Does humanity deserve Corona?

[Succubus#2]

This is interesting. 

I don't promote or follow Augustine.

I find that people here often have a very specific idea of what the "meaningful" sense of the term is, which is very different from the view of Augustine or Aquinas or Dante.

You don't promote Augustine you promote his writings?

You could read what St. Augustine had to say about why the OT shouldn't be taken literally. Most theologians interpret the Bible with a 4-level hermeneutical system, with a literal reading being the lowest. 

Why Augustine. Why not ask Mavis in the newsagent.

All of these books will be useful in pointing you to primary sources. If you're interested in the field, you'll eventually want to read Augustine, etc.

All roads lead to Augustine?

And Augustine is not responsible for anybody's greasy apologetics.

You're not a fan of this Augustine then?

I'll leave you with this gem:

Yes, the first to speculate on this question was St. Augustine, in the long discussion of the nature of time in his Confessions. 

Of course he didn't use the term "big bang," but he did address the feasibility of talking about the concept of "before" anything was created. He thought that time in the absence of anything else didn't make sense. 

I've always suspected that The Reverend Monsignor Georges Lemaître probably knew Augustine's thoughts on this pretty well.

You don't promote Augustine but it was Augustine who gave Lemaître the idea of the big bang?