Great News For Liberals

29 January, 2006. 331 words.

Whoa, I had almost forgotten about the Crowhill Weblog. GK’s been flying under the radar lately, just posting links to articles (half of which were sent in by other people). But now it’s time to put on my “Crowhill media watchdog” hat again, for it is my sworn duty.

Check out The “men and religion” thing may be simpler than I’ve suspected. I’ll wait. La-la-la. I’m not worried about you coming back, because that particular post is quite a crazy rambling mess.

I’m not even sure where to start. I suppose the beginning is as good a place as any:

Regular readers know that I often ponder why men go to church more than women

Actually, I was pretty surprised by this declaration. I thought he had said religion was a female pursuit. To be precise, he said: “In Catholicism, religious devotion is predominantly woman’s business.” (See GK’s equally disturbing post, The #1 problem in the Catholic Church today.)

He goes on to write that conservative religions tend to “have” more men, whereas liberal religions tend to have more women. He doesn’t name his sources, but I suppose he is talking about statistical attendance figures, presumably in the U.S.

And why do liberal religions have more women? Hold on to your hats. GK posits that our culture tends to glorify the “bad boy” image, and liberal women are more likely to be attracted to the bad boys, and bad boys don’t go to church. Really. That’s what he said. Go read his post.

So then, why are conservative men more likely to go to church? Because conservative cultures tend to take more pride in their personal righteousness.

Ain’t that the truth…

But take heart. In saying that, overall, men don’t go to church as much anymore, GK is also implying that liberal churches are taking over the world, or at least America. I sure hope he’s right, because it’s really tiresome to deal with righteous conservative church-goers (see my previous post).

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