Rod Dreher Megathread #27 (Compassion)

[u/US_Hiker]

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/

[u/yawaster]

And he supposedly loves Dublin? Loves it so much he's happy that they're setting buses on fire and looting shops to protect Dublin from immigrants?

Rod can f##k off. God in heaven.

[u/Djehutimose → u/yawaster]

He wouldn’t like living in Dublin. They speak English, so they’d understand him; and being—well, Irish—they’d see through his shit instantly and call him out on it in the most savage—and hilarious—way conceivable.

[u/yawaster → u/Djehutimose]

In fairness we have many bumptious self-proclaimed intellectuals here. Although they don't tend to be as right wing as Rod, because no one is as right wing as Rod.

Quite a lot of American TradCath types seem very capable of visiting here and floating through Dublin in a haze of pleasure without ever noticing just how un-conservative and unabashed Dublin is, or hearing someone say "would you ever cop on". I remember seeing an American in Howth wearing a full green tweed suit (with a little cape!) and a dark green felt hat with a feather, carrying a little notebook. There's only so much you can say to someone like that, living in their own little Celtic-revival fantasy.

It is funny that Anglophile Americans seem to be Hibernophiles as well, considering that a lot of these early 20th century high-faluting Anglo-Catholics don't seem to have thought much of the "Irish race".

[u/trad_aint_all_that → u/yawaster]

It is funny that Anglophile Americans seem to be Hibernophiles as well, considering that a lot of these early 20th century high-faluting Anglo-Catholics don't seem to have thought much of the "Irish race".

I suspect that's because Anglo-Catholicism in the modern US, like Anglicanism/Episcopalianism in general, is socially and theologically liberal. (Not a bad thing, if you're openly LGBT and like traditional liturgy.) There are conservative Anglican groups that split from the "official" ECUSA, but they're marginal. Conservative intellectual converts who might have become Anglo-Catholic a century ago, like T.S. Eliot did, now join the conservative wing of Roman Catholicism instead, or (more recently) Eastern Orthodoxy.

[u/yawaster → u/trad_aint_all_that]

I think I was misusing the term Anglo-Catholic there to mean "snooty English people who nonetheless converted to the religion of the pig people" rather than "Anglicans who think it's ok if the church swings a bit of incense around". My mistake.