St. Augustine of Hippo -- the Christian theologian who most successfully pushed the idea that humans were innately sinful and degraded, and that's why God had to sacrifice his sons to save our miserable ungrateful selves (this idea was _not_ dominant in Christianity 1.0). So whenever someone's yammering at you to be saved and threatening you with damnation if you don't go along, think about pumping one into St. Augustine's liver.
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