Lady Lydia's hypocritical views on The Multi-Generational Church

Neither Lady Lydia, her husband or her two sons practise or practised multi-generational faithfulness. Yet to fit into the Vision Forum-LAF crowd Lady Lydia also mouths of peity about the Multi-Generation Church.

Facts:

• Lady Lydia did not stay with her parents or other relatives when they moved to Australia. She chose to stay in America, attend Bible college and marry Stanley Bumpfries at the age of 18. She has been attending a different church from that of her parents for more than 40 years
• Stanley Bumpfries also never practised multi-generational faithfulness. Going against his father's wishes, who wanted him to pastor at the local church, Stanley Bumpfries preached in different countries for more than 25 years. Finally, when they came back to Junction City, Lancastor, Oregon, he still chose to go to a different church and pastor a different church from that of his father.
• Stanley Bumpfries eldest son is married and a pastor. He also lives very far from his parents and is not given into regular visits. Some family members say there is a breach - whatever the reasons, he has not visited them in the last two years.
• Stanley Bumpfries's youngest son Stevie Bumpfries, is a Christian, unmarries and lives in the same city. Even though he lives within a one-hour's drive to his parent's home, he has chosen to get a bachelor accomdation elsewhere and work. He goes to a different church and is quite sucessful in his work, unlike the other Bumpfries.
• Stanley Bumpfries's only daughter Lollybeth Rosie Bumpfries does stay with them. But that is because her husband, doesn't have a job. Since he is a student, he deemed it unaffordable for them to live independantly. So now they stay in Mr Stanley Bumpfries's garage. His personal expenses, education, educational loans, expenses in raising a family of four children - Joseph Bumpfries, Issac Bumpfries, John Paul Bumpfries and Lillian Bumpfries. They attend the same church as Stanley Bumpfries because they have no other choice not as a shining example to multi-generational faithfulness.

But Lady Lydia never practises what she preaches. 

So in this article, you will find her preaching: 

The Multi-Generational Church

Parents and grown, married children and grandchildren, can benefit greatly by attending the same church. They need each other. The multi-generational lifestyle that includes the grandparents, children and grandchildren, is a great testimony of Christ's word, to the church and the world.

My husband recently preached a sermon to encourage the young people to put the church first, and to stay in the congregation where they had worshipped with their parents, to help the work of the Lord, rather than going somewhere else when they became adults. It is sad to see parents work so hard raising their children to become faithful, productive citizens in the Kingdom, only to see them leave the little congregation where they grew up, and go somewhere else, when in three-fourths of cases, with some effort, they could stay and contribute a lot to the church they grew up in.

The Talk of Purity by the Bumpfries

Hi, Remember Lady Lydia has a jobless son-in-law, whom she has to support and finance while he fails his college studies? This guy apart from staying in Lady Lydia's 120-sq-foot garage with his family of six, also writes articles for Ladies Against Feminism (LAF) site in his spare time.

One of his scandalous articles to the site was Skandalon.

Mr Aiden Bumpfries says:

May 31, 2003

1. Buy chastity belts! Buy one get one free for your friend! Last evening we talked with a group of young folks about purity. We talked about how they can honor God before marriage by guarding their own purity and the purity of those they care about. As you know, the world has a totally opposite approach to purity.
2. Satan prefers to catch them young! He doesn't like oldies so much! Satan is particularly after the young because they represent a powerful potential for the Lord. If they ever attempt to live the Christian challenge, it will shake up society, so he aims at youth, to cripple them, for he knows their energy and strength can be great for the Lord.
   
3. Similarities between the media, food, fashion industry and Satan? They all want them young! Look at the media--how they aim for the young. Look at the food industry and clothing and car industry: corrupt the young and cripple them so they can't quite ever have victory over sin in their lives. The messages of music and movies distract the young from the plan God has for them.
4. God created parents to mointor and select the potential mate for their offspring to ensure the non-extinction of the good, old family name! God has a brilliant plan of protection and heroism for the youth. He has provided a place for them-- the home-- and He set over them parents and the church to compass about them and provide the guidance they need to succeed in purity and in trusting in God for a mate. Satan wants them to get out of that place and into another place. He has an easier time forming a young girl into a skandalon outside of the home than in it.
5. What if a guy flirts with your daughter or attempts to seduce her? Tie a millstone around his neck and push him off the pier! After that Hell will be a holiday! Jesus knew that the world was full of triggers and traps, but He said, "Woe to the person through whom they come;" if you wanted to show that person mercy, you'd tie a millstone around his neck and push him off the pier; because what he or she faces in judgment would make that trip to the bottom seem like a holiday. 
6. When natural attraction or flirtation between young boys and girls, becomes a stalking game - predators vs prey. But from an early age, young men and women begin practicing the art of enticing each other to sin. They become a living skandalon; they dress to entice, they talk to entice, they walk to entice. 

The Battle of God Vs the Evil World as narrated by Aiden Bumpfries:

1. God's word tells a man to treat the younger women as sisters, in all purity; but the world trains him to use her. 
2. God's word shows a woman how to adorn herself with godliness; but the world dresses her up to be a hook and a lure. 

In which we find Aiden Bumpfries comparing the normal teenager to Female vampires:

It tells her she won't find happiness and she won't be loved unless she can get someone to take her bait. She sees girls on all sides of her, in the movies, in magazines, on TV, and they're all morphing into skandalons and snaring as they please; in her heart she wants to hold onto what is right in God's sight, but in her mind, she's confused. 

Why is dating a crime?

• because I didn't date. I got the parents of an 18-yr-old to agree to my marrying her, before she got to see other men
• But Satan explicitly tells your son to date girls for pleasure and to switch from one to the other. 
  

Why dating leads to divorces? Expert reasoning by dumb ass leader Mr Bumpfries:

While they're young, Satan wants your sons and daughters to get used to going from partner to partner: date till passion fades, then dump. That way, when they're older, all the training will be in place so that they treat marriage the same way; a gold ring on the ring finger won't break the pattern. A guy turns 40, and he gets to trade in his car and his marriage for a newer model. Isn't that what the pre-nuptual agreement is all about? It was created by and for people who had lots of practice dating, flaking and dumping and who can't conceive of a covenant love which can't be broken by a team of lawyers. As with so many of Satan's ways, what seems okay and cute and fun now is sad and pathetic later on in life. 

This is guy in his eagerness gets it terrible wrong. He says God will fulfill your needs and Satan is the one tempting girls with men - making it sound so yucky! Divine sex! Ugh!

God wants your children to love Him with their whole heart, mind, soul and body, because they have needs that only He can fulfill; He wants your daughters to look for their ultimate security and happiness in Him; He knows that only He can totally fulfill them. Satan wants your daughters to look for happiness in the arms of a man. 

Sage advice from the father of four Bumpfries:

If your son is too cool and aloof to come to you with problems; he's got problems; if your daughter is unconcerned, superior, and superhumanly stoical at 16, it is an act; just think of it as a free matinee. 

Satan's allies are dogs, according to the Bumpfries:

Satan doesn't have to spend a lot of time pursuing the kids He's already snatched and aborted; So who does he pursue? Where can he do the most damage? Doesn't he send out the dogs after the ones who aren't his yet, but who are within his reach? These are young men and women with all the potential in the world, but parts of their lives are sort of up for grabs right now.

Satan can also work life a sniffer-dog

Satan has the scent of their souls in his nostrils; and fence-sitters are easy prey; they've got corruptive influences in their lives; maybe they are out from under the protection of your authority; maybe their friends have less than the best motives; maybe its something that they are just experimenting with; maybe they think they are just playing with sin, and that when they let go of it; it will let go of them. 

Satan the venerable grand-daddy, child-catcher from the local pound:

Whatever it is, they are exposed and vulnerable to a formidable enemy; he is more clever than they are; he is thousands of years older than they are; and over the years he has developed an extreme talent for catching kids. 

Satan; The Excorsist

He rips them off of their God-given gifts, and then, after he uses them, he aborts their souls in one of a million different ways. 

Satan: The International Playboy

And he doesn't just hang out in New York City or LA. He gets around! And he doesn't mind the country. 

I spotted a UFO in Oregon! Now I spotted Satan pussy-footing around our garage! He's also branded our neighbours with 666!

Satan gets around; I've got reason to believe that he's been in Oregon recently. There are lives he's ravaged that bear his signature misery. 

In the world that Aiden Bumpfries lives in, parents tell kids to matter-of-factly accept the truth about date rapes and continue going on dates:

The world says that young men are going to use and that young women are going to get used, but date rape isn't any easier on a girl just because it was a guy she had been seeing all summer, or because he apologized afterward and asked her if she was alright. The world tells us to accept as fact that these things are just going to happen to our sons and daughters, and that if we don't like it too bad, because that's just the way kids are these days. 

There is a whole new generation of noble-hearted young men who love their sisters in Christ with all purity and respect. (I wonder how these men eventually get married given that they are gelded in Christ and have no carnal desires)

The To-Do list from Jobless Bumpfries:

And Fathers, give the gift of an unforgettable love story to your daughters; train them and encourage them to trust in the Lord for a husband (by obeying your commandments), and not to try to make it come true with the tricks of the world (like dating). 

When you go home, make a commitment to yourself that you will do what ever it takes to guard the purity of the children God gave you. (Even if it means buying them chastity belts & chaining them up in the basement)

Make a commitment to be the man in your daughter's lives; protect them from unqulified men. (So that your son-in-law has no role to play in her life or even get a job)

Fathers, make it clear to the world what your standards are; hey, put it up on the bulletin board at home; tell your friends, tell your co-workers; let the whole community understand the kind of standards your family has; let them in on it. (Put up flyers saying: Beware of patriarchs on your gates)

God can play Cupid, Eros and Pan for the mortals:

For anyone who is interested, before I go back to Florence I want to show you stories of young people who trusted in the LORD for their future husband or wife, and they have love stories that would make you want to laugh and cry at the same time; stories that are better than any romance novel you could hope to read. (I wonder if those who were interested got to see a porn movie or read Mills & Boon)

God is the author of romance; If you want to savor the seasons of the heart, let God write your love story; one chapter into it, and you won't be able to put it down. Don't let the world write your love story. (I wonder if God would skip the sex parts?)

Be men; open the door for them, pull out their chair, escort them to their car. (But never humour their fancies for equal pay or a hike)

When they make room for you to practice leadership, thank them. (Thank you for making space for my manhood?)

When they're humble and gentle, encourage them. (If not try beating them over the head with a paddle till they oblige you)

If a man's biggest temptation is to be passive, a woman's biggest temptation is to take control. The man isn't setting a course, so the woman grabs the steering wheel. (She should have just let both of them crash into a tree?)

You can encourage the men to be men by refusing to do the work of leading for them. (Please let me be a doormat)

Stevie Bumpfries tells Lady Lydia to get a job

Stevie Bumpfries, who is the only decently-earning member of the Lady Lydia family, is a little bit different from the traditional cast of the rest of his family. But only a wee bit different, mind you! He also wants a 10-children bearing, Victorian-woman cum husky-prairie-girl to greet him at home with pie and dumplings at the end of a hard day of labour! Typical of LAF manly-men!

Anyway this is the story of how Stevie Bumpfries told Lydia to get a job and stop goofing off at home. It can be read at The Unpleasant Times being run by Lollybeth Rosie Bumpfries.

The story goes: 

Cousin Lee said several years ago, when he was living at the house, that Ma should go to McDonald's and get a minimum wage job, and hoist the old family up a bit more. "Who would make your lunch, clean your room, clean the bathrooms, do your laundry, find your hunting accessories and power bait, iron your shirts, and make you dinner when you got home?" asked Ma.

"Well, you would!" replied Cousin Lee.

"After working all day on my feet at McDonald's?"

"Sure!"

Ma rolled her eyes. There went her son's marriage prospects-- no woman would put up with such slavish treatment! (By the way Stevie Bumpfries is still not married. Interested heiresses with immodest fortunes can apply) But instead she replied "No, I'll be coming home and playing video games all evening" (which happened to be Cousin Lee's favorite thing to do after work).

I think the story would be more effective if it read:

Stevie Bumpfries: Why can't you get a job, mom, instead of lazing around the job? How about a minimum wage job at McDonald's? Hoist the family a bit?

Lady Lydia: "Who would make your lunch, clean your room, clean the bathrooms, do your laundry, find your hunting accessories and power bait, iron your shirts, and make you dinner when you got home?" 

Stevie Bumpfries:"Well, you would!"

Lady Lydia: "After working all day on my feet at McDonald's?"

Stevie Bumpfries:"Sure!"

Lady Lydia: "No, I'll be coming home and playing video games all evening"

Lady Lydia the Lazy Bum

Lady Lydia is fanatically devoted to homemaking, according to her own admissions.

But it looks like she gets to goof off at home too without doing any actual work. She calls her the CIO - Chief Information Officer of her company.

Her division of labour ensures that she doesn't have to do any work. Wow! Not only does she get to stay at home and while away her time blogging and making useless, easily damageable paper craft items she also doesn't have to do any housework!

Despite her husband not making much money, she gets to live like the bourgeois rich!

In an article title "Women as Guide of the Home," she says:

1. Just because I'm at home, doesn't mean I do all the housework (actually a good point, but still). I'm too delicate for that! The Bible speaks specifically of a woman as the guide, or guard of the home. Many people misunderstand this to mean that the women have to do all the work at home, but this is not true. If it were so, she would be worn out before she even got started in the care of the home.
2. I don't do work. No doing the dishes, cooking, attending calls or taking out the trash! I only delegate work and supervise the laggards. I am the knowledge centre for missing keys, wallets and dog collars! In being the guide of the home, she is like the Chief Information Officer. She may not put everything away, but she knows where it should go, and will assign the task to someone in the family. She may not wash the dishes all the time, but she knows how it is to be done, and will guide others into helping her. She may not take out the trash, but she will inform others of the need of doing it. She may not answer the phone all the time, but her family knows she wants a record kept of them. She may not do all the cooking, but she has a general plan for the meals. As CIO she always knows where people's shoes, phones, wallets and keys are, even if she does not take care of them or put them away, herself.
3. But very rarely I have to do my work myself, because I hate other people messing with my stuff  Members of the family should never get the idea that just because the woman is at home she should do all the work. That is not what she is there for. The work has to be done, it is true, and there are some things that only she can do. For example, I have a few rooms that I cannot employ anyone else to do because the items require my personal evaluation before putting them away or discarding them.
   
4. I'm no June Cleaver or Stepford Wife to wait on you or pick up your trash. I have better things to do like take care of helpless babies and helpless husbands.  The homemaker's job is to guide the home and see that the things are accomplished so that the members of the family can function. It is not her job to pick up after everyone or wait hand and foot on everyone. Generally her energies should be reserved for those who are more helpless, such as babies and toddlers and those who are not well or physically able. The family is not there to be catered to constantly by the homemaker, but rather to aid her in fulfilling her noble purpose of guiding the home.
5. No socks on the bed, keys on the mantelpiece or shoes on the rug; unless you are tottering on your grave.  In helping her fulfill her role in guiding the home, it is important that the other members of the family, including husbands and sons, not create more burdens upon her. At work, they would would not be allowed to leave piles of personal possessions around in other people's work space, and so at home, their consciences should be stricken if they create more work for the keeper of the home. If they are not bed-ridden or severely handicapped, they can do something to aid her in her goal of guiding the home.
6.  And I don't let anyone be a pig at my home. Sometimes husbands and grown children get the idea that because they are out working somewhere else, bringing in a paycheck, that it constitutes a right to slack off and be pigs at home. In claiming to be completely relaxed, they drip food all over the house, leave their plates and cups wherever they last sat, and strew the newspaper all over the floor. They leave these messes just waiting for the homemaker to "do her job" and pick them all up. This is a completely ignorant misunderstanding of the work "guide" and "Keeper" of the home.
7. How I house-trained my husband I married a man who for some reason liked to have a pen in every room, and a pen on every shelf, every surface, every table, every where. Add to this the papers that usually went with them, the wooden toothpicks, the tie tacks, his favorite mints in cellophane, the mail, and a dozen other little "things," and my housekeeping was driving me crazy. I showed him the list of things I had to do: the ironing, the washing, shampooing the carpet, sorting the laundry, making beds, etc. 
8. By having my daughter, her jobless husband and her four able children to do the housework, I can face the onslaught of my son Stevie Bumphries visits.         Students particularly are fond of coming into the home, slamming the door, dropping bags, going to the kitchen, eating, leaving a mess, dropping their clothes in a corner in their room, or even on the bed, and for weeks and weeks they live like this, while their mothers become more stretched out with their time and their nerves. The homemaker is the keeper and the guide of the home, and that does not mean she is just there to work.
9. Train family members to do the housework, so that you can slack off and still call yourself a homemaker   It is also a good idea to prepare the family to get along on their own, so that the woman, in a sense, works herself out of a job, or at least part of it. That way, when she is older, she is not still doing the same things, especially those things that require more hard labor. She ought to, as she gets older, have trained the family well enough that she can put up her feet and read something, or do some needlework, while other members prepare dinner or do the washing up afterwards.
10. The parable of the over-burdened housewife  When I was a teenager we were invited after church to visit a preacher's family. They had four daughters, all teenaged. When we got there we were rather taken aback at their attitude. Their mother asked them to help, and to wash some dishes that had been left, but they would not do it. She ended up serving us all by herself. Their kitchen was always piled high with dirty dishes and yet they had four able bodied girls. I would have understood it more if the family had busy boys who were working or were not too adept at dish washing, or house keeping, but with four able-bodied girls, I felt ashamed for the mother and for them. They were not cooperating with their mother in preparing the meal and not helping at all with the washing up. I never understood it and was at the time quite apalled. I was only 16 at the time and would never have talked back to my mother the way they did theirs. The mother of this girl eventually got sick and died. 

Lady Lydia on the economic crisis - Part I

Lady Lydia has several ideas about how women should deal with the Economic Crisis in her article Making the Best of Things at her Homeliving blog

Her advice:

1. Stay at home girls, even if you are dirt poor!  I've gotten several feedback letters that indicate that people of certain economic levels cannot possibly reach the high calling of homemaking. These girls claim that because their people didn't have a good economic start, and weren't born with an inheritance, or didn't have rich parents, they cannot do anything with their lives. They are waiting for someone to compensate them for all these wrongs, and in the meantime, are wasting precious moments wallowing in self pity.
2. I don't have a job, money, a house, an inheritance (not even their shack) or even insurance, but I'm just fine.  I am not a rich person, have no personal income, do not live in a home of my own, and my ancestors left nothing for me to work with except good character. I had no inheritance, as my forebearers often did not live in more than shacks which eventually crumbled with time. We aren't who we are because of the material or educational opportunites that someone gave us, but because of certain character qualities we attain by learning and practice.
3. Don't bother about earning money, develop your card-making, tea-making, quilt-making & baking talents. And currently if you are just the waitress in your house, work hard - and you can become its mistress. No matter what your financial circumstances, you can develop in many other ways by discovering talents and abilities, that will take you far in life. If you feel you have nothing there, try just plain hard work. Many a poor person has begun working hard at a restaurant and later ended up owning the place.
4. You could also just plod along in life with politeness and modesty as your armour against poverty  If you haven't got anything, there are still things you can give away: a smile, a parking space, give way and let others walk past, let traffic in, give your place in a line, give up your seat in a crowded area, give pleasant words, give compliments, write nice letters, build others up and praise them, etc. 
5. To face the crisis, you don't need education or money  Education doesn't matter, and neither does money. While some of it is necessary, both the need for education and money are blown far out of proportion. Education comes from the willingness to learn, and if you are a learner, you can learn from anything, and not be limited to educational establishments. 
6. Feminists have got witches and warlocks to aid them in parcelling women off to work. Today, as a result of women's lib, many women are forced to go to work. The house stays empty all day. It is an expensive hotel that people use to take a shower and sleep and get ready to go somewhere else the next day. 

Sometimes its pathetic to think of the drivel Lady Lydia comes up with. It is even sadder when one remembers she has a following.

Conception of Ladies Against Feminism by Lady Lydia

Ambit Gambit has a post on Ladies Against Feminism, which is hilariously funny.

It says things like "Armed with a Bible, an Edwardian Apron Pattern and the booklet of Christian Modesty, the LAF are fighting for, or at least demurely crafting, a version of femaleness that probably only existed in pre-twentieth century romantic fiction."

Excerpts from this real-fun article:

"LAF's website, which was no doubt embroidered one day when columnist Mrs. Stanley Sherman's husband was calling on parishioners and her bairns were playing impetuous, but Godly, games, is adorned with the kind of treacly images that suggests it could be a parody.

A modest perusal of How to Get Back Home and Responsible Manhood reveals, however, that these ladies aren't taking the piss.

Unsurprisingly, there are no pictures from olden times of over-worked females in factories, servants cleaning day and night for a pittance or destitute wives surrounded by hungry and grubby kids.

Like much of the retrogressive advice aimed at women, LAF is pure bourgeois fantasy and could be used as evidence that watching too many BBC costume dramas addles the brain.

It's also unadulterated hogwash; imagine a site called Negroes Opposed to the Civil Rights Movement (NOCRM), with sections devoted to appropriate slave wear and tips on how to behave around your owner.

NOCRM recommends silver chains and a permanently bowed head so he knows who's boss."

I just love the line: "LAF is proof that too many BBC costume dramas addles the brain."

Do read the original post - Discriminating Ladies at Ambit Gambit.

Submission as a revolutionary calling?

I Blame the Patriarchy tells us what is wrong with women thinking submission is the pathway to heaven.

She says:

"It’s called, as reported by AlterNet, The Patriarchy Movement. Like all patriarchy movements, it mixes godbaggery and misogyny, and apparently blames feminism for the “wimpy theology” that has turned modern god-fearin’ women into basket cases “whose hearts are broken over the gender confusion and the spiritual and emotional and relational carnage of our day.” Fans of submission in the weaker sex are calling for a return to “biblical womanhood,” which I guess means spending the day washing their husbands flowing robes on rocks. AlterNet warns us not to laugh too hard at the so-called True Women, because their numbers (6000 Christian submissives convened in Chicago last year to discuss how great things were for women in the 1950s) are too big to ignore, but Jesus in a jetpack!"

Read the full post at I Blame the Patriarchy blog.