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By the beginning of the fifth century, Augustine had actually declared that spontaneous sexual desire is the proof of - and penalty for - universal original sin, an idea that would have bafflect most of his Christian predecessors, to say nothing of his pagan and Jewish contemporaries.
— Sep 28, 2026 03:31PM
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Yet when we explore Jewish and Christian writers from the first centuries of the common era, we find that they seldom talk directly about sexual behavior, and they seldom write treatises on such topics as marriage, divorce, and gender.
— Sep 28, 2026 03:34PM