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315: Girard - The End of Scapegoating

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The Passion Narrative Is Redemptive Violence

"We've seen increasingly, and we mentioned this with Rittenhouse would be a good example of this," he says. "Any human being can be plausibly scapegoated ... no human can prevail when the collective community turns against her" He adds that it's not the sin of the one which jeopardizes the many but thesin of the many against the one. 'Redemptive violence stands forth plainly and unequivocally as itself the sin that needs to be overcome'

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