{"id":10289,"date":"2016-11-06T21:48:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T21:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=10289"},"modified":"2016-11-06T23:08:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T23:08:23","slug":"the-american-conservatives-commitment-to-truthiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-american-conservatives-commitment-to-truthiness\/","title":{"rendered":"The American Conservative’s Commitment to Truthiness?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rod Dreher at The American Conservative\u00a0<\/em>– which could easily be referred to as the “Rod Dreher Show” given his incredibly productive posting habits (he’s reportedly<\/a> responsible for about half the site’s traffic) – writes<\/a> that SJWs (Social Justice Warriors), like churches, need to commit to Truth over Social Justice. There is no splitting the difference:<\/p>\n

[Social psychologist Jonathan] Haidt\u2019s insight is also true for churches today. If we diligently seek Truth, and seek to conform our lives as much as possible around what we believe to be True, then we will inevitably achieve a form of Social Justice. But there can be no Justice, social or otherwise, without Truth. And Truth can\u00a0never<\/em>\u00a0be what serves a pre-determined goal \u2014 the Revolution, the party, equality, the nation, the family, the temporal interests of the Church, nothing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But in a 2014 piece entitled “Evolution & The Culture War,” Dreher was singing a different tune<\/a>. On the implications of the truth of evolution, he wrote:<\/p>\n

I flat-out don\u2019t trust our species to handle the knowledge of human biodiversity without turning it into an ideology of dehumanization, racism, and at worst, genocide. Put another way, I am hostile to this kind of thing not because I believe it\u2019s probably false, but because I believe a lot of it is probably true \u2014 and we have shown that we, by our natures, can\u2019t handle this kind of truth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dreher went on to claim that “forbidden knowledge” is rightly forbidden.<\/p>\n

Am I saying that we should ignore reality? I suppose I am.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well there you have it. Perhaps Dreher has more in common with SJWs than he realizes. Religiosity will do that to you. At least many a SJW will tell you outright that they don’t hold to some vague Enlightenment adherence to truth come what may. They have blatantly tribal, and hence blinkered, commitments. Christian Dreher OTOH wants a bite of that sometimes bitter, realist truth pie without swallowing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rod Dreher at The American Conservative\u00a0– which could easily be referred to as the “Rod Dreher Show” given his incredibly productive posting habits (he’s reportedly responsible for about half the site’s traffic) – writes that SJWs (Social Justice Warriors), like … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1455,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[14,711,1],"tags":[1184,1183,1182],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1455"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10289"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10296,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10289\/revisions\/10296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}