Thomas Aquinas said that faith and reason are two sides to the same coin.
Just read “St. Thomas Aquinas” by GK Chesterton. What a great mind (both of them)......St. Thomas used argument (and true premises for every conclusion unlike “thought” today which uses no Reason—syllogisms are unsound). He “admitted” where Faith met Reason——but he also argued that “Faith” has to include Reason.
As Einstein stated, “Science without Religion is lame, and Religion without Science is blind.”
(This is why some religions lead to awful societies because there is no “Reason” (Truth) allowed. Thomas knew Reason would lead to Truth—indeed, it led to Galileo, Newton and Einstein).
Natural Laws (Reason) were aligned to Catholic Theology and vice versa. Thomas knew that the Laws of Nature could not disagree with God’s Design. Inconsistencies in an argument—that which riddled Hegel’s “Thinking”— were NOT allowed by St. Thomas. He believed “an egg was an egg”, never the foolish, irrational “Logic” that Postmodernists allowed-—like “an egg is a hen that is Becoming” or some such idiocy which riddles their philosophies. (ideologies).
It is why Ayn Rand cited Postmodernists like Marx as being “irrational”. They destroyed ALL “Reason” used up until the 19th century. It started with the skepticism of Modernism, true-—but that came long after Thomism and didn’t eject reasoning and Natural Laws completely until Hegel.
God was ejected by the 19th century German philosophers, as well as Darwin-—whose book became their Bible and Myth. (”On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life”.)
The USA was a product of Christianity, meeting the Enlightenment-—which you could actually prove that The Age of Reason was caused by the very ideology of St. Thomas whose “Summa Theologia” became one of the most important “books” if not the 2nd in the 13th century (second only to the Bible) in the thinking of the West and all Christianity-—that idea that “Faith and Reason are not inconsistent with each other” (1245).
Every person on earth has “Faith”. It is just that Atheists lie about it and state that there is “no God”-—when there is no science to prove it. Every thing that is “reasoned” is “reasoned” upon a “lie”——becomes warped——like the “thinking” of the Postmodernists. They don’t ever admit to “Faith” when Atheism can only be Faith because it is founded on non-scientific proof. It is why it is irrational.
Ideas matter. Reason matters and as Nietzsche declared-—if you Kill God-—you will destroy the concepts of Right and Wrong-—you kill the Lawgiver.
That is why we see in schools, little children’s minds being warped to believe Evil is Good. The schools intentionally destroy Reason and Logic and blur the concept of “Truth”. They confuse little children. They insert “feelings” as being what decides good and evil and mock any Christian Ethics which was taught in the schools until 1930. Jeffrey Dahmer, here we come!
This destroys the possibility of another St. Thomas Aquinas. Children fed warped “thinking” can never grow up to be Logical. Forcing concepts like you have to take “Pride” in Vice is evil, and destroys Logic, and schools that force this into the conscience of little children need to be in prison-—it is so mind warping and makes them “see” human beings in a warped, degraded way. The child’s whole grasp of “reality” becomes that of Satanists/pagans/occultists and immoral.
Cicero, Montesquieu and All Founders stated: Virtue is necessary for all Free Republics. The idea of Virtue being Wisdom and Excellence and Truth, etc. comes from Socrates. Socrates stated that teaching Virtue was the only reason for Education. Without Virtue, you cannot have Civil societies. You have chaos.
The Judeo-Christian worldview is essential for the USA. The US wouldn’t have been possible without Christian concepts (Reasoned).
The Cultural Marxists since the 30’s have been in charge of public school curricula——Dewey was a Fabian Socialist—who destroyed Classical Education and took out the Bible from the classroom which was an important tool to teach Virtue in children as stated by our Founders. What schools and media are doing is-—erasing Christianity——Why?
They erase Reason and insert the irrational “thinking” (ideologues) of Marx/Atheists/Sodomites/pagans so that human beings will not recognize “Truth” and fall for any irrational truths like sodomy is “good”.
Conditioning and Brainwashing was perfected in Pavlov’s/Wundt’s time-—early 20th century-—and the psychology and “Group Think” was inserted into all curricula to force children to “think” with “feelings” and urges and eject the intellect—and, of course, “Reason”, which was perfected by St. Thomas in his Summa.