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I have seriously considered doing this, but the fact that Islam is polygamous plus the fact that I would be starting out as a random outsider with no social capital to speak of gives me pause. I would probably just end up as one of those surplus males that are forced to fuck dancing boys for lack of women, which is not what I want.
Rather, I want white sharia.
You can join one of many existing fundamentalist Christian groups. Almost all of them have a better gender ratio than the motte and accept converts. If you live in a major city in the US, there’s almost certainly several to choose from within driving distance.
But I’m guessing you don’t want to do this, because in practice you don’t actually like the society you desire. You might not like the actual gender role of a patriarchal man(which comes with responsibilities). You probably don’t want the policing of young men. These things are loadbearing for the social model.
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What would that look like, exactly? I know it's Dread Jim's obsession, but that sort of social control is unlikely to happen without an onerous religious regime that would place additional restrictions on you that you probably wouldn't like; it won't just be "You get to choose a young hottie wife who isn't allowed to say no to you."
I’ll notice that these people advocating for trad sexual mores don’t seem to join the many existing Christian fundamentalist groups out there. Few are hostile to converts and a they invariably have better gender balance than secular right wing circles(low bar to clear, I know).
From my experience people advocating for trad sexual mores tend to already be Christian and view church-shopping as abhorrent.
Yes, the majority of people advocating for conservative religious morality are religious conservatives. Numerically most people into Christian sharia are being told to dial it down a notch by their coreligionists who still don’t let their daughters wear pants or listen to rock music. That crowd is not what I was addressing.
I am confused.
Your prior comment indicated "these people advocating for trad sexual mores don’t seem to join the many existing Christian fundamentalist groups out there". I stated that this was largely due to such people already being Christian. You're agreeing that the majority of such people are already religious conservatives, but now saying whoops, you're actually just talking about the minority of such people who are not already religious conservatives?
A statement of 'I’ll notice that the minority of people advocating for trad sexual mores who are not already Christian don’t seem to join the many existing Christian fundamentalist groups out there.' I don't see as a particularly interesting comment on the topic.
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They don't actually want trad mores. They're mostly just resentful and sexually unsuccessful men who'd like the rules to change so women can't reject them.
You know that old joke about how feminist journalists all write articles about how, come the revolution, they will be considered hotter? I consider Dread Jim and much of the redpill crowd to be the male version of that.
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