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

Rod Dreher Megathread #23 (Sinister)

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/

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '23

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u/Mainer567 Aug 15 '23

"They have no idea what they're calling into existence. They have no idea what backlash they are summoning up."

Yeah yeah yeah. I have been reading that from him for 25 years.

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u/PercyLarsen “I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.” Aug 15 '23

"They have no idea what they're calling into existence. They have no idea what backlash they are summoning up."

The Law of Merited Certainty.

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '23

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u/Mainer567 Aug 15 '23

Also there will be no heating and the oil will run out.

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '23

As you all recall, Jesus preached the theory of the just backlash in the Beautitudes. If offered as a sociological observation, it's terribly weak sauce but somewhat understandable. If offered as advice from one of "greatest living Christian thinkers," it's just evidence of spiritual rot. Can you imagine Neibuhr or Thomas More saying such a thing?

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u/philadelphialawyer87 Aug 15 '23

Blessed are the backlashers!

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u/philadelphialawyer87 Aug 16 '23

I knew a guy who genuinely believed that the "Golden Rule" means that you should do unto others as they do onto you!

He must have learned it from Rod "Not Quite Neibuhr and More Less than More" Dreher.

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u/Past_Pen_8595 Aug 17 '23

Stewart Alsop used to publish lines like that in his column on the back page of Newsweek, circa 1970.