Does Deep Thought Lead to God? Here's a Shallow Answer

[JesusHChrist]

Grounds of Being notwithstanding.

And what is your objection to a foundational reality that preserves being throughout change?

I have no idea what that means. Case in point. Foundational reality, sure, but I have no idea what "preserves being throughout change" even means.

Here's another case in point. Someone please parse this Tillich quote into English:

..It is the expression of the experience of being over against non-being. Therefore, it can be described as the power of being which resists non-being. For this reason, the medieval philosophers called being the basic transcendentale, beyond the universal and the particular...
The same word, the emptiest of all concepts when taken as an abstraction, becomes the most meaningful of all concepts when it is understood as the power of being in everything that has being.

Utter gobbledygook. The power of being in everything that has being?

Or how about this one?

..[The concept of Being] appears in the present system in three places: in the doctrine of God, where God is called the being as being or the ground and the power of being;
in the doctrine of man, where the distinction is carried through between man's essential and his existential being;
and finally, in the doctrine of the Christ, where he is called the manifestation of the New Being, the actualization of which is the work of the divine Spirit.

Perhaps closer to gibberish than gobbledygook...

You present a red herring because you are working contrary to order; philosophy provides the foundational principles on which both the natural sciences and derivative humanities rely. What you call the ‘tangible’ results of the scientific method look to philosophy to interpret their significance. Otherwise you are just doing engineering.

Tangible as in "real". The opposite of vacuous nonsense. What pray tell Chad, is the "real" part of Sophisticated Theology and how do these things come to be known? What the hell does it offer? You are splitting semantics I fear to avoid the point.