And the solution to this, from my point of view, is for men to rightfully reassert their positions within Christianity as the leaders.
Part of the issue is male leadership in the church. IE, the priesthood.
No, not in the way you're thinking. See, I had a weird upbringing, so I'm familiar with what men have to go through to become an actual priest. And one of the things involved is a college education.
Priests aren't stupid. I think most of them are very, very smart. Educated, at the very least. Smart enough to realize what could be the most threatening factor to civilization as it stands - single, violent young men at odds and bereft from the world as a whole.
Hence the overall push - to start young, and keep pushing the modern interpretation of scripture, shorn of historical context, neutered of violence and pushed overall to be docile.
Do I have proof? No. This is pure theory, pure conjecture. And likely just one factor among many. But I don't think I'm wrong. We'll see.
No doubt there are many contributing components. I don't disagree with your comment, but I would put it another way - the priesthood reflects the population they are from, or in other words, we get the priests we deserve.
I still think the most important factor, at least the one the individual men can actually make a dent into, is that men as a whole are too enslaved by sin to lead as Christians. You just need to look at this forum to see multitudes of men defending their own enslavement by pornography, masturbation and fornication (sexual sins are probably to most easy to fall into, especially for men, which is why chastity is a universal virtue). At a first step, individual men need to choose not to sin for their own sake, i.e. their own personal salvation, and once they start doing so they can step into the role God intends - to lead their societies according to His law.
Part of the issue is male leadership in the church. IE, the priesthood.
No, not in the way you're thinking. See, I had a weird upbringing, so I'm familiar with what men have to go through to become an actual priest. And one of the things involved is a college education.
Priests aren't stupid. I think most of them are very, very smart. Educated, at the very least. Smart enough to realize what could be the most threatening factor to civilization as it stands - single, violent young men at odds and bereft from the world as a whole.
Hence the overall push - to start young, and keep pushing the modern interpretation of scripture, shorn of historical context, neutered of violence and pushed overall to be docile.
Do I have proof? No. This is pure theory, pure conjecture. And likely just one factor among many. But I don't think I'm wrong. We'll see.
No doubt there are many contributing components. I don't disagree with your comment, but I would put it another way - the priesthood reflects the population they are from, or in other words, we get the priests we deserve.
I still think the most important factor, at least the one the individual men can actually make a dent into, is that men as a whole are too enslaved by sin to lead as Christians. You just need to look at this forum to see multitudes of men defending their own enslavement by pornography, masturbation and fornication (sexual sins are probably to most easy to fall into, especially for men, which is why chastity is a universal virtue). At a first step, individual men need to choose not to sin for their own sake, i.e. their own personal salvation, and once they start doing so they can step into the role God intends - to lead their societies according to His law.