Well, and I think that the subtext of it is that every society, whether it considers itself secular or not, every society has an underlying theology. Worship something, it worships something. And I think The Roman Empire in the 4th century that Augustine was surrounded by had become very corrupted. And you know, there's this passage, I'm going to butcher it if I try to quote it, but I talk about in the book where, you know, Augustine sort of … (03:30–03:38)
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