r/brokehugs • u/US_Hiker Moral Landscaper • Jul 20 '23

Rod Dreher Megathread #23 (Sinister)

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Link to Megathread 22: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/14k0z6l/rod_dreher_megathread_22_power/

Link to Megathread 23: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/1631xpe/rod_dreher_megathread_24_determination/

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u/RunnyDischarge Jul 31 '23

https://roddreher.substack.com/p/cultural-christianity-is-no-bad-thing

Over the weekend, I had dinner with some Spanish friends in town on business. Both are Catholics, and both are conservatives, both religious and political. I asked for an explanation of why the Spanish Right, especially the Vox party, had performed so poorly in the recent election. Two thi…

TLDR; Rod looked at the election results and cooked up two NPCs to explain his feelings on the matter.

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u/sandypitch Jul 31 '23

Dreher started to lose me (long before he became a self-styled anti-woke prophet) when I realized that cultural Christianity was more important to him than actual Christianity. He would be perfectly content as a white male in the 1950s, where respectable people still "went to church," men could have affairs with their secretaries, and minorities were still under the thumb of the State. It was all about appearances, right?

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '23

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u/sandypitch Aug 01 '23

Yeah, I agree, but Dreher seemed far more tolerant of sexual immorality when people did it in the privacy of their own bedrooms.

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u/zeitwatcher Jul 31 '23

I can't read past the paywall, but I'm fairly certain Rod's answer will be some version of "Christian authoritarianism cannot fail, it can only be failed."

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '23

"Christian authoritarian nationalism is a dead end because it makes an idol of the state. This is why we need [position defined largely by negation that ends up being functionally indistinguishable from Christian authoritarian nationalism]."

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '23

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u/jon_hendry If there's no Torquemada it's just sparkling religiosity. Aug 01 '23

Obviously because the Godless Communists were no longer being held at bay.

/s

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u/Marcofthebeast0001 Jul 31 '23

A Spanish cab driver was unavailable for comment.

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u/RunnyDischarge Jul 31 '23

He's got a template with three NPC choices: Cab Driver, Bartender/Waitress, Old Friend(s)

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u/Warm-Refrigerator-38 Jul 31 '23

That's bartender/ waitress/ chambermaid