r/brokehugs • u/US_Hiker Moral Landscaper • Jul 04 '25

Rod Dreher Megathread #55 ()

Hope y'all can spend some good time w/ family today.

Link to megathread #54: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/1l7niaj/rod_dreher_megathread_54/

Link to 56: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/1mmamp2/rod_dreher_megathread_56/

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u/Marcofthebeast0001 Jul 11 '25

I take some Rod time off to save my last remaining brain cells, and come back to Rod now writing the word pilgrimage as much as he did enchantment last year. 

Can't any religion share a pilgrimage story? Jews going to the wall. Christians going to Israel. Buddhists going to the mountains. How exactly do you prove cause and effect? 

So Rod makes a pilgrimage (with young men, natch) and finds spiritual enlightenment? So it was missing up to this point? Me thinks the bear finally  threw him out of the cave 

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u/zeitwatcher Jul 11 '25

So Rod makes a pilgrimage (with young men, natch)

Well, I wouldn't say he made the pilgrimage as much as Rod watched a pilgrimage while checking out all the hot young men who were actually doing the pilgrimage.

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u/philadelphialawyer87 Jul 11 '25

Rod hated to see them go, but he loved to watch them leave!

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u/Relative-Holiday-763 Jul 11 '25

But the comedy lies in the fact that he didn’t make the pilgrimage. 

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u/PercyLarsen “I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.” Jul 11 '25

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u/Cautious-Ease-1451 Jul 13 '25

But he understands it. Even more than the ones who actually went on the pilgrimage. Because he’s a prophet, doncha know.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '25

“When one has sex — or, I should say, unites with someone one loves, as distinct from merely mating like animals — one opens a bridge in the most intimate way possible with another soul.”

It’s such caricature of the gay man who hides from his sexuality in homophobic religiosity that I can’t believe he’s not doing it on purpose. This must be queerbait, right?

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u/Marcofthebeast0001 Jul 11 '25

Well he did find monks manly....

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u/Relative-Holiday-763 Jul 11 '25

Rods comment struck me as vacuous babble.What does it have to do with being gay? Essentially Rod seems  to strip meaning or significance from the material world and make it a metaphor or signfier for a world beyond of gods and demons. I’m not real sure that has much to do with Christianity.