[betty boop]

An atheist commits spiritual suicide, it is not the same barrier to intellectual progress that a creationist commits themselves to when they insist that their interpretation is “God's teaching” and anything that contradicts it, including reproducibly observed reality is just “man's teaching”.

Not just atheists, but any person commits "intellectual suicide" when they deny that all truthful human knowledge absolutely and ultimately depends on the root ("ratio") of divine truth on which human nous, reason, logic themselves absolutely depend for their own truthful operations — that is, such operations utterly depend on the divine, eternal Logos of GOD.

This Logos reigns not only over the kingdom of material nature, but of the kingdom of human reason as well — and provides the only means by which humans can truthfully understand, among other things, material nature itself.

I'm sorry you find my "pronouncements" to be "outlandish" and "off-base."

But — what other "base" would you propose as an alternative to the Logos of God?

I mean, if God's truth doesn't do it for you, then what does?

[valkyry1]

//I mean, if God’s truth doesn’t do it for you, then what does//

Man that is one he** of a question and I see the implications in it. I wonder if all do though.

You da best!!

[Alamo-Girl]

Not just atheists, but any person commits "intellectual suicide" when they deny that all truthful human knowledge absolutely and ultimately depends on the root ("ratio") of divine truth on which human nous, reason, logic themselves absolutely depend for their own truthful operations — that is, such operations utterly depend on the divine, eternal Logos of GOD.

This Logos reigns not only over the kingdom of material nature, but of the kingdom of human reason as well — and provides the only means by which humans can truthfully understand, among other things, material nature itself.

Precisely so! Thank you for sharing your insights, dearest sister in Christ!