Argument Against St. Augustine's Beliefs

 
 
 
 
As a devotee of disordered love, it is a pleasure to refute St. Augustine's baseless presumption that he somehow

found a way out of the eternal human dilemma of finding happiness in a world of impermanence.

Augustine's first presumption is that "God" 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 - or as he puts it in his Confessions: "since 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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