I wouldn’t be a Christian

[Angrboda]

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.

I agree.  I'm pointing out only that it is not necessary to know anything about aquinas or christianity to know about aristotelian systems, and that in point of fact thee main risk of those things having been lost came from christianity.  Our western tradition is not incomprehensible or impossible to arrive at absent christian contributions because our western tradition is not based upon christianity..and this is a glaring example of how christian theology is based on our western tradition, instead.  

It's something that privately tickles me pink when the hardcore believers among us insist that our ideology is based on christianity, is all.  Not only did the early med christians mold theology to their (classical) liking....later european christians further redacted and amended so that the religion bore a more striking resemblence to their own native traditions - and even in colonization this pattern was repeated.

Well, in fairness, I think they would say, or would if they were smart, that they were basing Christianity on reality, and Aristotle and Plato were just middle men.