I wouldn’t be a Christian

[Belacqua]

Gotcha, in the end it had nothing to do with religion. Great!

That's not what I said. 

What I said was: "in the real world of power and violence, theological disputes are never pure. They are always mixed with economic and political issues."

Um..... chances are? Are you following your own plea for accuracy? 

Yes, because I didn't write, "he was thinking." I don't claim to know his thoughts. But I know that a great deal of wealth and power was also at stake in those atrocities. So we shouldn't ignore that. 

Were Thomas Aquinas good words/ideas taken into account by Sixtis IV or any following pope over the next few centuries?

Thomas wrote thousands of pages on many different topics. Sixtus did many things, which we will judge to be good and bad and indifferent. It would be difficult to trace direct influences here.

Your ability to stick your head in the sand is astonishing.

Probably it's better to end the conversation when the personal insults start, so I'll leave it here. [/quote]

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Saint Tommy's Good Words™ were borrowed from previously exterminated pagan greeks.....just to drop that into the mix again.  Had there never been an aquinas (or christianity) those "good words" would still exist, we know this..because they -did- exist, and predate christerism, Saint Tommy's life's work was to take them and try to make christian belief concordant with them.

That's right, Thomas's main accomplishment was to introduce Aristotelian systems into Christian theology. 

My claim has been that it changed Christian theology. I didn't say that without him Aristotle would be forgotten.