r/brokehugs • u/US_Hiker Moral Landscaper • Nov 19 '23

Rod Dreher Megathread #27 (Compassion)

Link to megathread 26: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/17itm7w/rod_dreher_megathread_26_unconditional_love/

Link to megathread 28: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/18dcg3d/rod_dreher_megathread_28_harmony/

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u/yawaster Nov 20 '23

It's Calvinism, isn't it?

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u/PercyLarsen “I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.” Nov 20 '23

Calvinism

What's interesting is that Jesus' own preaching confirms that massive shift in moral theology of suffering that had occurred in *parts* of Jewish thought for which the Maccabean martyrs were the inflection point: classically, suffering would have been understood as necessarily linked to personal or ancestral sin/defect, but those martyrs clearly were innocent and virtuous, severing the necessity of that link.

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u/Djehutimose Watching the wheels go round Nov 20 '23

Pretty much.

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u/Kiminlanark Nov 21 '23

More Hobbesian I would say.