[ExI] thread name change please: theological musins: was RE: BICEP2 and the Fermi paradox

[William Flynn Wallace]

Interesting fact about Aquinas:  70 volumes of moralizing and left no stone
unturned.  Ex. - he pondered whether nocturnal emissions (wet dreams) were
sinful.  He thought not.  Well, he got one right anyhow.  billw


On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 11:57 AM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> Tom Nowell <nebathenemi at yahoo.co.uk>
>
> > Spike and John Clark were discussing Hell and damnation in Christianity
>> midweek, and I'd like to point out there is more than one possible
>> interpretation of Jesus' sayings about what happens to those who are not
>> saved.
>>
>
> Jesus and Santa Klaus are similar in that what they were really like (if
> indeed they existed at all) has no effect on people's behavior today, only
> what people think they were like is important. In his book Summa Theologica
> that prototypical theologian, Saint Thomas Aquinas, speculated on what
> heaven would be like, Just as santaklausologians speculate on what Santa
> Klaus's workshop would be like. Aquinas said:
>
> "That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more
> abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell."
>
> Apparently this self appointed expert on ethics was so deeply into bondage
> and S&M that he took it as a given that the saved in heaven would be turned
> on by seeing someone get tortured for a infinite number of years. The
> church liked what Aquinas had to say so much that less than 50 years after
> his death they turned this moral imbecile into a saint.
>
>   John K Clark
>
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