(November 17, 2015 at 7:26 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(November 17, 2015 at 12:24 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Experience on AF has taught me that atheist members have only cursory understanding of Aquinas and base their objections on arguments that Aquinas never made. Your claim to understand them perfectly guarantees that you do not. Only if you had 1) you could you gain 2).
This position is hypocritical. ANYONE can demand that you invest more deeply in their world view in order to fully "get" it. You haven't invested enough time in Buddhist meditation, Chad. Nor have you invested enough time studying modern science, or tea leaves or horoscopes or . . .
I guarantee that 100% of the people here think it's crystal clear that you haven't invested enough of yourself in understanding the atheist positions they've put forward, and that it is your bias, not your in-depth inquiry, which leads you to make your conclusions.
The difference is that I am not going around claiming that Buddhist meditation is ineffective or that some elaborate physical theory is wrong. I have invested the time and sought experts to understand Scholastic philosophy. My opinion of the 5W's veracity comes from a position of knowledge. When critics present straw man arguments, like they always do, then they profess to know (perfectly no less) what they do not actually understand. Such are the true hypocrites.
