The Key Ideas of René Girard: Mimetic Desire, Violence, and Christianity with Geoff Shullenberger
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The Passion of Christ Resembles Various Myths From All Sorts of Cultures, Right?
Gerard's argument for the uniqueness of christianity is that it systematically m exposes and debunks this process by which scapegoats are essentially turned into gods in order to reunify social groups. Gerard talks a lot about the story of joseph m as an example of this, where you have am, you know, joseph essentially scapegoaded by his brothers, right? And sort of left to die. But he compares the story of edipus, rit, where edipus is shown to be a guilty rit in the myth,. whereas joseph is repeatedly victimized, but also shown to be innocent r he never does anything to deserve his victimization
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