The thing that attracted men to Braveheart’s William Wallace was the same thing that attracted them to a quiet, frail psychology professor from Canada. It was never about the blood and gore and machismo. It was the appeal to responsibility and transcendent meaning. 
I’ve been hearing from the “he/him” Exvangelicals that it was mainly weak, inadequate men who were so captured by Braveheart. That may very well be true. I might consider myself one of them-and that’s the point. Inadequate men feel their need for growth more deeply.
We need an ideal to shoot for. For the Christian, that’s Christ. But we also know that mythic themes and archetypes in stories can help to drive that truth home in new ways something. God uses all kinds of stuff.
And with that, I suppose I’m off this Braveheart stuff on Twitter. Back to BidenCOVIDglobalwarmingtransbathroomsblablabla
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