Posted: Oct 02, 2011 6:38 pm
by Oeditor
I'm still reading them, having only got round to it a few days ago. For now, I'll just remark on this quotation at the head of his chapter on the Coran, which I'm just starting.
T H Huxley, not Aquinas wrote:The truth is that the pretension to infallibility, by whomsoever made, has done endless mischief; with impartial malignity it has proved a curse, alike to those who have made it and those who have accepted it; and its most baneful shape is book infallibility.
Applicable not just to Islam but to the more recent popes and Young Earth creationists!
Edit: Oops, Aquinas wrote a little latin tag. The quote was from Huxley. It takes a bit of the wind out of my sails but still, I'm happier not to be citing a "saint"!