Does this remind anyone of, you know, a certain politician's 2008 election slogan?
And did the people writing this have any knowledge of Augustine's classic work The City of God? Apparently not. Excerpts:
...[T]he human race...we have distributed into two parts, the one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God. And these we also mystically call the two cities, or the two communities of men, of which the one is predestined to reign eternally with God, and the other to suffer eternal punishment with the devil...For this whole time or world-age, in which the dying give place and those who are born succeed, is the career of these two cities concerning which we treat. Of these two first parents of the human race, then, Cain was the first-born, and he belonged to the city of men; after him was born Abel, who belonged to the city of God...Another commentator: Augustine weeps.
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