A Sharp Rise in Young Men's Religiosity

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A Sharp Rise in Young Men’s Religiosity

April 16, 2026 at 8:52 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 112 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2026/04/16/a-sharp-rise-in-young-mens-religiosity/

A new Gallup poll finds 42% of young men saying religion is very important to them, up sharply from 28% in 2022-2023.

By contrast, during this period, young women’s attachment to religion has held steady at about 30%.

[ZDU]

1. Muscular Christianity

Jockstrap Jesus types

[Freddie]

2. Sanctified misogyny

[Irish_Dem]

3. Religions that only like white men?

And hate women and POC?

[Intractable]

4. Most religions tell men, just by joining, they are instantly better than the other half of the population.

It's a big selling point to those with masculine inferiority complexes.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

7. Yep

[CrispyQ]

5. Who's surprised? It reinforces patriarchy, & men's control over women.

God the Father. God the Son. And then there's a ghost. I guess that represents women cuz we're invisible. My minister was not comfortable when I asked him, if God isn't male or female, why don't we have a special pronoun for God? (I didn't realize how ahead of my time I was!) He mumbled some lame answer. It could easily have been God the Parent & God the Child, but no. Women were deliberately left out of the Trinity.

So many small, petty men.

[IA8IT]

6. In search of obedient deferential women not faith to a God. My first thought after some local examples.

Godly young brides from far away. Makes me sick.

[maxsolomon]

8. Please. A 14% increase in 3 years?

I don't buy this for a second. They're polling Zoomer trolls.

[JCMach1]

10. Not believable

[Bettie]

9. Churches (usually the far right variety) tell them

that they are owed things.

They sell them on the Wife who does all the work, kids who obey without question, and that as men, they are the ones who make the rules.

They think they are owed those things.

[Coventina]

11. I've seen this in my male students.

The interesting part is that they seem to be going for very traditional religions:

Eastern Orthodox (Ortho-bros, they're called)
Roman Catholic
Strict Jews (forgive me, I'm not up on the different strands of Judaism, but I have observed more students wearing the kippah daily).