Bible Quote by Rene Girard

When the Bible and the Gospels say that the victims should have been spared, they do not merely 'take pity' on them. They puncture…

— Rene Girard

The protective system of scapegoats is finally destroyed by the Crucifixion narratives as they reveal Jesus' innocence and, little by little, that of all…

— Rene Girard

No other work has more often been blamed for more heinous crimes by the perpetrators of such crimes. The Bible has been named as…

— Nadine Strossen

“A text structured by the scapegoat effect cannot make a theme of this; [and in turn] a text that makes a theme of the…

— Scott Cowdell

“Religion, with its metaphysical error of absolute guilt, dominated the broadest, the cosmic realm. From there, it infiltrated the subordinate realms of biological, social…

— Wilhelm Reich

The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible.

— Thomas Jefferson

“It was The Gospel From Outer Space, by Kilgore Trout. It was about a visitor from outer space...[who] made a serious study of Christianity,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The Gospel tells us to correct others and to help them to grow on the basis of a recognition of the objective evil of…

— Pope Francis

“We need to be careful not to fall into the victim mindset. This usually happens because we have a dis-empowering perspective of the circumstance.…

— Michael J Barbarulo Mental Health Consultant

“The Bible depicts a world that, seen through modern eyes, is staggering in its savagery. People enslave, rape, and murder members of their immediate…

— Steven Pinker

“...many are guilty of merely 'nibbling' at the truth of the Christian Gospel.”

— A.W. Tozer

“It has forgotten that the gospels are replete with atonement theology, through and through—only they give it to us not as a neat little…

— N.T. Wright