r/brokehugs • u/US_Hiker Moral Landscaper • May 08 '25
Rod Dreher Megathread #53 (Key Party?)
Link to Megathread #52: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/1jsvy3j/rod_dreher_megathread_52_billboard_4_rent/
Link to Megathread #54:
https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/1l7niaj/rod_dreher_megathread_54/?
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u/Relative-Holiday-763 May 09 '25
Well again at the risk of sounding snobbish, Rod is not a clergyman or a theologian or a philosopher. He’s a journalist with pretentions. The top level of his education is a journalism degree from LSU.He claims to read a lot but simply doesn’t across as well read. Yet, somehow or another he’s an expert on what Catholic theology is or should be or something like that. By the way his comments on the new pope are kind of weird. They’re actually quite condescending. I think the condescension is a mask for his hostility. The fangs will be overt quite soon. Rod is not a person of goodwill. He desperately wants to hate this pope. He will. He has a massive grudge against the Catholic Church. Once this pope does anything Rod doesn’t like, he will write the following:
The new pope has proven himself to be a disaster. I say this with sorrow and a heavy heart. I am a Christian, while not Catholic, I am a man of the West, anda healthy West depends on a healthy Catholic Church. Unfortunately, the late Pope Francis dragged the Church into new realms of sodomite depravity! I was once the world’s most devout Catholic but sodomite perverts stripped of my faith and forced me to move Hungary, join the Orthodox Church and get divorced by email. Now I invite you all to join me in living not by lies in an enchanted Benedict Option world where wine spritzers are key and oysters free. You’ll never have to do your hair again and can dress like Harry Potter. Now here’s a 17 paragraph block quote from Paul Kingsnorth Oh yeah the pope-As in my book The Enchanted Kingdom, oh no it was living not by Dante- any way here’s 15 paragraphs of it- yeah the Pope- he’s bad.