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Quote:Now what? How would

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Now what? How would you grill Satan to find-out the truth of the matter? Would you bother grilling him at all?

I certainly would.  But I gotta tell you, he'd have a tough sell.  Just take the notion of "sin" as an example.  Not even discussing its origin, not even discussing it as an affront to a deity, he'd have to explain how there is something intrisically wrong with humanity.  Why, contrary to the Socratic notion that "who knows the good, does the good", does man time after time  botch things up?  Why after all this time has Man been unable to perfect himself?   Explaining away the fact that something seems to be instrinsically wrong with humanity would take some doing. Then we could move on to the concept of humanity requiring some sort of rule system to guide it, and some mechanism for the accountability of individuals who violate those rules.

A tough sell indeed. 

"With its enduring appeal to the search for truth, philosophy has the great responsibility of forming thought and culture; and now it must strive resolutely to recover its original vocation." Pope John Paul II

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