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There’s not much of one. The figure of the Christ, while providing a vivid image to imitate in terms of human sentiments, reactions and sufferings, is noticeably light on masculine traits, and by most cultures’ light would be downright feminine in his basic attributes. The roster of qualities one would expect of a man - paternity, dominating sex drive, aggression, inter alia the borderline antisociality men are supposed to pretend to -are simply absent, and replaced with the “lamb of God”.It is part and parcel of Christian practice to assimilate aspects of indigenous cultures to help native religiosity take root; this was done with European nations in ages past as surely as it is being done with semi-Christian African nations today. So each developing form of Christianity saw its own gender archetypes staring back at it from the icons of the saints, the revered ancestors who gave faces and names to the faith’s archetypes. So new generations of warriors, kings, sages and dragon-slayers made the fellowship of Christ palatable to societies that, all things considered, would have had little affinity to an itinerant Jewish ascetic.^ St. Oswin (d. 651), who succeeded to one-half of his father’s kingdom in northern-western England and was killed at his brother Oswiu’s device. “In Anglo-Saxon culture, it was assumed that the nearest kinsmen to a murdered person would seek to avenge the death… However, Oswine's nearest kinsman was Oswiu's own wife. Oswiu was also related to the slain. In order to confront the justice that was seen to be owed for the murder, Oswiu founded a monastery partly staffed by the relatives of both of their families, and this monastery was given the task of offering prayers for both Oswiu's salvation and Oswine's departed soul.”Which reminds me, What saint do you like best and why?Probably the most recognisable Christian figure is that of the martyr, i.e. people who are killed for their faith, but this is a truly intersex category; there is no particular preference for male over female martyrs, and both (usually from the early centuries of the Church, during Roman persecutions) are well represented. Newer additions - called neo-martyrs, and running from those stoned for apostasy from Islam in the 18th c. Balkans, to those killed for fraternizing with foreigners in 20th c. China - are also present. A part of this goes towards making what has been called the ‘martyr complex’, i.e. the deliberate seeking of death to honour one’s religion. In Mamluk Egypt, where Christian Copts were tolerated, but conversions to Christianity were not, young Christian men would convert to Islam one day and deliberately publicly apostatize the next, sometimes going to the block in large groups. They could wriggle out of their predicament by ‘regretting’ their decision (istitaba): not doing so was to them a moral victory over their rulers.During this year [1187 /1773] a Christian youth, whose name was Banna b. Musa ... left his faith and pronounced the shahada of Islam ... on the second day he returned to his faith, and denied Islam, and said 'I am a Christian.' The judge ordered him to be beheaded. He said to the executioner: 'Strike, for I am a Christian! and I die in the love of the Messiah and his belief'.You will find elements of this mentality widely spread over the Christian world. There is an underlying shift from the lamb being meekly taken to the place of sacrifice, to the lamb defiantly marching there himself; and from there it is not too far a leap to make the lamb a soldier going to the battlefield, there to make sacrifice in a less passive fashion. A big variation on this is exemplified in things like the Kosovo Myth (nothing to do with today’s ‘Kosovo issue’), referring to the battle of Kosovo Polje which brought Serbia under Turkish suzerainty in 1389. The idea being that the Serbian Czar, Lazar (d. 1389), was given the choice of winning the battle and gaining a large kingdom on earth or losing the battle and winning the Kingdom of Heaven. So the long centuries of foreign rule are merely a sacrifice of this false world for the next, which is better.^ Munich, Germany, detail of head and chest of St. Iocondino. The relic is that of a boy’s skeleton, taken from the Roman catacombs and believed to be a child martyr.So, yes: the more universal (in the number of cultures influenced by it) set of Christian models is quite inimical to most traditions’ ideas of masculinity, but by expansion and adaptation can entertain all sorts of events and archetypes within it. There certainly is broad difference in the attitudes considered Christian and expected in different countries professing the same religion.

Very strange! The shortage is usually of boys who take their religion seriously!You must be looking in the wrong places.I can only answer as a Christian, and in that case my suggestion would be that it would help if you were to join organisations that bring Christian youth together for fellowship and social action.

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