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Brett McKay
“Different scholars have lent a different order, and more or fewer steps to the journey, but its three big stages are separation, initiation, and return, and these are some of the basics contained within those stages: Hero receives a call to adventure Leaves his ordinary life Receives supernatural aid Crosses a threshold that separates him from the world he has known Gathers allies for his quest Faces test, trials, and challenges Undergoes an ordeal Dies a physical or spiritual death Undergoes transformation and apotheosis (becoming godlike) Gains a reward or magic elixir Journeys back home Shares the reward and wisdom he’s gained with others Becomes master of the two worlds he’s passed through Gains greater freedom”
Brett McKay, Muscular Christianity: The Relationship Between Men and Faith

Brett McKay
“While Jesus does not directly charge his followers with fighting human foes (though there have been those who have found an implicit justification for such in the name of a righteous cause), many of the faith’s adherents have seen the gospel as a call to continue Christ’s cause by engaging in another kind of warfare — one waged on the spiritual plane. The Bible is full of references both to contest — what the ancient Greeks called agon — and to war. Individuals wrestle with God (both metaphorically and literally), and the apostle Paul refers to believers as “athletes” who must “train” their souls and run the race set before them. Believers are to gird themselves about with spiritual “armor,” and wield the “sword of the spirit” in battling unseen forces and directly confronting the conflict between good and evil.”
Brett McKay, Muscular Christianity: The Relationship Between Men and Faith

Brett McKay
“Sharp of tongue, deft in debate, and unafraid of conflict, challenging the status quo, or causing offense, Jesus was anything but safe and predictable. Far from hiding in private solitude, and playing it small, Jesus was a public figure, a revolutionary who rigorously confronted the establishment, and who preached such a confrontational and audacious message that he was ultimately killed for it.”
Brett McKay, Muscular Christianity: The Relationship Between Men and Faith

Brett McKay
“But perhaps the best and most memorable way to explain the conflict that arose between honoring traditional honor, and honoring one’s individual psyche, can be conveyed in a story from World War II. In 1943, coming off his dazzling victories in the Sicily campaign, George S. Patton stopped by a medical tent to visit with the wounded. He enjoyed these visits, and so did the soldiers and staff. He would hand out Purple Hearts, pump the men full of encouragement, and offer rousing speeches to the nurses, interns, and their patients that were so touching in nature they sometimes brought tears to many of the eyes in the room. On this particular occasion, as Patton entered the tent all the men jumped to attention except for one, Private Charles H. Kuhl, who sat slouched on a stool. Kuhl, who showed no outward injuries, was asked by Patton how he was wounded, to which the private replied, “I guess I just can’t take it.” Patton did not believe “battle fatigue” or “shell-shock” was a real condition nor an excuse to be given medical treatment, and had recently been told by one of the commanders of Kuhl’s division that, “The front lines seem to be thinning out. There seems to be a very large number of ‘malingerers’ at the hospitals, feigning illness in order to avoid combat duty.” He became livid. Patton slapped Kuhl across the face with his gloves, grabbed him by his collar, and led him outside the tent. Kicking him in the backside, Patton demanded that this “gutless bastard” not be admitted and instead be sent back to the front to fight. A week later, Patton slapped another soldier at a hospital, who, in tears, told the general he was there because of “his nerves,” and that he simply couldn’t “stand the shelling anymore.” Enraged, Patton brandished his white-handled, single-action Colt revolver and bellowed: Your nerves, Hell, you are just a goddamned coward, you yellow son of a bitch. Shut up that goddamned crying. I won’t have these brave men here who have been shot seeing a yellow bastard sitting here crying…You’re a disgrace to the Army and you’re going back to the front lines and you may get shot and killed, but you’re going to fight. If you don’t I’ll stand you up against a wall and have a firing squad kill you on purpose. In fact I ought to shoot you myself, you God-damned whimpering coward.”
Brett McKay, What Is Honor? And How to Revive It

“En el futuro que globalistas y feministas han imaginado, para la mayoría de nosotros solo habrá más trabajo de oficinista y masturbación. Solo habrá más disculpas, más sumisión, más pedir permiso para ser hombre. Solo habrá más exámenes, más certificados, requisitos obligatorios, procesos selectivos, comprobación de antecedentes, test de personalidad y diagnósticos politizados. Solo habrá más medicación. Habrá más presentaciones de secretaria con una taza de vuestra propia orina caliente. Habrá estiramientos matutinos obligatorios, presentaciones de vídeos de seguridad y firmar papeles el resto de vuestras vidas. Habrá más cascos, gafas, arneses y chalecos naranjas con tiras reflectantes. Solo puede haber más asesoramiento y entrenamiento de la sensibilidad. Habrá más aros administrativos por los que pasar para poner en marcha vuestro propio negocio y mantenerlo a flote. Habrá más pólizas de seguro obligatorias. Con seguridad, habrá más impuestos. Habrá, probablemente, más leyes bizantinas y políticas empresariales contra el acoso sexual, y más vías para que las mujeres y los grupos protegidos os acusen por mala conducta. La vida estará más micro-controlada, habrá más regulaciones mezquinas, multas más elevadas y penas más duras. Habrás más posibilidades de que infrinjáis la ley y más formas para que la sociedad mantenga su cómoda ilusión escondiéndoos bajo la alfombra. En 2009, en los Estados Unidos, había casi cinco veces más hombres cumpliendo condena o en libertad condicional que en servicio activo en todas las fuerzas armadas.64 Si sois buenos chicos y seguís las normas, si aprendéis a hablar de forma pasiva e inofensiva, si podéis convencer a otro pobre sonámbulo de que estáis poseídos por un casi insano deseo de ofrecer atención al cliente o incrementar la eficacia operativa mejorando los procesos internos y la comunicación organizativa, si podéis decir gilipolleces como esta sin reíros, si vuestros expedientes pasan la prueba y vuestro pis huele bien, podéis conseguir un T-R-A-B-A-J-O. Quizá podáis ser el tipo que corrige los test o autoriza las pólizas de seguros. Quizá podáis ser el tipo que ayuda a alguna corporación desalmada a conseguir más dinero. Quizá podáis conseguir una palmadita en la cabeza por dar con la brillante idea de dejar sin trabajo a otro puñado de tipos y externalizar sus aburridos empleos en algún otro lugar en el que están deseando trabajar más horas por menos dinero. Hagáis lo que hagáis, no importa lo que diga la gente, no importa en cuantas actividades de grupo participéis o cuantas invitaciones de cumpleaños recibáis de la secretaria de alguien, sabréis que sois una unidad de trabajo completamente reemplazable dentro del gran esquema de las cosas.”
Jack Donovan, El Camino de los Hombres

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