Jesus The Meek

I left a comment on this post and thought it’d make a good post, so here:

Interesting article, well-written.

Not just the Church, but America, has lost its idea of what being a man means. Manliness is natural, and every man ultimately understands that intuitively. It's built-in, God-created.

It does not mean hyper-aggressive, but it does mean competitive. It does not mean violent, but it does mean having a "stand-up, take charge" attitude. In other words, it is a soldierly attitude: one that shows solid, honorable dependency, a knightly attitude.

For the last 60 years, this attitude has become anathema; America is systematically beating this characteristic out of its men and boys and there are few men standing athwart history, yelling “stop!” without the fusillade of invective (misogynist!!) directed their way. Many men'd rather disengage.

Which allows society free reign to reconfigure the male brain into a gentler, gelded vision of natural itself. From the moment a boy steps into daycare and until college—if he gets to attend—his role models are female. Those from whom he seeks approval are 90% female. And many times, these female teachers will not tolerate “normal,” i.e. generally rowdy male behavior in class. No, what they want are easy-going boy-girls. Girls, on the other hand, are uniquely and naturally suited for such environments. I believe this is the main source of the explosion in mood modifying drug prescriptions for boys of school age.

Unfortunately, this beat-down does not kill but merely diverts natural male inclinations so that we now see Christian (young) men taking the tough guy, MMA route. It's cosmetic, but betrays the guys' natural drives. Isn't that ironic?

The modern Church shares the guilt in allowing this state of affairs to continue and is being rewarded by the distinct lack of male attendance—at least not until those males are in their 70s and basically “inert.” Jesus The Meek hasn't left the building, he's still there whimpering in the corner.

I don’t know if I got my point across well, but who cares? No one’ll listen anyway.