Here are two similar views
-- related to the issue of women in combat -- from two very dissimilar sources. First from an evangelical pastor, John Piper, and then from a feminist professor of humanities, Camille Paglia:
"So it has been in
almost every society that has come under the sway of Christian truth: women of
valor, women ready to die in the service of family and fatherland, but not
women armed by men for combat. It would have been viewed by most men as
cowardly." (John Piper, The Folly of Men Arming Women for Combat)
"Extravaganzas of
gender experimentation sometimes precede cultural collapse, as they certainly
did in Wiemar Germany. Like late Rome,
America too is an empire distracted by games and leisure pursuits. Now as then, there are forces aligning
outside the borders, scattered fanatical hordes where the cult of heroic
masculinity still has tremendous force.
I close with this question: is a
nation whose elite education is increasingly predicated on the neutralization
of gender prepared to defend itself against that growing challenge?" (Camille Paglia, "Comet Camille Paglia comes to AU and talks gender")
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