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Gloomy Gusses. Just before the fall of Rome, continues the Wise Guy, "a sexually repressed monk named Augustine wrote a book called The City of God in which he assured the Romans that their adoption of Christianity was not the cause of the downfall of the Empire, and that anyway it did not matter what kind of society they lived in on earth, since their destiny was a City...
...call Augustine a 'sexually repressed monk' is just too funny. Have you read his Confessions'? Parts of it are better than Confidential. But the point is that, through wrestling with the problem of sexual lust, he came to discover God, and to discover himself in the presence...
...second soccer contest, Kirkland trounced Dudley 6 to 0, with Steve Monk and Mario Espelita each netting two goals...
...storm broke, instantly, violently, as if with one light touch theologians had gone up in spontaneous combustion. The mildly questioning monk turned into a national hero. Rough German humor entered his manner: "If I break wind in Wittenberg," he said, "they smell it in Rome." Soon he boomed his great battle cries: "I have been born to war, and fight with factions and devils. [I] am the rough forester to break a path and make things ready...
Pope Leo X finally excommunicated Luther in 1521, but the monk was now too big a fish to be thrown out of the pond. Notes Durant wryly: "Luther proclaimed that no man could be saved unless he renounced the rule of the papacy. The monk had excommunicated the pope...