“ […] They tend to be very aggressive at times, as due to their literalist views, they don’t think many will get into Heaven, and therefor (sic) want to take desperate measures to ensure as many get in as possible.”
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“ […] They tend to be very aggressive at times, as due to their literalist views, they don’t think many will get into Heaven, and therefor (sic) want to take desperate measures to ensure as many get in as possible.”
How does this make sense? If Hell, eternal damnation, exists, as the Gospel and epistles teach, then why be laid back about it? Further, do I enter Heaven too if I kill myself and end my horrible life that I hate? Most likely not. I cannot even imagine what having a brain thinking this way must feel like. It does not make sense.
Another remark I found ridiculous:
“Presuppositionalists such as Jay Dyer agree with you to a certain extent (which is why they see Thomism and foundationalism as erronous because it places the rational intellect above revelation) but where they differ with you is that they say it’s wrong to just throw out philosophy and say ‘Reason and intellect are bad, we just need blind faith.’ Such a view is gnostic.”
How did the early Christians have much of that? The Bible was not read by lay Christians. This life is horrible.
Regarding that which the writer of the above quote forced upon us: theology, as even Vox Day sees correctly, is mostly opinion. He, I think, once said or wrote that philosophy is opinion, and theology is opinion which at least tries to base it on the Bible.
Here, Vox Day is even pretty close to Nicolás Gómez Dávila. Despite being Catholic, he did not agree much with Thomism (though Aquinas is one of Vox Day’s favorite philosophers.) The translator even wrote that traditional Catholics will most likely take issue with Gómez Dávila’s fideism.
In the end, it is just another way to kill time; our lives are mostly boring, tedium being one of Don Colacho’s core topics he wrote about. This life is not all that great; would have been best to have died in childhood, when sexuality did not taint our souls yet.
As Gómez Dávila wrote:
So great is the distance between God and human intelligence that only an infantile theology is not puerile.
If God were the conclusion of a syllogism, I would not feel compelled to adore Him.
But God is not merely the substance of what I hope for, but the substance of what I live.Christianity, when it abolishes its ancient liturgical languages, degenerates into strange, uncouth sects.
Once contact is broken with Greek and Latin antiquity, once its medieval and patristic inheritance is lost, any simpleton turns into its exegete.