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Comment #14912 by charmed_quark on December 26, 2006 at 4:49 pm

In addition to the Courtier's Reply, which I wholeheartedly endorse, is the irrelevance of academic theology to lay congregations.

I'd be surprised if more than .1% of the population care about the nuances between St Augustine's Platonic augmentation to Christianity versus Aquinas' Aristotelian convolutions.

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