Aristotle's Antidote to Sin and Vice 

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But Islam is fastest religion in world, Hollywood stars are now strongest advocates.

@@blink-bn2fr Christ is the alpha and the omega; the beginning and the end. Hollywood content and it’s actors are so perverse and disgusting, which only further proves my point. God bless you.

Catholics are not saved because they believe in works-based salvation. You only get to heaven by faith, not works.

​@@Paulx589 We make it to heaven by dying in a state of grace. That is, with sanctifying grace dwelling in our souls. Communion with Christ. The sacraments help that end. In fact, for the majority of us poor sinners, the sacraments are crucial to that end... and we can't do it alone. We need Him in a very active and practical way. We MUST deny ourselves, take up our crosses and follow him. He requires wilful action of us. Just believing is not enough.

​@@Paulx589 the idea that Catholics believe in Works-based salvation is, on its face, a lie. If anyone, it is the Protestants who _should_ believe in Works salvation, but don't: Mt 25:41-46, Jm 2:14-26.

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@@eddardgreybeard it's American English so I don't care. 🤣🤤

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Well, he certainly did write all that. The question now becomes: is he right? I'm not convinced by the mere statement.

@@tiagorodrigues3730 Well Kepler certainly did replace particular spiritual principles moving planets (& the Form of apple giving individual apples the property of falling off its tree) by one dynamic called gravity. And, with the help of Descartes, the Church did try to resist such Baconian inspired metaphysical developments.

@@fr.hughmackenzie5900 I was only aware of Kepler publishing (besides the Rudolphine Tables) empiric laws for the movement of planets given a heliocentric system. The conjoining of that with the force making apples fall from trees came later, from the alchemist Newton. But let us grant that someone did. Descartes himself was the greatest opponent of the Aristotelian metaphysics, replacing it with his “methodological skepticism;” so the Church using him to defend Aristotelian metaphysics seems not just a bit self-defeating. But let us grant that she did try to push back on metaphysical developments she thought were deleterious. We are still left with the problem of justifying the assertion that “the intellectual movement... owed its dynamism to the resistance... of religious orthodoxy,” “only maintained by severe moral discipline,” and that “the scientists and technologists... were conscious of... the intolerance of political and religious authorities as the main obstacles to the progress of modern civilisation.” _That_ requires evidence, preferably either a Magisterial document or the writings of a few key “scientists and technologists” of the time. Otherwise it sounds like a rehashing of a very 19th-Century mindset that forcibly opposes Faith and Reason and which still subsists in certai dark corners of the Noösphere.

@@tiagorodrigues3730 thanks. Fair point about the 19th century myth and the lack of magisterial documents - and the ned to protect from the real deleterious threats (e.g. of Nominalism etc.). But I think Dawson (a renowned Catholic historian of course) was talking about Catholic authoritarian culture - from Descartes through the Jesuit reaction to calculus, through the hardly opposed Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, to the modernist crisis. He called it, "the greatest own goal of religious orthodoxy in history". The point is we moved from an Aristotelian science focussed upon individual Prime Substances to an inter-related cosmos, where the same type of formality shared by such substances is everywhere (e.g. shared by apples and planets). Bacon pointed that out and that it is gleaned gradually by repeated experimental observation and induction. He showed that scholastic deductive methodology, rooted in the Aristotelean 'knowledge by abstraction', was under threat. It was this latter methodology that Descartes attempted to defend, rooting it in Innate Ideas. Not Aristotelianism indeed, but founding centuries of Catholic failure to take experimental methodology seriously in metaphysics, handing it (& our technological culture) over to the materialist philosophers of science. Deleterious indeed - just look around! N.B. Further e.g.s of Dawson's "Catholicism's intellectual own goal" -- (i) Descartes' resistance was supported by Cardinal Berulle, (ii) Evolution, the Periodic Table and the univocal applicability of mathematics inside and outside Prime Substances was not engaged with by Catholic metaphysicians (iii) even the rear-guard action of Gilson through Feser to Davenport patronises experimental methodology by treating it as somehow inferior to "normal" observations in their metaphysical implications, and hence (iv) someone as brilliant as Holdsworth can say, in this video, "science doesn't deal with identity across change". IMO an "own goal" indeed concerning our evangelisation of modern culture.