Secular vs. Religious Authority

These are two different discussion so they need to be answered separately.How crazy and confusing was the six-way struggle for power and authority during the later period of the Dark Ages? What do you think you would have made of it if you were there to witness any of it? (Secular vs. Religious Authority).If a time machine transported you to the early fifth century C.E., what would you want to say to St. Augustine? Is he right about human nature and sin? Is his doctrine hypocritical given his own life prior to conversion? ( St.Augustine)