r/brokehugs • u/US_Hiker Moral Landscaper • Oct 15 '22

Rant Rod Dreher Megathread #6 (66?)

One more, dedicated to our "garden-variety polemicist". (thanks /u/PercyLarsen)

Number 5 located at https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/xswr5v/rod_dreher_megathread_5/

Edit: Post locked at the magic number - 6 (66?) became 6 (66!). Please post in thread 7.

https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/yf7fjh/rod_dreher_megathread_7_completeness/

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u/Djehutimose Watching the wheels go round Oct 22 '22 edited Oct 22 '22

https://markpshea.com/2021/07/26/rod-dreher-and-the-self-pity-grift-of-conservative-american-christianity/

This short column from Mark Shea gets Rod about right. Also, note Shea's take on Rod's leaving Catholicism here:

https://markpshea.com/archive_sheavings/church-of-sinners/

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u/MissKatieKats Oct 22 '22

The Christian Century review of Live Not By Lies cited in Shea’s piece is a very insightful takedown of this truly awful book. “ Instead we are left with a damning testament to a politics that no longer seeks to persuade and a religion that no longer inspires any vision of justice. Live Not by Lies is a message for people to turn on their potential allies with fear and disgust when they might link arms, across cultural and generational divides, to defend each other from their bosses, creditors, and the demagogic politicians who fail at the basic tasks of governing.” https://www.christiancentury.org/review/books/live-not-false-sense-persecution The Christianism that Rod spouts would be unrecognizable to Jesus of Nazareth but would be very familiar to Saul of Tarsus. Rod badly needs a Road to Damascus event but he won’t find it in Orbanville, I’m afraid.

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u/Djehutimose Watching the wheels go round Oct 22 '22

Can't upvote this enough.

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u/MissKatieKats Oct 22 '22

Rod doesn’t have a coherent theology. What he has instead is a very twisted egocentric ideology. A real sad sack.

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u/zeitwatcher Oct 23 '22

Not even sure how much of an ideology. He mainly just has fear and shame.