Argument Against St. Augustine's Beliefs
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As a devotee of disordered love, it is a pleasure to refute St. AugustineÆs baseless presumption that he somehowfound a way out of the eternal human dilemma of finding happiness in a world of impermanence. AugustineÆs first presumption is that ôGodö created us and the world we live in. Until someone finds a supernatural being and puts him/her on live TV, we must be sceptical of such claims. Science has accounted for the origins of the Universe on a far more satisfactory and rational basis that any religion, and must therefore be regarded as a superior authority. According to Augustine (Naugle, 1993), since God created nature, we must worship him and not nature û or as he puts it in his Confessions: ôsince God had created them [natural things] they must be seen for what they are as His handiwork, to value them accordingly,
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