We Are Creeping Toward Totalitarianism | Rod Dreher
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- Join us for a thought-provoking lecture by renowned author and journalist Rod Dreher, presented by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI). In this compelling talk, Dreher examines the growing influence of totalitarian ideologies within American universities and their broader impact on society.
Dreher sheds light on the alarming trend of ideological conformity and censorship on campuses, discussing how certain dogmas have taken hold and stifled intellectual diversity. Drawing on his extensive research and insights from his acclaimed book "The Benedict Option," Dreher explores how these ideological currents threaten fundamental freedoms and undermine traditional values.
Discover why Dreher's analysis is crucial in understanding the challenges facing higher education and our culture at large. Don't miss this enlightening discussion that delves into the pressing issues of totalitarianism and ideological hegemony in contemporary America.
We are not creeping towards totalitarianism. We're being hurled at full speed without regard to the consequences.
It has been happening since the beginning of the 20th century.
#Facts all day!
We're also being hurtled into both the jungle and the ghetto as well. With how vloIent the minoriy population is becoming, how they are essentially flying off the handle and deleting people over petty and nonsensical things. On top of the barbarians that our jackass ancestors decided to *gift" us with, now we have even worse ones coming across the border and they are from all over, and 99% of those places and people hate us and they want everything we have and believe they deserve it. We are being replaced, bottom line.
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What do you mean " creeping towards totalitarianism?" We're there already!
Not quite. If we were you'd be arrested for that comment
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@@kenfalloon3186 So would I but you're STILL living under it. You have thugs is the police force.
They are totally fine with their own brand of totalitarianism, the other brand of totalitarianism is what they have a problem with
Do you live in China, Hungary, Russia, Argentina, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iran or North Korea?
Soft totalitarianism remains soft as long as you have resources. No resources, soft totalitarianism don’t stay soft.
excellent point - to a frighteningly brutal extent
The best way to protect kids is not giving them access to the internet. Including phones
Obviously this fellow has been away in Hungary for too long. We DO have a secret police; the authorities DO throw dissidents in jail etc.
I never been in Hungary but I am sure it is not as extreme as in the West. The context and the frequency is not the same.
Unfortunately he's hobbled by the boomer narrative.
@@churblefurbleswhat do youmean by that?
@@churblefurbles Yeah, what is the boomer narrative? And how is he hobbled by it?
@@churblefurblesYep. He also doesn’t realize the roots of all of this are from the leftist ministry lead civil rights movement that made those ministers feel like martyrs to their ideology. I think he believes this is a completely new and separate movement that arose out of nowhere. My sister in laws father was one of those reverends that was an activist, and he taught his kids to berate everyone around them into submission. My normal Catholic family was totally upturned when she joined and began to berate all of us. Even back then in the early 1950s-1970s those Christian lead activist movements were based on Marxist beliefs, and demanded purity and no freedom of one’s own thought. We even got screamed at and shamed for eating grapes by this family. I literally feel anger when Boomers like this speaker like to pretend like that was the good kind of activism, and it has nothing to do with these new activists who scream in peoples faces, shame them, and demand that people get into line. It’s all the same tactics. It just took a short break during the 1980s.
Wow, just wow. I have been raising the alarm with friends and family, almost everyone is saying I’m over reacting. I refuse consent, and openly question these institutionalized lies harming so many.
Great speech and Q&A. I'm a liberal lefty atheist who agrees with so much of what was said here.
Me too BUT it’s a little hypocritical to talk about reality and facts from a religious perspective, which is just another ideology. There is much that is good about religion - community, ritual, history, art - but let’s be real.
I guess it's in the definitions. I agree with so much of what he's said, but I see myself as a staunch conservative. It may be time for everything to register as Independent, as in 'free from outside control; not depending on another's authority'. What do you think?
Let’s see…Jordan Peterson, Camille Paglia, Heather Macdonald, Douglas Murray, Sam Harris, Christina Hoffsommer, Bari Weiss, Bret and Heather Weinstein… and now Rod Dreher? Do I detect yet another voice of sanity? Hooray!
And, shame on me, I neglected the black contingent- John McWhorter, Glen Loury, Roland Fryer and Coleman Hughes, to name just a few. God bless all of them, including the atheists!
Sam Harris? Hardly.
Helen Joyce,
Kelly J Keen,
Abigail Shrier,
Stella O'Malley
....to name just a few more...
@@deebee22130 Never erd of em mate
Yeah lose Sam Harris’ name from that list. He seems to be a casualty of the Covid psyop and Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Prayers for his recovery
Very brave, thanks for speaking the truth 👏🏻
I find it amazing that as a Muslim I totally agree on every thing he said, more over, we have a name for such ideas in Arabic, Fetrah=, "Natural disposition"
"Do not live the lie" "allow the lie to enter the world; just do not let it live through (you)" F. Solgenitzen Be prepared to be the only one in the room who will NOT stand (!)
Beautiful words
That's ME. But it's NOT easy.
listen to the last 15 minutes
I raised my children on a farm amongst Amish and a Mennonites attended liturgy at a monastery nearby year after year it was paradise then my children got cars and they needed to have a phone in order to be safe from there it was all downhill and now they have become totally anti-Christian pagans. For sure I cannot blame it all on the phone it must have something to do with myself missing something but to this day I'm not sure what it was even with the counseling of my father confessor I just don't know what happened and my heart is broken beyond repair at least at this point.
Maybe the memory of something beautiful will guide them home?
Same thing happened to good friends of mine. So painful.
They'll be back.
Your children grew up, learned to think for themselves, and came to understand that the mythic theology and "soft tyranny" of the religion they had been raised in was not for them.
PG618; I grew up in an Assembly of God church in my home town. I'm 72. When I was starting 8th grade my Mother said the 23 year old Preacher wanted to talk to me about something. He proceeded to tell me I was going to hell cause I wanted to play the guitar. (Think Beatle's in 1965 or so) I was playing piano/organ, taking lessons, and had been playing drums in the band since the 4th grade. Needless to say I told Mr. Cole to F off then I walked home. Didn't go back until the new Preacher , 63 years old, came. Pastor Johnson grew up on the streets of Amsterdam and knew sin from not sin. Something the idiot from Missouri will never know. I still bless my food, pray, (not enough) , help the homeless, have helped 24 youngers in my town get off opiates, and was no doubt the only person to ask God to Bless every B2b, Stealth Bomber, as they were being built. (Tooling QA, Boeing Defense and Space). Preacher Cole went back to Missouri, got caught stealing Church funds, and went to Federal Prison. I receive God's Grace and Guidance everyday just like any other humble sinner. Thank you Jesus for the OLD Pastor.
Freddy Chavré of Maple Valley
No discipline leads to... CHAOS, VIOLENCE & DISRESPECT.
If a lesbian says on a dating site that she only wants to date natural
Born women, SHE will get kicked off. It’s gross.
Creeping or sprinting?
Outstanding speech.
32:35 Wow, just wow. I knew it was bad, but not how bad. My friend's daughter returned from an expensive eastern college and she was a total mess. Queer and all. These people are good, solid people. It's been a bomb in their family.
When I was a kid in the 70s and 80s you would meet maybe one gay kid every 100 kids. One family over and a block away. Maybe in your cousins family you’d suspect a kid would be gay, and then he’d come out as an adult. But now every single family that I know has one or more trans kid. It’s not adding up. It’s not how percentages work. There’s no way there’d be this many genderqueer people under a certain age all of a sudden without a complete shift in our culture.
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@@goodgrief888 it's because people feel safe to come out now, it's not some vast conspiracy. I'm trans, I've been trans my whole life, and it was absolutely impossible to come out before I was in my late 20s where it got a little easier and became extremely difficult. you people are only freaking out because you're losing a little of your cultural dominance. it's sad
@@prismatic_princess , "trans" doesn`t exist. No one is born in a wrong body.
So true 😢 A teacher sacked who debated about jk rowing, and we are here
having constant self evaluation, what to say and think... soft totalitarianism is undergoing in this world.
Pity for the unhappy, but indulgence for the happy.
A truly great speech. Even more impressive were unprepared answers during the Q & A
Really? I can’t wait! The good professor Freud slips a lot! True, true, and true. It was more than enough in the beginning plus the clank of the plates and utensils. I’ll fast forward. Thanks for the heads up! I can’t wait laugh to keep from crying!😂 so sad he’s right. Never heard of the guy but he’s right so far.smh🤦♀️
Thank you Rod for your lecture. It was quite inspiring and insightful. There are a couple of points you haven’t touched upon, which were quite important in Eastern Europe during Soviet regime. One of them was the role of the Catholic Church, which in case of Poland was the main center of protection and resistance for people who are attacked by the government Another Important factor was the role of families and transmission of history, tradition, values, and faith, and to some extent culture in families, smaller groups, parish, and other church organizations.
I don't understand this narcissistic obsession with one's sexuality when it like everything is none of one's personal business. It's not something one should be concerned with. Sex is incidental and private not to be concerned with. One is expected to go about their lives not concerned with their so-called "true-self" as if it's something one should look at or nail down. That's none of one's business. To be concerned with it is selfish. It's something one should be oblivious to and be tangential to tending to things bigger than "self". This kind of self obsession leads to the end of Humanity.
I agree completely with your assessment.
It is selfish and narcissistic to focus on one’s personal proclivities to the degree that many people seem to indulge in now.
That ‘wrong focus’ comes at the detriment of everything and everyone else.
It’s not that it doesn’t matter at all-it’s that it doesn’t matter more than everything else-and it shouldn’t be our focus in life.
To say that one's own sexuality and individual identity is "none of one's personal business" has to be one of the most outlandishly ludicrous statements I have ever heard.
Yeah AND though they victimize they have likely been victimized
Check out the Maoist Cultural Revolution and (queer theory + emotional social learning”) which both involve child abuse and cultic indoctrination.
Or call it the devil spawning his ilk and minions
This garbage is coming from the elitIST pigs via academia, intelligence agencies and corporate government collusion
All force & fraud
Gangster extortion tactics
@@bradhicks4057 I think it's the undue crazy amount of emphasis that greg1 is reacting to. I get that we want to be conscious of our own likes and dislikes of course. Why the obsession with labels?
@@bradhicks4057 Also, I personally think it's a macabre obsession with this kind of new "glamour" cause that somehow ties together a "me me me" attitude with I am a victim. They seem to want to be victims, like when they cry because someone used the wrong pronoun. It's ridiculous. It's ludicrous and infantile and self-serving.
1984 through to Brave New World.
Great!!😵💫
"Soft totalitarianism" seems related to "covert narcism", and definitely Cluster B
Howso?
@@James-ll3jbRead up on cluster B personality. You might understand what the OP is getting at. Some Psychologists are pointing this out.
@@joce11 thanks!
Cluster B types are massively important in emergent and induced totalitarianism
See Maoist Cultural Revolution and (queer theory + emotional social learning”) which involve child abuse and cultic indoctrination.
Or call it the devil spawning his ilk and minions
This garbage is coming from the elitIST pigs via academia, intelligence agencies and corporate government collusion
All force & fraud
Gangster extortion tactics
"Live not by lies."
"Let the lie come into the world, and even reign supreme, but not through me."
Thank you for those words Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. I will try to remember them from now on. 🙏❤
thank you
They were seeing things that the rest of us couldn’t! It’s more like unwilling to except reality!
I'm an immigrant from a socialist country and we are required to study the Stalin era rule and repressions in school. Whats happening in America now is a chilling reminder of how things were in the Stalin era, just not on such a mass scale.
Not “creeping” , sprinting .
Thank you.
This is what happens when you let the bad cat out of the bag. We used to have a culture that admired and protected the family, I mean the real, human family, with a man and a woman having children and providing love and care for them whilst being role models. Then they slowly started telling us otherwise, and pretty soon those ideas ran amok, now some people believe they are the opposite of what they were born, some even say they are dogs.
People who say they are dogs are idiots. I won't indulge them. STILL, I don't care who you love, marry, have sex with OR how you dress (although within limits if I'm hiring you to be a bank teller). Instead of allowing for the fact that some boys / men may have some feminine traits, and some girls / women may have some masculine traits and being okay with that, this latest "cause" just does the complete opposite and tries telling us there is such a thing as "how a woman thinks or feels." Do tell ash*le. Anyway, while the religious right is excoriated for trying to change the brain to fit the body, these new dopes want to surgically / hormonally change the body to fit the brain. It's ridiculous and I have to believe it will fade with a little time. There's more and more backlash and eventually the fuss will die down - I hope. Although many professors have lost jobs, etc. etc. and that's a damn shame. First, let's make it illegal for universities and politicians to take ANY MONEY from foreign entities.
Are we awake now🕊
What people don’t understand about the southwest is that the Mexican food is out of this world. And once you’ve lived on southwest Mexican food for any length of time, you cannot live anywhere else and ever truly enjoy life ever again.
So true. Being a lifelong resident of Arizona and Utah I don’t believe I could live without tacos, enchiladas and tamales.
@@doreenb.8928 it’s so much better than the Mexican food in California, which is also very good, it’s unreal. I literally plan my trips to visit family in New Mexico around the food I’m going to eat while there, and long for it when I’m not there.
Minute 17:00 - I couldn't imagine that in Hungary a teacher would have more freedom than in USA.
Yea all these gentle souls in colleges brought this about
Sex binary. Language matters.
The insidious inception of little lies has led to full blown disregard and destabilization from the individuals critical thinking into group think, and the tyranny society faces. The solution is to de-program ideological bias and teach critical thinking without indoctrinated bias-even to see this speech as only one perspective with factual bias, but not the whole truth.
What ...sex, gender and culture.... -isms may come as our technologically interconnecting advance ventures into what is ...true, truth and more truthful.... coming forth and going forward?
Good points but as long as you think you’re fighting “woke” you will have a blind spot.
Elaborate please
The late great Rush Limbaugh in a critical review to the audience, of "The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators" by William Bennett, called it • "Like a kick to the solar plexus!!"
An Australian Hungarian view right here. I so want to repatriate!
Brave New World may have been a more accurate prediction of the future than 1984 in the particular ways he outlines in the beginning of this video, but it also describes a society in which social hierarchies have become far more strictly defined and firmly enforced, which is the opposite of how society has evolved since Huxley wrote the book.
A presenter should shake hands with their guest speaker as they walk up to the stage/podium.
I agree but what reasons would you give for doing so
Just the kind of thing a Totalitarian would say.
@@UnknownPascal-sc2nk I assume your being facetious.
I can think of a few reasons why the hand shake would be appropriate.
One, it is a social gesture and bond between the speakers. (Our society is very much being forced apart)
It also sets the tone of mutual respect and decorum. As witnessed by all viewers and participants alike.
Not ‘creeping’, but ‘running hell for leather’ :(
"My fear of representative government is the totalitarianism of the people not getting what they, but also getting exactly what they want. " - James Madison
"The problem with the bill of rights is all the rights of people enjoyed in a Monarchy that we are currently unable to enumerate because we don't know them all. The bill of rights will limit it to these 10 alone. " - James Madison
Attention is the keystone of our reality
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If you can believe g ender idealogy, there is then nothing you will not believe.
Exactly this. The goal is to get you to ignore your eyes and ears and to accept lies as truth. If you let them believe a man can become a woman then you'll literally believe them about anything.
I feel proud that my family is from Hungary.
Thank y
Freedom of expression is liberal. It's freedom. You can't make freedom of others into declaration that their freedom is "totalitarianism".
Too many people manage daily existence through telling themselves lies. It is so much apart of us...even how we arrive at daily decisions to buy something that we desire rather than what we need...that it has become one of the most difficult things for people to recognise the lie. In order to "live not by lies"...you must work at becoming the "highest essence of truth" to yourself.
Sadly this video is somehow broken You've got some people speaking and other people their lips are moving and something is out of sync I wonder if it can be straightened up.
I think, "I've only just realised that we're creeping towards totalitarianism", would be a more appropriate title.
What is true for gender ideology is also true about religion that never have been based on reality but on metaphysical ideological constructions. People should not let other give themselves any truth based on others like he said. It apply too on culture and religious beliefs that come from other.
Disconnection from reality (among other issues like declining population) is tied to population aggregation in Urban areas.
He never read brave new world😂😂😂😂
But the basic premise is on point.
I liked your book it was great. Are you taking money from private donors? Are you taking money from Wall st? Just a question.
I am a U.D. graduate so it is nice to see something from My Old School, but I am not so happy with Mr. Dreher. What I hear him saying is that one should let the Public Order go to hell and turn one´s attention to ....what then? To small Christian communities? I am all for small Christian communities within the Unam Sanctam, the Catholic Church. And that is what gets lost here. It is the trendy thing, this notion of Mr. Dreher: Christian Nationalism, Theocracy, Trumpist Theology. Resentment is trendy. Mr. Dreher has some objections to Trump, but they are of a stylistic order. Dreher is the great champion of Mr. Orban´s Hungary. He tells us not to worry about HIS authoritarianism since it is not so bad as the Totalitariansm of those who are not on board with Orban (and his cruel and intransigent vision of immigrants, Moslems, others). It is not so called "dangerous." And what I would like to point out is the contrary, namely that it is dangerous: that racism, that theocratic ideology, that occult cruelty. It is dangerous to the public order, to Democracy and the Rule of Law, to the integrity of the Faith.
We came way too close on Jan 6th in having our way of life uprooted.
+70 million would have taken to arms, if they had succeed.
That was a warning - the next time we might not be that lucky.
Vote Blue.
We need to keep reminding ourselves each and everyday, how close we came to a Pootin style regime.
Vote Blue
We need to remove all those from power that enabled the Jan 6th insurrection to take place - by voting Blue - we can not rely on the courts to help us out.
We need to keep voting Blue until the threat is no loner viable.
Jimmy ❤️❤️❤️
Do people think they can reject Christ and something else not move in?
How does the concept of the right to be unhappy inform our idea of an eternity in heaven?
By wholesale rejection
I vision eternity in heaven as something so beyond happy...an incomprehensible, complete fulfillment maybe? Happy here can be an illusion - unhappy is a reminder that there is so much more to come.
More interestingly, I mean the concept of opposites or compliments. The possibility of sadness makes happiness real. The possibility of pain makes comfort real. What if being unhappy is impossible (in heaven?) Would happiness be real?
How can good christians embrace and engage ...diversity, equity, and inclusion.... with the big ideas of ...democracy, evolutionary thinking, and integral scientific visioneering.... coming forth and going forward?
Sweet
I had the good fortune of living in what was then Czechoslovakia shortly after the Velvet Revolution and the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe ... I have many friends to this day from my years living there, and every one of them are terrified at what they see the Democrats doing to our Constitutional Republic and western civilization ... they can't believe we are careening toward this destruction.
And as for "soft" totalitarianism ... we are currently in the process of phasing into increasingly brutal totalitarianism ... there are already hundreds (if not thousands) of peaceful protestors currently in jail or prison because they support Trump ... and the prior president has been falsely charged with multiple made-up crimes in an effort to rig yet another election.
This is no longer "soft totalitarianism.
Martine Rothblatt.
Comment for traction
Mr Dreher should consider the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a real example of a Benedict society that has an affirmative position on the role of men and women and families.
You will find that to be a religion as well and not that of truth. Read the Bible and ask the Holy Spirit to help you see the lies of those who bring things from outside of it.
THE AGE OF PETRONIOUS.
Interesting dialogue but the women are uncovered.
Ai jobloss is the only thing I worry over anymore. Anyone else feel the same?
Imagine a country where overnight all jobs disappear and perhaps even money goes worthless. People will still work on their own initiative to grow food, heat homes trade with neighbors so there will be some re emerging economy and jobs available but the government will definitely not disappear and demand a cut of your stuff or demand you sacrifice your life for free for their political goals. Problem in today's world is the goverments and opportunistic idealists who want to tax and regulate our way in to utopia.
The unemployment rate is historically low. What are you afraid of? Working?
13 to be on the web. At a minimum.
I've been intrigued that many of the tech moguls admit not giving web access to their own children until 16...
Thumbnail looks like elliot page using an age filter fr tho
Ezra
There is the gender binary, but there is also gender, which is not the same thing as sex. Sex and gender form a duality which is difficult to express in the clear and distinct concepts of Descartes, but which nevertheless is real. To deny the duality is to practice gender ideology. What Dreher is spreading here is gender ideology. Gender, whatever it is, is not simply biological sex. Mr. Dreher is a practicing ideologue of gender. Patriarchy and El Machismo are gender ideology, they just to be its most ancient forms. Dreher´s philosophy is positivistic and falls outside of the authentic philosophical tradition of Thomism, of the analogia entis. It is if you like a "modern" philosophy, but I would prefer simply to say that it is simplistic, reductivistic and false.
It is asinine and utterly absurd to blame the county's problems on .6% of the population.
But of course it's hardly .6 percent now--or so the wokers claim and act as such.
You aren’t paying attention.
The actual prevalence of legitimate gender dysphoria is 0.01% of the population. But that is an aside.
Gender ideology has become weaponized to justify startling totalitarian changes in law in North America and elsewhere in the western world.
Most noteably it has legalized the mutilation of children regardless of parental consent, and it has begun eliminating all vestiges of women’s sex based rights.
In Canada, parents are intentionally denied notification if their child has adopted gender ideology. Gender ideology (the notion that many people are “born in the wrong body” is taught in Canada from kindergarten through high school.
Little girls as young as 8 and boys as young as 10 are put onto sterilizing puberty blockers without parental knowledge or consent. And if a parent becomes aware and wants such medicalization stopped; Canadian law stipulates that a “parent may not, not consent”.
In Canada, men are freely allowed access to the showers and bathrooms of little girls and women.
Men are allowed into women’s rape shelters, prisons, women only hospital wards, scholarships and sports. All the male has to do is make a verbal claim that he “feels like a woman”. His feeling is considered legitimate and something that must be respected as reality. He is also allowed to withdraw the claim after he has left the womens washroom or shower stalls having satisfied his predatory interests; based on the ideologies additional claim that gender can be “fluid” and change from moment to moment.
The Canadian Supreme Court has even rewritten the definition of the word woman to; “anyone who identifies as such.”
So no; it is no longer about the 0.01% of the population of ADULTS who legitimately suffer from gender dysphoria.
It has now affected every single citizen of the countries who have adopted it.
In Canada, if you verbalize a disagreement with gender ideology, you face the loss of your job, your friends and family and even your freedom, as the government can brand your comments as “hate speech”, which has recently become a new category of criminal conduct.
Try 36%
Your takeaway is asinine
@@jimnasium3979 why
His "anna" story sounds dishonest or like "Anna" has a poor friend group. I am as libtardy liberal as they come and i have never seen anyone telling a friend to leave their spouse over a shallow disagreement. I mean sure, if we are talking persistent abuse, mental or physical, but cmon. If you have something to say don't use straw man examples
Yea and now the civil rights is used for gender identity laws so make up your mind
You missed the gist.
These comments are smart.
Mr. Dreher capitulated when he said "gender binary" instead of "binary sex." On words have genders. if I were a father, I'd homeschool my children and send them to private schools.
Before President Trump got elected in 2016, Mr. Dreher objected when an opera singer sang an Ave Maria and someone else hung a picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe. He did that because he thought those things might have offended Protestants. I can understand why he didn't want anyone to display the picture. But Ave Marias are often concert pieces that even atheists enjoy.
Sex & gender are synonymous - these two words always have been.
@@theway5563 Gender theorists disagree. They believe that maleness and femaleness are biological properties, people invented genders. That's why you'll that there are more than 70 of them. But I reject gender theory because only words have genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter. Study German to see what I mean.
Tell Google to "define gender." After it looks it up in an Oxford dictionary, you see this definition: "GRAMMAR
(in languages such as Latin, Greek, Russian, and German) each of the classes (typically masculine, feminine, common, neuter) of nouns and pronouns distinguished by the different inflections that they have and require in words syntactically associated with them. Grammatical gender is only very loosely associated with distinctions of sex."
I picked up on that right away. He may not be totally clued in to the "subtleties" of Newspeak...
@@StefanMochnacki It's an honest mistake, but I'm surprised he made it. Prof. Edward Feser wrote a blog post saying Dreher converted from Catholicism to Russian Orthodoxy for purely emotional reasons. He talks ecumenically, too. Though I'd hate to insult anyone, I reject Pope Francis's religiously indiffent ecumenism because it suggests everyone has a God-given right to practice any religion.
A bit boring.