(August 17, 2023 at 7:43 am)polymath257 Wrote:OK(August 16, 2023 at 8:59 pm)Fireball Wrote: You know, I wouldn't be able to quote Aquinas with a straight face. He was either crazy or the best car salesman ever. Bowling over the ignorant with bullshit was easy in the early Catholic church.
Except that it wasn't the early Catholic church. There was about as much time between Augustine and Aquinas as between Aquinas and us.
Aquinas was high middles ages, when BS reigned supreme, but not Reformation, when it became really dangerous.
(August 17, 2023 at 7:15 pm)MarcusA Wrote: I see nothing to laugh at here.Except you, you credulous numpty.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.