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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DMaA who wrote (18090)	7/20/2004 8:26:28 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Respond to of 28931

"Augustine's enemies are many. He crosses swords with Pelagius, an egregiously fat British monk who posits that God's grace is not always needed, that men, unassisted, can do good with the aid of their rational minds and their goodwill. Pelagius is a sort of Norman Vincent Peale, who thinks everyone who really wants to can pull himself up by his bootstraps. It is a case of Pelagius's "Be all you can be!" versus Augustine's "Just as I am without one plea." Pelagius is also an elitist who believes that some men - the nice, educated ones - are better than others. Augustine smells the Platonic fallacy, the equation of knowledge with virtue, and attacks mercilessly. He scores an easy win." --from page 64, How the Irish Saved Civilization, by Thomas Cahill