Wow a lot of respect for you. Not a religious person at all. But I was reading a good book called "Eureka" and fascinated by St Augustine's use of words

Impressed by Ur memory!
Religion aside I think he was a good communicator

That a newborn child possesses the same sin or guilt as does a murderer.

The world would have been a better place if St. Augustine never lived; or more delicately, if he had never learned to write.

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Ray
I can't help it, I LIKE sex!

When read alone, it appears to me both genders are blamed. With emphasis on the male being the original sinner.

Man being willful, corrupted and condemned. Woman was created from the (original sinning) man. Seminal nature, eg.

If memory serves, St Augustine was a horrible monger for the majority of his life. Imposing most of his own personal (male) guilt on the rest of humanity, with his later writings.

One could easily interpret this as rationalization, I sinned because I was made this way. Or further, I sinned because I was tempted by women, who are also born of sin.

Interestingly, this explanation of his, obviously attempting to help sort out many illogical Biblical paradoxes, or alleviate his own guilt, creates many more in it's wake. Ultimately, if a creator is perfect, how could it create something flawed, or why would it create something flawed, in the first place. It either exemplifies an imperfect creator being without the power to create something perfect; or if the flaw was intentional, a being with the moral compass of a child pulling wings off of flys or burning ants with a magnifying glass.