"Father" of Christian Theology

A thin veneer of diguised eroticism covers the bulk of early Christian precepts and much of that is traceable to Augustine (born 354 CE), often referred to as the "Father" or "Founder of Christian Theology." It was this "saint" who, around 386 CE, figured out a means of luring spiritual seekers into a sacred scam: his inspiration was to turn each seeker against themselves by making them feel guilty about being sensual or being grateful for their physical blessings.



The caliber of this "saint's" divine inspiration is displayed in his statement that all humans are born between feces and urine. Instead of accepting this as part of "Intelligent Design," Augustine seized upon this perceived godly goof to startle and stampede the gullible into chains of guilt.



In other words, Augustine used suggestive anti-life propaganda, such as in his Confessions and his major work The City of God, to achieve personal worldly respect and power. It was a cunning scheme of inventing problems and disharmony where they need not exist.



Before switching to the young struggling Christian movement, Augustine had been a Manichaean auditore, one of two classes of Manichaean disciples. As noted in my book Time Frames and Taboo Data: A History of Mankind's Misdirected Beliefs, the clergy of the Manichaean sect were organized similarly to the Christian ministry and the sect condemned marriage and sexual indugence of any type. This undoubtedly contributed to Augustine's saintly interpretations. From his Manichaean involvement Augustine construed the doctrins of "sin," divine grace, divine soverignty, and predestination. With additional input by "saint" Jerome (c. 340-420), who also preferred the perverse titillation of guilt-fear and lamentation to thoughts of creation's unity, "sin" became enshrined as the main theme in the Christian message to the world.



And Augustine, like the religious fanatics of today, expressed his devotion to the Lord and Savior with outbursts of hatred for all the Creator's diverse life expressions. For example, the Gnostics, the seekers and keepers of truth and wisdom in his time, Augustine chose to portray as enemies and waxed indignantly, "The enemies thereof, I hate vehemently; O that thou wouldst slay them with thy two-edged sword!"



Augustine always inferred that God kept him posted on everything, even of the inhabited areas of planet Earth. Thus he said authoritatively, "It is impossible there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the earth, since no such race is recorded by Scriptures among the descendants of Adam."



This "Father of Christian Theology" demonstrates the depth of pretention that is still the hallmark of Christian extremists. He would, for example, declare with fundamental certainty that "All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment first-baptized Christians, yea, even the guileless new born infant."



Such is the wisdom that is being clung to by fundamentalists as revealed truth and holy word.