Daily Archives: June 16, 2008

Patriarchs, primacy, and the pope

About a year ago I was having a rather good lunch with some Episcopal clergy buds when the conversation turned to the relationship between Anglicanism and Orthodoxy. One of these fine priests mentioned how apparently Pope Benedict XVI without much … Continue reading

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Dune and Rhetorical despotism

I have been rereading later books in the Dune saga by Frank Herbert. In God Emperor of Dune I came across this exchange between the God Emperor Leto II and his majordomo Moneo: “Religion always leads to rhetorical despotism,” Leto … Continue reading

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