“Go all the way with this attitude and I don’t see how you could be a faithful Christian (or a faithful Jew or Muslim) of any kind. But I can understand self-professed Christians who have come to believe this story telling themselves that that’s a debate for another time. Once manliness has been reestablished, we can discuss whether a real man is someone with the courage to follow Jesus of Nazareth in all things, or whether Christianity is ultimately a religion for slaves and women that a real man would have nothing to do with. (Alternatively, Christianity could be deformed into something almost entirely unrecognizable, a process that some would argue is well underway.) For now, such a Christian might say, the important thing is to recognize manliness, support it, and never be cowed by moralizers into backing down from that support.”