“It’s a basic fact of anthropology that all societies have been patriarchies. As Aristotle said, men rule. And since grace builds on nature, Gordon writes that “Christ established not only a clerical patriarchy … but also a lay patriarchy.” Each husband is priest, prophet, and king of the mini-Church of his own household. Yet the teaching of Scripture that “as the church is subject to Christ, so let wives also be subject in everything to their husbands” is amended with many caveats in Catholic missals.
Why? As Gordon stresses, it’s because the Church leaders have become ashamed of patriarchy…
Put simply, the red-pill movement is an embrace of materialistic evolutionary psychology—to acknowledge and give in to our animal desires and behaviors. In Christian terms, it’s the concupiscence of “the flesh,” or the inclination of our fallen bodies towards sin. Because red-pill writers are willing to touch on the darker realities of human sexuality—especially female sexuality—men feel they are hearing things the Church failed to mention. The red-pilled tell men, rightly, that life is hard (especially for men) and they must work hard to man up. They also tell men, rightly, that women will test them, that women lust and can’t be sexually satisfied by a Ned Flanders personality….
The crisis of masculinity in society and the appeal of the red pill is thus a reflection of the crisis of masculinity in Christianity. But the red-pill view of human nature is wrong. Christianity recognizes we are fallen and inclined to disorder: virtue is hard, but vice is easy. St. Augustine called this “the languor of nature,” describing sin as being almost a second nature—but only almost. Unlike the deterministic, materialistic red-pill worldview, Christianity says we aren’t compelled to sin. The devil can only tempt us to it by working on our imagination and appetites…” Read it all:
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