Augustine was surprisingly good like this too. He rejected the argument that women became men in heaven because everyone was perfect in heaven and women's bodies provoked lust so couldn't be perfect, saying that women's bodies were already perfect & what would be gone wld be lust https://twitter.com/ScreamsRain/status/993097242734137344 …
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I have a soft spot for Augustine. Especially where he rejected Manicheaism after one of their beliefs abt the natural world was shown to be false & they didn't change it & when he rejected astrology after a doctor showed how he had tested its accuracy and found it had none.
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I feel convinced, if he lived now, he'd be an atheist & rationalist. But Augustine does this to people by giving the impression of taking you into his inner world & showing you its workings so you sympathise with them. This is why Catholics & Protestants feel sure he's with them
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