 Judaeo-Christian view was that magic was a product of the Babylonians, Persians, or Egyptians.The Christians shared with earlier classical culture the idea that "magic" was something distinct from proper "religion", although drew their distinction between the two in different ways.For early Christian writers like Augustine of Hippo, magic did not merely constitute fraudulent and unsanctioned ritual practices, but was the very opposite of religion because it relied upon cooperation from demons, the henchmen of Satan.