As St. Augustine would courageously put it in his Retractions: “For what is now called the Christian religion existed even among the ancients and was not lacking from the beginning of the human race.”*4 Think about that: Were Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons, Mayans and Babylonians, African and Asian civilizations, and the endless Native peoples on all continents and isolated islands for millennia just throwaways or dress rehearsals for “us”? Is God really that ineffective, boring, and stingy? Does the Almighty One operate from a scarcity model of love and forgiveness? Did the Divinity need to
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