re: #129 William Lewis

She has my sympathy and pity.

I know what I’d do (put this quote on the black board the first day “The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any [Christian], not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
Thomas Aquinas”
and then not pull any punches on the materials. But depending on just how badly their prior “edumacation” has damaged them she might not have time for that in a single semester… O_o

Sad that it takes our best so much to fix what should have never been broken in the first place.

Aquinas is a Thomas-come-lately. On a good day in the 3rd century, Tertullian could drop:

Quippe res dei ratio quia deus omnium conditor nihil non ratione providit disposuit ordinavit, nihil [enim] non ratione tractari intellegique voluit.

For reason is a property of God’s, since there is nothing which God, the creator of all things, has not foreseen, arranged and determined by reason; moreover, there is nothing He does not wish to be investigated and understood by reason.

(He also had his bad days.)