John McCain says that he will vote for tax reform, what a chilly day in hell. Nancy Pelosi is called on the longest serving member of Congress from her own party to resign.

And the Daily Show, mocked Senator Lai Awatha Elizabeth Warren. And calls Trump woke. Did Christmas come early? We will analyze alongside our award-winning panel of deplorables, Jason Russell of the Washington Examiner and Vincent Buda of Live from Studio 6B.

Plus, speaking of Christmas, we will talk to author Leo Severino about his new book, Going Deeper, A Reasoned Exploration of God and Truth. Then all of your questions will be answered in the mailbag. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

So much to talk about today. There is so much good co-feff A stuff going on before we can talk about it though. We have to remember the reason for the season. Before we open our Christmas presents of tax cuts and weird sex stuff and Democrats eating their own, we have to remember that Christmas isn't about presents. It's about God. And in that spirit, we bring on author Leo Severino to talk about his new book, Going Deeper.

A Reasoned Exploration of God and Truth. Leo, thank you for being here. You like me or a decadent, gaudy, st. Venerating Papist. Your book presents a number of clearly laid out arguments for the existence of God and his nature, largely drunk on St. Thomas Aquinas.

I have actually been referring to the book around the office as the Summer Theologica because it's not the whole Encyclopedia of Theologica but it is an excellent concise edition and it offers a concise taste of Aquinas. So my first question is, why did you write this book and why did you write it now?

Well, first of all, thank you for being such a venerable company as St. Thomas Aquinas and Michael Noll. I appreciate that.

It starts at a whole fame of an attitude. Thank you so much for that. My pleasure.

The reason I wrote the book was essentially, it was very personal because it was kind of my journey from the result of being part of the university system that was rooted in more modern philosophy.

Through a more realist approach to life and philosophy. So it was really cathartic to me just kind of put out my experience, kind of logically, logically, mentally, and physically.

I just wanted to go. College kids now, they seem to think that philosophy began with Descartes and they don't even really get him or any of his contemporaries, but they don't understand that the human search for knowledge and meaning and God and their own nature goes back a little further than 300 years.

So you felt that on campus, this was a, there was this dirt of wisdom. And so what led you to these arguments you make in the book?

Well, I was part of that. I only realized much later that philosophy kind of ended with a part, didn't really start with it.

But no, I can't catch this version because I was part of that world. I studied philosophy and I was quite, I had quite good at it. And by that I meant I was quite good at putting up such silly notions as there is no truth as if that were true.

And so I was really submersing this for a very long time and took me actually through law school, and quite started to realize that there was a whole world prior to 300 years ago that actually saw things very clearly.

That evolution where you finally hit and you realize, oh, you know, the statement there is no truth is a self-defeating statement because obviously if there is no truth, then that includes the statement there is no truth and you end up with nothing.

You include, you begin the book with that argument and you lead into another, a number of other arguments, the unmoved mover, the argument from teleology, all excellent compelling arguments.

I think for a lot of people who were steeped in modern philosophy and have never heard these things, it will give you a good rational basis for God and the existence of God.

But I remember reading, I think it was in Jesus of Nazareth in the infancy narratives by Pope Benedict, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI that he doesn't believe that people can come to belief in God through arguments.

I always convinced myself that I was first brought to believe in God through arguments, but I'm not so sure he believes that there has to be a base level of faith that God has to approach you before you can reach back to him.

Did you find that to be the case or do you think that right now for this rationalist, materialist culture, the way that we can bring people to God is primarily through these arguments?

I tend to decide in the same poem in as much as he says that God can be no better than things that were created.

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