Out of context quote of the day.
St Augustine is critical of having kids, houses, and praises singles who are not "entangled in the bonds of marriage"...
How does he expect humans to survive for the next 1700 years?
"There are the weaker brothers, in the married state, who have children or look to have them, who are masters of houses and households, the Apostle addresses them in the churches, teaching them and warning them how they ought to live, wives with husbands and husbands with wives, children with parents and parents with children, servants with masters and masters with servants. Such men are eager to acquire many of this world's temporal goods, and grieve to lose them, and for that reason they have not the heart to offend men whose lives of shame and crime they detest. But they are not alone.
"Even those who have a higher standard of life, who are not en- tangled in the bonds of marriage, who are content with little food and scanty clothing, are often fearful of attacks by the wicked upon their reputation and their safety, and so refrain from reproaches...(City of God, Book I Chapter 9)
