It’s Called Rationalization
November 20, 2024 4:30 PM Subscribe
Last week, bible scholar, author, vlogger (and owner of one of the finest t-shirt collections in town) Dan McClellan posted a video asking the question Did God choose an adulterous man to rule his nation?
Apparently some viewers took issue with Dan’s message, so he immediately posted a followup video, On the intersection of some of my research & politics making abundantly clear what he meant.
Why do I never hear any Christians wondering if maybe God chose an infamously awful fuckup for president as a punishment for our sins?
posted by Western Infidels at 5:25 PM on November 20 [16 favorites]
posted by Western Infidels at 5:25 PM on November 20 [16 favorites]
Why do I never hear any Christians wondering if maybe God chose an infamously awful fuckup for president as a punishment for our sins?
While this was probably a rhetorical question, I can believe there might be some who think this while what they consider to be "our sins" is a few light years different from mine.
posted by polecat at 5:36 PM on November 20 [9 favorites]
While this was probably a rhetorical question, I can believe there might be some who think this while what they consider to be "our sins" is a few light years different from mine.
posted by polecat at 5:36 PM on November 20 [9 favorites]
Dan McClellan previously on Mefi
I thoroughly appreciated the way he consistently referred to the act of voting for TFG as "electing a serial sexual predator to the White House" instead of using his thrice-accursed name, and also how many times he repeated that exact phrasing word for word. That's a man who clearly understands the power of suggestion even if the slogan he chose was longer than the three-word optimum.
posted by flabdablet at 6:33 PM on November 20 [5 favorites]
I thoroughly appreciated the way he consistently referred to the act of voting for TFG as "electing a serial sexual predator to the White House" instead of using his thrice-accursed name, and also how many times he repeated that exact phrasing word for word. That's a man who clearly understands the power of suggestion even if the slogan he chose was longer than the three-word optimum.
posted by flabdablet at 6:33 PM on November 20 [5 favorites]
A subtext of using "electing a serial sexual predator to the White House" without a name is the fact that Trump is not the first, second, or even third serial sexual predator to be elected to the White House. I don't know history well enough, but I would guess he is at least in the late teens or 20s.
That ties in nicely to the point of rationalization, that people ignore things that are inconvenient to their politics.
The sad conclusion is that for the vast majority of Americans, being a serial sexual predator is not a deal breaker at all.
posted by being_quiet at 8:47 PM on November 20 [2 favorites]
That ties in nicely to the point of rationalization, that people ignore things that are inconvenient to their politics.
The sad conclusion is that for the vast majority of Americans, being a serial sexual predator is not a deal breaker at all.
posted by being_quiet at 8:47 PM on November 20 [2 favorites]
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