Read Part One HERE
In this post I will continue to focus on Doug Philips, founder of Vision Forum.
Like Bill Gothard, Doug Philips was part of the patriarchal movement. Consequently he taught that men are and should be in absolute control of women. Patriarchy considers women to primarily exist for the purposes of producing children, caring for the men, and rearing the children. Females in the patriarchal movement are discouraged from attaining higher education of any kind and are told their sole purpose is to marry a man within the movement to meet the purposes described above. In other words, women within this movement are perceived to exist only for the end-goals communicated by the male leaders who perceive themselves as "patriarchs" of this world.
As such, females within this movement are really manipulated by the male leaders who control and manipulate them into believing that the world revolves around the male "patriarchs."
Women, as scapegoats, are blamed for the inappropriate conduct of the men, thus preserving the men's self-perceived collective self-image and concomitantly lowering the women's self-esteem, so that women will fall into deeper submission under the men's patriarchal authority.
Women within this movement are instructed to please the male leaders.
Failing to do so has grave consequences for women as you will learn from the story of Jen, an ex-member of Doug Philip's previous church Boerne Christian Assembly in my next post.
Read Part Three HERE
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