ANSWERS: 2
  • Please consider the following as a logical play, and not as a deep religious insight! I have not the slightest idea about other people's beliefs, normally. But let us start from the following two axioms: (a) if you are a christian, you are illogical (b) if you are not a christian, you have not read the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas (why should you...) from (a) follows: (1) a logical person could not be a christian. from (1) follows: (2) a logical person would "believe that you can not be a logical person and also be a christian" from (2) and (b) follows: As the logical person with this belief cannot be a christian herself, she has not read the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas So if the axioms are true: - only logical person could be counted - none of them will meet the second requirement So the answer would be: zero.
  • I was going to say I had, then realised I had read the wrong Thomas- Thomas a Kempis! No doubt someone will come in and tell you to read Richard Dawkins, as he has, apparently, taken on St Thomas' Aquinas' arguments. But, he is just the flavour of the month...time will tell if anyone will remember him in hundreds of years, as they do Thomas Aquinas, or whether Dawkins will have any positive influence upon a large section of humanity, as has had Thomas Aquinas. (BTW I am not Catholic and have no flag to carry on his behalf. I only acknowledge the influence he has had on Western thinking for half a millennium).

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