Posts Tagged ‘St. Thomas Aquinas’
Why God permits evil
Did God create evil? To get the answer, let’s turn to another church doctor, St. Thomas Aquinas, perhaps the greatest Christian philosopher ever (and my patron saint). He suggests that we need to distinguish between evils of fault and evils of penalty …
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We have a clue on what and whom influenced Barack Obama. His father was a socialist. He admired Saul Alinsky, author of “Rules for Radicals.” Other Obama influencers where the communist Frank Marshall Davis, Harvard’s anti-American Roberto Unger, and most notoriously, the America-hating Reverend Jeremiah Wright and terrorist, Bill Ayers. These are the philosophers and intellects who molded the mind of Barack Obama. Each is distinguished by his disdain for American values.
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