[freeforall]

Explains the appeal of Islam!'short-sighted' risks

[johniegrad]

Does this mean that all men should go on Depo-Provera?

[Argh]

Huh! I thought it was because on Sunday the NFL conflicts with church in the western part of the country. (lame joke, I know)

[IronJack]

patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men

Uh huh. Those the same patterns that are responsible for every major development in Western civilization? We should ALL be so myopic ...

[mfulstone]

Nope

It's because men aren't flooded with smarmy-emotion-inducing hormones every month. Therefore, they examine religion without emotional bias.

[Chemnitz]

The feminist church has driven most men from the typical congregation. Look at how the ELCA, the Presbyterian Church, the Methodist Church, and the Episcopalians have gone downhill in the last 20 years. Add the "witness" of the Unitarian Universalist Association. (In truth, all the denominations follow the UAA trends by a few years.)

Notice that Wisconsin Synod and the Missouri Synod want to be just like the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Like the ELCA, those two synods are failing. White-washed sepulchres full of dead men's bones.

[moyden]

Or could it be that mainstream denominations (like those found in Canada) are primarily social clubs that offer little concrete principle to believe in.

[RLK]

I inhibit my impulses. My standards of morality would make the average minister cringe in fear, which is why we don't get along. People of the cloth tend to have the lowest IQ and MAT scores of all the professions, which make conversation and other association with them a burden. I do not believe people once lived to be 900 years old. The Bible is a hidiously gruesome brutal document of doubtful historical fact. It has nothing to do with risk-taking.

[gcruse]

 "It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking..."

In that case, it would be wise to fervently believe in every
religion that has ever come to the mind of man.  People who
are religious because of the risk of not being so are cowardly.
Such a calculated faith is more worthless than an unexamined one swallowed whole.

[Nick Danger]

A business that holds its customers in such contempt would be on its way to bankruptcy.

What's that? He can't get men to come to his church? No surprise there.

The customers are not the enemy. I repeat: the customers are not the enemy.

[MHT]

Such drivel......

The reason that men don't like church is the same reason that little boys don't like to sit still. It's boring. There's no action and it often takes supreme concentration to get through the often repetitious ritual to the intellectual meat. There is great room for distraction and day-dreaming.

I also think that many men, over the years, have been able to see through the absolute shallowness of many of today's clergy and because more men are conservative by nature, they don't buy the liberal agenda pushed on a captive audience from the pulpit. Women are more "touchy-feely" so they feel more comfortable with the micro-managing solutions offered by many modern churches. For men who like engagement in the process, there is no opportunity for criticism or discussion, so why bother?

[Eternal_Bear]

Maybe men don't attend Church because they are more rational and logical?

[JoeSixPack1]

MEN = BAD
White MEN = Badder
White Christian MEN = really, really bad
All other demoninational MEN = almost as really bad but not as bad as "really, really bad"

Women = exempt

Let's bash men today!!!
Today?
Why is today different?
Because it's not yesterday.
oh.

[aristeides]

Biological differences between men and women mean that men are more likely to have an "underdeveloped ability to inhibit their impulses," he said. "Especially those involving immediately gratification and thrills."

And what about impulses to defend others, especially women and children? Any reason you choose not to mention those, Dr.? Think there might not be a reason why this tendency is biologically favored?

[Republic If You Can Keep It]

....men are more likely to have an "underdeveloped ability to inhibit their impulses,"

Notice the implication here. If males & females are different, it is obviously the males who are lacking.

FEMALE = NORMAL

MALE = ABNORMAL

Any questions?

[tubebender]

This is the answer I have been searching for for years but I doubt my wife is going to like any better than the others I have used...(she thinks Nascar is on every Sunday)

[who knows what evil?]

The watered-down 'politically-correct' message eminating from the pulpit is what is driving MEN from the church in wholesale numbers...nothing else. This explains the explosive growth of underground churches in this country. (I have one right next door to my house.)

[TightSqueeze]

"High testosterone levels have been proven to make men more likely to..."

Testosterone is our friend.

[Mustang]

"...Emanuella Grinberg..."

Yep, he ate the brown acid at Woodstock '69.

[meyer]

Sunday morning is the only time that men have to get things done around the house without interference. Its good to separate once in a while.

Plus, church is often boring.

That said, this is quite the generalization. I haven't counted heads on Sunday morning of late, but I suspect that there's plenty of men in most churches on Sunday morning or whenever a particular religious ceremony is held.

[MonroeDNA]

Men go to church because women make them.