Common modern church teaching focuses on the teachings of the New Testament, where meekness, gentleness, love, submission, etc. are expounded. Now, a lot of this feminized doctrine is based on incorrect interpretation of these words or selective readings of verses that ignore the greater context of the Bible, but I’m not going to get into that now. At some point, I will probably write about different aspects of this more in-depth, but I want to talk about something else.
There is a common perception of biblical heroes as being “nice guys”. The Jesus-as-a-boyfriend meme is well-known, and, despite some differences the manosphere might have with Driscoll, he has pointed out the falsity of the limp-wristed Jesus. There are calls to masculinize modern Christianity, but these often just end up being calls of betaization, usually through the “man up” meme.
To anyone coming from a Christian background, the manosphere and the alpha/beta distinction seem to be fairly unchristian. This is partly because of the feminization of modern churchianity, but also because the manosphere does advocate some fairly unchristian things. In particular, the game blogs tend to focus heavily on promiscuous sex, something sinful to a traditional Christian, and this attitude tends to permeate through much of the Manosphere. (There are some great exceptions, such as Athol and Dalrock).
The advice on being an alpha is often seen as recommendations to be an asshole and/or sinner (I know that game is more and/or different from that, depending on whom you read, but that’s a way it can come across).
But, if you read through the Bible you realize that most of the biblical heroes, the one’s the Bible posits as the good guys, are, for the most part, alphas. They may not always be sexually prolific, but the heroes of the Bible are usually man’s men and great leaders, the traits modern game mimics.
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David ruled a kingdom, killed a lion, a bear, and a giant as a little more than a kid, won the heart of a princess and a kingdom by slaughtering his enemies, stood up to and shamed a king, etc.
Elijah stood up to a king (and his harlot who controlled him), outran a chariot, and summoned fire from the sky before slaughtering false priests.
Moses slew a man in anger, stood up to a pharaoh, liberated a nation, and led that nation for decades. (Reading the Old Testament sometimes feels like listening to a Manowar album).
I could go on, but instead I’ll end with this:
And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson and Jephthah, about David and Samuel and the prophets, who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions, quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped the edge of the sword; whose weakness was turned to strength; and who became powerful in battle and routed foreign armies. Women received back their dead, raised to life again. There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better resurrection. Some faced jeers and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. They were put to death by stoning; they were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated— the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves and in holes in the ground.
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I’m going to start a series on Biblical Alpha that will look at men from the Bible and show that the Bible does not preach weakness, betaness, and feminity for males, but rather, it preaches strength, masculinity, and alphaness.
For this series, there will be posts showing examples of both alpha males and beta males in the Bible and there will be discussions of masculinity and femininity in the bible.
Awesome, I agree. The Bible is the original red pill. I look forward to the next post in this series. The church has been infiltrated by feminist shaming and blue pill candy-assed propaganda.
Good thing. Many people, both pro- and con- Christianity have been taught that Christianity preaches a submissive attitude.
Hello Free Northerner,
I discovered your blog after following the link on Roissy to your fascinating article on post-scarcity. If you are going to write about the Bible and alphaness, I hope you mention polygamy and concubinage. These were practiced as well in the Old Testament. Monogamy appears to have been a European custom that was adopted later. Also, my understanding is that in the OT, adultery was what a man did when he slept with another man’s wife but not what a married man was guilty of if he slept with another woman while married. I will even go so far as to say that the modern concept of man promiscuity being quite as sinful seems questionable.
I’m reminded of Stuey on Family Guy excitedly reading the old testament, with the implied joke “Silly Christians – your bible doesn’t conform to modern churchianity, LOL!”
The jokes on them.
@ Stephen
You are the Stephen of In Mala Fide?
The Bible is the real red pill, which doesn’t teach cynicism or “women are hopeless jerk-lovers and we’re all just animals” crap. In fact surprise surprise, an idiot’s here already, trying to claim that polygamy’s Christian so that men with that desire can be considered normal or even virtuous. Beware: if polygamy’s acceptable, so is the hypergamous allowance of a woman leaving her husband for an upper male.
Yes Columnist I am. My understanding was that the Old Testament Era insisted on stoning for “a woman leaving her husband for an upper male.” Doesn’t sound like any allowance to me.
David, Eiljah, and Moses…. are stories from the Old Testament. Christians preserve the Old Testament to contrast it with the New Testament (or at least we used to). Fuck the reformation, IMHO.
(The word “testament” by definition only comes into force after the death of one who made it; it is a testimony of the dead. Only men can testify or leave a testament, because the root word of both words is “testes”, aka balls. No, you won’t find anything about THAT on the interwebz.
Try a library, preferably one with really old books before they’re all replaced by TV, aka the Interwebz…
I am not sure how it took so long, but I just discovered your blog. Excellent writing and topics; Brewing some coffee and getting ready to dig into the archives.
This post reminds me of a time a few years back that I was reading some passages by Paul. I didn’t know Red Pill or Alpha back then, but I remember thinking that this guy just absolutely owned his audience with his presence and masculinity.
Good series. I think you’re doing well considering where you’re at with the cultural handicaps we all inherited. The one issue I see is that you’re still appealing to a “Christian” understanding of the text. You’ve already learned how it has been corrupted by the “post enlightenment” teachers. I can offer you the evidence to show you were it was corrupted by the PRE enlightenment teachers. Mine is not a proselytizing faith, we understand what you would call “the Great Commission” in a different light, pre-Roman before uniting the Empire behind, One G-d, One Church, and One Emperor became the guiding principle. I tell you this so you understand that I typically do not approach someone with this offer but wait until they respond to my actions and ask. In your case, you’ve sharpened my blade with your writings. Not that I have changed my views but rather that you’ve given a more secular argument for it for those I speak with who do not share my religious views. As such I owe a debt. In payment of that debt I offer to show you information that will help you to understand that what you seek is found in a much older version of what you already believe. In a more complete way than you can likely glean from reading your Bible as you currently do. This is only an offer, take it or don’t as you find yourself compelled to. His sheep hear His voice, so if my words don’t sound like Him to you then feel free to ignore this. My email is attached and I will discuss it with you further if you would like.