HuffPost Thinks God’s a Fascist 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.

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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.

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