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One of the great obstacles Jeremiah faced was his contemporaries refusal to accept that Babylonian pagans would soon overrun Judah and that its temple worship would end in exile. Jeremiah was a prophet of doom mocked, scorned, and ignored until it was too late. Rod Dreher is a contemporary Jeremiah. To be sure, to my knowledge, no American politician has taken upon himself the role of King Jehoiakim by cutting up Dreher s
The Benedict Option and tossing it into the fire (cf. Jer. 36). Nor have the book s warning cries landed Dreher in a slimy pit (cf. Jer. 38). Some might even argue that the book s remarkable sales invalidate its thesis: Christians continue to play a key role in American culture. If Christians were to adopt a monastic approach, therefore, they would wilfully blind themselves to their continuing influence on every aspect of life in the United States.