Not exactly, because the Catholic Church, for instance, has for centuries, always made it a point of citing Augustine or Aquinas, to show how intellectually sophisticated they really were, although it's never really been made clear how the God of the philosophers (including Augustine and Aquinas) is supposed to relate to the God of "Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob," which is the God that most religious people actually believe in.
Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant
---------- Original Message ---------- From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Americans and the bible Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:09:08 -0400
On Mar 24, 2010, at 8:47 PM, Chris Doss wrote:
> For instance, when I say "theism" I'm usually thinking of highly
> sophisticated bodies of doctrine and the ontological argument(s) and
> Five Ways and so forth, whereas I suspect other people think I'm
> talking about evangelist idiocy and the twaddle that is taught in
> Sunday School.
Your kind is of almost no political or social import.
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