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Where was that? I didn’t see it anywhere on there. Maybe it was an ad? Or you read Christopher Dawson as Richard Dawkins?
 
I just searched that whole page though and even used a find function and couldn’t find it.
 
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Oh, I see, I was looking at this link. My apologies! It’s late here and this is only reminding me that I should be in bed.

I would guess that it’s because it was put on there by a bunch of trolls. That’s what happens when you leave it to a vote and not an actual expert.
 
Yeah I figured haha. I tried reading some of the God delusion (at a friends request) but couldn’t force myself to read much of it.
 
Richard Dawkins may be a scientist, but that does not mean he can be nor qualify him as a philosopher. I’m told Dr. Edward Feser wrote a book called “The Last Superstition” that pretty well trounced him.
 
There’s no doubt he was intelligent in some areas… some areas lol
 
I have a lot of things going on, so I don’t have a lot of time for deep reading, but I am working my way through some of St. Thomas Aquinas’ works (currently Summa Theologiae 😍 ).

St. Augustine is wonderful
If you really want a mental work out St. Hildegard of Bingen.
 
I’m more of a summa for dummies kind of read lol or the summa of the summa! The summa is so intense and I have no background with the Socratic method.
 
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Well, the Summa is massive. I’m jumping around a fair bit based on interests or questions I have. Like I said, I don’t have a lot of time for deep reading.
 
Peter Kreeft does a great job with his Summa of the summa. Great for people like me !
 
Maybe it is such a bad book that it actually supports theism? All I know was he “strawmanned” Thomas Aquinas.
 
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Any books by Bishop Sheen or Fr. Faber or Cardinal Newman are wonderful.
A couple other very important works for understanding the gospel are The Showings of Divine Love by Mother Julian of Norwich (especially with the original words), and The Cloud of Unknowing.
St Gregory of Nyssa’s works.
St Thomas Aquinas
 
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