Be encouraged! In the under-the-radar file, one month ago the New York Times quietly ran an incredibly promising story headlined, “In a First Among Christians, Young Men Are More Religious Than Young Women.”
The sub-headline added, “It has the potential to reshape both politics and family life.” That is an understatement.
“We’ve never seen it before,” said Ryan Burge, associate professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University. Something is happening. They weren’t even trying to increase young men’s attendance:
Young women, unfortunately, are headed the exact other direction. Twenty years of wokeness has produced this, a generation of men who earn less on average than women:
On the other hand, Generation Z’s men are more likely than its women to want kids and have a family. And, late in the story, the Times noted a shocking but related statistic that: “almost three in 10 Gen Z women identify as belonging to the L.G.B.T.Q.+ community.”
That would be a problem for staying in a conservative church. What’s causing the epidemic of young women to identify as LGBTQ?
And … politics appeared to be the gist.
Unstated, not explicitly, was the fact that Gen Z’s men seem to be drawn not just to any churches, but to conservative churches (like the Southern Baptists, which cropped up again and again). Whereas young women are being repelled and pushed to join woke churches.
“At this moment in Christian history,” the reported opined, “American men and women are on divergent paths.” Politically divergent, that is. Politics has finally invaded spirituality instead of the other way around.
The realignment is bigger than young people’s choice of church. This welcome spiritual trend among men appears only to be a symptom of a bigger realignment. Behold this headline from just four days ago, in the New Yorker. Young men aren’t voting the way liberals want them to, and so they are even more firmly in the woke crosshairs than they even were before:
Compare that headline to this next headline, from the far-left Florida Keys’ Islander, dated the same day:
So funny. Let’s play spot the bias! (Where’s Jeff Bezos?) When young men vote for Trump, the papers ask what’s wrong with them? But when young women vote for Kamala, it’s portrayed as a positive.
Let’s call that what it is. Propaganda. And it must be influential on young women, who don’t want to have people asking what’s wrong with them.
Do you suppose it’s been completely natural and wholly organic that America’s young women bucked the conservative trend and veered wide left?
Or, could it perhaps have something to do with relentless political propaganda and faux peer pressure promising them fake happiness and feeding them terrifying pabulum about the patriarchy?
You tell me. But let’s celebrate the good news for our young men, who are getting plugged into the only thing that can help them now. And, in the long term, the ladies will probably go where the men are anyway.
