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I've got 500 reddit coins right here for anybody that can convince me they exist.

>>14367029

>Mfw people, unironically

>>14313667
Unironically this is a viable option.

Lifelong strident atheist, started smoking weed everyday for 2 years and infrequently doing psychedelics, now suddenly Descartes and Spinoza make perfect sense (for lack of a better word).

I'm not sure if it's because I lost IQ or it opened up my third eye or maybe both. Either way life makes more sense now.

>>14298472
There definitely is a strong philosophical tradition behind Catholicism but the thing about it is they started with all their conclusions first and then worked backwards to rationalise them. They didn't come to deduce that God is necessarily good. They started with the principle that God is necessarily good and then made an intellectual effort to figure out how that can be reconciled with God's other attributes. Aquinas definitely made a very, very good effort but as later thinkers would point out a Thomistic god is incredibly limited in actual power. He may have made a good case for how God could be omnibenevolent but in doing so he completely ruled out any possibility of God being truly omnipotent. This is actually a position that a lot of contemporary Thomist philosophers have bit the bullet on.

Not to mention the 1+1=3 thing. How could an omnipotent God, creator of all things, be bound by the laws of logic?

>>14280306
>God has unlimited power
>There are things god is unable to do because his nature precludes it
Choose one and only one.

The God of Aquinas can't even be reconciled with religion.