"There is little of the true philosophic spirit……" — Bertrand Russell

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• Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed… — Carl Sagan
• A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust… — Martin Luther
• Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for… — David Berlinski
• I reject her [Ayn Rand's] philosophy. It's an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it… — Paul Ryan
• One day when Thomas Aquinas was preaching to the local populace on the love of God, he saw an old… — Thomas Aquinas
• Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul… — Robert Barron
• Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther. — Lionel Blue
• Dawkins’s problem is that he doesn’t know the difference between probabilistic empirical theorizing and strict metaphysical demonstration, and thus misreads… — Edward Feser
• Searching for a better description of this rotting sadness, I came upon the concept of acedia. In Christian theology, it’s… — Mishka
• I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that… — James A. Michener
• Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of… — Allan Bloom
• The various systems of doctrine that have held dominion over man have been demonstrated to be true beyond all question… — Wilfred Trotter

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