John Brockman, "Third culture", Prof Dawkins.
beware of the enemy within, folks.
If you cannot recognize the enemy, you and your posterity are condemned to the tyranny of the anti-Christians.
Don't let these fakes and phonies bamboozle you with their lies and distortions. Don't let them divide you.
You've been warned.
I make up my own mind about everything. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and say that you probably do, too. Don't forget that your namesake, Aquinas, spent the better part of his life thinking about the works of the pagan philosopher, Aristotle. And no less a Catholic than Dante called the pagan Aristotle, "the master of those who know."
Wisdom and knowledge are where one finds them.
It's nice to think that about oneself, but I seriously doubt it's true for anybody.
I'm willing to bet that you (like I) respond emotionally more often then you'd like; and you do things for no apparent reason other than that people have always done it that way -- and that includes some rather significant philosophical, moral, and/or political issues.