The secret rituals they performed in their clubs helped them wash their hands of what they saw as female dominance in the home & church. In fact, their clubs even minimized their women’s sexuality. #MuscularChristianity

DYK #WomanSuffrage in later 19thC made men anxious about masculinity? They opened men-only clubs, built dens in their homes, launched competitive sport teams, & established #MuscularChristianity w/orgs. such as #BoyScouts & #YMCA. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WmnHist

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As cardinal of the church of #spuddism do declare this to be true

I will beat the tar outta anyone who upsets pandino

#muscularChristianity

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Muscular #spuddism is way more dangerous

DYK Knights of Columbus was born out of #MuscularChristianity, which began in 1857 to make men feel less effeminate in face of Christianity & women’s suffrage. It led to Boy Scouts, men’s clubs, physed, team sports, the YMCA & predominate male #misogyny. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK 1st president of #ClarkUniversity & #AmericanPsychologicalAssociation, #GStanleyHall, was strong about #MuscularChristianity, & warned, in 1900, of a “woman peril” in the world of the church? He feared too much civilization caused “primitive” instincts & emotions to shrink.

DYK the idea of #MuscularChristianity was born in 1857 to help Anglican men feel less effeminate? Their fear led to Boy Scouts, men-only clubs, physed, team sports, the YMCA, & predominate male #misogyny. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #masculinity

DYK #Nietzsche's #misogyny led to #MuscularChristianity? In “Twilight Of The Idols”, he blamed women for Christianity’s weaknesses: she needed “… a religion of weakness, which she glorifies as divine.” Men had to toughen up w/sports & YMCA. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WmnHist

William Foote Whyte’s 1956 “The Organization Man” made a similar lament. In 1951, Oral Roberts formed the Full Gospel Businessmen’s Fellowship to try to keep #MuscularChristianity alive.

DYK some critics went so far as to blame #MuscularChristianity for World War I? In 1935, “Christian Century” pointed its finger “…the blind servility w/which the Christian Church gave itself to the government of the U.S. in 1917 & 1918.” HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex

New men’s clubs, such as the Shriners, mocked those of the old style. In 1931, Princeton University took down its monument to #MuscularChristianity. It was a statue the school called “The Christian Student”.

DYK economics aided the downfall of #MuscularChristianity? Fraternal organizations went to seed in the Depression of the ‘30s as many men lost their crucial breadwinner roles & could no longer afford dues. Those w/means flocked to recreational clubs & service organizations.

All he did was use Atlas’s body-building method — Dynamic Tension. The campaign is still running. Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #masculinity #manliness #MuscularChristianity

DYK after World War I, #MuscularChristianity began to decline? The government turned from the #YMCA to the psychologist to treat working men, scaled back its requirement for evangelical church membership, & stopped honoring intense male friendships, suspecting they were erotic.

“if these elements are not made manifest, men & boys will not be found in increasing numbers as participants in the life of the church.” Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #manhood #masculinity #MuscularChristianity

“He touched the eyes of blind men w/a flame & gave them vision. Souls became swords through him, swords became servants of God.” Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #masculinity #MuscularChristianity

William Ashley #BillySunday (d.1935) played center field for the Chicago White Stockings before he became a minister in 1903. He, too, was all about a #MuscularChristianity. And he put an end to the ideal of preacher as scholar. One newspaper writer described him this way:

DYK masculine vigor was the rage of early 20thC? The YMCA, prep schools, & colleges began to uphold the idea of the “body as temple”. No longer sinful & weak, the body was good & strong. To promote #MuscularChristianity in 1910, the Y published “Manly Songs for Christian Men”.

ZERO evidence that K’s killer had ties to anyone on the left! ZERO talk about the dangerous ##indoctrination of the #ChristianNationalism, now #MuscularChristianity (wtf is that?!). Steven Miller quotes a #Nazi during his speech. #Project2025 is well
Underway! #WakeUp#America

DYK #JoshHawley wants a rebirth of #MuscularChristianity, born in 1857 to combat woman suffrage, temperance, & Anglican #effeminacy? Novelists like Edward George Bulwer-Lytton,G.A. Lawrence, & Rudyard Kipling (d.1936) advocated for it. Evangelist Sam Jones preached its ideals:

DYK #EdgarRiceBurroughs' #Tarzan, like the #BoyScouts, was part of the #MuscularChristianity movement? It held that men, made effeminate by Christianity, must return to the wilderness to retrieve their natural masculinity.
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #misogyny #suffrage

DYK team sports in 19th & 20thC developed from men's pursuit of #MuscularChristianity to overcome the "femininity" of Victorian Christianity? Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK the YMCA was born (1844) during a movement now called #MuscularChristianity? It was designed to rescue men from the effeminacy imposed by #Anglican & other protestant churches. It led to to #BoyScouts, men-only clubs, physed, team sports & #misogyny. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

Dive deeper into this fascinating, disturbing intersection of religion, state, and masculinity. Read the full analysis: tinyurl.com/bd34hw3h #Russia #Orthodoxy #MuscularChristianity #Geopolitics #UkraineWar"
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DYK #GStanleyHall (d.1924), world authority on adolescence, promoted #MuscularChristianity? He feared too much “civilization” & “woman peril” in the church. He demanded “men be more manly & women more womanly”. Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #binary

DYK #RudyardKipling(d.1936) advocated a #racist #MuscularChristianity? Like authors Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (d.1873) & G.A. Lawrence (d.1876), he believed it was “the white man’s burden” to uphold a #Christiancivilization. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK team sports developed from #MuscularChristianity, born in 1857 to combat #WomanSuffrage, temperance, & Christian effeminacy? #BoyScouts, physed, team sports, & #YMCA would all keep guys from becoming #queer. The costs were militarism & #misogyny. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

Boxing good, motorbikes bad. Got it. #MuscularChristianity #TheArchers

The birth of the #YMCA accompanied the birth of #MuscularChristianity in which men sought relief from what they saw as feminized religion & the dawn of #WomansRights. Christian men chose new masculinization w/team sports & strengthened #GenderRoles.
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DYK #WomanSuffrage at beginning of 20thC made men anxious about #masculinity? They opened men-only clubs, built dens in their homes, launched competitive sports, & established #MuscularChristianity w/orgs like Boy Scouts & YMCA. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WmnHist

Delighted to be running a session on muscular Christianity for Gay Life Drawing Melbourne #muscularchristianity