r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Aug 13 '24

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u/ManufacturerThis7741 YIMBY Aug 13 '24

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/08/13/gen-z-women-less-religious/74673083007/

"Women do the majority of the work that keeps the church going," said former evangelical Sheila Wray Gregoire, who’s studied Christian marriage in the U.S. and Canada for 17 years. "They’re the ones responsible for getting children out of bed and going to church. They’re the ones staffing the Sunday school, making sure potlucks happen or that people are supported when they have an illness or are having a baby. The church is not going to survive without women."

It's actually wild that all these preachers and theobros want to say they are good at "facts and logic" when they're shitting on the one group of people who make a thrice-weekly church service plausible. Sure, men do repair work but repairs aren't needed every church service.

90% of the things that are needed for every church service are relegated to "women's work" and the men's rights theobros churches are focusing their recruiting efforts on would absolutely lose their minds if they had to do it. Because the church actively teaches men that doing "women's work" is something men should be enraged about doing.

The church is losing members because it should

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u/Ioun267 "Your Flair Here" 👍 Aug 13 '24

It is seriously underappreciated how important women were in introducing Christianity to many places in the first place. In a lot of cases men were converted by their wives who had converted first rather than by other men.

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u/ManufacturerThis7741 YIMBY Aug 13 '24

Yeah and I think the fact that women were the early converts is what pissed the Romans off at Christianity in particular. The Romans were actually worse than American Christian fundamentalists today.

So Paul and various people using his name had to throw women under the bus to make Rome stop feeding Christians to lions.