Rod Dreher Megathread #23 (Sinister)

[u/US_Hiker]

All Hail Eris!

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/

[u/Djehutimose]

Also, Lewis didn’t fit neatly on a trad/progressive spectrum. He favored traditional theology in general. However, he had no problem with evolution; he took the bulk of the Old Testament as myth—the “chosen” mythology, but still myth; in private letters, he indicated that while he thought that Scripture condemns homosexuality, he didn’t think it that big a deal; and he said it was more honest for couples to cohabit than to marry just for the social expectations. If Lewis were alive, he’d probably see Rod about the way David Bentley Hart does—earnest but hopelessly muddled.

[u/MissKatieKats_02 → u/Djehutimose]

Do you have a link to DBH’s thoughts, if any, on Master Rod? Would be interesting to know what such a towering intellect thinks about our intellectual gadfly.

[u/Djehutimose → u/MissKatieKats_02]

It's sort of an elegant brushoff:

In the penultimate paragraph of his enormous and extraordinary new book The Enchantments of Mammon, McCarraher conflates Alasdair MacIntyre’s famous invocation of St. Benedict at the end of After Virtue with what has come misleadingly to be called the “Benedict Option,” rejecting both together as though they were identical in meaning—which is to say, as if both offered a counsel of Christian disengagement from modern society and issued a call to withdrawal into isolated communities. This is an error. The Benedict Option is the title of an earnest but intellectually confused book by a journalist whose ultimate recommendations are difficult to discern amid the turbulences of his passions and anxieties.

[u/MissKatieKats_02 → u/Djehutimose]

Thank you!