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The Scapegoat: René Girard's Anthropology of Violence and Religion Part Three

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Sacrifice Says Don't Work Anymore

Jesus: To imitate the father, according to Jesus, is to identify with others and with the world as a whole. This teaching about the kingdom of heaven, gerard, says, is a response to a crisis that had already been identified by the Hebrew prophets, he adds. Sacrifice "say don't work anymore," so what can you do? Instead of being violent, answering violence to violence, we have to answer with non-violence,. Therefore, if someone strikes you on the left cheek, offer your right cheek. If someone wants to walk a mile with you, walk two miles.

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