Today is the festival of St. Augustine, who never did get over stealing those pears when he was a kid.
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Replying to @pastordan
Not surprisingly, Augustine thought kids were born bad, too. Everybody celebrate by hating yourself!
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Augustine had a horror of sex, too. His illegitimate son was named "Adeodatus," which means "Gift of God" in Latin.
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Augustine spent 15 years dithering over chastity, then sent Adeodatus' mother away so he and the kid could move in with his mother.
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Then he spent almost forty years arguing with everyone under the son. Despite that, they made him Bishop of Hippo.
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No, not Hippos, dammit, Hippo. Though hippos being foul-tempered, that might have been appropriate too.
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Augustine wrote a 500-page book on nuh-uh, shut up, Christians are not responsible for the fall of Rome either!
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Then he wrote another honker on the Trinity that ended with "But I could be wrong about that."
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Martin Luther was an Augustinian monk. That should tell you something.
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@pastordan my dad was an Augustinian monk. Well, seminarian. Does that tell you anything?
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