What can be accomplished by a few principles is not effected by many. But it seems that everything we see in the world can be accounted for by other principles, supposing God did not exist. For all natural things can be reduced to one principle, which is nature, and all voluntary things can be reduced to one principle, which is human reason, or will. Therefore there is no need to suppose God's existence. - Saint Thomas Aquinas
2006-08-28 12:23:07 · 5 answers · asked by neil s 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's an interesting quote, but I doubt that it would satisfy the religious.
Most forms of worship presuppose that nature itself was created by a god, and thus nature in all its forms represents the presence and perpetual influence of one creator.
But, this is Aquinas, as such this refers more to the fact that he believed that the Christian God was accessible through the ordinary and the natural.
2006-08-28 12:31:24 · answer #1 · answered by buzzfeedbrenny 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's interesting.
I believe in nature being a moving and living force, as a Pagan.
It's a good quote.
- 16 yo Pagan
2006-08-28 19:27:15 · answer #2 · answered by Lady Myrkr 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Everyone's a critic.
2006-08-28 19:30:36 · answer #3 · answered by First Lady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what are you saying exactly
2006-08-28 19:28:13 · answer #4 · answered by twist 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2006-08-28 19:29:22 · answer #5 · answered by g-man 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋