315: Girard - The End of Scapegoating
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The Cross and the Visible Victim
The care for victims that funds these critiques is effectively grounded in the cross and it's visible victim. However, theology may have lost track of the connection. The cross can only be understood in light of a prototypical pattern of violence in human culture. And the biblical tradition and the passion accounts are themselves momentous steps in bringing that pattern to light. Somebody has to bear the blame. There's always a Satan accuser and there is always a victim.
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