This is what the average western man would dress like in 2026 if Pelagius had vanquished Augustine.
>>18403493Do you have a copy of the city of god on your desk? If you do I'll tell you where to find a part so utterly absurd, stupid and just weird that when I read it the fact that I had never heard anyone bring it up before makes me wonder just how many people have actually read it.
>>18403503The City of God is honestly a terrible work. Its attempts to criticize Greco-Roman paganism conveniently ignore Pax Deorum. Its claim that Rome was a corrupt dystopia its entire history is laughable and downplays Roman accomplishments. Also ironically, the idea of the City of God vs the City of Man mirrors the Manichaean duelism he condemned.
>>18403493Augustine was a nepo retard:>“You see it’s a good thing Roman women got raped so they’d no longer be proud of their chastity”>“It’s okay that people were tortured to reveal where their wealth was because only the greedy would need to be tortured to say where their riches are”>“Every pagan hero is in fact an awful person”
>>18403523Rome was a corrupt dystopia, dipshit. That's why it fell three-thousand years ago.
>>18403523Yes indeed, there are many things I like about the book, but his 400 page polemic against Roman history is literally just one whataboutism after another, and it pulls from a shockingly shallow number of sources. It's also strange that despite acknowledging it as poetry he seems to treat The Aeneid as history given how frequently he cites it as evidence of the evils of paganism. But what's stranger is that he focuses just on the kingdom and republican history, completely ignoring what should have been very fertile ground of imperial history to back up his argument that pagan Rome was hardly the glorious past some anti-christians valorized it as. He has nothing to say about Nero? Really, nothing at all? Nothing to say about the crisis period? Was it problematic for him, I wonder, to acknowledge this because it all happened after the appearance of Christ, and he could not explain in his system why the world had remained shit after the supposed savior arrived?But I must say, any book written by a Roman that dismisses Rome's accomplishments as "brigandage on the grand scale" is not without admirable convictions.
