Let's not go the way of the Romans, please

With respect to the book Four Witnesses, it has come to my attention that the author's patron saint ( if that is the correct terminology ) is Saint Augustine.  St. Augustine!  He's the guy that presided over the fall of the Roman Empire.  Just perfect!  Perfect!  /sarc

Then I recalled Ayn Rand's mention of St. Thomas Aquinas.  I googled that and came up with this article.  A relevant quote:

Ayn Rand was a philosophical disciple of Aristotle (384-322 B.C.). She praises him throughout her writings, for example: “The greatest of all philosophers, Aristotle.” “So long as a single automobile, a single skyscraper or a single copy of Aristotle’s Logic remains in existence, nobody will be able to arouse men’s hope, eagerness and joyous enthusiasm by telling them to ditch their mind and rely on mystic faith,” and “The nineteenth century was the ultimate product and expression of the intellectual trend of the Renaissance and the Age of Reason, which means: of a predominantly Aristotelian philosophy,” and “A long time ago, the grandmaster of all grandmasters gave us the basic principles of the method by which one discovers the rules of nature and of life. His name was Aristotle.”

Look, I don't know that much on the subject, but St. Augustine v. St Thomas Aquinas is no contest in terms of outcomes.  The Church was about to be overwhelmed by the Muslim hordes, as it was in the rest of the former Roman Empire, which was Christian.  But after Aquinas, Western Europe rose out of its backwards into prominence.

Which is a better outcome?  It seems to me that the Church is to exist, it cannot afford to let itself be overrun by Muslims.  We can see where that leads to with these radical Islamists today.

Who's the better patron saint?  You decide.  ( Rap Battle of History???)