This is way Aquinas is so important. He uses natural reason to prove that God exists. Basically constructing a material basis for His existence. Marxists have no counterargument, They have to dismiss it as an abstraction or a spook etc.

*"Putting it succinctly, Christ's Church has no intention of yielding ground to her avowed enemy, atheistic communism, without a struggle. This battle will be fought to the end, but with the weapons of Christ!"* Encyclical On Guiding Principles of the Lay Apostolate by Pope Pius XII to the Second World Congress of the Lay Apostolate, 1957

The tradition of scholasticism in the church is a very important one.

It's allowed the Church's theology to be built and strengthened over a period of 2,000 years

Aquinas never could have done what he did without the Church fathers, and going back even farther, aristotle.

When you linked Compendium of Theology, I couldn't believe what I was reading. It is a remarkable achievement that singlehandedly persuated me that Christianity does indeed have intellectual nerve.

The image of Christinaity being a backwards and anti-reason comes mostly from the modern day manifestation of cultural Christianity. It's particularly evident in protestantism.

At first it was extremely disjointing. Up until this point I thought such an achievement was impossible. You are right, Luther ruined everything.

I searched high and low for a coherent counterargument, and found none. I was met with strawmen and stabs in the dark which are individually very weak.

There's a reason most atheists don't really bring up Aquinas.

Like a deer in the headlights. That was me.

But I could have easily resorted to emotion or arbitrary justification and handwaving.

"It's an obscurity" "What could a fat virgin possibly know"

lol

Or better yet, "He was from the 13th century!"

TJ sodomized himself with a banana.

Go figure.

He did worse

Abused a mentally ill girl

Just smoke more pot, man.

Herbal relativism.

Never heard that one

Neither had I.

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So at the moment, I cannot refute Aquinas, who also uses reason, following the existence of God, to defend private property. Therefore I cannot freely follow Marxism or Socialism.

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Or should I say, I cannot hold both ideas to be true simultaneously.

This is the line in the sand.

So I found that although Saint Augustine believed in a literal interpretation of Genesis he acknowledged that Genesis' interpreation can be very difficult and believed that Christians should be open to changing their mind about it as new information comes to light.

Also, nice 8values

Hi everybody, today in Russia would be protests

Hello

Against corruption and left are going support it

In Moscow would be violent I guess

Because Navalny cancelled official meeting at Sakharova prospect

And he called people go to Tverskaya street

What do you think about that?