Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm Shane Morris.

Recently, internet celebrity Andrew Tate was back in the headlines after being released from

house arrest in Romania. The champion kickboxer turned influencer and life coach is facing

charges of sex trafficking of minors,

rape and money laundering. Anyone familiar with Tate's videos won't find these allegations hard to

believe. He has openly billed himself for years as a pimp, gotten rich running a webcam pornography

ring, and taught men how to manipulate and abuse women via his

hustlers university. Tate has over 10 million followers on X, and before YouTube took down his

channels, his subscription-based get-rich-quick program, The Real World, had accumulated 450 million

views. In other words, despite his rap sheet, a lot of people are listening to him,

and most of those are young men. According to the UK-based market research consultancy,

Savanta, in 2003, one in three 16 to 25-year-old men said they had a positive view of Andrew Tate.

Anecdotally, it seems more than a few of them are Christian young men.

Nancy Piercy, author of The Toxic War on Masculinity, wrote recently on X.

Quote, a former graduate student of mine now teaches at a high school, and she sent me an

email saying, all of my male students are fans of Andrew Tate.

They're even including quotes from Andrew Tate in the yearbook.

I asked, where do you teach at a classical Christian school?

So why the draw to Tate, especially for young men who claim to follow Jesus?

Well, one answer, suggested by a writer at the Federal Federalist is that Tate exploits a void created

by the war on masculinity.

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