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The Key Ideas of René Girard: Mimetic Desire, Violence, and Christianity with Geoff Shullenberger

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I've Been Reading Rene Gerard for the First Time in the Past Few Months

i think a lot of people know that rene gerard's sympathetic to christianity. But i did not realize how real christian he is. It's like christian through and through. He identifies conversion as the process by which you realize that these desires that you thought were yours and made you an individual, right? Were actually a this kind of triangulated imitation of some of, some other person whom you set up as a kind of idol, right? Am. Fascinatingye.

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