re: #86 Aunty Entity Dragon

Your daily What the fuck obnoxious/tendentious/strange/unsupported/vaguely racist/all of the above thing did Rod Dreher write today…

As you may recall, Rod Dreher really, really hates the Enlightenment (the philosophical foundation of our Revolution and the Constitution). He has claimed frequently that Enlightenment political and social innovations (like the American experiment in self rule we experience every day!) depend exclusively on a Christian culture and that they will not survive without it.

He asserted today that:

He gets real specific about that in a jaw dropping response to one of his critics today:

Rod responded:

This the Natural Law claim of slave owners, as far as I can tell. I shouldn’t be shocked that this kind of thinking is still being accepted in a conservative publication…but I am.

It doesn’t require a God to have human rights any more than I, as an adult, have to ask my parents to go to the movies.