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People individua and persons - we need to distinguish

Following the idea of ​​St. Augustine about the saeculum [1]   and that of the two cities, I come to the conclusion that the structure of what falls within the transversal category "people", which eo ipso tends to the beatification of what falls within this category, and eo ipso forgets that people are made up of individuals, must be distinguished in three sub-categories: 1) those who live under the horizon of the saeculum and only in the earthly city (the mass or the flock, i.e. the majority), and we mean the sloths (the acedious), the servants of the saeculum 's propaganda, those dominated by sluggishness, the followers of Satan aware or unaware... 2) those who go beyond the horizon of the saeculum , despising it, and continually looking for the city of God which is placed beyond the horizon, and those are the rebels, those who follow the voice of conscience, who seek the truth and are ready to pay the price for telling the truth, the saints, the martyrs...those mus...