Still in search of Rod Dreher's Benedict Option

In response to a claim that "[Rod Dreher's] Benedict Option work is massively important for American Christianity"*, Vox Popoli commenter YIH has unearthed an early training film:

But who says Benedict Option ducking and covering can't also be fun?

Rod Dreher & Marvin Olasky practice practicing Rod Dreher's Benedict Option

Not to mention, if you happen to be chosen as one of the Benedict Option Elect by actually being invited into the prophet's compound, you also get the rare privilege of wielding Rod's Mighty Mallet:

Marvin Olasky whacks the wood

Marvin Olasky, to his great honor, joins an impressive roster of previously co-opted mallet minions, Rod's recently declared Pagan soul mate Franklin Evans

Franklin Evans

and Rod's former pal around Dallas, longtime gay NPR commentator Rawlins Gilliland.

Rawlins Gilliland

That's right, moms and dads, a mint julep-sipping middle-aged Alfred E. Neuman still sporting Dr. Seuss hair hosting what can only be described as a rainbow coalition of bar tending house guests will personally guide you through his Benedict Option as you try to help your families and children navigate our increasingly strange and strangely sexualized culture.

That can only be better than the pathetic, failing job you're doing now, right?

Right.

Say, why not start right now, practicing Rod Dreher's Benedict Option at home yourselves?

First, have a little family fun Criscoing everyone's hair into fanciful tempests of twirls.

A culture-tossed family chooses Rod Dreher's Benedict Option

Then, crush some ice, with your own special mallet or, if you're common, in a blender or by running over it with a brick and your car. Make everyone a mint julep. For those children who can't hold their liquor, substitute root beer for the bourbon.

Finally, sit everyone in a circle on the couch around your Apple laptop (no Apple laptop?...I-I'm so sorry...) and get the whole family to read one of Rod's best culture-disengaging posts aloud, maybe one of the ever-popular ones about trannies, or, hey, how about something fresh and new, like a bold, ground-breaking put-down of Donald Trump?**

With brave new Christian cultural-thickening moves like these, I can assure you, it's only a matter of time before our enemies begin falling before us like matchsticks.

*How something Dreher himself has characterized as "inchoate" can be massive is unclear. Maybe it's like dark matter.

**See how Rod did that? Pretty cool, huh: took a free comment and recycled it as one part of a build-a-Mr. Potato Head post, then a free article by a colleage, then stuck it al together with some straw argumentation. You could have written your own Benedict Option book this way, but I think by now Rod's got the jump on you. But maybe a book on something else? Remember, you don't have to know a bit about your subject until the contract is inked.