Posted: Jun 03, 2011 3:43 pm
HughMcB wrote:I have to agree with willhud9 on this one.
Using St. Thomas Aquinas fucktarded views on marriage as a case against him, is a bit like using the "but Isaac Newton was a Christian!" defense for apologists.
The context of contemporary times is always key.
I’m not using Aquinas’ views as a case against him personally—for all I know, he may’ve been a genuine exemplar of moral rectitude given the age in which he lived. Of course “the context of contemporary times” is the key: it means that Christian morality, far from being dispensed from on high, merely shifts and morphs along with the mortal efforts of humans to come up with good morals.