Dr. Scott M. Sullivan
@DrScotMSullivan
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Scholastic philosopher, author, martial artist and professor of Jiu Jitsu. Interests include theology, metaphysics, logic, and the philosophy of religion.
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The Tree of Divine Doctrine from St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae.
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Christianity is the only religion that is reasonable to believe.
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The first three of Thomas Aquinas' famous Five Ways, were taken, almost verbatim, from Al-Farabi.
Little known fact.
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The evidence for Christianity is extraordinary.
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The evidence for the divinity of Jesus is extraordinary.
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“God is dead.” - Nietzsche
“Nietzsche is dead.” - God
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@EdwardPentin
“If anyone says that it is possible that at some time, given the advancement of knowledge, a sense may be assigned to the dogmas propounded by the Church which is different from that which the Church has understood and understands: let him be anathema.” - The First Vatican
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Metaphysics, by its very nature, is capable of obtaining far more certitude than science. It’s just that people let scientists make philosophical assumptions that one could never get away with in metaphysics.
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My current favorite arguments for the existence of God:
1. The Cosmological Argument (Contingency) - God as the root of being (Deus ut radix entis)
2. The Teleological Argument - God as the root of order (Deus ut radix ordinis)
3. The Deontological Argument - God as the root
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If it looks designed it probably is.
My grandfather built motors that powered big machines. In a lab not so different from his workshop, my colleagues and I uncovered the assembly of the bacterial motor. Today, this discovery has been published in
@NatureMicrobiol
#MolecularNodes
#Discovery
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If God does not exist, then there is no moral obligation
But there is moral obligation
Therefore, God exists.
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The evidence for Christianity is, by far, greater than the evidence for any other religion.
#JesusChrist
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Christianity is the only tenable form of revealed religion.
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My personal library. If only I could learn and remember all of this.
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For the record, I completely understand the negative reactions to the whole Aquinas/William Lane Craig/ Scotus/the Cannaanites and divine command ethic thing. I share those same emotions and intuitions.
However, it seems to me that when viewed intellectually, those intuitions
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Based on my experience of the world, on what chance can produce and what intelligent agency can produce, I find it much more plausible that the structure below was made with the help of intelligent agency.
Prove me wrong.
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@Pontifex
Catholics are leaving the faith in droves, the former head of the CDF just came out and said your view contradicts John Paul II, The Council of Trent, and Jesus Christ himself, we are on the brink of major war in the Middle East…. and you think it’s important to talk about
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Scholastic philosophy is the best the human mind has been able to achieve so far in the history of philosophy, even if it is not completely perfect.
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If naturalism is true then there is no moral accountability.
If there is no moral accountability then moral obligation is worthless.
If moral obligation is worthless then one can commit evil without blame.
If one can commit evil without blame then there is no morality in
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None of my cells knows who I am
I know who I am
Therefore I am not any of my cells
Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
- Daniel Dennett
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If atheism is true, then the claim that “God exists” is necessarily false.
But the claim “God exists” is not necessarily false.
Therefore, atheism is not true.
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“Salvation depends on knowing the truth.”
- St. Thomas Aquinas
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If materialism is true then near death experiences are impossible
Near death experiences are not impossible
Therefore materialism is not true.
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It has been estimated that Thomas Aquinas published over 10 million words. That breaks down to about 2000 words a day. And these are just his published works. This does not count his private notes
And of course we’re not just talking about quantity here, since the quality of
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Most philosophy is bullshit defended by smart people.
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God’s existence is either necessary, contingent, or impossible.
It is not contingent.
It is not impossible.
Therefore, God’s existence is necessary.
Therefore God exists.
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If atheism is true, then it is necessarily true.
But atheism is not necessarily true.
Therefore, atheism is not true.
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Philosophical Presuppositions Of Science– A brief, non-exhaustive list of philosophical positions presupposed and necessary for the rational justification of science (scientific realism):
1. That the laws of logic are true (i.e., the principle of identity and contradiction)
2.
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An Index Of Atheistic Bullshit ("Index Atheisticus Vanitatum")
Here are some common beliefs held by atheists that are total bullshit:
1. That atheism just means a lack of belief in God
2. That there is no evidence for the existence of any gods
3. That comparing belief in God to
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“All arguments involve intuition somewhere.”
- David Chalmers
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Christ rose from dead. Therefore, be at peace.
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Fact: Every Gospel was written within one lifetime of Jesus (at the most). Why?
Logically we conclude that the Gospels were written sometime between AD 30 (when Jesus was killed) and no later than AD 110 when Ignatius wrote his letters.
Although we do not know the precise
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An atheist sitting around asking for an extraordinary religious experience is like an overweight guy eating donuts asking for a six pack.
Just because some guys have six pack abs no matter what they eat, still the rule is that most of us need to diet and exercise to get there.
Can I please just have a fucking religious experience instead of calculating the Bayesian god damn evidence
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If fine tuning is such a big “nothing burger” why do so many naturalists support the multiverse hypothesis?
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A Brief History Of Time And The World According to Christian Doctrine:
1. God
2. God creates the world
3. God creates man
4. Man rebels against God
5. God becomes man
6. God redeems man
7. God establishes a Church
8. God’s plan for man unfolds
9. God judges man
10. God
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I think the Kalam Cosmological Argument is sound.
If you disagree with me tell me which premise you object to and why.
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@Pontifex
What the heck is an “ecological sin”? I’ve never heard of that in reading any moral theology manual before.
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“I’m a non-resistant unbeliever”
Says the man who is addicted to sin, has disordered sexual habits, refuses to pray, claims to believe the universe can pop into existence uncaused out of nothing, and reads all the academic atheist literature he can get his hands on.
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The probability of "whatever begins to exist has a cause" is around 100%.
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Either God exists and does so necessarily or He does not exist and His existence is impossible.
There is no other option.
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A lot of people, including Catholics, are going after William Lane Craig for what he said about the Canaanites. In addition, they are attacking his divine command ethics.
However what some of these Catholics may not realize is that WLC’s position is precisely that of Thomas
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In my humble opinion, the arguments for the existence of God and the immateriality of mind are some of the most powerful arguments in all of philosophy.
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The claim that “we can only know what is based on scientific grounds” itself cannot be substantiated on scientific grounds.
@DrScotMSullivan
If I were to willingly (for whatever reason) set myself on a path to self-delusion your comment would be my guide.
I'm sticking with Huxley, keep what you claim to know or believe to be real or true, to only what you can articulate on rational scientific grounds.
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I am more certain of the existence of God and the soul than I am of anything else in the material world.
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Aristotle > Plato
It’s not even close actually. Aristotle is a far more systematic thinker.
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Classical theism is the only tenable form of theism.
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If chance can produce such specified complexity then why stop with just nature. Maybe the Egyptian pyramids were made by chance / natural forces, or the statues on Easter Island?
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“From the point of view of naturalism, the fact that our world displays the sort of regularity and lawlike behavior necessary for science is a piece of enormous cosmic luck, a not-to-be expected bit of serendipity. But regularity and lawlikeness obviously fit well with the
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“God is dead.” - Nietzsche
“Nietzsche is dead.” - God
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If naturalism is true then OJ Simpson got away with murder.
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If human dignity is so great that it makes capital punishment unjust, then a fortiori it makes hell unjust.
Human dignity is not so great that it makes hell unjust. (Per Jesus)
Therefore human dignity is not so great that it makes capital punishment unjust.
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The Presumption of Design: if it looks designed, it probably is, and should be regarded as so unless there is good reason to think otherwise.
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The universe contains a series of causes
No series of causes can regress infinitely
Therefore there must be a first cause
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“The great majority of naturalist philosophers have an unjustified belief that naturalism is true and an unjustified belief that theism (or supernaturalism) is false.”
-Quentin Smith, naturalist/atheist philosopher
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Those who assert something can come into existence without a cause need ridicule, not an argument.
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“No neuroscientist on Earth can offer even the most rudimentary statement about the neuroscience of consciousness, i.e., the mechanism by which the physical brain might give rise to consciousness.”
- Eben Alexander
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Aquinas anticipated David Hume’s objection to the principle of causality by about five hundred years.
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It’s a fundamental error to think that God can be discovered with the methods of a modern scientific investigation. Philosophy is a legitimate field of knowledge that leads to truth and the God question is, primarily, philosophical in nature.
Please show us ANY testable evidence:
1) A god exists
2) This God effects the material world
3) That god is yours
4) You are correctly interpreting its rules
Look up definitions of testable and evidence first.
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I find this comment false and disgusting.
These Only Fans girls can “pray” their slutty behavior away all they want.
They will never be respectable no matter how much they cry to God.
Praying to be a respectable person doesn’t work once you do sex work.
It’s best that we shun women like this from society forever.
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Either classical theism is true or nothing exists.
Theistic personalism is bullshit.
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If your metaphysics is not built on Plato and Aristotle, your metaphysics is bullshit.
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I’m a skeptic about the existence of non-resistant atheism.
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If the God of classical theism exists, then not only does existence “belong” to His nature, but, because of divine simplicity, God IS existence itself.
In other words, God is identical to His existence. There is nothing else.
God doesn’t exist like other things that “have”
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Imagine believing in an all-good, all-powerful, infinitely loving God—a God who commands us to love our enemies, love our neighbors as ourselves, and who abhors the death of the wicked.
Now, picture this same omnipotent deity, capable of crafting any conceivable reality,
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Rejoicing in God's justice entails rejoicing in all applications of it, which includes its application to the damned.
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Matt Walsh is wrong.
The decision to drop the atomic bomb was one of the most morally complex dilemmas that mankind has ever faced and the people who made that choice had to weigh things that none of us can imagine. Millions of lives hanging in the balance. Ultimately I think they made the right call
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If everyone in the world were required to take courses in basic Aristotelian logic and philosophy the world would be a much better place.
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It’s reasonable to think whatever begins to exist has a cause
It’s reasonable to think the world began to exist
It’s reasonable to think that the cause of the universe is a very powerful and immaterial (spiritual) being.
It’s reasonable to think God exists based on the
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“By the command of God, death can be
inflicted on any man, guilty or innocent, without any injustice whatever”
- St. Thomas Aquinas, ST I-II.94.5 ad. 2
@DrScotMSullivan
Aquinas’s philosophical theology is robustly intellectualist. He does not hold that morality stems from God’s arbitrary will, or that it’s possible for God to issue commands that would be contrary to God’s nature as the Good Itself.
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Jesus Christ rose from the dead. Therefore, Christianity is true.
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@SteveTiger999
This is absurd. “If evolution were reasonable, there would be no need for scientists and apologists (Dawkins) to sell it.”
All truth needs to be defended Steven. Even your skepticism.
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@EdwardPentin
And it seems then that all the great saints and moral theologians of the past would belong in a “small ideological group” too.
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@SpeedWatkins
The Philosophy of Al Farabi And Its Influence On Medieval Thought by Rev. Robert Hammond
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“You can’t have your materialist cake and eat your consciousness too.”
- David Chalmers
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If your religion cannot stand up to serious intellectual scrutiny then to hell with it.
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I not only believe in the existence of demons but also have good reasons to think I have experienced their activity first hand.
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If you are new to philosophy and want to learn, I recommend at least starting with the philosophy of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas. There are three reasons for this.
1. The first reason why is because this method of philosophy is most suitable to beginners because it begins
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The best darn history of philosophy ever written.
Frederick Copleston SJ (1907 – 1994) was an English Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, philosopher, and historian of philosophy, best known for his influential multi-volume A History of Philosophy (1946–75).
Copleston debated atheists Bertrand Russell and A. J. Ayer.
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The older I get the more I realize that nearly all of the false positions in the world come from bad metaphysics.
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“The free-will defense plays no role in what Aquinas has to say about God and evil.”
- Brian Davies
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If intelligent design is “untestable” then what are we supposed to think of all of the attempted refutations of it?
Didn’t Darwin supposedly refute (test) Paley?
Is Darwinism testable? What are the specific tests that would refute it?
How can Darwinism be falsified?
What
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“O greedy men, what will satisfy you, if God Himsef will not?”
- St. Augustine
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I just heard Graham Oppy say that he doesn’t like Bayesian arguments in the philosophy of religion because you cannot really attach numbers to these probabilities.
I’ve been wondering this for years. I’ve never found the Bayesian additions helpful in swaying an argument one way
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1. How do we know about God? Reason (metaphysical knowledge)
2. How do we know about material objects? Sensation (empirical knowledge)
Any claim that 2 is somehow superior to 1 will inevitably involve:
a) a claim that is not known by sensation nor science,
b) a philosophical
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“A man is in effect unarmed if he does not know how or is unable to use arms.”
- St Thomas Aquinas
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Three Reasons Why It Is Impossible for God To Be Evil:
1 - God is goodness per se, as such. There cannot be any non-goodness in Him. Therefore evil which is the opposite of goodness, can have no place in God (unless He ceased to be God which is impossible).
2 - Also, God can't
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I suppose I've never picked Christopher Hitchens over Thomas Aquinas in my life, but let this be the first. Anyone who thinks its good that the saved in Heaven rejoice in the ultimate and eternal torture of others has completely lost all capacity to distinguish between good and
What is the best explanation of how those who are saved in heaven will think about the damned in hell (including possible lost loved ones)?
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