After years of wondering what and if there was a God I decided unquestionably there was. However, I was struck with a question almost as profound and frustrating as the one before, "What is God, and what does he want me to do?" There are multitudes of religions in the world, and choosing the correct one is becoming one of the hardest things I believe I will ever have to do. "The Truth in all Religions" helps me understand that it is not just that one religion that matters, but that you follow the good that is in all religions. Currently, the four largest religions are Christianity, Islam, Hind...

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... is based on. With the collapse of Rome to the Visigoths, the Christians views were held responsible for the damage. Augustine defended these views with The City of God (Early Christianity, 185.) This city, he wrote, is " surpassingly glorious, whether we view it as it still lives by faith in this fleeting course of time, and sojourns as a stranger in the midst of the ungodly, or as it ... shall dwell in the fixed stability of its eternal seat . . ." There is another city of which he also writes: the earthly one. Of it, he says, "though it be mistress of nations, it itself is ruled by .....

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