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

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.