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The End of Protect the Pope

This article raises some valid points about the relationship between levels of clerics and how a 'ministry of blogging' comes under that umbrella. But the real reason it caught my eye was the header that accompanied the blog site that comments on this dynamic:




De Omnibus Dubitandum Est: ...the existential consequences of assuming Cartesian doubt, the method of modern philosophy, to its last consequences.

It's not often one runs into an author who's raison d'ĂȘtre is to oppose Cartesian philosophy... at least not since the end of the 18th century! Where else but the internet could you find the Cartesian method condemned by using the Latin phrase which roughly translates to 'Doubt Everything'?
The End of Protect the Pope

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