With all my heart, I hope he’d approve of Catholic Fundamentalism! It is, after all, amazingly “unified” and undeniably, it “extends to more things”. Reading that sentence justified the last quarter-century of exploring the wonderful concept that “God can program in three dimensions. He has programmed particles, and compiled them into systems and beings. Some of those beings have free will, and have been downloaded, in living form, within the vast Creation Program simply to give them the ability to believe in, or reject, He Who programmed them within it.”
Catholic Fundamentalism does provide a solution to a problem to which St. Thomas gave a lot of thought. He was challenged to unite Aristotle, who was regarded as the high point of human wisdom, and his belief that the world always existed, with the the Catholic belief that the world was created as Genesis describes.
On the surface, it must be one or the other. The Catholic Fundamentalism solution to Aquinas’s dilemma is to simply say that “God, The Unprogrammed Programmer, is eternal. So were His programs. The world may be said to both ‘have always been’ (while still in the program, prior to its download), and created five days before the Adam Program was downloaded simply because it’s existence was eternal within The Creation Program.”
The difference between Aristotle and The Church is simply understanding that The Programmer, Program and Download are, all three of them, both the same and different, much as the Three Persons in One God.
