Here’s an account of the thought of the French Jesuit, paleontologist, heresiarch and general space cadet Pierre Teilhard de Chardin that makes it a bit clearer why his evolutionary theology appeals so much to so many. If you make Christ the outcome of the evolution of an endlessly-more-universal this-worldly social process what you’ve really done is deify certain claims to power. The EU and UN become in effect God at the current stage of his presence in the world.