When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.
School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.

