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

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The Apocalypse of Christianity

I think it's, it's superinteresting because, i meanwhat thethings that gerard talks about is how christianity is interesting in that it did kind of foresee its own failure. In a way, it there's all of this self awareness in the christian texts that basically predicts people are always going to laugh at this now they knowtht the masses are not going to really be able to imitate christ. And so one of the reasons why christianity has this apocalyptic kind of attitude or or dimension to it, because it foresees the necessity of christianity being workable for many people. It foresees that or our sinful nature is going to persistently

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