We're in the post-Augustinian Roman Empire phase all over again, with all sorts of mysticisms and cults springing up to make sense of a cosmopolitan world decou

We're in the post-Augustinian Roman Empire phase all over again, with all sorts of mysticisms and cults springing up to make sense of a cosmopolitan world decoupled from its parochial grounding, many of these sharing overlapping ideas or re-using older ideas. Perhaps like then, one of these will surreptiously gain hegemony like that minor apocalyptic cult of Paul of Tarsus, now known as Christianity. History doesn't repeat itself but it sure does rhyme.