The first and more pessimistic interpretation would argue that younger men are becoming more religious in the same spirit that they’re embracing various masculinist influencers, from Joe Rogan to Jordan Peterson, along with toxic figures like Andrew Tate. They’re seeking male-friendly refuges from what they perceive as an increasingly feminized and even misandrist liberal culture.
But the aspects of organized religion that they find attractive, the support for traditional gender roles above all, are simultaneously alienating many young women from the churches of their upbringing. And the more male the conservative churches become, the less likely they are to take this female alienation seriously, and the more they’ll lose women to either more liberal churches or just to secular progressivism, which in its awokened form has some aspects of a rival faith.
