What Benedict Option?

 "This is life as it ought to be lived."

Grimly pursuing the Benedict Option in post-Christian America? That isn't life as it ought to be lived - well, for you maybe, but not for Rod Dreher, impresario of that black hole of meaning.

While you try to make sense of it, maybe even deform your life and values in pursuit of it, Rod might end up writing a book about it, or he might not, but "life as it ought to be lived" won't include any Benedict Option he gulls you into for him. Instead, "life as it ought to be lived" for him will be vacationing in Italy for the Palio, then on to Lyon for a palate-cleanser of French cuisine, and then later - who knows?

Rod's having the time of his life. You? You're the mark that makes it all possible, BOpper.

Rod Dreher's Benedict Option™: who put the BOp in the BOp shoo BOp shoo BenOp?

Who was that man?

I'd like to shake his hand.

For, you see, there may be an unanticipated dividend to Rod Dreher's Benedict Option™, or as Prophet Dreher has prescribed it for the faithful, "BenOp" (Google plaintively asks instead, "Did you mean bebop?".

It might be great for getting chicks.

Hit it, Barry:

I'd like to thank the guy
Who wrote the song
That made my baby
Fall in love with me

Who put the bomp
In the bomp bah bomp BenOp?
Who put the ram
In the rama lama ding dong?
Who put the BOp
In the BOp shoo BOp shoo BOp?
Who put the hip
In the hippy dippy BenOp trip?
Who was that man?
I'd like to shake his hand
He made my baby
Fall in love with me (yeah!!)

When my baby heard
"Bomp bah bah bomp "
"Bah bomp bah bomp BenOp"
Every word went right into her heart
And when she heard them singin'
"Rama lama lama lama"
"Rama ding dong"
She said we'd never have to part
So

Who put the bomp
In the bomp bah bomp BenOp?
Who put the ram
In the rama lama ding dong?
Who put the BOp
In the BOp shoo BOp shoo BOp?
Who put the dip
In the hippy dippy BenOp trip?
Who was that man?
I'd like to shake his hand
He made my baby
Fall in love with me (yeah!!)

Each time that we're alone
Boogity boogity boogity
Boogity boogity boogity shoo
Sets my baby's heart all aglow
And everytime we dance to
Hippy dippy BenOp trip
Hippy dippy BenOp trip
She always says she loves me so
So

Who put the bomp
In the bomp bah bomp BenOp?
Who put the ram
In the rama lama ding dong?
Who put the BOp
In the BOp shoo BOp shoo BOp?
Who put the dip
In the hippy dippy BenOp trip?
Who was that man?
I'd like to shake his hand
He made my baby
Fall in love with me (yeah!!)

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And once you've found the BOpper girl of your dreams, use the rest of your charm to sweep her away from that charismatic cult and into a full and more appropriate, real world Christian life, how 'bout.