Some weeks ago, I was listening to a Dr. Frank Turek podcast, in which he mentioned Dr. Ed Feser’s book, “The Last Superstition.” Frank Turek highly recommended the book, so I got it right away on Kindle and am currently going through it. It’s really something I wish people of our day could grasp! For now, I’ll just post one little insight I thoroughly enjoyed: Feser devotes chapters to explaining how the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle (along with their later proponents among Christian philosophers and theologians of medieval times, such as Anselm and Thomas Aquinas) actually formed the very foundations of Western civilization. These brilliant, world-class genius thinkers and writers have devoted literally thousands of pages to demonstrating that reason and proper philosophy lead us to the inescapable conclusions, not only that is there a God, but there can be only one God, and that this God must also of necessity be omnipotent, omniscient, and good. After explaining this, Feser expresses his amazement that “New Atheist” Richard Dawkins has written, “there is ‘absolutely no reason’ to think that (Aristotle’s) “Unmoved Mover, First Cause,” etc. possesses any of these aforementioned attributes! Feser sarcastically adds, “Perhaps what he meant to say was ‘absolutely no reason, apart from the many thousands of pages of detailed philosophical argumentation for this conclusion that have been produced over the centuries by thinkers of genius, and which I am not going to bother trying to answer.’ So, a slip of the pen, perhaps. Or, maybe Dawkins simply doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about.” Feser, Edward. The Last Superstition (p. 120). St. Augustine’s Press. Kindle Edition.
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