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To: Brumar89 who wrote (5270)	5/18/2010 3:19:41 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

The old "love your enemies" wheeze was more lip service than anything Aquinas really believed. The church certainly never subscribed to it with countless mafia style purges, creating bloody mayhem in Jerusalem and the Spanish Inquisition. "If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy." Aquinas Aquinas was a compromiser between the religion of his day and what he knew of Aristotle.