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Parallax Sangha #9: Thomas Hamelryck - The return of prohibition and ritual

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The Second Big Technology That Religion Offers

René Girard: We live in two different times, ritual and prohibition. Ritual is associated with transgression but also with sacrifice because when you break prohibitions, then you need to channel the aggression somehow. When these scapegoats are slaughtered, then suddenly in a magical way, there is peace in the community. And basically that peace is attributed to the gods. So gods are nothing else than the deified scapegoat.

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