The Rational Male – Religion

by Rollo Tomassi

Why is premarital sex forbidden by religion? Why is marriage the worst life-decision a man can make today? How is an idealistic Romantic Love destroying modern churches?Are female imperatives assimilating patriarchal religions? Why are so many religious men confused about masculinity? What's causing men to abandon religion? Why is pornography an "addiction" for religious men? Are Atheists 'religious' about finding love? Can Red Pill awareness and religious conviction coexist? Will there be a One-World Religion? The Rational Male® – Religion is an exploration of human intersexual dynamics and their influence on spiritual belief, religion and social values. In this 4th book of the Rational Male series author, Rollo Tomassi, connects the dots  between human beings' evolved mating imperatives and the spiritual beliefs spawned by them that still influence society in the data age. It is a Red Pill look under the hood at the roots of men and women's "need to believe" in love, God and the metaphysical to solve our mating imperatives.Are Old Order beliefs hindering our progress in today's data-driven New Age of Enlightenment? Since 2000, global access to information has exploded. Like the Gutenberg Press in Renaissance Europe, the internet, technology and global communication has given rise to a new age of enlightenment that a global society is only beginning to acknowledge. For better or worse, this new information awakening is explaining and challenging our old investments in faith, tradition, metaphorical truth and magical thinking. And in no other area are humans more emotionally invested than in solving their reproductive problem.

The Rational Male® - Religion succinctly explains the origins of this old order thinking, what it got right, where it's gone wrong and how we can correct our course for the future.Often called the "Godfather of the Red Pill", Rollo Tomassi has been a permanent fixture in the online men’s consortium of the Manosphere for almost 20 years. He is the author of the internationally best selling book  

The Rational MaleThe Rational Male – Preventive MedicineThe Rational Male – Positive Masculinity Rollo is also the essayist/blogger/owner of The Rational Male blog, a weekly panelist/host of the Rule Zero livestream and the host of his own YouTube channel, The Rational Male.

Genres: Religion, Self Help, Psychology, Relationships, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Personal Development

390 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 3, 2021

Reviews

[Vlad · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is likely his best book but you'll want to read at least the first Rationale Male before reading this one. Although he repeats himself a bit, the information is gold. Definitely recommend it.

[Keith · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’ve been waiting for this one and again Rollo did not disappoint. Now 3 years ago I read the first Rational Male books. All 3 of them in a 7 or 8 week period and one thing about the red pill is it is a bitter one but it is 100% true. Now yes I would say the red pil is a praxeology and not an ideological book. Rollo gives you tools and the same tools the men on Rule Zero give you. Now certain things stuck out was about how the religious men do pedestalize their wives and then wonder why they end up leaving them or end up cheating on them. This behaviour I have seen my whole life. The most important lesson I learned in life was not to put a woman above you. That is a for sure sign she will leave you. Anyway a great read and I will read this book again! Now Rollo you did not save my life (Tom Leykis beat you to it LOL) how you saved other men but the knowledge you gave me was clear understanding to see where my past mistakes were with women. Men have to become and women are just are. It is the most important lesson today’s men do have to learn.

[Rollo Tomassi · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Rational Male® – Religion is an exploration of human intersexual dynamics and their influence on spiritual belief, religion, and social values.

[SilverReader · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lot of times he gets lost in his own ruminations, trying to convey his message by jumping from topic to topic. But if you have read the previous ones, you probably wouldn't want to miss this one.
Maybe it could have been a little sorter, if some ideas weren't repeated again and again, with kinda unneeded expanding in the ways he did it. Maybe i would want a deeper dive in at least the mainstream religions and the place of the woman in them from a more controversial point.
Although i thoroughly enjoyed the book, i found the book title misleading in correlation to its content. Also, a lot of kinda unneeded repeating in contrast to the books.
If you have followed Rollo long enough, you will realize that the message is solid, but often gets lost in his own monologue, which is easily seen on paper.

[شمس · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create bad times.” The “weak men” of this era are like no other generation that came before them. We mistakenly presume some karmic balance will bring us all back to the good times once the hard times toughen men up enough. Secularly, socially, technologically, spiritually, we’re in uncharted territory now. An inversion has taken place where the ability to maintain one’s composure under stress is taken as a sign of poor mental health. In this context, people with a health grasp of emotion seem to be the most neurotic, because they’re not expressing their emotions or processing them lib the female-correct way. Sanity is pathologies, so pathology can be sanitised. In an age of religious emotionalism those who control their emotions are the ‘sinners’. Moving forward towards a healthier ideal requires. Globalising population to accept that Emotionalism is a tool of their own exploitation. Men are conditioned from the earliest ages to defer to the feminine experience as the globally defining experience. Eventually masculine authority over self, family, spirituality and tribe will have to be forcibly reinstated for men. By definition, true authority cannot be given back to men, they must take it, by force is necessary however disturbing that sentiment might be for women acculturated in Gynocentrism, the evolved natures of men and women will always default to a preference for beneficent masculine dominance. You can take the man out of the tribe, but you cannot take the tribe out of the man.

Men and women are evolved complements to the other. We are better together than we are apart. We are more durable, more thriving, as complements and individuals when we accept this and work within the evolved (or designed) frameworks that made us men and women. Only buy discarding the fallacies of the old order while embracing the lasting truths that are confirmed of it by the new order can we chart a path forward. We’re not going back. The Blank Slate is old order thinking that is crushed on a daily basis in the new information society; yet, Gynocentrism and failed social constructionism have clung to the teat of the Blank Slate for so long its adherents scarcely understand the concept.

[Slick Daslickest · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dang he did it again. The bars in the 4th/marriage chapter Yeesh.

[Bryan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This account is for this review because I can’t afford professionally to comment on what mostly shouldn’t be controversial material, but is. Though it’s life changing magic. I’ve been an executive and a USA bestselling author. I know a little about writing and success.

Do you want to be a real man and change your life for the better? This book is for you. This is Tomassi’s best book. After Jesus Christ, I’ve found Rollo’s words the most influential in my life—because they caused real, positive change in my life.

I couldn’t find this anywhere else, said by anyone else. Others try, but fail to say what he does about masculinity and intersexual dynamics. He makes sense of it.

I apologize for some of the jargon in my book review some of them are terms you need to read the book for to understand. And this is a review of this book, but also all his writings.

I wanted better sex, more affection from my wife, more affirmation, more response to my romantic overtures, admiration, attention, etc.: all of this was lacking.

To gain her affection, over the past 7 years I tried: personal counseling, putting her needs first, crazy romantic gestures, love, anger, threats, waiting, praying, advice from others, pop psychology books and articles.

Nothing worked.

I was low on self esteem, starting a new executive job after getting laid off. Not having a job had rolled over my self esteem. I knew I needed to get my esteem back to be effective at my new job. I searched for self esteem books for men. I found plenty for men and women: but none for men only. What I found was Rollo. He offered authentic masculinity as self esteem and what I received was more than I could have ever dreamed.

I made the changes he suggested and I received more self esteem but more than that I became a man. I’d always been one, but not a masculine enough one apparently, I’d been a beta: my wife became obsessed with me: her words, not mine. She showed me respect, admiration, attraction, affection, better sex, attention, and love. All the things I had ever wanted within weeks of me implementing what he talks about in this and earlier books. It was like magic, I still don’t believe it sometimes.

I wanted to know why things had been the way they had been. Rollo’s work is based on evolutionary biology and other science that is 100% accurate. He just connects the dots between those findings and what they mean into a coherent narrative and cogent theory. What he says are facts and well tried opinions used to tie it all into a theory. I have read the studies and you should too. Some of his opinions in tying it together I don’t agree with, but I agree with 90%+ because scientifically they are backed and anecdotally they work.

And the more I explored with my wife, telling her too much of what I’ve learned without meaning too, I found out her motivations that she didn’t realize she had: they were what Rollo said they would be in this book and others he wrote.

She hadn’t thought I was enough of a man and that’s why she acted the way she had. She had lied to me about how many men she’d slept with before we got married. She married me at 26 after having her party years, or toward the end of them: “because I was different than the other guys she’d ever dated.” She wanted to be treated right finally when we met though she had only dated “jocks” before. I love football but I’m no jock because I never was good enough to play. I was different and I was romantic and she loved that. She had just exited a relationship with a bad boy who wouldn’t change before she met me. I know now that she was entering her epiphany phase early.

I was thought by most women to be very good looking, but because of emotional health reasons hadn’t had myself together. I had just gotten my professional life together when I met her. I had turned 30, and I found finally the hot girls liked me. The kind I never could get before. My wife had been head cheerleader, a former beauty pageant winner and she turned every man’s head when she walked by. She was sweet and feminine.

I was a cocky sob then and asked her out and we got married a year later. I offered looks, a good career, confidence, romance, and religion. She loved all of it.

She thought she had optimized her hypergamy because I was cocky, confident, socially adept and had my shit together with ambition and a good career start. But she really hadn’t optimized it because I was a false lesser alpha due to my cockiness and barely much else to back up my masculinity’s depth. I was bought into the feminine imperative.

So as our marriage progressed I let my looks go, I became needy, and tried increasing romantic gestures and received cold responses.

With Rollo, yes I got back my cockiness, but I learned the base of all of the issues and the whys. I was not totally happy because I was resentful and the sex was only good for a little while. The rest of the things improved and persisted.

I had wracked my brain for why sex with my wife had never been as passionate as the 20 women I’d slept with, albeit less good looking women for the most part. I’d almost put off the wedding because it was so devoid of passion. And sex remained that way the entire marriage (10 years). I chalked it up to the fact that she didn’t like sex much, because she seemed to love me so much. I mean she’d only slept with 5 guys.

After Rollo’s book I found out she’d slept with 15 by probing “nonjudgmentally.” If you do the math, outside of her long term relationships she spent most of her time in, that was 1 every 3 weeks (if 15 is even accurate).

She liked sex just fine, just not with me.

I won’t get a divorce, but I still can’t totally figure out how to get crazy sex from my wife — how I can know it is her best sex.

I’ll keep working on myself and we will see.

Back to this book: it tied everything the other books said together for me. It is where I finally came to understand how to genuinely unplug. Not just how to do it for a woman to gain my wife’s affection. But how to and why to do it for me. This book teaches you best why to do it for yourself and not for women. How to make yourself your mental point of origin.

I’ve read all of his books. He changed my life for the better. This book contains his most mature writing, and most actionable in my opinion despite being his most esoteric work. I don’t agree with everything Rollo says, I don’t agree with everything anyone says, if you do you don’t think for yourself.

This book, his books, will change your life for the better. Thank you, Rollo, you’re saving lives.

But I warn you of one thing if you read this book. You cannot unlearn the teachings in this book, or any of his books. Once it clicks and you get personal evidence of the truths inside: you’ll always have to work on yourself or know you’re not doing so and failing, and you’ll backslide, like I have. It will be a lot of work and you’ll go through a lot of tough evaluation and work to become a better man.

But is it worth it? Is being a man worth the extremely hard work….to be a real man—for yourself and not even for women (they are just a benefit). I’d say yes, but being a man is something you choose to become, it isn’t free and gained just by reading. It’s earned by doing.

Can you do it? You can do it, you have the testosterone, you can be your authentic self. Rollo can be your guide to get there.

Good luck, happy reading.

[iYishun · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book

Talks about how the gynocentric social order has changed religions.

Talks about why women remove their clothing in public during protests.

Talks about how great responsibility comes great authority but today, men are given more responsibility withouht any authority.

[Kory Monk · Rating 5 out of 5]

Must read for those in religious circles.

[Misho · Rating 3 out of 5]

The weight of the whole dating marketplace and the impact of seeing things through the red pill lens has started to get to me. I read the second and third instalments “Preventive Medicine” and “Positive Masculinity” right before this, and a lot has been going on, including helping a loved one get out of a relationship with a so-called evangelical Protestant type. I decided it’s best to get all this red pill knowledge at once and then see where I go with my interests after here. This fourth and final (to-date) book is definitely the most different of the Rational Male series, but it still builds on what Rollo was saying. I was really impressed with how deep Rollo’s knowledge goes into a vast of subjects like theology, psychology, philosophy, history, and entertainment. This book really takes time to flesh out the topics that he is touching on, but at times it got a bit difficult (for me) to follow along with. For me the take home of this was building off the feminine imperative topic raised in the last books, to show the cultural force it has in society to sweep through and influence or subdue men and to also infiltrate male spaces. And unfortunately this has also infiltrated religion, to make men be hard on themselves for not “being man enough” to hold down a good wife, or to make them feel like they always come short, but without putting any responsibility on women. Furthermore, although men typically earn the money, it’s the women who write the cheques, therefore, these religious institutions cater to women. This book addresses a major conflict all men with faith and red pill awareness face, and that is the balance of faith and rationality. It’s not an easy topic to take in and I’m still considering what Rollo has said and allowing it all to marinade in my mind, but I nonetheless think this is a very important read for all religious men, and also always, read such topics with both open-mindedness and discernment. Another thing to touch on was that I enjoyed how Rollo continues on with the paradoxical outcomes of the feminine imperative; ie, they are consolidating power but ultimately ruining the whole system.

[Mario · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is another solid book from Rollo and really worth a read. I first read Preventative Medicine a few years back, and being a Christian myself I always wondered how these two things can work. Can you be an Alpha male while remaining a devout Christian? This book may not answer that question directly, but it’ll definitely help you along the journey of discovering it for yourself. Although this book didn’t impact me as much as his first few books, it’s definitely still a worthwhile read and I’ve shared it around and recommended it with many friends. There are times that he rambles a bit, and I do believe there’s probably 80-100 pages worth of material that is hit and miss and likely could have been dropped, but for some people, that same material might be a gem. Either way, it’s worth a read and I recommend it to any man that’s on this journey of seeking knowledge and escaping the matrix.

[Wayan Adhi · Rating 5 out of 5]

I struggled to read this in a long time, when I take a look at my history of reading this it took me a year to finally finished it. For me it was my first heavy books, not that it has many heavy context or language, it's just I haven't got myself into this similar books.

It has an interesting topics on how gender dynamics are interwoven in religion. Though many of the aspects that it discuss probably resonates a lot of on western reader in todays era, I personally got a glimpse of what the author trying to say. As the previous Rationale Male books, the Hypergamy aspect also got brought upon from time to time. It's a nice book for sure, it's making me want to read the last entry. The player handbook, hopefully it wouldn't took as long as this to finish it.

[ANGELO GREGORIO · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book is an incredible, holistic view of the state of intersexual dynamics in our current social order. This book does not give prescriptions; it illuminates the world, religion, and human nature (in the context of the intersexual dynamics) as they are. The author does not discuss what they ought to be; that is up to us.

I'm a bit disappointed with the presence of typos throughout the text. The introduction is also a bit too long, perhaps because it rethreads some ground covered by the author's previous books to give new readers the necessary context.

[Edmond · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good read, a good critique of the current relationships between men and women. Rollo explains in depth the nature of a women dominated society. And how attacking abortion is an attack on this female centred society. Now I understand why I defended women in the abortion issue, I had been fully influenced by a female centred society, I was protecting the female centre society.

[Scott Hanneman · Rating 2 out of 5]

As with all of the Rollo Tomassi books that I've read, I think he is good at diagnosing a problem, but not so great at finding the right solution. This is a common theme among the whole Red-Pill community. Just right enough to draw your attention, just wrong enough to make you think about their book for five days after finishing it, trying to figure out what is wrong.

[Antonin Sulc · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is a very interesting read for anyone who is questioning state of the current world from the optics of gender, especially if you recently got an impression that man, especially white, are basically responsible for any injustice taking place in world without even doing anything.

[Josh Dzarir · Rating 4 out of 5]

While I'm not deeply religious myself, I can appreciate how Tomassi dissects the ways religion has historically shaped our understanding of relationships and gender roles. His analysis offers a nuanced view that goes beyond the usual talking points, making you think twice about ingrained beliefs.

The book is well researched and thought provoking, although at times it can lean heavily on jargon. Nevertheless, for those willing to explore the topic, Tomassi's work provides valuable insights into how religious constructs influence the modern gender dynamics

[R. · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book could have used some serious editing and proofing. It is cobbled together out of blog postings, but does that excuse such sloppiness?

But that aside, someone fetch me a TARDIS so that I can go back to smack my 16 year old self across the teeth with its wisdom!

[Moana David · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good book to read, regarding Religion and intersexual dynamics in today's times. Rollo has/does great work to help men (and indirectly, women) become better. Thank you for all you do.

[IamBankhead Miminu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Book 1,2 and three life changing. Can't wait to finish this one

[Juan Ruiz · Rating 4 out of 5]

good

[Mike Dwayne · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good read for male alphas.

[Kyle Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great Book

Should be required reading for any religious man. Should also be required reading for any non religious man. Another insightful piece from Rollo.

[Justsomedude · Rating 4 out of 5]

No way near the first book, but it does introducing few topics that challenged by thoughts. However the book could be shorter.

[Javier Piquero · Rating 5 out of 5]

Una saga de libros que todo hombre debería leer

[Maged Hosny · Rating 2 out of 5]

His weakest in my opinion. Not much "religion" going on in here. I believe Rollo is still a great writer though.

[Doodle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Repetitive. Brings very few fresh concepts.

[Augusto · Rating 5 out of 5]

So far I think this is Rollo's magnum opus...here he brilliantly explains the phraxeological nature of the red pill... astounding 👌🏿

[RK Byers · Rating 5 out of 5]

I arrive at a positive support in the existence of God a different way, but we come to the same conclusion.

[Protim Junaid · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best of Rollo Tomassi ( The god Father of Red Pill), great for English learners. Heard for second language users.