----- Original Message ----- From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>
Agnosticism is as important to the Abrahamic religions as opposition to the gods. Aquinas, e.g, insists that God is "extra omnium ordinem entium" -- i.e., not a thing in the universe. As a good Aristotelian, he insists that God cannot be defined (no genus or species) and cannot be known.
--CGE
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Which, as any 7-8 year old child who hasn't had the capacity for inquisitiveness/wonder wrung from every neuron by their elders knows, is a contradiction.
Ian