Namely, that an awful lot of atheist rhetoric is just sort of Protestant rhetoric on steroids.<\/a><\/p>\nAn interesting discussion follows in which he traces his reasons for abandoning atheistic materialism and returning to theism and the Catholic Faith. What is remarkable here, in contrast to so much of the rhetoric of the New Atheists is how much of Feser\u2019s article is an exercise in intellect use <\/em>and how little of it is devoted to intellect worship<\/em>. He\u2019s too busy thinking to waste time boasting about how devoted to Reason he is.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Namely, that an awful lot of atheist rhetoric is just sort of Protestant rhetoric on steroids. An interesting discussion follows in which he traces his reasons for abandoning atheistic materialism and returning to theism and the Catholic Faith. What is remarkable here, in contrast to so much of the rhetoric of the New Atheists is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,161],"class_list":["post-36950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-doings-on-other-blogs","tag-intellect-worship-vs-intellect-use"],"yoast_head":"\n
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