A Deep Dive on René Girard with David Gornoski
Village Global Podcast
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We Didn't Invent Our Gods, Right?
In an ancient community, again, you've got this primordial scapegoat murder that is the founding mechanism by which all these different cultures in ancient primitive, hominid cultures kind of fall into. So we can see proto sketches of this mechanism in animals that have more mimetic wiring closer to us, but still far away from our ability to mimetically do things. And so René Girard says, we didn't, humanity didn't invent our gods. We deified our victims, right? And so that's what we've done.
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