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Pensees: Let us then examine this point, and say, "God is, or He is not." But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here.

The First Vatican Council: If anyone says that the one, true God, our creator and lord, cannot be known with certainty from the things that have been made, by the natural light of human reason: let him be anathema.

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Taleb BTFO Pascal
https://medium.com/incerto/we-dont-know-what-we-are-talking-about-when-we-talk-about-religion-3e65e6a3c44e
https://medium.com/incerto/how-to-be-rational-about-rationality-432e96dd4d1a
https://medium.com/incerto/no-worship-without-skin-in-the-game-70b4aa341092
https://youtu.be/VuJD5Zfqti8
https://youtu.be/XAbSmTGJhEA
https://unherd.com/2019/03/why-god-needs-skin-in-the-game/

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>>14130282
Not all heretics are bad desu.

>> No.14130451

>>14130282
The point is to accept God through faith alone.

>> No.14130495

>>14130451
>The First Vatican Council: If anyone says that the one, true God, our creator and lord, cannot be known with certainty from the things that have been made, by the natural light of human reason: let him be anathema.

>> No.14130557

Catholics still can't get over modern empiricist philosophy obliterating their delirious Aristotelian metaphysics, what else is new

>> No.14130583

>>14130282
He was literally part of some autismal proto-reformed sect, in addition to the fact that reason and intellectual honesty is as usual incompatible with catholicism.

>> No.14130634

>>14130557
Pascal was anti-empiricist as well. He was a fideist.

>> No.14130676

>>14130634
Yeah I know I am talking about the canon Catholic position

>> No.14131455

Who cares what Catholics think? They change their doctrine every other day.

>> No.14131609

>>14130557
Empiricism has still never been able to answer Aristotle on final causes.

>> No.14131741

>>14130282
>>14130288
You two are my least favorite people on this board right after guenonfag and discord tranny.

>> No.14132004

>>14131609
What is there to answer, empiricists reject the existence of final causation.

>> No.14132538

>>14130282
>Reason can decide nothing here.

It can barely decide anything if you're dumb.