may
not man's relation to woman be compared to what is called making a side
remark.
Man was structured for eternity; woman leads him into a side remark.
In this world man without woman is weaker; he has a weak side which
woman protects, and united they have strength for this life. But
Christianly this weakness, the weakness of the solitary, weakness for
this life, is a part of being strong for eternity.
- Basically it is terrible but true, and it expresses the dreadful
extent to which it is true - Christianity simply does not exit.
This is the real situation in Christendom, especially in Protestantism.
The men - and that means the miserable weaklings and clods that are
called men these days, compared to the Oriental idea of what it is to be
a man - men turn away from religion with a certain pride and egotism and
say: Religion (Christianity) is something for women and children.
But the truth of the matter is that Christianity as it is found in the
New Testament has such prodigious aims that, strictly speaking, it
cannot be a religion for women, at most secondhand, and is impossible
for children.
As a psychologist I maintain that no woman can endure a dialectical
redoubling, and everything that is essentially Christian is
intrinsically dialectical.
The essentially Christian task requires a man, it takes a man's
toughness and strength simply to be able to bear the pressure of the
task.
A good which is identified by its hurting, a deliverance which is
identified by its making me unhappy, a grace which is identified by
suffering, etc. - all this, and everything essentially Christian is like
this, no woman can bear, she will lose her mind if she is to be put
under the tension of this strenuousness.
As far as children
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