Opinion: Happy Father’s Day: Fathers have a moral sacred duty to teach their sons divine masculinity

 

In a world gone mad with moral irrelevance and immoral normalcy, I’d like to say thanks for everything my father has done for me and everything that he has taught me throughout my life.

 Sometimes while growing up, I didn’t realize what my dad was trying to teach me nor did understand the methods he sometimes used to teach me valuable lessons in life, but now I do. The older I get the smarter my father becomes.

 To me, my father has probably been one of the biggest influences in my life and is one of the greatest men to ever live, although he would never admit to such a high claim.

 My father has always been a modest and humble man, a man that never has a whole lot to say but means what he says when he does have something to say, and he always stands his ground. He never worries about being politically correct, what people think about him. He just does what he thinks and believes to be right. In today’s world, some say he’s wrong and should be cancelled. CNN would call him a case of classic toxic masculinity and dangerous, but they would be wrong.

 While Teddy J. Spain is a bad ass and 100 percent masculine, he is zero percent toxic. He lived the life of a soldier and then a cowboy on cattle ranches in California in the 1970’s where he met my mother.

 My earliest memory of my father was waking up before the sun to have breakfast with him before he left for work. He was always working while I was growing up. He worked two of the toughest jobs out there, farming and construction.

 Even though he worked two jobs he was never too tired or too busy for me, and somehow someway he always found the time to teach me how to play baseball in the backyard, and I don’t think the man ever missed one little league game. I’m still not sure how he did it, but like I said, bad ass.

He taught me the world can be a tough place and men must be strong enough to overcome it. He taught me how to shoot, the responsibility that came with a gun, and how to hunt. He taught me never to start a fight, but if you find yourself in one, fight back.

 If I had to describe in one word the most important thing I watched my father do while growing up, I would have to say sacrifice. He worked two jobs, and I hardly ever remember him taking a day off. He never complained about doing it. He just did it.

 All those years he worked both jobs, he never had a new truck. We never had a new car, but we always had one that ran. We could have had a lot of nice things, but my father sacrificed and did with out to make sure that we had everything that we needed and opportunities that he did not.

 He sacrificed his whole life to send my two brothers and myself to a private catholic school. He did it to make sure that we had the best education that money could buy. At the time, I didn’t understand that, and didn’t even care all that much, but I do now, and I am forever grateful for it.

 However, the most valuable lessons that I have learned in life did not come from school. They came from the way of my father. They are lessons and values that cannot be taught in any school and that is the value of hard work, discipline, preparation, accountability, responsibility, faith in God and character.

 These lessons are just as applicable now as they were to me growing up. But probably the most valuable lesson that he has taught me so far is that the world doesn’t owe me a favor, and nobody is going to hand me anything in life I have to earn every bit of it. He showed me that I am always loved by him, but that I am never, ever entitled.

 He also made sure that I was thankful for what I have. I remember one time when I was whining and complaining about how things at work were going, and how I didn’t like my job. I was having a real 1-800 Waa-Haaa moment in my twenties. He didn’t say anything as I complained at first, then, all of a sudden, he just looked over at me and said, “be thankful that you’re working, a lot of guys don’t have jobs right now to complain about.” That’s my dad.

  Life is never about him. I mean, two jobs is what it took. It wasn’t a big deal to him. He was just doing what he had to do. He wasn’t trying to impress anybody. He wasn’t trying to attract attention. He was just trying to fulfill a responsibility, and he did whatever it took for his family.

  Father’s Day is a celebration of fatherhood and of manhood. God bless all the men out there taking their roles seriously, but I feel men today in America are being conditioned to conform and fall in line instead of leading and being men. We’re told we should be less masculine and manly, because manliness is toxic masculinity and responsible for the ills of the world but that is a lie.

 Toxic masculinity is the bully on the playground. It's the liar that smears his adversaries with false accusations to justify his destruction in the conquer of adversaries for what he says is for the better good of the whole. It's the self-serving, heartless greed that deals in coercive deception of false flags...

 Toxic masculinity is indeed masculinity, but it is unchecked masculinity lacking in a moral compass. It's unfortunately rampant in leadership positions throughout the Eastern and Western world right now to include in our own government, the halls of British Parliament, Canada and Australia.

  The solution to toxic masculinity is not the emasculation of men as the Western world has attempted to achieve over the years. The West has raised an entire generation of boys that have been taught, no matter what, it's never OK to fight. Fighting the bully on the playground is never the answer. Instead, find an adult.

 Well, they've outgrown the playground and are now the adults and the bullies are in charge. They have no idea how to confront, deal or fight them. It's a bad place for the Western world to be right now. 

 Where will boys learn to be men if not from us? Will they learn it in schools? Not likely. The media, entertainment or culture? The government? The internet?

 We need to teach boys about genuine divine masculinity that teaches the difference between right and wrong. The honor and integrity that says do the right thing even if no one is watching, and it says sometimes you have to fight the bully to protect yourself and those unable to protect themselves from the evils of the world.

Genuine divine masculinity is the masculinity that ridded the world of Adolf Hitler and NAZI Germany, and one day, maybe sooner than later, it may have to do it again or be ruled by the tyranny of toxic masculinity.

 It’s a father’s sacred duty to teach the lessons of this responsible masculinity to their sons. Our society, culture and the world will be doomed without it.

 Happy Father’s Day. Here’s to the fathers passing on the lessons and thank you dad for the bad ass lessons in manhood.