Did St. Augusting declare sex as evil???

[NotWorthy]

Yes, I would have to agree that his excessive sexual proclivities in life had a dramatic affect on his epiphany from such acts of lust. The more severe of actions usually results in the total reversal and degree of severity of opposite reforms.

You mean, like the worse anti-smokers are often ex-smokers?
And the worse anti-catholics are often ex-catholics?
And the worse anti-drinkers are often ex-drinkers?

 

[StMarkEofE]

You mean, like the worse anti-smokers are often ex-smokers?
And the worse anti-catholics are often ex-catholics?
And the worse anti-drinkers are often ex-drinkers?

Yes, unfortunately something like that.

 

[CrossoverManiac]

by all accounts he was monogamous with the mother of his son, and was not allowed to marry her because of class differences and civil law. He put her aside when he and his son entered the Church. He may have had one other relationship before this. That hardly makes him a sex addict. As I said, no point discussing his views of sex to him without attribution.

Agreed. Pre-conversion Augustine sounds more chaste than most people today.

 

[beingaquatic]

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[fhansen]

I was reading a book that claimed to know the history of religion and in it it said,

“St. Augusting taught that all sexual union was evil, having children was evidence of commiting sin and all people should be celibate to be worthy of the Kingdom of God.”

and went on to say that “…The Roman Pagans up through the fifth century CE denounced Christianity as being detrimental to family values (Tacitus).”

Is any of this true?

Augustine thought that losing control over our passions/appetites was evil, the result of Original Sin/rejected relationship with God, and that shame was a natural result of that loss of self-control and the lust that resulted from it.