Have you ever tried to read this?I feel cheated. This guy is not a genius. He just writes whatever random, unprompted thoughts pop into his head on any irrelevant topic.
I have read some parts. A fun intellectual challenge is to try and come up with responses to the objections before reading his.
So much straw for the Lord's thurible.
Summa lumma dumma
Poopoo peepee
I'm Protestant and think he was one of the finest theologians ever to live.
>>25220483Of course, I'm partial to Calvin and guys like Edwards, Bavinck, Mastricht, Turretin, etc.
>>25220102It came as such a relief once I started reading it and truly understanding it. This is the great genius, the doctor of the church? This is who you people love so much? I was pleased with the stupidity that I encountered, because it confirmed that intellectually, I had nothing to fear. On the other hand, it was depressing because that same stupidity is apparently not only satisfying for large numbers of people, but worse, held up as an intellectual feat. Now start thinking about islam, sharia law and so on, where the intellectual standards are even worse...
>>25221464on the contrary, though, atheism has no intellectual basis because you can't just pull epistemology out of nothing, or your ass for that matter. Cornelius Van Til was 100% right. atheists just make shit up and then use power/knowledge discourse to make it stick.
isnt the unexpurgated version very long, has anyone made it through that or are you reading abridgments?
>>25221464Reddit is that way
>>25221464>t. euphoric because he's enlightened by his own intelligence
>>25221464maybe try reading orthodox theologians instead
>>25221545This guy >>25221464 is the quintessential fag. Dime a dozen, here.
>>25221980>>25221980>maybe try reading orthodox theologians insteadRead a dozen, get a dozen different doctrines
>>25221554the 9/11 of r/atheism
>>25221492>atheists just make shit upThis poster is hilarious.
isn't that the point
>>25220102>there is no way to start with knowledge. Faith is a start but evidence comes after.>truth can only be known in thought >universal being when abstracted can be reasoned to be perfect. >opinions are trash and lacking firmness. Science is firm and has a vision and certitude which stems from understanding of principles. Faith is the midwit, or rather the middle way, it is firm but has no vision.>the maximum limit is the cause of all that is contained within it. If this is unknown just substituting God is fine but it's more accurate to say perfection and this is what we refer to as God.You're not wrong but you're opinion is trash.
>>25220102>He just writes whatever random, unprompted thoughts pop into his head on any irrelevant topicThat's all any philosopher does
>>25220488Yikes.
>>25225563>YikesWell now I'm rethinking everything
Try this word vomit
>>25220102It's the perfect pastor's handbook. Aquinas basically wrote an entire pastor school syllabus outside of the Bible. All the common objections a layman can have, this has the answer to it. It's why the Church loved him so much, I assume many millions have turned to Christ using ideas and apologetics of Aquinas.
>>25220102>Have you ever tried to read this?>I feel cheated. This guy is not a genius. He just writes whatever random, unprompted thoughts pop into his head on any irrelevant topic.Ok. You can go back to your videogames now, sweetie.>>25221464>It came as such a relief once I started reading it and truly understanding it. This is the great genius, the doctor of the church? This is who you people love so much? I was pleased with the stupidity that I encountered, because it confirmed that intellectually, I had nothing to fear.Relief... And you feel the need to share it with everyone, of course. Ever heard about the Dunning-Kruger effect? The age of vanity is here. It doesn't matter what you really are or know, only what you pretend to be or know, to show off in front of others in the digital corral where they've herded an entire generation like cattle so they don't cause trouble in the real world. And then we wonder why the West is going to hell. What a time to be alive!
>>25220102Aquinas assumes his readers are well versed in the Bible, Aristotle, Augustine, and Dionysius the Areopagite. That's probably the root of a lot of the "unprompted thoughts" here, because these thoughts aren't really that unprompted if you're well versed in these thinkers - they're usually natural extensions of these authors. Unironically you got filtered because you didn't study the guys that Aquinas studied. It takes years to get ready to be a serious reader of Aquinas and years more to actually become a serious reader of him.
