New crowd assessment: the Braves fans got here early, but the Nats fans showed up for the home team and are ready to make some noise. Nats up 5-2 in the second.

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If the cheers at those back-to-back homers are any indication, there are far more Braves fans than Nats fans in attendance here in DC tonight.

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If humans hadn't sinned, would Christ have still come?

I love this bit from Ilia Delio in The Not-Yet God, summarizing a thought from Franciscan theologian Duns Scotus:

The reason for the incarnation, then, is not sin but love. Christ is first in God’s intention to love. The incarnation is the unrepeatable, unique, and single defining act of God’s love. Thus, even if sin had not entered the universe through the human person, Christ would have come.

That’s good news, my friends.