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In our ancestor’s primitive rituals of enacting the dying god as scapegoat, the god impersonates the innocent. That is, the roles are reversed and it is the god identified as the “nascent-minded”, “idiot” or “fool”. This seemingly simple minded one or village idiot is selected usually by their meekness and innocuous nature which ‘stands out’. Rene Girard coins the term “satanic contagion” as the acts of overwhelming desire for sex-murder-greed-fear-sympathy-respect.

I was teaching on the very touchy subject of Christian Universal Salvation the other day when one of my students confronted me with what he called the ‘faulty nature’ of the penal system against Christ. He asked, “why should I believe in an angry God who is shocked with the actions of humankind and kills his own son because he needs ‘justice’!?”

It is for the Biblical “STORY”, “THE NARRATIVE”, “THE PLAY”, and REALITY, etc…that “ATONEMENT” created the ***SENSE***.by which atonement was necessary— and actually agreed with neighboring Middle Eastern cultures concerning “sacrifice”.

Up until now, we have triangulated our way up to a consistent Theology. The 3 main components that provide a coherent and consistent Theology are: (U) Universal Sanctification-reconciliation (Apocatastasis), (P) Pre-determinism (Pro-horidzo), and the (T) Teleology (teleos) which, in congress of forward motion (‘gestalt’), stands upon the first two. That is: the “END” or “teleos” is a *result* of ALL prior ENERGIES “that were”. This is what I call the “U.P.T.” formula.