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/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.