Heresy

So, the other day I was thinking and I said to myself: You know that Augustine of Hippo was a real heretic. He was a originally a Manichean. That was a religion that believed that the universe had two gods or two forces, good and evil, darkness and light equal and opposite. Heresy you ask? Isn't that what Christians believe? Well Catholics, and most Christian sects believe that God is supreme and the Devil is inferior and subordinate (if he exists at all). The Devil only does what God tells him or at most what God lets him get away with. So anyway, Augustine said that he converted and became a good Christian but meanwhile he keeps revealing his contempt for the physical world and mundane concerns. He believes the spiritual is more important. He also talks a lot about human beings being flawed. He is a big believer in Original Sin and predestination.

I ask if God is good and created mankind and the world why would he create either flawed?

Of course if I was posting like I originally intended I would have researched this and included quotes and examples of what I am talking about but that would take too long and get in the way of the whole blogging process.

I will come back to this but throw something out there meanwhile: Augustine wasn't considered a heretic but worked hard to make sure people thought another early Christian writer was considered a heretic: Pelagius.
I will back up my anti-Augustine rant and talk more about Pelagius next.