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Arianrhod

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Sun Jan-22-06 01:12 PM
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124. Aquinas "quite rationally explained God"? Unbelievable.

Aquinas may have succeeded in rationalizing Catholic dogma, but he didn't even come close to explaining God. Not in any way, shape, or form.

I will give him credit for at least attempting to bring rationality back into theology. But I'm afraid it was far too late; the irrationalists were fully ensconced in power. The true rationalists of his time were turning from religion to science, so there was no longer a need to make God a syllogism.

He should have been born a century earlier.

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