Feast Day of the Dumb Ox

Folks,

Today is the Feast Day of St. Thomas Aquinas:

Feast Day of the Dumb Ox

It is ever fascinating how two opposing sides - fundamentalist Christians and secular atheists - oppose with equal vigor true reason, true logic, true science.

"According to St Thomas’ thought, human reason, as it were, “breathes”: it moves within a vast open horizon in which it can express the best of itself. When, instead, man reduces himself to thinking only of material objects or those that can be proven, he closes himself to the great questions about life, himself and God and is impoverished...At the same time, however, it is necessary to admit that the tendency to consider true only what can be experienced constitutes a limitation of human reason and produces a terrible schizophrenia now acclaimed, which has led to the coexistence of rationalism and materialism, hyper-technology and unbridled instinct…Faith presupposes reason and perfects it, and reason, enlightened by faith, finds the strength to rise to knowledge of God and spiritual realities. Human reason loses nothing by opening itself to the content of faith, which, indeed, requires its free and conscious adherence." Pope Benedict XVI