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Besides being Scriptural, the idea stands to reason.

Just curious, but does this mean you're a fan or familiar with "Stand To Reason"
(www.str.org)?
(please don't be offended if you check them out...I do believe their foundational
belief would be Reform Theology...I presume an "Aquinasfan" would most
likely at least lean to Roman Catholicism.)

You have to know, at least to some degree, that which in you're putting your faith.

Well, I got that point due to a bit of inter-faith cross-pollination.
IIRC, it was from Jewish commentator Dennis Prager quoting Catholic writer
Chesterton to the effect that (my imperfect quote) that "when people stop
believing in religion, they don't believe in nothing".

Just for myself (and even more after 9-11 and learning more about Islam and some
other religions/moral-systems)...Christianity make more emotive AND intellectual sense to
me that just about anything.

Just curious, but does this mean you're a fan or familiar with "Stand To Reason" (www.str.org)?

I wasn't, but I think their creed is great.

(I presume an "Aquinasfan" would most likely at least lean to Roman Catholicism.)

Yup.

"when people stop believing in religion, they don't believe in nothing".

Maybe his best line.

Just for myself (and even more after 9-11 and learning more about Islam and some other religions/moral-systems)...Christianity make more emotive AND intellectual sense to me that just about anything.

You're right. And it will make greater sense to you as you learn more, because The Truth was a person, Jesus Christ. The most surprising thing that I've learned in my search for the Truth is that the truths regarding God are the most certain.

Are you familiar with Aristotelian/Thomistic thought? It's indispensible for intellectual growth.

This site is the best, most concise introduction to Thomistic thought that I've found on the web: Thomistic Philosophy.

The pages regarding Substance and Accidents, The Problem of Change, The Four Causes, Identity of Knower and Known, Body and Soul, and Essence and Existence are worth their weight in gold. Absolutely essential.

Once you understand the terminology and the philosophy, you can move on to the Summa.

The gold standard in Christian Apologetics remains The Handbook of Christian Apologetics.