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peebee's review against another edition
3.0
Kind of interesting to see exactly when and where the Christian faith took it's hard left turn into general shittiness. By way of excusing David breaking three commandments (coveting, adultery, and murder) he opens the door for moral relativism and fascism (We can't judge our betters, God's law is inconcievable even though it's written down in unambiguous language on a bulleted list, man's morality is fickle and changes through the ages etc.) and he also essentially considers any pleasurable experience to be a sin. He talks about how hard he has to work not to enjoy food he eats, or to enjoy music he listens to, because obviously an all good, all loving god really wants us to spend our lives in sensory deprivation after giving us bodies capable of enjoying his own creation. Basically, he's an ex libertine of the G.W. Bush mold, who's trying to make up for his own assumed past lack of piety by being a rigid shithead and imposing his guilt-based self abnegation on everyone else.
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challenging
emotional
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inspiring
reflective
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4.0
swaggle's review against another edition
emotional
4.0
Books I-IX, the autobiographical portion of The Confessions, are excellent and this work would probably be 5 stars if the later portion hadn't digressed into philosophy and biblical exegesis. Books I-IX are absolutely worth reading, I had to skim parts of the last few books.