
Lecture VI: The Triumph of Modernity | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Johnathan Bi
The Christian Paradigm of Protecting the Victim
We live in a Christian society and we don't even know it, says Julian Zelizer. The idea of human rights is downstream of the idea of Amago Dei, he says. It's Christianity that inspires the famous line from the Declaration of Independence: "All men are created equal" But those same secular people who dismiss Christian values can be passionate defenders of human rights, writes Zelizer.
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