{"id":4284,"date":"2006-03-07T19:06:56","date_gmt":"2006-03-07T19:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/03\/even-if-youre-not-a-thomist.html"},"modified":"2006-03-07T19:06:56","modified_gmt":"2006-03-07T19:06:56","slug":"even-if-youre-not-a-thomist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/03\/even-if-youre-not-a-thomist.html","title":{"rendered":"Even if you’re not a Thomist"},"content":{"rendered":"

You might find yourself highly amused at "Does Chuck Norris Exist?"<\/a><\/p>\n

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The fourth way is taken from the gradation to be found in roundhouse kicks. Among roundhouse kicks there are some more and some less good, true, noble and painful. But "more" and "less" are predicated of different things, according as they resemble in their different ways something which is the maximum, as it is written in Metaph. ii. Now the maximum in any genus is the cause of all in that genus; therefore there must also be something which is to all beings the cause of their being roundhouse kicked; and this we call Chuck Norris<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Via the Shrine of the Holy Whapping<\/a><\/p>\n

Which makes a lot of sense, actually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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