The Toxic War on Masculinity Quotes

“History teaches us that masculinity without morality is lethal. But masculinity constrained by morality is powerful and constructive, and a gift to women.”
― Nancy R. Pearcey, The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes

“Not only in the United States but also across the globe, evangelical forms of Christianity have proven to have the power to reform men’s behavior and reconcile the sexes. For example, anthropologist Elizabeth Brusco conducted a study of evangelicalism or Pentecostalism (she used the terms interchangeably) in Colombia. As a feminist trained in Marxist thought, Brusco expected to find that Christianity would be “a powerful tool of patriarchy.” Instead, she discovered that when a man converts to evangelical Protestantism, he stops drinking, smoking, gambling, and sleeping around. He begins to direct his money to his family. As a result, the household income goes up and the family’s standard of living increases. The children are better educated, they develop better life skills, and the entire family experiences upward mobility. Brusco concludes that conversion to biblical Christianity has the effect of “re-attaching males to the family . . . thereby dramatically improving the quality of life within the confines of the family.”
― Nancy R. Pearcey, The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes

“As morality was privatized, men were relieved of the responsibility to apply a Christian worldview in the public realm.”
― Nancy R. Pearcey, The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes

“Instead of setting up women as the moral guardians of society, a more biblical response would have been to stand against the secularization of the public sphere—”
― Nancy R. Pearcey, The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes

“If Christians hope to offer the world a credible solution to toxic behavior in men, they must demonstrate that Christianity has the power to address it first of all among those within the church’s own orbit of influence. The Bible calls men to be both tough and tender, both courageous and caring. Men who know they are made in God’s image can”
― Nancy R. Pearcey, The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes

“In fact, there is greater difference within the categories of men and women than there is between men and women as groups. For example, this graph shows difference in science ability:45”
― Nancy R. Pearcey, The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes

“In The War Against Boys, feminist philosopher Christina Hoff Sommers writes, “History teaches us that masculinity without morality is lethal. But masculinity constrained by morality is powerful and constructive, and a gift to women.”6”
― Nancy R. Pearcey, The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes

“it chose not to remake the world, but to demand that women make up for it.”
― Nancy R. Pearcey, The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes

“It is at home, where man . . . seeks a refuge from the vexations and embarrassments of business, an enchanting repose from exertion, a relaxation from care by the interchange of affection; where some of his finest sympathies, tastes, and moral and religious feelings are formed and nourished;—where is the treasury of pure disinterested love, such as is seldom found in the busy walks of a selfish and calculating world.”
― Nancy R. Pearcey, The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes

“Christians should have developed a robust apologetic capable of defending a biblical philosophy of economics and politics. They should have asserted that Christianity is a wholistic truth that applies to all of life. But as churches accepted the sacred/secular split, they largely capitulated to the privatizing of religion and the secularizing of the public sphere.”
― Nancy R. Pearcey, The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes

“About halfway through high school, I abandoned my childhood religious upbringing. Not surprisingly, given my experience with my father, I was drawn irresistibly to the feminist movement, devouring all the classic books from Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique to Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex to Kate Millett’s Sexual Politics, and many more. Later, while living in Europe, I stumbled across L’Abri, the ministry of Francis Schaeffer in Switzerland. (We had lived in Europe when I was young, and I had gone back.) At L’Abri, for the first time I discovered that there exists something called Christian apologetics, and I was stunned. I had no idea that Christianity could be supported by logic and reasons and good arguments. Eventually I found the arguments persuasive and I reconverted to Christianity. Yet that was only the beginning of a decades-long process of spiritual and psychological healing from my father’s abuse.”
― Nancy R. Pearcey, The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes