Wow, there's a more masculine Christianity, who knew?
So "more masculine" means enduring physical pain if not masochism - it sounds more like they want to be bitches who get punished - and away from women - which is kind of gay.
Quote:Young men leaving traditional churches for ‘masculine’ Orthodox Christianity in droves
Ben Christenson was raised Anglican — church every Sunday, a religious school, and Christian camp every summer. But he watched as traditions went by the wayside: The robed choir was swapped out for a worship band, lines were blurred on female ordination, and long-held stances on LGBT issues shifted.
Conversion means that he now must frequently attend confession, recite prescribed prayers, and endure extreme fasting, sometimes over 40-day stretches. Weekly services are also highly ritualized and regimented, and can last up to two hours. [sounds worse than Scientology]
As more and more Protestant churches unfurl Pride flags and Black Lives Matter banners in front of their gates, young men are trending toward more traditional forms of worship.
A survey of Orthodox churches around the country found that parishes saw a 78% increase in converts in 2022, compared with pre-pandemic levels in 2019. And while historically men and women converted in equal numbers, vastly more men have joined the church since 2020.
“The feminization of non-Orthodox forms of Christianity in America has been in high gear for decades,” Father Josiah Trenham explained.
He points to the fact that the vast majority of attendees at most Christian churches are female, and many services are accordingly dominated by emotional songs, swaying, uplifted hands, and eyes closed in ecstasy.
“Feminized” worship is exactly what pushed Elijah Wee Sit, a 17-year-old from Toronto, to explore Orthodoxy.
“Christianity in North America has become extremely emotional,” Wee Sit, who was raised Evangelical, told The Post. “Going to Evangelical worship services, I found it to be like emotionally driven rock concerts, with the lifting up of the hands.”
https://nypost.com/2024/12/03/us-news/yo...in-droves/
So "more masculine" means enduring physical pain if not masochism - it sounds more like they want to be bitches who get punished - and away from women - which is kind of gay.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
