... , but have rather hastened its destruction, by corrupting its morality through their pestilent example" (2-25). St. Augustine believed that because the people of Rome viewed their gods as quarreling, immoral characters; people became more self-indulged in sensual pleasures and less involved in Roman politics. Though Augustine, Hobbes and Machiavelli agree that virtue and reason are key to establishing stable governments ... the people must support him and religion should either be left out of society since the sovereign decides what is right and wrong and good and evil or have a very min...

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