(July 21, 2019 at 9:09 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: In Toms defense, it wouldnt have mattered if he “got the problem”.
He was looking for a way to squeeze the Christian god into those pagan ideas, not a way to show or even check if the ideas were true.
He really had no interest whatsoever in the latter. He didn’t have much interest in the arguments that history has stuck him with at all. It’s just an accident if history and church that he’s remembered for that rather than what he spent the majority of his life trying to answer-
- how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. Was it just one, or an infinite number? How could angels remain distinct and divisible in the absence of substance?
I should look up what his definition of "substance" was. I can't remember. I'm sure he discussed it, at least in relation to the Eucharist.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
Militant Atheist Commie Evolutionist
Militant Atheist Commie Evolutionist
