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Yeah, but as I intimated to a previous poster, this doesn't strike me as positing anything all that different from Spinoza's Deus sive Natura or Kant'...

Boy are you a cliche. Equate "conservative think tank" with "right wing extremism" and "racism," cite the SPLC, and play the Islamophobia card. Can I ...

I will also say that you've basically already ceded the main problem I have with classical theism, its unfalsifiability. The conversation we're having...

You wrote this: Take a look at the wording again. Existence participates in God? You've set up a binary here.

Impossible, though.

Wot.

No, I'm thinking that, according to Aquinas, existence is a property independent of God, in that God can possess or partake of it just as created thin...

For what purpose? It's just fides quaerens intellectum, I suspect you will answer. But why is understanding necessary when faith is already certain? S...

Except that Aquinas presents them even in the Summa Contra Gentiles.

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I have. There's no need to patronize. But this seems to propose that there is something outside of God, namely existence. That's not something classic...

No, they're just defining a different one into existence.

This is counter-intuitive to me. I don't know how I would object to it at the moment, but it just seems off. Well hold on. You just got done saying th...

This is an outright smear. Nothing in her history shows her to be supportive of "right wing extremists" (I suspect you've set the bar rather low for t...

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I agree. Among world religions, Islam is the least amenable to the ideas of a secular state and freedom of speech, expression, and religion. This does...

Nothing you said shows how it's a mischaracterization.

I know what you mean. What rank are you?

8-) (Y) How could I forget the Witcher series? Added.

Looks like that Oxford one is pretty expensive. What do you like about it? And is it a dictionary or what?

I can start by saying that right now I'm playing: Battlefield 1 (really fun) LotRO (technically been playing it off and on since it came out) ESO LoL ...

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Get a hold of yourself, man!

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If by "all of reality" you mean "the sum total of all the things that exist," then, because God is not a thing, God is different from all of reality. ...

I'm aware of the etymology of the word. I'm using it in the sense of a theory of the nature of the world. So materialism is one metaphysical theory. A...

Oh, so all of these are problems? Most informative. Not all conservatives are Protestants. Actually it does. It's most often materialism. It can't, wi...

Redeeming the world is different from personal redemption. I find that the latter is always prioritized and seen as a kind of prerequisite for the for...

It's a rather vague phrase, certainly. It's from 1 John 4:8. Here's the full verse, which explains why I phrased it the way I did: "He who does not lo...

Yeah, that's another way of putting it, one that ends up sounding distinctly more like the doctrine of theosis, so Agustino might like it.

God is love, ergo, to love is to know God. Sex is a form of love. Therefore sex allows one to know God. It seems Heister and Agustino disagree on the ...

Well, there are things called orphanages, which have existed for a very long time and still do. Are they as ideal as having a mother and a father? No....

The state has an obligation to protect the life, liberty, and property of the individuals within it. That includes the fetus of the raped woman, so th...

They aren't competing. I like a lot of both.

I'm a little wary of classifying evil in degrees. If something is evil, then it's evil, and that's that. I don't see this as punishing the woman. She ...

I disagree with both of these exceptions. Abortion is not morally permissible in cases of rape or lack of family care. In the first case, the fetus is...

It would be emotionally and otherwise attached to its mother.

Have you heard of Animals as Leaders? Seems like they might be up your alley.

I remember the act, but the acronym was not clear to me at first. Sue me.

Well, technically they're not. Their incomes have risen. Have they risen as fast as in previous decades? No, so one could say that they're flat, which...

The what?

Uh, okay.

Maybe I'm just an idiot, Cavacava, so why don't you fill me in on the alleged contradiction.

Possibly. That doesn't mean the free market is to blame, though. Neither do I, but since you've failed to specify any policies you think are bad as we...

And? I don't see why Sowell would dispute this or how it affects the points he's making.

Then they shouldn't have gotten one to begin with. That's an easy one. The government also shouldn't be forcing certain banks to offer risky loans to ...

What about it? I don't find that people are greatly prevented from doing so. The US allows for a high degree of upward mobility that's on par with oth...

I don't know. I don't claim to be an expert in economics and nor do I make claims I wouldn't know how to substantiate, but to honor your request, you ...

I'm just asking for an economic policy of Reagan's or Thatcher's that has caused wage stagnation, as you originally claimed. You also said "policies" ...

https://imgflip.com/s/meme/One-Does-Not-Simply.jpg One does not simply "argue" with Willow. One instead smashes one's head against the wall repeatedly...