The protective system of scapegoats is finally destroyed by the Crucifixion narratives as they reveal Jesus' innocence and, little by little, that of all analogous victims. — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
In preventing a riot and dispersing a crowd, the Crucifixion is an example of cathartic victimization. — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
If you scapegoat someone, it's a third party that will be aware of it. It won't be you. Because you will believe you are… — Rene Girard Copy Share
“There is no culture without a tomb and no tomb without a culture; in the end the tomb is the first and only cultural… — René Girard Copy Share
The true Resurrection is based not on the mythical lie of the guilty victim who deserves to die, but on the rectification of that… — Rene Girard Copy Share
“The good son imitates the father with such passion that father and son become each other's chief stumbling block - a situation the indifferent… — René Girard Copy Share
Instead of blaming victimization on the victims, the Gospels blame it on the victimizers. What the myths systematically hide, the Bible reveals. — Rene Girard Copy Share
Every time I could escape from Sunday church, I did, from the age of twelve until about thirty. — Rene Girard Copy Share
I do not read many periodicals, and I have little or no contact with progressive Christians, so I don't really know what goes on… — Rene Girard Copy Share
“The revolutionaries thought they would be destroying vanity when they destroyed the privileges of the noble. But vanity is like a virulent cancer that… — René Girard Copy Share
I think that historical processes have meaning and that we have to accept this - or else face utter despair. — Rene Girard Copy Share
“So long as globalization was slow in coming, everyone hoped and prayed that it would come soon. The unity of the world's nations was… — René Girard Copy Share
“Nietzsche is a marvelous antidote to all fundamentally anti-Biblical efforts to turn mythology into a kind of Bible, and that is the project of… — René Girard Copy Share
“Even in the most closed cultures men believe that they are free and open to the universal; their differential character makes the narrowest cultural… — René Girard Copy Share
Each person must ask what his relationship is to the scapegoat. I am not aware of my own, and I am persuaded that the… — Rene Girard Copy Share
“We must renounce the gambit of "good" and "bad" - even in its inverted form. We must acknowledge that misapprehensions abound, that violence is… — René Girard Copy Share
