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[ofangelsandanime]

I love all of my siblings in Christ. Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, idc. I love you, and I can't wait to spend eternity getting to meet all of you.

[shadowbanned-sloth]

[ofangelsandanime]

Holy moly is this so important, and insightful.

Throughout the entire video, I was going like:

[merthwyn]

One thing that feminists, communists and (conservative) capitalists hate is (stay-at-home) mothers. Have you seen any of them advocating for longer and more respectful in terms of money maternity leaves or for staying at home to raise children to be considered a job and therefore to receive a proper salary for it? Have you seen any of them wanting to employ young women or -if they do- encouraging them to have children instead of discouraging them in one way or another?

New mothers should receive at least 18-24 months of maternity leave during which they should be paid in full. If they want to become stay-at-home mothers, they should receive at least minimum wage, if not more.

Btw I mention conservatives because I rarely see a leftist who is also a capitalist. So yes, dear conservatives, we have messed up regarding women's rights. The sooner we acknowledge this and act accordingly, the better. If we want women to be tradwives, we need to support them by demanding decent salaries for them instead of turning them into their husband's property. If we support their right to work, we need to create conditions where working mothers can also raise children properly.

[merthwyn]

After reading the responses on this post I would like to point out the following:

I do believe that among all systems, capitalism is the only one that respects freedom. However, we have to admit that it is mostly used in immoral ways nowadays. It reminds me of communism (i.e. people are treated as machines, the notion that everyone is replaceable is everywhere etc).

I agree that one income should be enough to support a whole family but at the same time I also support women being financially independent. Also, if one income is enough then what will happen to the family if that income is gone e.g. cause of the father's unemployment, inability to work due to accident or illness, or death?

Unfortunately, many men today do view women as their property. What will happen to those women?

Regarding who is gonna pay the women, I don't see why it's wrong if the government does so. I mean, there are jobs out there paid by the government. If a right wing government truly supports and promotes traditional families in theory, they should do so in action too. If a left wing government truly supports women's rights in theory, they should show that support in action too.

These are my views. But I might be wrong. Tagging @anamericangirl and @theconstitutionisgayculture as I am interested to hear your views on this.

[anamericangirl]

I actually strongly disagree with this. I agree that being a stay at home mom is work. Important and sometimes under appreciated work. But I don't agree that conservative capitalists "hate" stay at home moms.

The issue is that while raising children is work, it shouldn't be treated as employment. We should not be paying people a government salary to raise their own children. It is not the government's responsibility (which would really be the taxypayer's burden) to compensate parents for parenting. Parents are supposed to take care of their children, and that relationship should not be viewed through the lens of employer and employee.

In a capitalist society, employment is the result of a voluntary agreement. Someone needs a job done, and another person agrees to do that job in exchange for compensation. Most people are not paid by the government, and I see no reason why we should start lobbying for the government to pay stay at home parents a salary. That would be an enormous expansion of government involvement in people's personal lives.

People make their own choices about whether to have children, whether to work outside the home, and whether one parent will stay home. Taxpayers should not be expected to subsidize those personal decisions. Everyone is responsible for supporting the life choices they make. I think the best way to support stay at home moms is by supporting the nuclear family structure, not by putting them on a government payroll.

And just imagine the incentives that would create. If the government started paying a salary to women who chose to stay home with their children, it would fundamentally alter the labor market. Many people would choose not to work if they could receive a government salary for staying home instead. Some would inevitably have children primarily for the financial benefit. It would create a massive additional burden on taxpayers and introduce all kinds of unintended consequences.

Being a stay at home mom is absolutely work. I don't dispute that at all. But work and employment are not the same thing, and raising your own children should not be treated as a government funded job.

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Small additions:

Capitalism is not "mostly used in immoral ways". What you're referring to when you say "It reminds me of communism (i.e. people are treated as machines, the notion that everyone is replaceable is everywhere etc" what you're mostly talking about is corporatism, which is more like communism than capitalism because it involves the government interfering in the free market for the benefit of a few massive corporations. The "too big to fail" phenomenon is one part of this, where the government bails out failing corporations that should naturally go out of business. Capitalism itself is morally neutral.

We also already have great examples of how monetary incentives to have children end up working in real life already with welfare. One of my nieces lives in a state where you get welfare checks for the first year of your child's life if you're below a certain yearly income. Sounds great, right? Well, she ended up having four kids in four years with four different men and never looked for a job just so she could keep collecting welfare money. And that's not a unique story. Government welfare incentivizes dependency and bad behavior. When conservatives say things like "people should be having families" we mean just that. Families. Two married parents raising their children together. Not women pumping out babies they can't take care of so the government checks don't stop coming. Broken families tend to lead to massively negative outcomes. Just look at the "black community" in most cities.

[m00nxtal]

^^^^

To add onto this, there are better incentives for families such as paying less in taxes for being married and having kids rather than a monthly stipend from big daddy government.

[merthwyn]

@theconstitutionisgayculture thank you for explaining what corporatism is. I did not know this concept and, I admit that I was influenced by those who blame capitalism, ether leftists or simply people who don't know what capitalism is. I'm in the second category so I stand corrected.

As for the rest, the people I had in mind was those who are genuine and not those who exploit the system. I should have clarified this in my post so, again, my bad. I still wonder though what could be done for those who don't intend to exploit the system? as I said to anamericangirl, I don't like the government interfering into our personal lives either, so I thought about my solutions as the necessary evil. But how can families who struggle to survive with one salary and don't intend to exploit the system be supported? I'm thinking of myself for example, I would love to take the tradwife route but the lack of support is one of the reasons I hesitate.

@m00nxtal I liked what you suggested. Far better than government interfering to our lives.

As for my points above, what about point no.2? This is a second reason that makes me hesitate to become a tradwife. What do families where their only income is lost in one way or another? A solution could be for the mother to find a job but, judging by how the job market is today it would be very difficult.

[esters-notepad]

Paradoxically, a family that depends on one income and loses it is often in a better situation than a family that depends on two incomes and loses one of them. Let me explain.

A family with only one breadwinner can more easily relocate, and thus can look for new job opportunities much far away. A family where one person is holding a job and one person needs to find a new job has to limit the search to places close to the workplace of the other partner.

A family where the lone breadwinner loses his/her job can, in many cases, have both adults start looking for jobs. It's more likely that one out of two finds a job than that one given person finds a job.

Sure, a two-income family who could theoretically live on only one income is much better off. But how many such families do you know? The few couples I know in that situation are empty nesters who are approaching retirement. Young families with children usually live in such a way that most of their income is accounted for, with a mortgage, car loans, student loans, subscription services, sports clubs etc. If they lose one income, even if the other partner is still working, they tend to be in the red from month one.

Unemployment support and social support tends to work the same, regardless of whether the family needs support because they lost their only income, or because they lost one out of two.

In summary, I don't consider my situation any more precarious as it is (he earns a lot, I earn pocket money) than if my husband and I had the same combined income but earned half each of it. And I quite enjoy the flexibility and freedom the current arrangement gives us.

[rosegardeninwinter]

you may not think I’m brave but every day I have to see people disregard all of Susan Pevensie’s complexity in favor of “Aslan was just not a girl’s girl I fear 💅🏻✨” “Lewis was a misogynist” “it’s religious propaganda” and I am being so resilient about it … like I am genuinely begging you people to have a modicum of analytical integrity … have you never wrestled with a once-held belief? have you never struggled to find the balance between your autonomy and your connection to your family? have you never made a mistake in your priorities? have you never wanted to hurry up and grow up and perhaps lost a part of yourself in the process?

that’s what Susan is

but no, we have to invent the most uninspired, surface level take on her story possible and peddle that as the big takeaway of a book series that hardly ever gives you such an on-the-nose “moral”

be fr

[rosegardeninwinter]

THIS

[secretwriter-studentjaune]

[sweetheartsoldier]

The tags on this post are a goldmine of reading comprehension.

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Signs of a biblical church:

Actually preaches from the Bible

Sin is called what it is

Members love and serve one another

Jesus is the center of everything

[ofangelsandanime]

This one took me out.

[alexadelphia-official]

Words that mean nothing anymore and nowadays are just used as buzzwords with the sole purpose of blaming all societal evils on them:

Capitalism

Feminism

Individualism

Evangelical

Woke

Narcissist

[dailyeffectiveprayer]

You don’t have to fight for approval. God already chose you, called you, and set you apart.

[luna-drinker]

Is there a word for a specific brand of Christians who use toxic positivity? I’m tired of being told I lack faith whenever I’m being realistic about a bad situation. Yes through God all things are possible but that doesn’t mean God will give you the results you want 🙄🙄🙄

[supreme-leader-stoat]

'Prosperity Gospel,' more or less.

[faithshaped]

pray, pray, pray for the whole world. talk to god about your friends. intercede for your enemies. pray for peace where war has torn countries apart. pray without ceasing.

[ofangelsandanime]

There's this woman, who I was acquainted with, that seems to have lost her mind. Not even in the joking sense. I mean she has literally lost touch with reality. The content she's been posting is nothing short of disturbing. I'm sad and worried for her. I'm worried for her mentally, and spiritually, because it seems she's gone back to messing with things no one has business messing with.

[pollsforadults]

You get transported into the universe of the last media you consumed. How are you doing?

This is better than my real life

I'm doing well

I'm doing fine

I'm not having a good time

I'm absolutely cooked

There is nothing different about this universe and my own

Voting ended onMay 29

[ofangelsandanime]

I can feel God's love, peace, and joy burgeoning deep within the more I study His Word. It's of a quality so unique to God, that nothing else that could be found in the world or out of it can compare.

[mountainmamaa]

“With Jesus as our high priest, we can feel free to come before God’s throne where there is grace. There we receive mercy and kindness to help us when we need it.”

‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭4‬:‭16‬ ‭🤎

[kply-industries]

*puts a disk in u*

[imat711yallneedanything]

Thank you

[woodsandhearth]