Form: Quote Commentary

(from a christian discourse elsewhere)

Western man has not abandoned god. He has abandoned the church for having failed to achieve in the modern world what Aquinas achieved in the ancient: the reconciliation of prior eras with the knowledge obtained in the current.

Aquinas saved the church by reconciling it with greek reason. There has been no Aquinas to save the church by reconciling it with anglo empiricism.

Gods universe is constant. Gods meaning is constant. The means by which man comprehends his meaning changes. The closer to god we evolve, the more in his language we feel, think, and speak, and the less in the language of animals with feel, think, and speak.

The first christians were extremely primitive people – just barely removed from animals – as were the first christian europeans. The greeks less so. The romans less so, the moderns less so. And our generations even less so. We increasingly see the language of god.

But we do not understand its meaning.

Christian man has not abandoned god. he has been taught a false religion of hedonistic pseudoscience instead.

We can blame men. We can blame the church. We can blame the pseudoscientists, and the marxists and the communists, and the postmodernists, and the secularists.

But the truth is, that without an Aquinas to reform the church, it will die.