{"id":159610,"date":"2025-03-12T13:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T21:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=159610"},"modified":"2025-03-13T06:56:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T14:56:48","slug":"why-are-churches-anti-men-3-12-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=159610","title":{"rendered":"Why Are Churches Anti-Men? (3-12-25)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yLXaLFzkQDY?si=p3BXprnk6jw8okb7\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>  <a title=\"Click to play at 01:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#60\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"60\">01:00<\/a> Aaron Renn: When Selfishness Becomes Celebrated: How modern culture repackages marital abandonment as radical self-love, with little counter-narrative from religious voices,<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/selfish-abandonment\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/selfish-abandonment<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 09:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#540\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"540\">09:00<\/a> Dennis Prager&#8217;s First Public Message<br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 11:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#660\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"660\">11:00<\/a> Rodney Martin needs your prayers<br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 24:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#1440\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"1440\">24:00<\/a> Aaron Renn: Tradcons Are the Enemy of the American Man, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/tradcons-are-the-enemy-of-the-american\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/tradcons-are-the-enemy-of-the-american<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 30:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#1800\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"1800\">30:00<\/a> How to navigate a low trust America, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/betrayal\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/betrayal<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 39:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#2340\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"2340\">39:00<\/a> There&#8217;s Never Been a Better Time to Be a Man in America, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/a-good-time-to-be-a-man\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/a-good-time-to-be-a-man<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 45:20\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#2720\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"2720\">45:20<\/a> How J.D. Vance Avoided Becoming Pete Buttigieg, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/vance-buttigieg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/vance-buttigieg<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 52:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#3120\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"3120\">52:00<\/a> The Basis of Attraction, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/newsletter-17-the-basis-of-attraction\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/newsletter-17-the-basis-of-attraction<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 57:20\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#3440\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"3440\">57:20<\/a> The Valorization of Selfishness: Society&#8217;s message today is too often that you should care more about yourself and your own pleasure, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/selfishness\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/selfishness<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:06:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#3960\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"3960\">1:06:00<\/a> Christians are not persecuted in America but all is not well, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/persecution\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/persecution<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:15:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#4500\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"4500\">1:15:00<\/a> NYT: At Columbia, Tension Over Gaza Protests Hits Breaking Point Under Trump, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/12\/nyregion\/columbia-university-trump-protests.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/12\/nyregion\/columbia-university-trump-protests.html<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:22:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#4920\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"4920\">1:22:00<\/a> The differences and implications of the buffered identity vs the porous identity, <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=159273\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=159273<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:27:20\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#5240\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"5240\">1:27:20<\/a> Mark Halperin on Trump\u2019s First 100 Days, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kJC46Ng110k\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kJC46Ng110k<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:36:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#5760\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"5760\">1:36:00<\/a> More Universities Are Choosing to Stay Neutral on the Biggest Issues, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/11\/us\/institutional-neutrality-universities-free-speech.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/11\/us\/institutional-neutrality-universities-free-speech.html<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:40:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#6000\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"6000\">1:40:00<\/a> Women and the Attractiveness Curve, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/newsletter-18-women-and-the-attractiveness\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/newsletter-18-women-and-the-attractiveness<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:55:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#6900\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"6900\">1:55:00<\/a> Implications of the Rise of Online Dating, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/newsletter-50-the-truth-about-online\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/newsletter-50-the-truth-about-online<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 2:01:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#7260\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"7260\">2:01:00<\/a> NYT: Ambitious Democrats Have a New Game Plan: Yak It Up About Sports, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/09\/us\/politics\/democrats-sports-podcasts-male-voters.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/09\/us\/politics\/democrats-sports-podcasts-male-voters.html<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 2:07:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#7620\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"7620\">2:07:00<\/a> All events are ephemeral, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/c0734fa8-9b29-4f8e-848d-589dc92edbb8\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/c0734fa8-9b29-4f8e-848d-589dc92edbb8<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 2:12:45\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#7965\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"7965\">2:12:45<\/a> Why do Christian men keep proclaiming: &#8220;I&#8217;m Not Worthy of This Woman&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/im-not-worthy-of-this-woman\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/im-not-worthy-of-this-woman<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 2:16:20\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#8180\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"8180\">2:16:20<\/a> Here&#8217;s What Conservative Institutional Capture Looks Like, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/capturing-institutions\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/capturing-institutions<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 2:21:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#8460\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"8460\">2:21:00<\/a> Beauty Is Not Just in the Eye of the Beholder, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/beauty\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/beauty<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 2:24:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#8640\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"8640\">2:24:00<\/a> Anti-Trump evangelicals are very organized and well-funded, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/the-resistance-will-be-organized\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/the-resistance-will-be-organized<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 2:26:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#8760\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"8760\">2:26:00<\/a> Anti-Trump evangelicals are very organized and well-funded, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/the-resistance-will-be-organized\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/the-resistance-will-be-organized<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 2:31:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#9060\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"9060\">2:31:00<\/a> Aaron Renn: Affinity Group Migration and the Quest for Community, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/the-resistance-will-be-organized\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/the-resistance-will-be-organized<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 2:36:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#9360\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"9360\">2:36:00<\/a> Become Illegible: In the negative world, people should look at ways to become less visible to governments and other entities<br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 2:40:50\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#9650\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"9650\">2:40:50<\/a> Why Men Hate Going to Church (with David Murrow), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aqeJFtMD-k4\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aqeJFtMD-k4<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 2:48:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#10080\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"10080\">2:48:00<\/a> The Emergence of the Post-Religious Right, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/the-emergence-of-the-post-religious\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/the-emergence-of-the-post-religious<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 2:54:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#10440\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"10440\">2:54:00<\/a> Conservative Elites Prefer Living in Progressive Elite Cities, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/conservative-elites-prefer-living\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/conservative-elites-prefer-living<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 3:01:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#10860\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"10860\">3:01:00<\/a> The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, <a href=\"https:\/\/claremontreviewofbooks.com\/protestant-deformation\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/claremontreviewofbooks.com\/protestant-deformation\/<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 3:16:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#11760\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"11760\">3:16:00<\/a> Jesse Waters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>01:00 Aaron Renn: When Selfishness Becomes Celebrated: How modern culture repackages marital abandonment as radical self-love, with little counter-narrative from religious voices, https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/selfish-abandonment09:00 Dennis Prager&#8217;s First Public Message11:00 Rodney Martin needs your prayers24:00 Aaron Renn: Tradcons Are the Enemy of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=159610\">Continue reading <span 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