From Baptist Leftist to Conservative Catholic (Suan Sonna) | Ep. 299
Pints With Aquinas
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The Inner Workings of a Secular Liberal Democracy
The reformation is a fundamental break from the christian tradition, he says. The idea that god has to kind of force his hand into the natural world in order to make things work also goes out the window. And at this point too, you have the scientific revolution happening not too long after the reformation. So i think it's really easy just to do away with that view of the world, because you don't have now, let's say reality participates in god,. and god has built order and natural law into things themselves. That becomes a harder cell, right? Then god, slowly but surely, becomes kind of pushed to the back.
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