BenOp PineApp
One of the ways I keep up on what's going on with Rod Dreher is by reading a Topix forum dedicated to him by the residents of St. Francisville. Here's one of the latest entries, suggesting that Dreher flew to Hawaii to bring back a parting gift in the form of a pineapple for his priest who's leaving his backyard church.
The real story will be forgotten, though, while the memory of that picture lives on forever....
The natives were so grateful for his missionary work they gave him a pineapple.
You just can't get a pineapple worth eating around here, you know.
Too funny.
It's pictures like these and that one of him goofing with a poker-faced Mollie Hemingway that make it hard to argue against the perception that Dreher holds his wife in utter contempt, as nothing more than the brood mare he was forced to service back when that was still necessary. Who treats a woman he loves, whose name he constantly broadcasts, to this sort of repeated, egregious humiliation?
ReplyDeleteWell... yeah. The only question is whether or not he is aware that he is doing this to his wife and, for that matter, to his kids.
DeleteFYI, we were told of a tradition involving a pineapple during a tour of a plantation in South Louisiana. When the mistress of the plantation felt that a visitor had stayed over enough nights and it was time for them to go, she would leave a pineapple on the guest bed in the morning. Hint, hint.
ReplyDeleteIf this is what was meant by the connecting of Dreher's pineapple with the poor priest leaving, it is an especially cutting comment.
That was in the back of my mind, I think. I remember hearing something like that.
DeleteThe thing about this whole priest leaving then his family moving strikes me as a decision long planned and just announced in a typical weird way. But I having been following it close enough; I don't claim to know even what he has published. My thought is that it wouldn't be *that* hard to find some old retired, widowed or single orthodox priest who would love to make a few extra bucks as a spiritual mentor for 15-25 seriously religious people instead of working in a large community. However maybe all American Russian Orthodox churches are like Dreher's backyard church so it's no big deal to find that opportunity....
My thought is that it wouldn't be *that* hard to find some old retired, widowed or single orthodox priest who would love to make a few extra bucks as a spiritual mentor for 15-25 seriously religious people instead of working in a large community.
DeleteOne Caveat...you would have to find a priest that's comfortable with being the confessor of an over-sharer who craves attention and blogs about every little micro aggression and hurt feeling to an audience of dozens. That's is quite probably a deal breaker to most respectable men of the cloth
-Anonymous Maximus
That's a good point.
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