Also, as long as the majority of the post-Christian world remains obsessed with proving the existence of an historical Christ that went by the name Jesus/Joshua, no one need pay attention to writings like Thomas Merton's "Peace in the Post-Christian Era" or liberation theology or Lynn Gottlieb's "She Who Dwells Within" or Rosemary Ruether's "Gaia and God".

It is a backward looking, regressive pursuit that damns us and our descendants to a ruined world.