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Best defense of protestantism I ever read.

Never took the Catholic side for being the rationalist ones, thought Protestant obsession with Sola Scriptura was more nerdish than Catholic "Tradition"

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Very interesting critique of realism. Although the anti autistic rhetoric is deplorable. Autists are the master race.

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Aristotle is just right all the time and most of his ideas actually were common sense and most defensible by razors and that’s why smart people always become Aristotelian. Systematizing is autism yes, but it’s also masculinity. Because men are sort of like women if they were more autistic and more sociopathic, had higher spatial reasoning, and bigger more efficient muscles and metabolism. Civilization only exists because systematizing cultured thugs decided to start killing other cultured thugs and mid men wanted to be able to get mid women, if we didn’t have systematizers we would still be in trad chungus longhouse. But yes you are correct in pretty much every group you criticize other than your criticism of Aristotelianism as bad. The sci-fi pop science dreamers, the alt history retards, the theorycels, the people who blame empirical things like political and historical phenomenon on ghostly “ideas” which are unfalsifiably present. And most of all you are correct in saying that Luther and probably his greatest successor Kierkegaard understood Christianity far more than the Scholastic crowd, who were sort of like gay people who wish they didn’t like men because it is sinful. But instead of liking men it is liking Pagan philosophy.

Overall I would say both Luther and Aquinas were autists, actually Luther seems genuinely somewhat autistic based off of some of his interactions with people. Meanwhile Aquinas might have just been a smart guy. He doesn’t really come off as actually autistic. Also I think the Calvinists were actually less nominalist than Luther and they were big iconoclasts for similar reasons you are promoting. But I don’t know

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Reps kops :D uskomatonta öyhötystä ja pilkkuvirheitä. Mutta olen pohtinut samansuuntaisia asioita itsekin.

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