Ep. 4: Dr. Gregory Thornbury: Rene Girard and the Mimetic Cycle
The Moral Imagination
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The Imitative Desire of Crowds
"I see Satan fall like lightning," says the author of a new book on religion. He argues that people get whipped up into rivalry by imitative desire, which leads to violence. "Victimage motif is rooted in ancient archaic forms of religion," he adds.
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