'Contemplating falsehood and truth, matter and spirit, reason and faith...'
'Contemplating the very meaning of the Rule of Saint Benedict.'
'What was the point of a rule that most people never followed?'
In the end, swept up in the storm that engulfed Milan, he joined the Patulin Sect. However, he soon discovered they were nothing but a pack of madmen who rationalized their sins, even if their doctrines had some merit.
Yet blood and violence, no matter how they were justified, were by no means the way of God.
"I discovered I had fallen into a trap. Perhaps logic cannot solve every problem, and perhaps reason isn't the ultimate answer.
A person of superior intellect can easily manipulate seemingly sound logic and false rationality to distort the will of God.
In my youth, I admired and marveled at the wisdom of the pagan philosophers, but now I have begun to doubt them. More than reason and logic, Christ should be approached through love.
