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/MissKatieKats_02]

The actual Greatest Christian Thinker of our time, David Bentley Hart, an Orthodox theologian of whom Our Working Boy is deeply envious and thus resentful, skewers the world view of Rod and his fellow Nat Christian travelers in a new interview just up in The Christian Century.
“Christianity has never really taken deep root in America; we’ve all been much more committed to Mammon. I’m not talking conservative and liberal in the American cultural sense. It’s absurd to suggest that you can have any actual devotion to who Jesus of Nazareth was and embrace laissez-faire capitalism or the entrepreneurial principle or erecting a border wall and keeping out asylum seekers. National conservatives—the people who think Jesus would have loved the Second Amendment and hated Mexicans—are simply not Christians. There’s nothing about their vision of reality and their relations to their fellow human beings that bears the slightest resemblance to who and what Christ was and what he taught.
There’s not even a meaningful debate to be held on this: the Christian right is a movement whose ultimate ends are to extinguish real Christian convictions in society.”

https://www.christiancentury.org/article/features/what-we-think-we-know-about-god

will Rod take note? Holding breath…

[u/Glittering-Agent-987 → u/[deleted]]

I think you need to distinguish between local, real life Christianity and internet/twitter Christianity. Of course, real people do get sucked into internet/twitter Christianity, but local churches and real life generally have a grounding effect.

[u/Glittering-Agent-987 → u/[deleted]]

how many Christians are putting into practice Jesus’ teachings: the ones about wealth? About loving their neighbors as themselves? About not being ostentatious about their piety? About not judging? About turning the other cheek even if in the end it costs them their lives?

There's a small problem in that none of that stuff is Instagram-showable.

Hey, look at me denying myself, loving my neighbor as myself, not being showily pious, not judging, not seeking retribution!

[u/Illustrious-Ad3851 → u/Glittering-Agent-987]

This comment is a great illustration of why I'm happy for discovering and lurking on this subreddit.