The Male Role Issue
For a few weeks I’ve been defending scriptural Christian Zionism against opposition by Tucker Carlson. Some would call this for me, staying in my lane, because I need to remain in scriptural matters, where my expertise is. Today I’ll deal with an adjacent issue, which I also believe is a scriptural issue in my wheelhouse. The subject relates to masculinity and the male role in society. God created male and female and designed men to be distinct from women. Part of a Satanic conspiracy against God, the culture destroyed the male role and I mean that “destroyed” is not an exaggeration.
How does the masculinity and the male role relate to Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, and a cold civil war in the MAGA movement? Also, how does it correspond to Jews, Israel, and Zionism? The answer to these questions appertains to something inherently found in men and what they will do about their own nature, as created by God. The culture relegated real masculinity to toxicity and eliminated the biblical male role. Even if men don’t understand the male role, which most don’t anymore, that does not erase what is intrinsic to men.
Perverted Reaction to Abandonment
Nick Fuentes represents, even if in a perverted way, young men fighting for their rightful male role. Young men feel abandoned by the culture without a hero to stand for who they are. Things at least are not changing as quickly as they think, so that the society abandoned their role with no hope of their ever getting it back. This is entirely unacceptable to them.
Many women would say to these young men, “Get used to it.” Many young men won’t and don’t think they have to do that, should have to do that, and also think that this is their time to fight that. Of course, feminists and the left call this, misogyny, that these men actually hate women.
Fuentes associates the strength of men with white men, because they’ve been attacked in an even stronger way than anyone. Not only are they men, but they’re white!! The idea here is that they’re not going to take it anymore, but how do they go about not taking it? Nick Fuentes and his followers are an expression of fighting back against something that is legitimately wrong and bad.
Trump and an Aberration of Biblical Manhood
A major part of the unique support of men, whether white, black, or brown, for Trump was his embrace of masculinity and qualities of manhood, whether even if it was all legitimate. Trump wasn’t apologizing for being a man and acting like a man. Men gravitated toward Trump and also women who want strong men. This is very fundamental. It is not getting into the intricacies of specific political positions and nuances. This is a man thing. Many men are done and yet don’t know what to do about it. Few to none provide instruction on this. What can they or should they do?
Nick Fuentes is a deviance or aberration of biblical manhood, but a male who is fighting for what he knows he’s lost or is losing. These young males, and Tucker Carlson, see the maleness and whiteness also grouped with Christianity, that is, white male Christian. They see this as America. White male Christians built America. Women couldn’t vote. The founding fathers didn’t even talk about a woman’s vote in the Federalist and Anti-federalist papers. The founders didn’t hate women, hatred however the vibe you get from Fuentes. The founding men loved their wives and daughters in a biblical sense of love, provided for them, but the male and female role was intact still and succeeded.
The Fuentes-ish young men feel the loss of the biblical male and female relationship that did exist at the time of the founders. What was lost since then, they want it back. They talk like they should have it, but start not with being a proper man. Instead, they promote forcing themselves on women. These young men rightly acknowledge a problem, but their solution is a worse problem, and one that absolutely will not lead them back to what was lost. It is not real strength, the number one distinction of men from women in scripture.
The Issue of Whiteness
Did the success of the United States relate to whiteness? Of course not. Skin color had nothing to do with it. However, it’s not cause either to put down white men. The defense of whiteness perhaps, even likely, proceeds from the attack on whiteness. Ultimately, this is a cultural issue. Variation in race relates to different cultures, some of these characteristically either worse or better than others. The desire here is color blindness of the nature of the MLK speech, not judging by the color of the skin, but by the content of the character, being honest about this.
White male Christians are not entitled to better treatment or the inheritance of the benefits of the past. It does not relate to whiteness. Yet, their contributions should not be assailed or besieged and have their credit erased either. That puts the attention back on race on both sides of the race issue. The most powerful country on earth came from these men with these particular traits and they’re being pummeled because of these traits. There is obvious bitterness among these young, white, male Christians.
Fuentes bashes in the most crude and hateful manner who he thinks are the people most responsible for his and his group’s loss. He’s essentially non-stop complaining and whining about it, which in fact isn’t very manly. He’s got a piece for every one of them, so he goes after women and other non-white races, but he especially attacks Israel uniquely and then in a little lesser way, the Jews. Even though I’m against what they’re saying about Israel, I think I understand where they are coming from, which is helpful.
Change through Force and Israel
Getting back to where America was — for Fuentes especially but accommodated by Tucker Carlson — requires something much greater than half measures. They see force as the only legitimate way left and if a group will not use force, then they are less than manly and not tolerated. To get to this very purist position for a return to white male Christian power, they look for what they perceive the biggest cause of failure. They think it is Israel and the Jews. According to this viewpoint, America First requires the purity of this American prioritization, but America keeps subjugating to Israel. They think other earlier white male powers understood this.
Hitler saw the Jews as a threat. Stalin saw it too. Those strange bedfellows, both characters, are admired by Fuentes for the same reason. To get absolute purity in their contradicting systems or philosophies required authoritarianism. Coercion was necessary, which meant the brown shirts, the hard marching white male soldiers, who would beat the daylights out of their foes and intimidate them. Women stayed home, had babies, and took care of the house to which their white male husbands would return every night. The women raised up masculine boys in accordance with the same thinking.
With white male Christian slipping away quickly, a return requires powerful top down regulation and enforcement. That’s what Fuentes sees. I believe Tucker Carlson sees it to a lesser extent, but he gets Fuentes. Some religious components are here too, but the theology is Patriarchal with a strong male God, best seen in a Catholic, state church of some kind. The future prophesied Antichrist will fit that role nicely and will also attack and attempt to destroy Israel as standing in the way.
Jews and This Problem
Many present day Jewish rabbis, some of the most popular, call the New Testament itself, the most antisemitic book. When I was in Israel and stayed in old Jerusalem, the Jewish sector (and we loved it by the way), the Jews overall treated us badly. We didn’t care — we loved them. Maybe they think according to the teaching of their rabbis of places in the book of Revelation, chapters 2 and 3, that say, “the synagogue of Satan,” speaking of Jews who rejected the Messiah as not even really Jews. Paul talked the same way in other places in the New Testament. In other words, unless Christ is Messiah, the Jews aren’t Jews.
The New Testament doesn’t provide much nuance on the anti-Christ Jews like Judas Iscariot. They are the worst betrayers of Jesus. John said Jesus came unto His own and His own received Him not. How dare they reject their Messiah with the massive pile of evidence for Him? Jews and Israel don’t usually understand that true believers in Jesus Christ treat them like Paul in Romans 11 and Isaiah in Isaiah 52-53, that God will save Israel because they will repent and believe in Jesus. I know they will too, so I treat them like they will, not like they don’t. That same Isaiah scroll is in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
Part of why God blessed the founding “white male Christians” is because they weren’t antisemitic. The standard position of the American Christians was not antisemitic. It was pro-Jewish and then finally pro-Israel.
How To Get Back the Biblical Role unto True Fulfillment
In fact, Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, and the reaction of what these young men think they’re losing will not return them to what they want. America didn’t lose what’s great because of the consequences or results of its unrighteousness. It loses it because it isn’t righteous. Righteousness comes by genuine faith in Jesus Christ alone. This does not proceed through coercion, such as top down authoritarianism. It requires faithfulness and patience, will and desire for God, and true worship of Him. These do not characterize at all these young white males, who call themselves Christian.
Fuentes and Carlson both need true conversion. They aren’t saved because they have not received Jesus Christ. Tucker Carlson listens to or follows the wrong teaching on this. Fuentes can’t see the softness of Charlie Kirk as the means of leading his lost boys out of their mess. He’s right, but it’s definitely not his way that will do it either. Fuentes doesn’t even act like a real man, what I call, “fake manhood,” one of the greatest and worst enemies of manhood, yet posing as a friend of it.
Men return to real manhood by submitting scripturally to Jesus Christ first in salvation. 1 Corinthians 11:3 is good for this:
But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
The head of every man truly is Christ, to which a man submits who receives Jesus Christ. Then Christ is the Head of every real man. This is the grounds also for male headship, as seen in the rest of the verse.
Real Revival
I agree that something drastic needs to happen, and it is whole, massive scale revival across the United States proceeding out of biblical repentance and faith according to a true gospel. This won’t be ecumenical, where a great many variations of different beliefs are tolerated. It won’t come from the new head of TPUSA in her tight leather pants entering the stage to the beat of sensual, hard rock music. The death of Charlie Kirk provides an opportunity, a teaching moment, and yet the manner it will occur will follow scripture closely, respecting everything in the Bible about everything in the country.
Conservative American Jews, like a Ben Shapiro and the Daily Wire types, you are shooting yourself in the foot by not understanding what I’m talking about here You’re really missing what’s happening, mostly because your whole group essentially rejects Jesus Christ according to His one and true gospel by grace alone. That is what’s missing with all of your front and center people. Maybe some of your staff are true Christians, but I don’t see it in anyone else. You’ll never see the country become what you want without the power of Jesus Christ, transforming people from the inside out.
A Lesson
Tucker Carlson, you are free to talk about the culture, but you are missing what this is all about. I’m not sure you can even understand, because you have not yet, as I see it, believed in Jesus Christ. He’s not on the throne of your life. You errors are not because you don’t have the freedom to speak out in this country, but because you don’t know what you’re talking about. Nick Fuentes and you are unhappy about what’s happening, but you both are short on the true and real solution to the actual problem, which starts with both of you. Repent and believe in Jesus Christ.
The American colonies were not ready for a revolution until the Great Awakening. This too was a populous movement, because it centered on the gospel preaching of a man like George Whitefield. This resulted in a transformation in the colonies. Truly converted members of apostate churches left their dead denominations and became part of forming true New Testament churches,. These churches sprang up then all over early America, which also led also to the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. None of the best parts of our founding would have happened without the true conversions of which I speak.
True conversion alone will proceed a return to the roles God intends for young men. The one and true Lord Jesus Christ of the Bible is the only way to solve the dissatisfaction and angst. Only Him and that repentance and faith in Him will bring the nation to what you think that you want for and from it. People will not change through coercion. They won’t accept it. It must start through the powerful gospel and the effects that can have on the country you say you love.
Conclusion
Young men in the United States are correct in their assessment about the loss of the male role. White young men also aren’t wrong in their begrudging the loss of a specific culture that does define Americanism. In and of itself, this isn’t racist. They are also right to understand the superiority of Christianity, as the truth about the world. Those following the Nick Fuentes trajectory will not get back what they lost. In fact, it will become worse for them as they scorch any possible path to the world God mandated for mankind from the beginning.
The authoritarian young white male movement wants a male role. God designed that role and the one He designed is not the same one that they want. He will give power to believers to fulfill HIs role for men. That is the path back and the true way of fulfillment for disgruntled men. It starts with their becoming real men according to the will of God will all the traits found in scripture.
The cries of the young men about their losses reminds me of 1 Kings 12:8, when Rehoboam would not listen to the advice of the old men. There are old men, godly ones, unfortunately outside of the mainstream of American thought, that have the wisdom for these young men to hear. They are truly converted men, who fit into true New Testament churches. Those churches and their families have a model for the roles that Nick Fuentes and others like him should be looking for. It is not a grievance society that is mad about their country, but one of faith and strength worth emulating.