French - Historian | December 25, 1923 - November 4, 2015
Salvation lies in imitating Christ, in other words, in imitating the 'withdrawal relationship' that links him with his Father... To listen to the Father's silence is to abandon oneself to his withdrawal, to conform to it.
Rene Girard
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If you scapegoat someone, it's a third party that will be aware of it. It won't be you. Because you will believe you are doing the right thing.
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Paradoxically, we have become so ethnocentric in our relativism that we feel it is only okay for others - not us - to think their religion is superior!
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Western civilization is, no doubt, predominantly on the side of secular relativism. That is not true in the Islamic world, where faith dominates.
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All of my work has been an effort to show that Christianity is superior and not just another mythology.
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The profound self is a universal self.
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Why is our own participation in scapegoating so difficult to perceive and the participation of others so easy? To us, our fears and prejudices never appear as such because they determine our vision of people we despise, we fear, and against whom we discriminate.
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Individualism is a formidable lie.
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The myth-making machine is the mimetic contagion that disappears behind the myth it generates.
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A scapegoat remains effective as long as we believe in its guilt.
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Having a scapegoat means not knowing that we have one.
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Learning that we have a scapegoat is to lose it forever and to expose ourselves to mimetic conflicts with no possible resolution.
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