We recall the birthday of St. Augustine as November 13, 354 AD. The author of The City of God is a major Christian theologian. What many do not know, is that his theological views saved the lives of many cats. As long as his views held sway, the excesses of torture we associate with witchcraft were not allowed by the church. His sensible ideas held sway til Aquinas, and in fact the witchcraft and associated torture of animals is actually a Renaissance phenomena. Though responsible scholars label it medieval sometimes, all you have to do is check the dates themselves.
What Augustine said, was that, how could witches have any real power, if God ruled the world. Those labeled as witches must in fact be confused people. Aquinas is a different story but that is another post. St. Augustine died August 28, 430,
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