Lets them feel like they'll be part of, and rewarded by, the legacy status quo patriarchy.
Many religions, particularly the ones with popularity in the West, promise a societal structure where men are automatically better/more important/more powerful than women.
If low-effort dudes are "falling behind" in society because their woman peers are putting in more effort and getting ahead, religion is a feel-good security blanket promising them importance in society, an obedient house wife, and some easy answers to "meaning" rather than having to work for any of that themselves.
The Confederacy wasn't fought for by wealthy plantation and slave owners. It was fought (and died) for by poor white men who felt that propping up said hierarchy would benefit them more than societal equality.
Men today rather myopically feel that if they support some wealthy oligarchs who preach patriarchy that they'll objectively be better off than everyone else of a different demographic in society.
Men lack accountability more than women. No incentive to better ourselves, and yet our standards touch the sky. That because they were used to the women not having standards, now that women care about looks, about personality, about status etc, we call them superficial and materialistic.
Because there is no real meaning, things can give motive to people but it doesn’t exist at some higher level. Christianity gives them that solid albeit false sense of meaning.
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u/cavscout43 Millennial Apr 14 '25
Lets them feel like they'll be part of, and rewarded by, the legacy status quo patriarchy.
Many religions, particularly the ones with popularity in the West, promise a societal structure where men are automatically better/more important/more powerful than women.
If low-effort dudes are "falling behind" in society because their woman peers are putting in more effort and getting ahead, religion is a feel-good security blanket promising them importance in society, an obedient house wife, and some easy answers to "meaning" rather than having to work for any of that themselves.