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Episode description
St. Augustine tries to explain in his most well known work 'The City of God against the pagans' why the fall of the city was no disaster. The book was written to refute pagan accusations that the abandonment of the Greco-Roman gods had led to the catastrophe. However surely Jesus should have been supporting the Roman Empire now that it worshipped him?