(February 14, 2020 at 4:25 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote:(February 14, 2020 at 2:24 am)Belacqua Wrote: It may be that you're arguing against a specific kind of naive Christian theology.
That would be most christians. Most of them have not even read their magic book cover to cover, let alone studied Plato or Aristotle or any of it. It is impossibly naive of you to even suggest that this might be the case.
Ask yourself a simple question. If an atheist wishes to counter christianity, is his/her time best spent addressing the vast bulk of christianity, or the few christian cranks who fell out of the philosophy tree hitting every branch on the way down?
While I’d hardly call Plato, Aristotle etc ‘cranks’, you make a very fair point. Christianity is, in a very practical sense, what the majority of Christians believe it to be. No one is going to make much headway against a literal hell, substitutive sacrifice or infant damnation by poking holes in what Aquinas had to say about it.
Boru
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