• trash80@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Weird how the author of City of God and one of the most famous Christian thinkers of all time completely disagreed

    If you have a compelling argument to cite, please do. I don't pretend to know everything.

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      1 year ago

      I can look it up tonight if you really want but basically Augustine argued that you are allowed to go after heretics as long as you do it for love of their souls. If they couldn't be convinced of their "errors" by talking you were allowed to use violence since burning in hell is so much worse.

      As I said it is pretty amazing how every single person can just declare themselves the true Christian whenever they want.

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        1 year ago

        As I said it is pretty amazing how every single person can just declare themselves the true Christian whenever they want.

        "The devil can quote Scripture for his purpose"