We must admit to ourselves that current and past governments around the world have not always taken the moral high ground when operating their communities. They are more interested in passing policies that benefit themselves and not the common good. Can a community that is governed be just and moral at all, and what would that look like? In the City of God, Augustine points to the Roman Commonwealth and says that without the Word of the one true God, there can be no justice because without God leading us in the way of righteousness, we become enthralled with our own pleasurable indulgences. It is then through Christ that we are guarded from acting selfishly by focusing on the community and working toward the common good. Augustine criticizes