In his mammoth work The City of God, Augustine put forward the notion of original sin and argued that human beings had a duty to
A) obey secular authority, whose purpose was to uphold a social and moral order.
B) disobey secular authority, since it too was cursed by original sin.
C) place religious leaders at the helm of the state, since they alone could guarantee and uphold morality.
D) withdraw from political life, since it was fundamentally tainted by corruption and original sin.
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