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Don't care what people think.

Theologians are worthless. Real theology is discovered through walking with God, ascetic living, and prayer. Those schools will end up warping your sense of faith. Soon enough, you'll release a 5 volume treatise on Gender Studies and the Old Testament With a Focus in the Judges Period.

>>765886

>Theologians are worthless.

Wrong, the Church Fathers should be required reading for everyone in order to understand the history and the arguments for the True Faith in Jesus Christ.

If theologians were truly worthless, then the protestants should be spanking all the atheists in the public sphere, but they are not.

>>766141

I'm the same anon, but ID changed. Protestants aren't spanking them for precisely that reason. Their whole structure is built on scholasticism and academic approaches, just like (the more modern/less mystical arm of) Catholicism.

Church Fathers aren't theologians in the same sense. Most were monastics.. precisely what I encouraged: ascetism and prayer. Their knowledge of God was actually lived and fought for through a lifetime. Not by being eggheads. This is the only type of person the East, for example, calls someone a Theologian. But the word is bandied about in the West for any knucklehead who hits the books. And the world is poorer for it.

The reason I want to study theology is so I can better explain the doctrines of the church as well as answer difficult theological questions people have about Christianity. I'm not saying academic theology is required to be a good Christian, but there needs to be people with the tools to make good arguments against heresy. I was very hesitant to embrace Christianity before it was demonstrated that Christianity was grounded in logic and that it was internally consistent.

I meet with a monk once a month for spiritual guidance. He used to be a licensed psychologist. I told him I am afraid I’m too old to start school (24, will be 28 when I finish). He said that he was 30 when he finished school. Said whether or not he went to school, he was gonna he 30 anyways. Don’t be afraid OP, seize a better life and maintain it. No need to care about others. I know that sounds absolute normie, but it’s not. Even when I was in school the first time, I would hang out in the smoking area in between courses and there were guys 25-30 out there I got to know. Hell, I even was friendly with a couple classmates who were 40+.

Only Christ matters. Everything else fades. Don’t get so caught up in what doesn’t matter; it is great you’re pursuing education though! Age shouldn’t hinder you from this at all, screw the memes.

>>765886

>Theologians are worthless.

They're pretty important so you can actually defend the faith without looking like Ken Ham

>>766762

>defend the faith

Why does it matter? You'll be presented as a Ken Ham irrespective of what you say or do by the Sam Harrises and le elite redditor scientists of the world.

Why even discuss it? There is nothing you can say that will change anyone's mind and you'll only be ridiculed if you do.

>>766762

What's wrong with Ken ham?

>>766760

Thanks man, I appreciate it.

>>765886

That’s why you vet your school before you apply for it.

Don’t apply for any school with a “the Bible and intersectional feminism” course

>>766773

But he isn't. Look, even his unmoved mover argument was plagiarized by Feuerbach who dropped the rebuttal and only presented the counter-point and modern atheists eat it right up.

If anything, Aquinas has provided the modern atheist with ammunition.

They're immune to the Augustinian tradition as well since concepts like beauty have been so perverted as to mean the opposite.