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The things that we love tell us what we are.

-St. Thomas Aquinas

-What do you think about the war that many religions have just to please their God?

I think that we, as human tend to misunderstand the revelations of God, we may be misunderstanding the vision and as I have written there is only one true way of knowing the word of God. We must be conscious not to break our ethics on our way to please our God.

-What do you think is the main reason why different religions do not tolerate each other?

There may be different factors why religions do not tolerated Esau other. One of those may be the confusion as to how the scriptures are interpreted. For example, we know that truth is unique and it comes through revelation from God and reason, but what happens when reason and revelation are interpreted in a different way? A conflict is created. Similarly, in my text Summa Theologica I explain that demonstrations can arrive through reason, these can lead us to the knowledge that there is someone greater than us; God. After having these revelations, seen in nature or other attributes of God, they lead us to discover the "ways", truths, but as I have already mentioned, ones actions depends on how they are interpreted. Here is another concept, there are times in which this conflict occurs, let us call it "intolerances", between the natural and the supernatural part, where our interpretation may be wrong, so we must correct ourselves, in a harmonious way, since Truth is only one; We must follow the path that God shows us.

-Do you think it is acceptable to be against abortion?

In my texts "Summa Theologica" I make a parenthesis precisely on this topic. As you know, I have based my knowledge on the philosophy of Aristotle, he in turn created a hypothesis, which I consider correct, in this speech he talks about a human being can be considered that way when he received a spiritual soul, given directly from God. In the same way, it was investigated that the body of the fetus is formed by the 40th day, it is then that it receives the spirit and soul. From there it can be said that there is an existence of a new human being. In my texts I explain the following: "In the beginning, the embryo has a soul only sensitive that is replaced by a more perfect, at the same time sensitive and intellective." When speaking of this, I mean that at first the embryo has the character of a vegetal soul, but as time goes by it acquires the intellectual part and it is when it becomes a human being by the Lord's grace. I must clarify that there are two types of abortions, when aborted someone already "formed" with their own soul. In that case it would be considered acceptable to be against a homicide, but if the embryo is aborted when it does not have a soul yet, it would not be considered a homicide. In my opinion, I must clarify.

-What would you say to people who do not believe in God, but judge those who do believe in Him without even having any arguments?

In my opinion, as I have explained in my texts, not believing in God is almost impossible. I would explain the five ways, where I say that the world cannot exist without a supreme being. There's always going to be someone better than us, humans. There will always be someone who will push the world, the society, and that someone is God. I would tell you that God has a purpose for everyone. Everything that he has taught us we pass on to the next generations as ethics, from somewhere we know what is universally right or wrong and the answer is religion and God.

¿Can you tell us an example to prove the existence of God?

Of course, as the other philosophers say, the world is in constant movement, so we can tell that our whole existence is based on movement, everything moves, nevertheless everything that is in movement needs to be pushed by another force. At the same time as far as we know, nothing is infinite, and if something is pushing us, that thing must be able to be pushed to, but our time doesn’t stop, we keep moving, so we say that there is an invincible force that allows us to be in movement, although we can’t see it, can’t understand it, we know there is something or someone who’s moving us, so we say that God exists and that it is our first motor, and that it is immobile.