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Posted by William Hopper on January 09, 19103 at 00:03:26:
In Reply to: Re: Question: St. Augustine's views on , marriage, and love, and how they relate to each other. posted by Chet on December 03, 19101 at 20:07:00:
Augustine believed that there were for kinds of love; amore (romantic love), agape (love for your god), eros (ual love) and agape(brotherly love). He reasoned that all these forms of love constantly vied with each other for your attention. As he found agape (love for your god) to be the most iportant he said celebacy was the ideal state. (Since while having you could never truly pray or worship god effectively.)
As bishop of Hippo he established amonastic order, and laid the framework that ruined puberty for generations of Christians. He died in 437 when a troop of meandering Vandals invaded the monestary, d and pillaged everything, and killed him somewhere in ther fray. I love the irony in that.
William Hopper,
Author, "The Heathens Guide to World Religions"
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