Let’s make something painfully clear: Christianity isn’t dead. But Christendom – the societal framework, cultural stronghold, and masculine spiritual order that upheld it – is on life support.
Not because of atheists, politicians, or persecution – but because we let it rot from the inside.

And we didn’t just lose it.
We surrendered it.

We handed over the sword, bowed our heads, and let worldly culture invade the sanctuary – not with brute force, but through slow-drip compromise, weaponized guilt, cherry-picked scripture, and the systematic emasculation of the men who were supposed to stand guard.

Christendom Wasn’t Just Belief – It Was Order

Understand this: Christianity is the faith. Christendom is the civilization it built.

Christendom was not just people going to church.
It was a civilization built upon the lordship of Christ.
It was the interlocking armor of families, governments, institutions, and yes, men, who believed that the Bible didn’t belong just in the pew – but in the courtroom, the classroom, and the battlefield.

It’s what built cathedrals, crowned kings, launched reformations, and drew public lines between good and evil – not just personal ones.

And now?
We’ve got a limp, sentimentalized version of the Gospel.

A gospel of hugs and feelings, where conviction has been replaced by consensus, and the image of Christ has been distorted into a safe-space therapist who never offends.

But the Jesus of Scripture didn’t come to play nice.
He came with a sword.

The Fall of Masculine Christianity

The church has been feminized. Period.

Worship services feel like yoga retreats.
Sermons are therapy sessions.
Men’s groups are neutered echo chambers about “emotional vulnerability” with no talk of spiritual warfare, leadership, or responsibility.

We’ve taken the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob – warriors, kings, and judges – and shoved Him in a cardigan and handed Him a soy latte.

We don’t teach boys how to become men anymore.
We teach them how to become nice.

Nice. Tolerant. Soft.
The kind of “man” who never raises his voice, never draws a line, never leads, never disciplines, and never stands his ground.

We’ve replaced Christ-like strength with Ned Flanders:
A passive-aggressive doormat who smiles through the destruction of his family, his nation, and his faith.

Effeminizing the Church Isn’t an Accident – It’s a Strategy That’s Cost Us Our Strong Men

Let’s be blunt: The feminization of Christianity didn’t just happen – it was engineered.
This wasn’t some accidental cultural drift. It was a long-game strategy:

• Defang the Gospel

   

• Strip the masculine edge from the church

   

• Sanitize the faith until it became palatable to a fallen world

   

By removing masculinity from its rightful place – leadership, protection, confrontation, and boldness – we didn’t just lose a few men.
We chased off the strongest ones.

And it wasn’t a bug. It was a feature.

Take the Lion out of the Gospel and you’re left with a housecat –
Easy to mock. Easier to control.
Unthreatening to the very culture Christ came to confront.

The message has been clear for generations:

• Your aggression is dangerous.

   

• Your strength is oppressive.

   

• Your discernment is divisive.

   

• Your leadership is suspect.

   

• Your desire to protect is “toxic.”

So instead of encouraging the protector role, we guilted it.
Instead of honoring righteous anger, we pathologized it.
Instead of calling men to lead, we told them to submit more.

And what happened?

The strong men left.
Not because they don’t love Christ – but because they can’t find Him in the modern church.

The Jesus they meet there isn’t the King of Kings.
He’s a soft-spoken, sentimental therapist in sandals who only ever whispers affirmations.
No sword. No judgment. No grit. No fight.

So these men – warriors, builders, leaders – look elsewhere:

• They build businesses and brotherhoods.
• They train on mats and in gyms.
• They seek meaning in mission, discipline, and conviction – wherever they can still find it.

The church should have been that place.
It should’ve been the forge for masculine strength – not the place where it’s blunted and broken.

But for decades, we’ve made the church so soft, so appeasing, so obsessed with emotional pacification, that strong men no longer see it as a place worth dying for – let alone living for.

And here’s the worst part:
We didn’t just lose the men. We repelled them.
Then we blamed them for walking away.

This is what happens when you let a worldly feminist culture dictate the shape of your faith:

• You cater to the emotions of the easily offended

   

• You swap courage for consensus

   

• You shame men into silence

   

• And you gut the Gospel until it’s indistinguishable from feel-good self-help

   

The world doesn’t need more Ned Flanders, or Jerrys, the cast of Big Bang Theory, or any other soy-based oakeley-dokely men.

 

It needs Nehemiahs, Pauls, Elijahs – men with fire in their bones and swords in their hands.

The Soft Coup: Appealing to Empowered Women Without Accountability

But the death blow to Christendom didn’t come from outside culture –
It came when the church surrendered its authority to emotionalism dressed in empowerment.

So how did the church lose its spine?

It bent the knee to the cultural feminine.
Not biblical womanhood.
Not Proverbs 31 grit.

But modern, progressive, empowered-but-unaccountable womanhood.
The “you go girl” gospel. The “God just wants me happy” theology.

We redesigned the church to appeal to women who wanted to be both victims and leaders – but never responsible.

They wanted to be heard, adored, affirmed, and felt.
So we gave it to them.

The church traded its masculine edge to cater to a new kind of congregation:

• Women chasing the emotional high of spirituality without the moral clarity of Scripture

   

• Women playing Eat, Pray, Love in the pews while cherry-picking the parts of the Bible that made them feel special

   

• Women who wanted empowerment without correction

   

• Influence without submission

   

• Leadership without accountability

   

• Validation without sacrifice

And to make room for this new order?
We had to make the men small.

Just like in every bad sitcom and Netflix “empowerment” flick:

• Dad is the clueless idiot

   

• The husband is emotionally unavailable and barely useful

   

• Masculinity is a punchline or a threat – never a virtue

The church followed suit.

We made men the problem and women the solution.
We shamed masculine leadership as “controlling.”
We mocked spiritual authority as “toxic.”
We vilified fathers, dismissed husbands, and coddled rebellion in the name of compassion.

We didn’t do it to honor women – we did it to flatter them.

And what did we validate?

• Divorce – because “God wants you to be happy,” not holy

   

• Career obsession – because motherhood isn’t enough anymore

   

• Passive rebellion – because submission is now a dirty word

   

• Female-led homes – because if the man won’t comply, replace him

We’ve raised a generation of women told:

“You deserve it all. You’re enough. You’re perfect as you are. Don’t let any man, verse, or voice tell you otherwise.”

And the damage?

• Broken homes

   

• Fatherless sons

   

• Unmarried daughters

   

• Boys who don’t want to be men

   

• Girls who resent men because they’ve never seen one lead with love and strength

This was the tradeoff.

We gave women the pulpit of emotion and tossed the men into silence.
We empowered the feelings of one half of the church by enslaving the convictions of the other.

This isn’t balance.
This isn’t biblical.
This is rot.

It’s Been Happening for Generations

This didn’t start last year.
This has been happening for generations.

Every time the church buckled to the world and softened its message to be “more relevant” or “more sensitive,” we chipped away at the pillars of Christendom.

How?

• By selectively quoting scripture to guilt and manipulate men

   

• By conflating kindness with cowardice

   

• By weaponizing shame to suppress discernment and rebuke

   

And it worked.

They didn’t have to burn our churches – they just made sure we wouldn’t build any more.

Example 1: The Fruits of the Spirit Are Not “Be Nice”

Take the “fruits of the Spirit.”
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

Sounds soft, right?

Only if you’ve been trained to think like a neutered church boy.

• “Kindness” doesn’t mean letting wickedness run free

   

• “Gentleness” doesn’t mean weakness

   

• “Self-control” doesn’t mean pacifism

Jesus didn’t just show kindness – He flipped tables.
He roasted Pharisees in their own homes, calling them whitewashed tombs and children of hell.

The Apostles weren’t giving TED Talks.
They were publicly rebuking rulers and standing up to mobs.

Read Acts. These were not docile men.
They were lion-hearted men of conviction. They had swords in the Spirit and scars on their bodies.

The early church grew because men stood in the fire – not because they cowered behind kindness.

Example 2: Selective Morality – Target the Masculine, Excuse the Feminine

Let’s talk about sin.

Yes, the church is bold on swearing and porn – those nasty male-coded sins.

But where’s the fire-and-brimstone for:

• Gossip?

   

• Narcissism?

   

• Passive-aggression?

   

• Manipulation?

   

• Smut fiction masquerading as “romance novels”?

Crickets.

Because those sins belong to the audience the modern church panders to.
They’re feminine-coded. And thus… “grace.”

Men get condemned. Women get coddled.

We waged a holy war against masculine vices but turned a blind eye to feminine ones.

Result?
We spiritually castrated the protectors of Christendom while elevating emotional chaos as “discernment.”

The Corruption of Words = The Corruption of Minds

The destruction didn’t come with violence.
It came with wordplay.

• We redefined “love” to mean approval

   

• “Meekness” to mean weakness

   

• “Submission” to mean oppression

   

• “Grace” to mean permissiveness

Every corrupted word infected the minds and spirits of a generation.

This isn’t just semantics.
This is spiritual warfare.

Change the language, and you change the standard.
Change the standard, and you change the people.
Change the people, and Christendom falls without a shot fired.

But There’s Still Time to Fight Back

Christianity hasn’t been lost.
The Gospel remains. The truth remains.

But Christendom – the structure that carried it, embodied it, and lived it out in the real world – needs resurrection.

That doesn’t start with better marketing.
It doesn’t start with another “men’s breakfast.”

It starts with discernment.

• Teaching the full counsel of Scripture – not just the safe verses

   

• Studying the fullness of biblical masculinity – from David’s war cries to Nehemiah’s sword-bearing construction crew

   

• Rejecting the feminized gospel and returning to a faith that includes duty, courage, sacrifice, and righteous confrontation

   

• Calling out sin – on both sides of the aisle

   

• Reclaiming the words that were stolen and perverted

Final Word: Christ Is King – Now Act Like It

Jesus is not your emotional support animal.
He’s not a cosmic yes-man.
He’s not a woke pacifist.

He is King of Kings.
He is Lord of Lords.
He is the Lion of Judah.

And He’s coming back not as a lamb – but as a warrior.

Christendom falls when men forget this.
It rises again when they remember it – and act accordingly.

So ask yourself:

Are you here to be liked by the world?
Or are you here to build something that outlives you?

Because only one of those paths leads to the return of Christendom.

And it starts with truth.
Gritty, biblical, unflinching truth.

A Final Call to Arms: Squad Up. God Up.

So… this isn’t just a critique.
It’s a call to arms.

If you’re a man reading this and feeling the fire in your chest—good.
That’s your spirit waking up.

It’s time to squad up and God up.

• Find a group.

• Form a group.

• Grab 3 solid brothers who aren’t afraid of truth, grit, or Scripture.

Get into the Word—not passively, but strategically.
Not to feel good, but to get equipped.
Get in gritty, masculine, Scripture-based studies you can walk out in real life.
Lead. Learn. Confront. Repent. Build.

If you can’t find a local group… or don’t know where to start…

➡️ Check out Sons of the Anointed Savior.
It’s forged for this moment.
It’s battle-tested.
It’s built for men like you.

Christendom won’t rebuild itself.
So take up your sword—and get in the fight.