City of God

... well, the beginning of it at least.

Yesterday I used my monthly Audible book credit to download St. Augustine's City of God. The reading is 47 hours long and I've only heard the first 45 minutes of it, but I really like it. I struggled with St. Augustine's Confessions, but this flows much better.

City of God was written after the sack of Rome. The books starts with St. Augustine ripping those who claim that Rome fell because the people stopped worshiping the old gods of Rome. You could lift the chapter, change a few names and use it to whack the televangelists who claim that this or that disaster is due to God's anger at our sins. Timeless stuff, this.