When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
- 2 Kings 11:1
“To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature, contumelious to God, a thing most contrary to his revealed will and approved ordinance, and finally it is the subversion of good order, and of all equity and justice.”
To modern ears could a more offensive sentence be found in all of literature? Not having read all of literature, this author does not pretend to be able to answer that question definitively. Yet with that said, it is hard to imagine an idea more repugnant to 21st century readers than this quote from John Knox’s essay “The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women” (hereafter, TMR).
We have, all of us living in the West in the early 21st century, been steeped in feminist theory from our youth up to the point where, for most of us, Knox’s words are little more than noise from a bygone era with no relevance for us today, except perhaps as a cautionary tale to warn us about how bad the bad old days really were.
Liberal Democrats, were they to read Knox, would quickly be triggered, alternating between outrage, ridicule and calls to have his ideas removed from social media. Conservative Republicans, on the other hand, would attempt explain away what Knox wrote by saying that he was a product of his age, that what he was really writing against was 16th century liberal women and that if he were alive today he would gladly support a female presidential candidate so long as she was pro-life, pro-Second Amendment and promised to fight against the Green New Deal.
Lux Lucet 
Excellent, Steve. That reformed/Calvinistic churches aren’t willing to contradict the feminist narrative is of no wonder to me. Contentment with the inevitable persecution that arises from maintaining a faithful witness is an incredibly rare commodity in this day and age.
Thanks, Andrew. I’m glad you liked the piece. It’s frustrating to see that so few Reformed men are willing to talk about the Bible’s prohibition on women in positions of political authority. John Robbins understood this as does Paul Elliott. Perhaps there are others, but it’s unfortunately rare to see anyone bring up the subject.