[1/7/17] The Left are self-absorbed narcissists. No matter the subject, everything in the end is all about them.
Here’s an example: A Protestant minister named Ruth Everhart, who identifies herself on her website as “a Presbyterian pastor, currently serving a small church in Bethesda, Maryland,” says she’s “hurt” by Christians’ honoring of the Virgin Mary because it “oppresses” women by setting an impossibly high bar for women. To top it off, Everhart blames, not just church “culture,” but the Virgin Mary.
Below is Ruth Everhart’s op-ed, “Our culture of purity celebrates the Virgin Mary. As a rape victim, that hurts me,” which was published in Washington Post, the piece of sewage that calls itself a newspaper.
“Church culture tends to be fixated on sexual purity year-round, but during Advent, I’m tempted to blame it on the Virgin Mary. After all, she set an impossibly high bar. Now the rest of us are stuck trying to be both a virgin and a mother at the same time. It does not seem to matter that this is biologically impossible. Can you at least try?
I’ll speak for myself. I was raised in the church and taught to be a good girl, by which I mean obedient, quiet and sexually pure. That worked reasonably well until I was 20. During my senior year of college, my housemates and I were the victims of a home invasion. The intruders held us for hours and took turns raping us at gunpoint. The next year of our lives revolved around the criminal-justice system.
Of course, I was traumatized. But what was harder to describe — and more long-lasting — was how the crime became bound up in a sense of sexual shame. I wondered constantly: Did I somehow deserve to be raped? Had the rape ruined me irreparably? Both questions seemed inevitable. After all, what is the opposite of being sexually pure? Sustaining irremediable damage. Being ruined.
