
Episode 101: Against the Pagans (Augustine's City of God, Part 1 of 2)
Literature and History
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Roman Catholicism
Phenomenon of false pagan gods had encouraged the civil wars that finally broke the republic, Augustine writes. In contrast, Christian worship services were modest with men and women separated to secure benefits of paradise afterwards. For all of these reasons, Rome up to abandon its long and fraught polytheistic history, time insists, and become Christian through and through.
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