Gen Z Men Are Going Back to Church. Why? Young men are increasingly more religious. Young women are leaving the church

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Gen Z Men Are Going Back to Church. Why?
Young men are increasingly more religious. Young women are leaving the church in droves. Their motivations might not be so different
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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/10/men-women-politics-gen-z-trump-harris-church-christianity-religion-gender-divide.html

By Jill Filipovic Oct 11, 202411:22 AM

Something strange is going on with young men in America. For decades, young voters have leaned left compared to older ones: Millennials remain the most liberal generation of American adults, and as more zoomers reach adulthood, they seem set to surpass even their predecessors’ liberalism. A related shift in religiosity is also underway, with millennials being the least religious generation in American history, and members of Gen Z similarly moving away from organized faith traditions.

But within these macro trends, a divide has cleaved open. Among zoomers, young men are now more religious than young women—and women have defected from the Christian faith in larger numbers than young men. And while men, in general, are slightly more conservative than women, young men seem to be much more conservative than young women, especially as young women have banked hard to the left. And the youngest voters—those under the age of 25–may even be more conservative than voters ages 25 to 30.

According to a broad survey conducted by the American Enterprise Institute, zoomer men are also less likely to identify as feminists than millennial men, even while zoomer women are more likely to be feminists than millennial women. And young men are more likely than older ones to say men in America face some or a lot of discrimination.

Behind all of these trends—women becoming more liberal and moving away from religion and motherhood, men moving toward religiosity and conservativism and away from feminism—may be the same deeper motivation: a search for some kind of structure or purpose..................

[msongs]

1. cuz they need a sadistic old man who sends all their enemies to burn in hell?

[RockRaven]

2. Because religion is about controlling others, specifically women in this case.

[Sky Jewels]

3. Many males want to believe in bullshit male supremacist mythologies.

In these dumbass stories, the omnipotent creator/ruler of the universe and his “son” are both human-like males…Gee, what an incredible coincidence! The main characters are just like the penis-having humans who made up these fucking STUPID primitive fairy tales!

[Skittles]

6. weak men think they are better than women

religion validates their delusions

[Sky Jewels]

13. Very true.

Their magical sky man sez they are better than those inferior wimminfolks.

[WhiteTara]

4. It's one of the last places that

tell them they are superior and "have dominion over all the earth."

[Skittles]

5. men more interested in dominating

women sick of being dominated by weak men

[BootinUp]

7. disturbing article, thanks. nt

[Freethinker65]

8. How many identify as incels?

[unc70]

9. This study by RW AEI -- beware!!!!

The American Enterprise Institute is a very RW think tank. Be wary of anything they produce or advocate.


Meant to reply to OP.

[dchill]

11. How many incels identify as incels?

[keithbvadu2]

10. Proud young republican witnesses for his Christian faith by calling Kamala a "hoe".

Proud young republican witnesses for his Christian faith by calling Kamala a "hoe".

https://rumble.com/v5ijlo5-trump-supporter-cites-christian-faith-for-why-he-wont-back-hoe-kamala-harri.html ..... video

[Hassler]

12. I'll go with the oldest reason, misogyny. Vlad has

Been working that angle since at least 2015.

[Scruffy1]

14. Anything coming out of the AEP is suspicious.

I would look for other surveys if I cared.
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