Rollo Tomassi - The Rational Male – Religion

The Rational Male Volume IV Religion

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I ts no secret that Ive been a regular follower of Christian-Manosphere blogger Dalrocks work for over ten years now.

Along with Dal I also consider bloggers like Donalgraeme and a few others in what used to be called the Christo-Manosphere as Red Pill colleagues, if not virtual friends. Ive always held Dalrock as a sort of Red Pill brother since both our blogs came up around the same time. Ive quoted and credited him in all three of my prior books.

I did so because there was a time I considered pursuing a path in my writing that would follow the same Red Pill critique of religion, (Christianity for Dal) at least occasionally. After reading Dalrocks early posts I decided against it. Dal has earned the respect of the Manosphere for his Red Pill lens on contemporary Christianity for good reason he was a consummate statistician and researcher. The bonus was hes what Id call embedded within modern (mostly Evangelical) church culture. He was thorough in a way I couldnt hope to do justice to in that part of the Manosphere.

On my own blog I never go into detail about my own faith for a couple of reasons. First is, its only peripherally relevant in my writing. Secondly, its always been my position that the Red Pill needed to remain fundamentally areligious and apolitical. That said, I am familiar enough with Churchian culture and the social side of mainstream religion to understand it through my own Red Pill lens. When I analyze Red Pill principles within social contexts I always have a hard time with religion. It grates on me because Im of the opinion that ones religious beliefs, ones interaction with existence and life, ones consideration of the spiritual, ought to be something personal and private if its in anyway sincere. For some, it can be a source of vulnerability and exploitation which is nothing new to anyone. Its one thing to be agnostic and trapped in a Blue Pill world, but its quite another to have been raised to adulthood in a religious context then coming to terms with having deep ego-investments shattered by a new Red Pill awareness.

Creating Religion in the Image of the Feminine Imperative

For the past five generations, theres been a concerted re-engineering of religion to better suit the ends of a Feminine Imperative. This is not just about the plummeting membership statistics of Christian denominations. Rather, this assimilation of religion applies to all religions in various stages. Today, men are sold the romantic feminine-correct idealism of an old social contract while living in a social context that confounds that very idealism. To effect this, religion must be coopted by the feminine. The old books religions are replaced wholesale by a feminine-interpreted, feminine-directed religion that places womens imperatives as its highest authority or theyre restructured and rewritten to serve the same feminine-primary objectives. For over ten years Dalrock masterfully documented, and rightly criticized, these shifts in Christianity. Although Ill be focusing on western Christianity, this re-engineering of modern religion is not limited in any way to Abrahamic faiths. A Red Pill perspective reveals many uncomfortable truths about religion. One of these is how well a Gynocentric social order has succeeded in supplanting masculine influence in religion with feminine correctness.

I expect there will be female critics wholl parrot that in most of church culture its still predominantly men who control churches and religious organizations, but in the era of feminine social primacy, its not who executes the control, but whose beliefs control the executors. Pair this with the commercial commodification of religion and we can see the spheres of feminine influence and feminine-primary purpose. After decades of following the religious aspects of the Red Pill, I think its time men acknowledge that modern religious cultures simply do not have mens best interests as part of its doctrines anymore. Even the religions we perceive as rigidly patriarchal are subject to this New Order of deference to the feminine. Christianity, in particular, is by women, for women if not directly executed by women though even that is changing. Church culture is now openly hostile towards any expression of conventional masculinity that doesnt directly benefit women and actively conditions men to be serviceable, effeminate, gender-loathing Beta males. Men who, generationally, have no concept of conventional masculinity. The feminist narrative of toxic masculinity has entirely replaced any semblance of what traditional masculinity or manhood once was to the church. Any hint of a masculinity not entirely beholden to a now feminine-primary purpose is not only feared but shamed with feminine-defined aspersions of faith.

Our current generation is the least religious in history. In one of the largest studies ever conducted on shifts in American religious involvement, researchers at San Diego State University (2015) found that Millennials are the least religious generation in the last six decades. This study showed that this lower religious involvement is due to cultural change, not to millennials being young and unsettled. As far as men are concerned, much of that disdain for religion is attributable to a church culture that persistently and openly ridicules and debases any male-specific endeavors. It ridicules any characteristic of conventional masculinity not useful to female utility, and withholds Manhood from a generation of men preconditioned to loathe their own gender. Its no secret in todays church franchises that reaching out to and retaining the interests of men is at its most difficult. This is attributable to generations of feminized men being raised into religious cultures, and eventual church leadership, that has been taught to prioritize and identify with the feminine and reinforced with new articles of faith redefined by the Feminine Imperative. The modern church has trouble reaching men because the church no longer has a grasp of what it means to be men.

To be clear, this is not an indictment of sincere faith itself, but rather, its a measured observation of the way feminine-primary religious cultures have shaped these faiths. In the future, any man with a marginal capacity for critical thought will avoid the old order church and other more orthodox religions for the obvious misandry they espouse. The only religious men to be found will be those raised into a life of religiously motivated male servitude or those dragged to the feminine-influenced church by wives and mothers who hold authoritative headship in their relationships, while their husbands endlessly seek more ways to qualify for their wives approval to received