There is a creator on TikTok named Dan McClelland. He compares the Vp’s story to the parable of the Good Samaritan. Very illuminating. My only question is would JD Vance be the priest, the Levite, or the robber. He’s certainly not the good,Samaritan in that parable
I don't recall Jesus giving a love hierarchy lecture, maybe I missed it. Vance is in a patriarchal cult, to be sure. And patriarchy is nothing if not arrogant in their opinions. Matthew says Jesus fed 5,000 people. Imagine hating your mother so much that you feed 5,000 people before feeding her? (following vance logic) Speaking of love, did you read 'very Catholic' Mel Gibson's analogy of trump visiting california as a child abusing dad about to beat his child with a belt? I wonder where that kind of love attends on the scale created by Vance?
Lauren I’m glad I found this. Love your writing. I respect that you fled the nightmare that is X. I forgot you existed (sorry), but someone posted a Teen Vogue article and I was curious if you were still column writing. Thigh High Politics was important.
I appreciate you, Matthew! I was gone for a long time, too. Working on a fresh newsletter that will come by tomorrow. My goal is to make this a weekly thing, so you can expect me in your inbox every weekend :)
““I really liked that the Catholic Church was just really old.”” I have never understood this. Why do people want their lives to be controlled by the rules of people who’ve been dead for millennia??
There is a creator on TikTok named Dan McClelland. He compares the Vp’s story to the parable of the Good Samaritan. Very illuminating. My only question is would JD Vance be the priest, the Levite, or the robber. He’s certainly not the good,Samaritan in that parable
Yeah he’s awesome. Seconding his channel.
I don't recall Jesus giving a love hierarchy lecture, maybe I missed it. Vance is in a patriarchal cult, to be sure. And patriarchy is nothing if not arrogant in their opinions. Matthew says Jesus fed 5,000 people. Imagine hating your mother so much that you feed 5,000 people before feeding her? (following vance logic) Speaking of love, did you read 'very Catholic' Mel Gibson's analogy of trump visiting california as a child abusing dad about to beat his child with a belt? I wonder where that kind of love attends on the scale created by Vance?
Lauren I’m glad I found this. Love your writing. I respect that you fled the nightmare that is X. I forgot you existed (sorry), but someone posted a Teen Vogue article and I was curious if you were still column writing. Thigh High Politics was important.
I appreciate you, Matthew! I was gone for a long time, too. Working on a fresh newsletter that will come by tomorrow. My goal is to make this a weekly thing, so you can expect me in your inbox every weekend :)
If you're interested in a Jewish perspective on this: https://open.substack.com/pub/avbronstein/p/america-first-or-america-only?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5dm
““I really liked that the Catholic Church was just really old.”” I have never understood this. Why do people want their lives to be controlled by the rules of people who’ve been dead for millennia??
There's a sense that old = authentic. Also old tends to be patriarchal!