Posted: Nov 24, 2014 3:39 am
Shrunk wrote:John Platko wrote:Shrunk wrote:One of the classical demonstrations of God’s existence is the so-called argument from desire. It can be stated in a very succinct manner as follows. Every innate or natural desire corresponds to some objective state of affairs that fulfills it. Now we all have an innate or natural desire for ultimate fulfillment, ultimate joy, which nothing in this world can possibly satisfy. Therefore there must exist objectively a supernatural condition that grounds perfect fulfillment and happiness, which people generally refer to as “God.”...
http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Blog ... esire.aspx
And, no, he's not joking. He really thinks this is a good argument.
Hmmm. Father Barron at it again. It must be time for me to do another video on him.
So is he, like, famous or something? I've just been commenting on some of his posts on Catholic World Report.
He runs a seminary and is a pretty visible catholic spokesman. St. Thomas Aquinas is his big hero so he's firmly stuck in the 13th century.