From 'Men and Matriarchy', Mary Malone writes,
Christianity is at heart a matriarchal ideology. Christ is represented in Scripture as the 'bridegroom', his Church as the 'bride'. The bridegroom lays down his life to save the bride. In so doing, his sacrificial love gives value to his life.
Until the rise of military bureaucratic states in the eighteenth century, all men viewed their role as to serve and protect women. Then, with men 'educated' in schools and conscripted into the army, loyalty to the bureaucratic motherland superceded loyalty to women, at least for the overseer class. The law of the Liberal status relegated women to a role of legal inferiors.
Until that time, when hierarchy spread out from the elite surrounding the monarchy and the established Church into many areas of daily existence, Christianity had made absolute sense to men.
Men could worship Christ as Lord, because they knew that their destiny was one of sacrificial love too.
If men avoid Christ these days it is nothing to do with the Church. In an age of self-indulgence, gratification, of bosses and conformity, how can self-obsesssed modern man understand the sacrifice of Jesus, or that of their own forefathers for that matter?
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