What Is the Paraclete, the Advocate, the Antidote to Violence Unveiled?

Renee Girard: We decode witchcraft the way we should decode mythology. The ability to recognize scapegoating is an effect of the gospel, Gerard says. In John's Gospel, Jesus says, I'm not going to spring the truth on you all at once, essentially because it will be too much for you. This is part of the realism and the generosity of the biblical tradition.