Tim Challies has some good thoughts on the inconsistency of pornography, and marriage and God's image in women.
Augustine on solar eclipses, and those who predict them, around 400 A.D.:
(slightly updated language)
"For with their understanding and capacity which You [God] have given them, they search out these things. And much have they found out and foretold many years before. The eclipses of those luminaries, the sun and moon, on what day, at what hour, and from how many particular points they were likely to come.
Nor did their calculation fail them, and it came to pass even as they foretold. And they wrote down the rules found out, which are read at this day, and from these others foretell in what year and in what month of the year and on what day of the month, and at what hour of the day and at what quarter of its light either moon or sun is to be eclipsed. And thus it shall be even as it is foretold.
And men who are ignorant of these things marvel and are amazed and they that know them exult and are exalted. And by an impious pride departing from You, and forsaking Your light they foretell a failure of the sun's light, which is likely to occur so long before, but see not their own which is now present. For they seek not religiously from where they have the ability to seek out these things.
And finding that You have made them, they do not give themselves up to You, that You may preserve what You have made, nor sacrifice themselves to You... nor do they slay their own pride."
Confessions, book V., chapter 3.4
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