Miguel Benitez

Husband and dad. Instructor of Humanities on a relentless pursuit of goodness, truth, and beauty. Opinions are my own.

[Jennifer A. Frey @jennfrey]

If you cannot loudly and firmly resist "humanoids" called Plato teaching our youth, you have no place in any movement that calls itself "classical."

It's time to draw some lines in the sand. I know which side I am on. Do you?

[JPA @2Philosophical_]

From Contingency to God
1. Every contingent fact has a sufficient reason.
2. The totality of contingent facts (C) is itself contingent.
3. So, C has a sufficient reason.
4. That reason cannot be another contingent fact.
5. So, there exists a necessary being (God) that explains C.

[Miguel Benitez @MBenitezJr]

@2Philosophical_ @zoecabina I’m skeptical of such treatments, but it the second of your two options, then doesn’t that mean it worked in alleviating the pain?

[Miguel Benitez @MBenitezJr]

@BraxHunter @jdpritchett @jdpritchett 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 spot on with your comments on objective beauty and its application to music.

[Hunter Baker @hunterbaker]

Important from Justice Gorsuch:

[Miguel Benitez @MBenitezJr]

@2Philosophical_ Especially since Plato came before all those guys!

[Miguel Benitez @MBenitezJr]

@JoelWBerry Not sufficient for what?

[Miguel Benitez @MBenitezJr]

@PAHoyeck GK Chesterton

[Miguel Benitez @MBenitezJr]

@byJoshMoody If that’s the case then why do you care?

[Miguel Benitez @MBenitezJr]

@byJoshMoody Did you give them a chance to comment or respond to the hit piece you published?

[Bethel McGrew @BMcGrewvy]

The outrage against Zelenskyy boils down to being furious that he dared to have a substantive disagreement with Donald Trump in public. Trump refused to answer the substance and berated him just for disagreeing. That's dishonorable. Christians shouldn't celebrate it.

[Miguel Benitez @MBenitezJr]

@jdpritchett So when President Trump says he stands with Israel he should be willing to go and fight?

[Ross Douthat @DouthatNYT]

Random but important PSA (only because I've had this conversation with three different well-meaning parents in the last couple of weeks): PLEASE DO NOT READ THE NARNIA BOOKS IN THE "CHRONOLOGICAL" ORDER THEY'RE PACKAGED IN THESE DAYS.

[Miguel Benitez @MBenitezJr]

@CrispinSartwell Some Christian universities and seminaries have been doing this sort of thing for a long time now. It can be done.

[Miguel Benitez @MBenitezJr]

@FreyChristopher Green

[Miguel Benitez @MBenitezJr]

@ChristPhiAcad Are we saying after He promised it?

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@BenefactrChurch @AStrasser116 This reduces morality to picking ice cream flavors.

[Miguel Benitez @MBenitezJr]

@BenefactrChurch @AStrasser116 What makes that negative? And why should we care? The answers aren’t scientific ones.

[Miguel Benitez @MBenitezJr]

@BenefactrChurch @AStrasser116 You can’t demonstrate that murder is wrong, but it’s pretty important to get that belief right.