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>>/72/ St. Augustine, Florida is the oldest city in the United States. https://www.citystaug.com/693/Our-History > Founded in 1565, St. Augustine is the oldest continuously occupied settlement of European and African-American origin in the United States. It's named after Saint Augustine of Hippo, who wrote "The City of God". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo The treatise was in part a response to the public's reaction to Visigoths sacking Rome on August 24, 410 AD. For inhabitants of the Empire, it was shocking and soul-crushing. The pagans blamed the loss of Rome on the abandonment of their gods and traditions. https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-city-of-god-on-augustines-vision-of-an-empire/ > They feared that the Christian emperor Theodosius I offended the gods and endangered the empire when, in 391–92, he banned the public and private cult of the gods of Rome; and they thought their point was proved when two decades later, in 410, a war-band of barbarian Goths spent three days looting the city of Rome. Augustine rebukes them, arguing that it succumbed to decadence and corruption. He points out that Rome had suffered difficult times before the arrival of Christianity. The work is comprehensive and covers a wide array of topics. As for the title, he establishes a dichotomy of two cities. Augustine contrasts the heavenly City of God with the worldly City of Man. - The City of God is the eternal, spiritual city characterized by harmony and the love of God - The City of Man is the temporary, earthly city defined by the pursuit of pleasure and success, or the love of the self https://www.liberty.edu/ace/articles/city-god-city-man/ > Augustine writes, “Two loves have made the two cities. Love of self, even to the point of contempt for God, made the earthly city; and love of God, even to the point of contempt for self, made the heavenly city.” While Rome may have been called the Eternal City, Augustine identified it with the temporal City of Man. Something that loves itself and dominates others. Like Gnostics, Augustine felt that citizens of the City of God are in exile. https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-city-of-god-on-augustines-vision-of-an-empire/ > In this world, the citizens of the city of God are peregrini, ‘resident aliens’ away from their true home in heaven, who live here but do not quite belong. Restless Heart: The Confessions of Augustine: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yAWJFbUYT_w Don't let the now destroy the forever.