Posted on 10/14/2025 10:26:09 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Morality isn’t made by committee.
The latest sermon from HuffPost’s pulpit insists that “vertical morality” explains why MAGA Christians seem so unchristian. The author, in her infinite wisdom, claims that obedience to God makes people cruel, authoritarian, and conveniently Republican. In other words, faith with a backbone is now a threat to democracy.
Let me start by asking a rather important question: if morality doesn’t descend from above, where exactly does it come from? From X polls? From whatever influencer cries loudest on TikTok? The article paints “vertical morality” as a primitive hangover from patriarchy — a moral monarchy that demands obedience instead of empathy. But it misses the point entirely. The vertical aspect is what gives morality its weight. Remove it, and compassion disappears; what remains is chaos. (RELATED: The Religious Foundations of Freedom and Democracy)
For centuries, vertical morality — the belief that right and wrong flow from a higher authority — has kept civilizations from devouring themselves.
For centuries, vertical morality — the belief that right and wrong flow from a higher authority — has kept civilizations from devouring themselves. The Ten Commandments weren’t crowdsourced. They were carved in stone to remind mankind that the truth doesn’t bend with opinion. Horizontal morality, as HuffPost calls it, is morality by mood ring. It shifts with feelings, fads, and hashtags. Today’s empathy is tomorrow’s outrage.
The writer claims that vertical morality makes people “authoritarian.” But all morality, to some extent, is authoritarian — it says no. No, you can’t kill. No, you can’t steal. No, you can’t pretend biology is bigotry. A moral law that never forbids anything isn’t moral at all; it’s a lifestyle brand. The difference between moral authority and tyranny is purpose. A tyrant’s “no” serves power. A moral “no” serves principle. When a society loses the ability...
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Yeah, however, what's important is what God thinks of HuffPost and company.
That means HuffPost is Commie.
Just when you thought they could not wade even deeper into the fever swamp, now God is a fascist. Curious but highly circular reasoning.
If followers of Christ are “un-Christian”, then what IS a Christian, anyway? Obviously, not a disciple of HuffPost.
If being for what God is for is fascist then what is being for everything God says is wrong?
If the light in your eyes is darkness how great is that darkness indeed!
It’s all about the perversion, murder and lies for too many of these persons.
Democrats say: Hitler is God.
How DARE you God!??!
“Vertical morality” isn’t authoritarian in the political sense; rather, it is ontological—the natural moral structure arising from the same divine laws that harmonize the cosmos. Just as physical constants are finely tuned to sustain life, moral constants are spiritually “fine-tuned” by God to sustain meaning, coherence, and justice. A denial of this vertical moral vector, in the name of freedom or empathy detached from transcendence, results not in liberation but in moral entropy—the dissolution of shared standards and the fragmentation of truth into competing relativisms.
There is a god who is a fascist, and he’s not the One True God. His name is allah.
True.
Even the demons believe and shudder.
feelings above all else, if you dont follow the leftist thinking you will be banished from life
Just waitinb for huffiepost to go down the drain. Wonder how many prayers will be going to God to prevent this?
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