does - then this is a pivotal interpretation for us to consider.4
Paul goes into even more detail in his first letter to the assembly at Corinth.
Women are to be silent in the churches. They are not permitted to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says. If they wish to inquire about something, they are to ask their own husbands at home; for it is dishonorable for a woman to speak in the church.
Sounds like Paul was an old fashioned “mansplainer” to me."
Note three keys here in 1 Cor. 14:
women are to be silent: the apostle who wrote one-third of the New Testament says women should be silent - a word translated as “be quiet” - not only in the churches, but if they have any questions at about what the men taught, they should wait until they get home to ask their husband. Don’t wait in line for the past. Don’t hit up his email. Ask your husband.
as the law says: for anyone who is fascinated by the continuity vs. discontinuity debate (and I hope that’s everyone who reads this), here you have the “apostle to the nations/Gentiles” appealing to the Law of Moses as the authority on the role of women. If you want clarity on the role of women, search the Scriptures.
it is dishonorable for a woman to speak in the church; surely Paul is exaggerating here since he elsewhere refers to women pray or prophesying in the context of a Christian assembly. Right?
Now, anyone with a Bible concordance will find that, strictly speaking, there is no passage in the Law or the Prophets where women are not permitted to speak.
So what’s Paul getting at?
The key here is his reference to submission.
We hate this word.
We hate submission. I hate it. You hate it.
Submitting, whether to the Lord of all creation or our bosses at work or the county tax agency, is never desirable, at least naturally.
Yet submission is at the very foundation of the Fall of Adam. It’s a command repeated to both men and women throughout the Bible, but perhaps none more pronounced than the declaration of the man’s role with respect to his wife:
To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
The judgment upon Eve came after the serpent’s but before Adam’s; that is to say, the divine condemnation declared over the “mother of all living” was couched between the curse upon the serpent and the curse upon Adam.
If a command to submit to the first man Adam was act of judgment, what does a refusal to submit to male headship look like?
How would those descendants of rebellion manifest physically?
Would they look like this?
Let me be clear: I praise the Lord for women. I wouldn’t be the man that I am today without my wife’s Godly influence and blessing. She and her family were used mightily in bringing me to my knees in submission to Christ.
But it was because these women fulfilled their holy calling, not trangressed it.
When women lead, things burn.
When women lead, churches abandon sound doctrine.
When women lead, men - however Godly - exchange the word of God for cultural convenience.
These things, as Paul says, should not be.
In 2025, gentlemen, let us exalt Christ by protecting our women from a world that says women (whatever those are) should protect us.
There is always an exception that proves the rule.
When Israel was unfaithful and there was no prophet in the land they had to ask Deborah what God was going to do. She told them when they asked her, but she did not speak in public or call out in the streets or before the elders. People came to her for judgment. She was in submission to her husband Lappidoth. She sent for Barak and told him God's plans for victory, but Barak still had doubts as did the disciples when the women came and told them that the Lord had risen from the dead. Men have been ignoring what women say since Eve deceived Adam in the garden of Eden.
God used her witness to shame unfaithful Israel. When Barak would not go unless she came with him Sisera was killed by a woman so he would not get the glory. (Judges 4)