Barriers to Teaching Boys How to Become Men

by Donald DeMarco

While perusing a secular newspaper this morning, my eyes fell upon an opinion piece entitled, “Who will teach our boys to become men?”  The author bemoaned the plague of gun violence among boys, but he did not suggest a way in which this type of violence could be mitigated.  This is not surprising for a mass circulation newspaper since it is not political correct to point out what the sources of this violence might be.  The secular world has made its own bed and has difficulty in coming to terms with why this bed is so terribly uncomfortable.

Some of the contributing causes listed below may be broad and rather philosophical, but they still have their considerable impact.  Since I am not writing for a secular newspaper, and therefore have no obligation to toe the line, I would like to enunciate a sextet of causes, all of which the secular world views, strangely enough, as positive.

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