[CorrectingYou]

> The Church is... le BAD

Aristotelian Thomism was not enforced, nor was it agreed upon by theologicians at the time within the Church. Aquinas would only gain more support to his ideas later on, and after his death. But this was never enforced Church teaching that is infallible, it was simply one way (out of many) to do theology and arrive at certain conclusions. No one has ever been labeled a heretic by disagreeing with Aristotelianism.

[jhbadger]

Tommaso Campanella certainly was and was jailed by the Inquisition. Although like Giordano Bruno, it is hard to know exactly which of his many nonstandard beliefs the Church disliked more. Campanella wrote a book attacking Aristotle ("Philosophy demonstrated by the senses"), but he also was into astrology and magic and was also a sort of proto-Marxist with his "City of the Sun" utopia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommaso_Campanella

[chuckadams]

The Inquisition was more about persecuting people who published dissenting works and finding any justification after the fact. Galileo was just repeating Copernicus’s theory, but he used the Vatican’s own press to do it, which made him a target.

[hi-v-rocknroll]

You must sit in the comfy chair until lunch time with only a cup of coffee at 11.