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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...really pay the mercenaries. So the mercenaries, in response, go and sack Rome, okay? But this time in history, Rome is no longer a..."
Augustine wrote City of God to answer the traumatic sack of Rome and defend Christianity against the charge that pagan gods were punishing Rome for abandoning them.
The sack of Rome in 410 creates a crisis of faith because critics can argue that Christianity angered the old gods and weakened Roman strength.
"And so what a lot of people start to believe is that the pagan gods are enacting revenge vengeance against Rome for disavowing them...."
"It's the the idea that God gave God to long snacker systems, for us to read and to live in all kinds God is..."
"And they believe that by converting to Christianity, two things happen. The first thing happened was the old gods, Jupiter and the others, became..."
"...really pay the mercenaries. So the mercenaries, in response, go and sack Rome, okay? But this time in history, Rome is no longer a..."
Rome fails to build a bureaucracy, Byzantium survives behind walls, and Western Europe is ruled by a stranger empire: a church that claims the sky, the soul, and the right to make impossible doctrine...
The Holy Roman Empire was not holy, not Roman, and not much of an empire.
A source-grounded reading of Augustine as empire's theologian: the Church escapes history, curiosity becomes sin, love becomes disease, passivity becomes goodness, and Arabia appears as the next place where fugitives from authority will prepare...
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