The evils of homemaking
We live in a country where home and family have always been revered by most. Yet in this same country we look down on homemakers, domestic engineers, housewives, whatever you call them. Hillary Clinton thinks it takes a village to raise a child, but most Americans understand that what it takes are parents.
The latest salvo in the "culture wars" stems from a new concentration offered at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Keep in mind that this is a private seminary with a very clearly stated agenda. No one goes to Southwestern under the pretense of getting anything other than a conservative, Christian worldview based education. The awful subject they are teaching? Homemaking. Already the left is having a fit...
It is sure to invite criticism from many quarters and could be a potential flashpoint in America's on-going "culture wars" between religious conservatives and those with a secular bent.
That is no doubt quite true. I am sure that given time, all manner of smarmy posts will pop up across the blogosphere decrying the Neanderthals at SWBTS for keeping women in the kitchen. How dare they offer the courses that they want at their universities!
Now, when Christian conservative sneer at some of the drivel that passes for academia at secular universities, we are accused of seeking to squash free speech and learning, even if the "classes" are nothing more than thinly veiled apologies for various and sundry sexual perversion, frivolous entertainment or frankly nothing much at all. Merely having the gathering held on a college campus and charging people for credit makes it academically worthy. Christians are forbidden from speaking ill of whatever garbage is peddled in the name of the university, no matter how tawdry or trivial. But dare raise a Christian school with a course on homemaking and you risk the wrath of the liberal thought police (both secular and religious no doubt)
In 2007, very few people are raised with any sort of practical knowledge about how to live and survive in the world. By offering women who want an education but still plan on raising their families something more practical than "A theoretical history of feminism", SWBTS is performing a great service to many a Christian home.
1 comment:
Hmm, that is very interesting... I have heard other universities offering courses like that. Although it is quite good that they offer these courses, it is sad that women would have to pay to learn how to do this and not just learn from their mothers or grandmothers...
I guess that is what happens when a whole generation or two is expected to work outside the home or be thought of as lower than men.
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