Lecture VII: The One Who Withholds | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Johnathan Bi
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Sacred Sacrifices in the Christian Moral Paradigm
In pagan society, the peace which the victim's expulsion brought about was attributed to the dead victim. He's deified and made ultimately good and evil for bringing about but also ending the chaos. Since Christ, this no longer happens at all for two important reasons. In the Christian moral paradigm, the dominant pole is morality. People are either good or evil. And so, no victim can be divinized because in order to do so, to make them good, we have to admit that they are essentially good. But doing so incriminates the persecutors.
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