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To: Legatus
Males have been made to feel that being interested in God or being Christian is not "manly".

This is nothing new sadly.

So few males are willing to grow up and be men.

Christianity teaches that a man should rule his appetites not be a slave to them. This is not a happy notion after you have been raised with a boys will be boys mentality.

It is easy to say that it is just this day and age but it is not. For centuries males have treated church as a social club and religion as something only for children, women and perhaps old men.

In historical paintings, how many of them picture young men in church, reading the Bible or praying?

Now how many show them fighting or at play?

20 posted on 04/07/2015 4:28:19 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
It is easy to say that it is just this day and age but it is not.

Win, place and show. People of my parents' age and older consistently say their fathers didn't attend church regularly, didn't seem concerned about religion or their eternal destiny. (My own grandfather, an old Orangeman, worked the night shift on the railroad and spent the days drinking in the basement with his cat.)

No matter what time period you lived in, from the days Jesus walked the earth until today, there were always those who turned to Him and those who didn't. Those who didn't had reasons that sounded good to them and their contemporaries. Those who did had Christ.

22 posted on 04/07/2015 4:33:29 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Be afraid only of thoughtlessness and pusillanimity." ~ Pope John Paul II)
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