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[Anonymous No.19453970]

Will he make me a Christian?

[Anonymous No.19453974]

No. But if you are open to becoming a Christian, he will help you along that path.

[Anonymous No.19453979]

>>19453970
Nobody can make you a Christian

[Anonymous No.19454138]

>>19453970

Yes.

[Anonymous No.19454141]

>>19453970
Not likely although Alasdair Macintyre converted to catholicism when he was writing After Virtue and when he was describing thomistic thought.

[Anonymous No.19454186]

I thought this guy was from 40K.

[Anonymous No.19454253]

>>19453970
St Augustine did it for me with The City of God, Aquinas could too I guess

[Anonymous No.19454262]

If you're stupid

[Anonymous No.19454272]

>>19453970
>tiny church, normal book and Aquinas
or
>normal church, giant book and Aquinas

[Anonymous No.19454305]

>>19453970
No. If you genuinely want to look into Christianity, read the Gospels, begin a practice of prayer and attend church on Sunday (esp. apostolic churches) and seek Christian fellowship. Aquinas isn’t going to do it.

[Anonymous No.19454913]

>>19454272
There are also small people inside the church. Or are they regular sized people?

[Anonymous No.19455736]

>>19453970
just watch Jordan Peterson's biblical lectures.

[Anonymous No.19455894]

>>19453970
It will help

[Anonymous No.19455899]

>>19453970
Perhaps it will help, but you can't expect to read Aquinas with no background and get all that you can out of it. Aquinas wears his influences on his sleeve and is by no means light reading

[Anonymous No.19455918]

>>19453970
Only Christ can make you a Christian

But whether you're a Christian or not, Aquinas is comfy as fuuuuck

[Anonymous No.19456307]

>>19455918
>Aquinas is comfy as fuuuuck
how so?

[Anonymous No.19456331]

>>19453970
Depends on if you care more about faith than reason. If you like Scholasticism, then go for Aquinas. If not, Augustine

[Anonymous No.19456388]

>>19455736
Snifffffffffff!
Aaaah... Nothing beats the wonderful tit smell.

[Anonymous No.19456555]

There's more evidence for God in Bach than in anything Aquinas wrote.

[Anonymous No.19456579]

>>19456555
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvfoPx4eL_s

[Anonymous No.19456722]

>>19453979
*Noddy can make you a Christian

[Anonymous No.19456760]

I try to believe bros but it's hard. The silence of God is tough. It makes me feel like I'm larping and I think maybe the atheists are right.

[Anonymous No.19456777]

>>19456555
Are there any books on this concept?

[Anonymous No.19456781]

>>19455899
>>19456388
>>19456555
>>19456722
>>19456777
Holy fuck God is real look at those numbers

[Anonymous No.19456813]

>>19456777
England’s Hidden Reverse

[Anonymous No.19456839]

>>19456760
The Silence of God is different from our silence, brother. God listens to every single one of our words and we know through His silence he understand us and if we ask Him for forgiveness, he will forgive us.

[Anonymous No.19456844]

>>19456555
ok you read Cioran we get it

[Anonymous No.19457256]

>>19456307
Depending which books of his you're reading, certain themes resurface over and over again (such as e.g. the immateriality, simplicity, eternality of God, and other metaphysical things like that). It's not like a math book where you have to completely understand each page before moving to the next. Rather, Aquinas knows you aren't gonna understand everything on the first read, and he writes accordingly: so, you can just read and let it slowly seep into you, almost like meditating.

[Anonymous No.19457310]

>>19453970
This is his handwriting

[Anonymous No.19457329]

>>19453970
No, there are two being that determine whether or not you believe, yourself and God.