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The Scapegoat: René Girard's Anthropology of Violence and Religion Part Five

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The New Totalitarianism, as Gerard Says, Delivers All That Was Good in Christianity

Gerard: Our preoccupation with victimization comes from Christianity. He says it has, by now, worked its way so deeply into the grain of our society that it has become a valuable form of political currency. This new totalitarianism promises to deliver all that was good in Christianity, while dispensing with everything repressive, he writes.

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