I don’t know how I feel about Augustine

From the start of reading this I have not cared for Augustine, and after reading the first 5 books I still don’t. My primary focus is on the first 4 sections of book three because they kind of changed my life. Well they really didn’t but something about those sections spoke to me. 

I hate the first section now because Augustine found out he loved to sleep with people, which ruined it for me. I first felt bad because he never had loved and wanted to be loved, but we all know where his intentions went to when he wound up in Carthage. At the same time I agree because he longed to be loved just like every other human being on the face of the earth desires love as well. Augustine just went about it wrong. 

The second and third sections  are the ones that really stuck out to me with suffering. He talks about how the pain of watching someone else suffer in shows is the pleasure. We all do this today still and it’s been quite a few years difference between us and Augustine. Anyways we like our emotions played on, we like watching movies where we get in our feels, we like seeing others suffer, yet it’s something we never would wish upon ourselves. Like Augustine said though, when we feel the compassion for the person we just saw suffer then that is mercy. 

Of course Augustine had to ruin it for me again by saying in section 4 how he just had to seek out occasions where people suffer so he could watch them. Then he had to start talking about how his fingernails gave him sores when he scratched. 

Iprobably should have mercy on Augustine and cut him some slack but I’ve enjoyed giving him a hard time so far. The reason why I liked the first few sections (Well actually forget the 1st. The more I think about it the more I hate it.) is that I can relate to it and most people can today, and there’s like a 1,600 year difference between us and Augustine (Don’t count on my math I probably did it wrong). 

I commented on Cade and Madison’s post. 

~Brenna