Good will to all men? Not from the grumpy atheists! (Thank God not all atheists are grumpy but there sure seems to be a lot of them)
Why is it that so many in the atheist community cannot bring themselves to get past their anger whenever they engage in discussions? The language of many of their contributions in public debate is laced with invective and dripping with sarcasm and bile. There are exceptions of course, but they tend to fall more into the category of being the 'exception that proves the rule' when compared to the hostility of many of today's atheist posters. Comment offered by the theists in the public square is often depicted as being 'malicious' or 'venomous' and intended to enslave the 'feeble minded and weak' by those who post. Nothing could be further from the truth. Venom is something that is oriented to death. Christians are oriented in a 180 degree different direction. We speak not to the culture of death that grips our world but rather for the culture of life and light which ends with the gift of eternal life. For example, the Catholic Church in its hum...
Aristotelian metaphysics exists only, in the modern world, as an explanatory framework for certain theological positions. It has no other application. When Dr. Feser says one cannot dismiss metaphysics without an alternative, there is one. It's science. It's what described the motion of the planets, the diversity of life and created the computer he types upon.
ReplyDeleteAnd branding it "scientism", a made up world used to disparage science's successes over the last few hundred years would be as childish as one calling Dr. Feser's desire to have Aristolean metaphysics as the answer to all questions "metaphysicism".