SET 18 B3
"O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet." - Saint Augustine
Augustine was a funny man when he was alive. Always at struggle with himself, going between lust and religion and then between Christianities until he finally found happiness with Catholicism.
Mind you, it never stopped him from being a right bastard either. Sit down and read just the first couple of pages of City of God. He's overly eager to praise and insult the Romans at the same time, praises the sack of Rome as a good thing because no one was raped or killed and very happily put God into Roman history. It's a dickish thing to do.
Fuck. I'm fairly sure people like Augustine are why the other pantheons hate us. Adonai's worshipers are over zealous little snots who have no respect for other pantheons and their Gods. Quote the man himself
For what early reason was Minerva worshiped as the protector of the land and people, when she could not even protect the guards of her temple? Just thing of the kind of gods to whose protection the Romans were content to entrust their city! No more pathetic illusion could be imagined...Did they act wisely in placing Rome's immunity from defeat in the hands of such vanquished deities?...In fact, to worship fallen gods as patrons and defenders is more like having poor odds than good gods. It is much more sensible to believe, not so much that Rome would have been saved from destruction had not the gods perished, but rather that the gods would have perished long ago had not Rome made every effort to save them. -Augustine, City of God book 1
That is the single worst thing you could say to a deity ever, considering how the Romans viewed their relationship with their Gods! I believe the Latin translates as, "I give so you will give." So with champions of Adonai like this I think it's obvious why they kinda hated us. Well, that and the Egypt incident ages ago, that was pretty bad.
You know what? It probably wasn't just Augustine and his ilk. God's a pretty big dick too.
Augustine was a funny man when he was alive. Always at struggle with himself, going between lust and religion and then between Christianities until he finally found happiness with Catholicism.
Mind you, it never stopped him from being a right bastard either. Sit down and read just the first couple of pages of City of God. He's overly eager to praise and insult the Romans at the same time, praises the sack of Rome as a good thing because no one was raped or killed and very happily put God into Roman history. It's a dickish thing to do.
Fuck. I'm fairly sure people like Augustine are why the other pantheons hate us. Adonai's worshipers are over zealous little snots who have no respect for other pantheons and their Gods. Quote the man himself
For what early reason was Minerva worshiped as the protector of the land and people, when she could not even protect the guards of her temple? Just thing of the kind of gods to whose protection the Romans were content to entrust their city! No more pathetic illusion could be imagined...Did they act wisely in placing Rome's immunity from defeat in the hands of such vanquished deities?...In fact, to worship fallen gods as patrons and defenders is more like having poor odds than good gods. It is much more sensible to believe, not so much that Rome would have been saved from destruction had not the gods perished, but rather that the gods would have perished long ago had not Rome made every effort to save them. -Augustine, City of God book 1
That is the single worst thing you could say to a deity ever, considering how the Romans viewed their relationship with their Gods! I believe the Latin translates as, "I give so you will give." So with champions of Adonai like this I think it's obvious why they kinda hated us. Well, that and the Egypt incident ages ago, that was pretty bad.
You know what? It probably wasn't just Augustine and his ilk. God's a pretty big dick too.