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Episode 102: An Old Man's Book (Augustine's City of God, Part 2 of 2)

Literature and History

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Augustine's Deranged Vision of Eden

Augustine writes of a hypothetical man that this man would rather be seen irrationally angry in a public forum than having sex. Erections, Augustine writes, were involuntary. They were evidence of how completely lust had property over a part of the human body and as such, erections were disgraceful. In an alternate history without original sin, quote, the will would have received the obedience of all the body's members, including the organs of sex.

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