(July 29, 2019 at 3:06 am)Belaqua Wrote: This means that when I try to describe what the Aristotelian/Thomistic tradition says, or the Neoplatonic Christians say, people are quick to tell me that no Christian they have ever talked to agrees with those guys.
Or they can tell you that Aristotelianism was abandoned by scientists after the medieval times in favor of other disciplines such as atomism or Hermeticism. And the only people that cling to it are the occultists that also still believe in alchemy and other nonsense
(July 29, 2019 at 3:06 am)Belaqua Wrote: as numbers are immaterial.
Numbers are names for quantity. Number on itself that doesn't represent any quantity is nothing.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
