[ConservativeDude]

The guy comes across as someone playing Renfield to a divine Dracula. :)”

Very witty, for sure.

I think, though, that this shows that if you don’t have Romans as background that you actually accept (personally), then, you are quite right, something like Confessions comes across as a bit heavy-handed, if not a bit creepy.

This makes me wonder if Confessions should ever be part of a traditional humanities curriculum in a post-Christian culture?

[Verloona Ti]

Hope you two don't mind a ping to a link to my favorite parody of St Augustine's Confessions-at the very least, it has an awfully cute jpeg of St Tuffy there, and the tone is pretty dead on.

I've made it through the City of God once-the second time I tried, I got 'bogged down' in all the defunct deities and superstitions of Rome, and gave out around pagan Roman marital customs or thereabouts. I think the next time, I'll just start with book 10.