According to the article/Vlatko, the answer is yes

Before we claim to know what God thinks about a thing, perhaps we ought to study who is saying it, why they are saying, and if that saying is doing harm to others. It is not the good news of Jesus if it is not bringing joy to all the world.

Augustine, by the way, if you study him, sounds like a sex addict. Consistently having affairs and at least two children out of wedlock. And he didn’t just sleep with women.

He, like all of us, likely wrestled with his past and went to the extreme in how to fix himself, and largely, the church.

It’s not by accident.

Augustine’s theology in regards to humanity and sex has been shown, over and over again in history to do more harm than good.

This is why the American church struggles to hold its political party accountable…it would mean they need to reevaluate their theology.

Augustine was the theologian (not Jesus, not God, by the way) who made sex out to be this horrific thing. His idea for church leadership is also what the Catholics follow today; priests and nuns are celibate. We all know the problems the Catholic Church has had with the raping of children.

Why is this not a surprise to me?

Well, when I was growing up, purity culture was at a boiling point in the evangelical church. Now if you follow that line alllllllll the way back to a certain theologian you will find Augustine.

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