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The Philosophy of Rene Girard, Luke Burgis

Rebel Wisdom

CHAPTER

The Scapegoat, the Renunciation of Desire

The messageof the entire message of christianity is to renounce that kind of a violence. The fundamental lie at the heart of the scapegoat mechanism, according to gerard, is the human belief that violence can drive out violence,. That some targeted violencen eliminate violence as tetethe micro violence just always leads to more and more violence because violence itself is memetic.

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