Church elder from small town runs into metropolitan effete

“But it was a conversation I had shortly thereafter, with a different pastor who didn’t last very long in the small town he was serving, that has lodged in my mind. He confided that he had a hard time connecting with the people of the rural community, and had a particular disdain for country music, lifted trucks and the sea of blaze orange covered hunters that showed up every fall. It wasn’t just that those weren’t his interests, it was that he actively disdained them. Something more than tastes and preferences was in play. 

“’I just think hunting is so gross and stupid,’ he said. ‘Why can’t you just buy your food at the grocery store like everyone else? I’ll never do it. It’s almost as dumb as country music.’

“You could hear the revulsion and effeminate range in his voice. He’d rather be in his office, vaping and listening to esoteric music, meditating on obscure and grandiose theology, than standing on the fence line straightening barbwire with one of his people. Soft men despise those who are hard. 

"How is it that our seminaries and churches in much of Christendom are somehow attracting and training effeminate pastors? Why is this happening at such an alarmingly high rate? Why are our Christian institutions so skilled at turning out theologically precise men with softness as their crowning virtue?”

https://ericconn.com/hard-men-world-softness/

 (Soft, effete men and women did not build the Christian church. There were martyrs, hundreds of thousands, millions, killed by Romans, pagans, Muslims and others who demanded denial of Christianity and acceptance of the ruling religion. Those men and women did not turn the other cheek to adversity. Many went down fighting, following Jesus's admonition in Luke 22:36: "And he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one."