On the Profit of Believing, folks. Tremendous profit.
On the Profit of Believing, by Saint Augustine, is my favorite text, but I worry that the archaic language in any accurate translation turns most readers off. And I care more about popularity than about accuracy, so I wanted a translation that sacrificed accuracy for ease of reading. I achieved this in a funny way by converting it to a Donald Trump speech using Kagi. The base text was the English one from NPNF. Footnotes were suppressed, and so was the paragraph numbering, although I might reintroduce either at some point. I made some vocabulary changes, changing “Donald” to “Augustine”, “curious” to “nosy”, and “opinion” to “conceit”.
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| Illustration for this blog post, made with Nano Banana. |
