God’s Gift to Women: Chest-thumping bible thumpers

[Ian David]

By April Rabkin
March/April 2007 Issue

Brute manliness is the new ideal in the Christian men's movement. Even the Promise Keepers, focused 10 years ago on moral purity and fidelity, have a new slogan: "It's not about learning how to be a nicer guy. It's about becoming the powerful man God designed you to be." Displaying the most testosterone is a start-up ministry called GodMen, which recently drew 200 men to its inaugural conference in Nashville with the declaration, "We don't force men, Christian or otherwise, to wear 'spiritual bras.'"

Within the many books aimed at the emerging movement (our favorite titles include You the Warrior Leader: Applying Military Strategy for Victorious Spiritual Warfare and No More Christian Nice Guy) we found these pearls.

"We don't need a meeting of Really Nice Guys; we need a gathering of Really Dangerous Men…. If you are going to live in God's kingdom, Jesus says, it's going to take every ounce of passion and forcefulness you've got."
-Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

"In order to become God's gift to women, we must first become acquainted with a vision of true God-designed masculinity…a version of strength and confidence that makes mere muscle and a cocky mouth seem like a plastic Tonka toy next to a monster Chevy truck."
-God's Gift to Women: Discovering the Lost Greatness of Masculinity

"Christ did not come to make men more feminine. He came to restore them to real manhood…many of today's top speakers encourage men to have a passionate relationship with Him.... Speaking as a man, the idea of having a passionate relationship with another man is just plain gross."
-Why Men Hate Going to Church

More:
http://www.motherjones.com/arts/books/2007/03/gods_gift_to_women.html

[saltpoint]

1. I expect to see VISIGOTHS FOR JESUS bumper stickers on the nation's

roads soon.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. neanderthals for jeezus?

Cro magnons for Jeezus?

[saltpoint]

6. LOL! Good ideas for bumperstickers. They could be sold at kiosks in

Colorado Springs malls.

[SemperEadem]

17. so simple, even a cave man can do it...

[zanne]

2. I know this is a serious subject

And I agree that the Christian Right is trying to do away with feminism, but I would really need to see some shirtless GodMen to make a better judgement. Maybe a few thongs wouldn't hurt, either. And let them go through at least a bikini-wax and some eyebrow shaping first. And maybe some very uncomfortable shoes...

[SemperEadem]

18. the day they can deliver a baby without an epidural

is the day they become GodMen.

[xchrom]

3. so they are going to recruit evangelical women to do

their part in raising these chest thumpers?

i mean there IS a second part to this message -- mothers.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

5. Sermon on the Mount???

Hello, manly fundie whackoffs? Hello???

[Mad_Dem_X]

19. "Blessed are the..." ummm...what? n/t

[Aviation Pro]

7. According to these fruitcakes....

...God wants American men to be like the Roman soldiers who murdered His son.

Gee, there's an ironic twist there somewhere.

[Berry Cool]

8. You know the "pillagers" on the Capital One ads?

Can't you just see a new ad?

"Since people are switching to Capital One, we've had to get jobs...so we turned to a NEW place where our pillaging talents would serve us well in fleecing vulnerable people...THE CHURCH!!"

(Pillager standing in front of "God-Men" rally, ranting while men pump their fists and cheer) "That's right, men, JESUS wants you to be tough and run roughshod over people...He didn't want you to be a wimpy girlie-man!...Now, please take your money and place it in this basket, so we can afford to bring this message to more suck--er, I mean, MEN like you!"

[Aviation Pro]

9. Thanks for the visual....

...I don't have TV so I don't get to see ads. (Pause)

Thank God.

[Berry Cool]

10. Sometimes an advertising visual is too apropos.

(Of course, what Capital One won't tell you is that if you read the small print, they're still pillaging you like any other credit card company!)

[ensho]

11. women should laugh in their faces at such nonsense

being laughed at will enrage them and they will resort to violence at which point they can be jailed.

[Rob H.]

12. WTF is a 'spiritual bra'?

"Hello, ladies. Why, yes, yes, I am a member of GodMen. Check out my hairy-nippled man-boobs."

[ensho]

13. maybe it's like the Mormon's religious underwear

nt

[Triana]

14. Knuckle-draggers for Christ!!!

Praise Jayzus!

:rofl:

[NMMNG]

15. I read this yesterday

It made me want to :puke:. Just what we need--a bunch of men who think barbarism is justified by God.

[Warpy]

16. I'm sure this macho bullshit will appeal to a lot of

men out there, especially the white collar types who have precious little to connect them with their supposedly brutal caveman past.

The divorce courts are going to be very busy!