"Saint" Augustine???
Augustine held the pagan philosopher Plato (see Col. 2:8) in high esteem, constructing a “Christian philosophy,” as Warfield admits: “...largely out of Platonic materials.” [Benjamin Warfield, Calvin & Augustine, p. 319] Remember, Plato was an evolutionist and a polytheist who subscribed to the transmigration and reincarnation of souls. [Laurence M. Vance, The Other Side of Calvinism, p. 20] Augustine also thought highly of the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine. of whom he wrote:
God in his goodness... heaped worldly gifts such as no one would have dared to hope for on Constantine, who made no supplication to demons, but worshipped only the true God. And God even granted him the honour of founding a city.
[Augustine, City of God, p. 220]
History shows, however, that Constantine was a compromiser who deliberately did not oppose the paganism of the Roman Senate, who worshipped the Sun to the day of his death, who only accepted “Christianity” as the religion of the Empire for political reasons, and who, having dedicated his new city Constantinople to the blessed virgin Mary, was eventually “sprinkled” on his death-bed, and died with no testimony of salvation except visions of strange crosses in the sky.
excerpt from THE SUPREME IRONY, by Paul A. Bailey, Penfold Book and Bible House. pp. 6-7
