Gnostic Anti-Sexuals
Origen’s Revenge: The Greek and Hebrew Roots of Christian Thinking on Male and Female by Brian Patrick Mitchell
reviewed by Allan C. Carlson
Brian Mitchell’s observations on male/female relations first came to my attention in 1989 through his book Weak Link: The Feminization of the American Military. Having served for seven years as an infantry officer and intelligence agent in the U.S. Army, Mitchell described how the massive entry of women into the armed forces after 1970 had already disrupted American fighting capacities and shattered the traditions, morale, and performance standards of the military academies at West Point, Annapolis, and Colorado Springs. He warned that unless promptly countered, this feminist-inspired “march of folly” resting on the suppression of masculinity and a quest for androgyny and relying on systematic deception within the Pentagon, would soon cripple American battlefield effectiveness.
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Allan C. Carlson is the author of numerous books, including Family Questions: Reflections on the American Social Crisis and The American Way: Family and Community in the Shaping of the American Identity. He attends St. Paul Lutheran Church in Rockford, Illinois. He is a senior editor of Touchstone.
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