You called Augustine a moral relativist. This was a stupid thing to say.
The fact of the matter is that he used the power of the state to do evil to the Donatists. What he did was objectively evil. He justified the evil in his own mind, appealing to whatever extrinsic circumstances he wanted to use to justify it. Purity of the Church is no excuse. Jesus did not admonish us to persecute and kill our enemies but to love and to pray for them.
My charge of Augustine's Moral Relativism was in response to T.L. Sinks post in which he chided the Medieval Church for claiming that they did not burn any heretics, but turned the heretics over to the state for disposal.
Times were different then, huh AJ? Well if you can claim that something evil by objective standards can be excused because of extrinsic factors (everybody's doing it), then your morality is relative to your times and seasons. Hence Augustine was a moral relativist. And those who defend his actions because of the times and seasons are likewise moral relativists.
BTW, AJ, is it possible for you to make a point on these threads without tossing out an insult or two?