It completely depends on your screed du jour whether you mischaracterize a line, a few lines, a paragraph, a few paragraphs or a few Early Church Fathers.
The attempt to use a small portion of the works of St. Augustine as a "proof text" is as intellectually dishonest and similar attempts to cobble together entire Protestant doctrines on the whole cloth of an out of context Scriptural proof text.
Its funny how fast you are to throw St. Augustine and the other ECFs under the bus as a kook when any of their actual teachings are explored. On second thought it is not funny, it is pitiful.
“Its funny how fast you are to throw St. Augustine and the other ECFs under the bus as a kook when any of their actual teachings are explored.”
To be honest, most of the time you Catholics throw Augustine under the bus when his actual teachings are explored. You’re one of the rare types that likes to sit there and hold on to a vain argument till the bitter end.