315: Girard - The End of Scapegoating
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The Differences Between Jonah and Jesus
Jonah accepts that which is interesting. As the guilty party, not as the innocent one though. That's true. I mean, this is happening because of me throwing the overboard. So what's interesting about the story in this context is that it doesn't reject the idea of sacrifice or you know, or of a scapegoat. Jonah has to be the scapegoat and he has to die for the people and then Jesus adopts it. However, as the sign of Jonah, the only difference is that Jonah is guilty. It is actually what Jesus is not. Yeah. And if the justice machine breaks the law by being the innocent victim of a machine that demands that the guilty be punished
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