There are some forms of stupidity that one must be highly intelligent and educated to achieve.
J. BudziszewskiTo be evil at all, Satan needs good things he can abuse, things like intelligence, power and will. Those good things come from God.
J. BudziszewskiDepraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition.
J. BudziszewskiThe whole meaning of morality is a rule that we ought to obey whether we like it or not. If so, then the idea of creating a morality we like better is incoherent. Moreover, it would seem that until we had created our new morality, we would have no standard by which to criticize God. Since we have not yet created one, the standard by which we judge Him must be the very standard that He gave us. If it is good enough to judge Him by, then why do we need a new one?
J. BudziszewskiTo say that we cannot know anything about God is to say something about God; it is to say that if there is a God, he is unknowable. But in that case, he is not entirely unknowable, for the agnostic certainly thinks that we can know one thing about him: That nothing else can be known about him.
J. Budziszewski