re: #137 Decatur Deb

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.

Better quote from him than usual.

(He also had his bad days.)

There must be some British blood in you for that bit of understatement.

Still, the Kansas types may have heard the name Aquinas - I seriously doubt any of the fundies (at least none of the ones I’ve run into of late) have really dug deep enough to have run into the sewers that Tertullian hung out it… < whistles innocently >