Posted: Oct 11, 2013 5:22 pm
As for Aquinas' teachings I have this to say: Did Aquinas say rape was okay? Did Aquinas say we should tolerate rape because it is a lesser sin? No. He had a different means of prioritization which makes sense in the age of scholasticism before the renaissance and humanism. The focus in many studies was on God, not the application of God to the people, which would develop during the Renaissance and subsequently the Reformation.