RE: Criticism of Aquinas' First Way or of the Proof of God from Motion.
April 27, 2021 at 10:52 pm
(This post was last modified: April 27, 2021 at 10:55 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
He very much was, ofc. People like to hem and haw about how other people were doing other science - but the thing of utmost importance to the church, with respect to science, was that it be subservient. That it refrain from saying things even when everyone and their brother already knew them, until the church had spun some hilarious way to declare that they had always been at war with eastasia. It wasn't that the things he said were cutting edge. What was controversial, was that he dare utter those things they already privately knew but bilked the mob over nevertheless.
Go crawl back up the ass of a church.
Go crawl back up the ass of a church.
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