{"id":7213,"date":"2015-04-21T16:46:25","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T16:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/04\/21\/aquinas-and-why-the-new-atheists-are-right\/"},"modified":"2015-04-21T16:46:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T16:46:25","slug":"aquinas-and-why-the-new-atheists-are-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/04\/21\/aquinas-and-why-the-new-atheists-are-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquinas and Why the New Atheists are Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordonfire.org\/resources\/lecture\/aquinas-and-why-the-new-atheists-are-right\/4730\/\" target=\"_self\">A recent talk<\/a> by Fr. Robert Barron delivered at the University of St. Thomas.&#0160; Serendipitously relevant to the discussion thread directly below on this blog.&#0160; Fr. Barron is introduced by our friend Tim Pawl.&#0160; What are the New Atheists right about?&#0160; That a God who is a being among beings does not exist.&#0160; Fr. Barron very skillfully presents the Thomist doctrine according to which God is not a <em>summum ens<\/em> but <em>ipsum esse subsistens<\/em>, but not in a way that will alleviate the concerns of Dale Tuggy and Alan Rhoda and other theistic personalists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Fr. Barron refers to Hitchens and Dawkins in a couple of places as &#39;Ditchkins.&#39;&#0160; That suggests to me&#0160; &#39;Hairnet&#39; as a moniker for the Harris-Dennett tag team.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent talk by Fr. Robert Barron delivered at the University of St. Thomas.&#0160; Serendipitously relevant to the discussion thread directly below on this blog.&#0160; Fr. Barron is introduced by our friend Tim Pawl.&#0160; What are the New Atheists right about?&#0160; That a God who is a being among beings does not exist.&#0160; Fr. Barron &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/04\/21\/aquinas-and-why-the-new-atheists-are-right\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Aquinas and Why the New Atheists are Right&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aquinas-and-thomism","category-atheism-and-theism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}