Christianity - A Distinction Between God and the Scapegoat

Girard says the discrepancy between Christianity and Judaism appears to be a contradiction. But it reveals itself on further analysis to be a continuation of the logic of Judaism, he says. Girard: God willingly becomes the scapegoat of his own people in order to show them once and for all their error in persecuting scapegoats. He has only recently recognized this redemptive return to the pattern of myth, as well as its overcoming.