Originally Posted by nighthawk
You're deflecting....


Not from the fact I originally stated,...The church employed coercion [well prior to and well beyond Aquinas.]


Originally Posted by nighthawk
The issue is free will .


Free will is the ability to choose between different possible courses of action unimpeded.
..hence there can be no such thing as church coerced free-will, since the two are contradictory.

Therefore we describe [as coerced] the will which does not incline this way or that of its own accord
or by an internal movement of decision, ...but is forcibly driven/influenced by an external impulse.

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