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Augustine's long road to becoming a Christian started when he first became interested in philosophy. This happened in Carthage in the year 372 AD. It was at this time that he read Cicero's Hortensius. This writing, which explained the search for true wisdom, the pursuit of truth for life, and how people should live that led Augustine to search for a religion or way of life that he could be at comfort with.
For nine years from 373 until 382, Augustine followed the ways of Manichaeism, a Persian dualistic philosophy which at the time was widespread throughout the Western Roman Empire. With its fundamental principle of conflict between good and evil and its claim of a rational interpretation of Scripture, Manichaeism at first seemed to Augustine to correspond to experience and set up the best platform on which to build a philosophical and ethical system. Another thing that interested Augustine was that its moral code was not too strict. Manichaeism at the time seemed like the best......

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