The Roman Christian church was eager to bring ever larger numbers into its confessionals, and Aquinas' treatises appeared to offer a nearly unlimited resource of sinners. ... By aggressively preaching a divine edict to renounce the fundamental instinct to seek pleasure, the Roman Christian church and other Christian sects thrived and gained unparalleled control over their adherents. ... Galileo was not only a putative adherent of the Roman Christian church, but he resided in its backyard. ... Notably, English physicist and mathematician, Sir Isaac Newton developed mathematics which c...

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This spurred Pascal to state "the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - not the God of the philosophers". Aquinas" being that he names God may be closer to the "God of the philosophers" than to the living, loving, suffering God of the Christian tradition. Aristotle's Prime Mover appears radically different from the God of most Christians. ... The Cosmological argument is not just a Christian argument, Plato and Aristotle postulated the need for a craftsman and a cause of all things. ...

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As a strong Christian believer that I am, I always knew that religion was the key to everything. ... Isaac Newton stated that, "Gravity explains the motion of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planet in motion". ...

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