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Ep. 4: Dr. Gregory Thornbury: Rene Girard and the Mimetic Cycle

The Moral Imagination

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I See Satan Fall Like Lightning - Can Satan Expel Satan?

Ruben Navarrette: I think Gerard maybe uses similar language in that piece that you sent me on the, it's called the Evangelical Subversion of Myth. So back to the divinization. Like, like Luke Burgess, we talked about, he calls it cover up. Right. The next part of the divinisation is also in a sense a cover up of the, of us. He says there's disorder, right, from this contagion rivalry violence, but it's not expelled by true order. It's spelled expelled by another disorder, which is a new type ofviolence against an innocent victim. And that, and so I guess the two parts.

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