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The Scapegoat: René Girard's Anthopology of Violence and Religion Part Four

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The Cross Decodes Mythology

"The gospel has decoded mythology. The cross is science, as Paul said," he says. "And what I say will become obvious sooner or later." We can read texts which are exactly like myths, and which we don't believe in anymore, writes the author. If the text is medieval, we don't think it's witch hunting - because we read it through the gospel.

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