Father and son Quote by René Girard

“The good son imitates the father with such passion that father and son become each other's chief stumbling block - a situation the indifferent son more easily avoids.” quote by René Girard — Download Open image

““The good son imitates the father with such passion that father and son become each other's chief stumbling block - a situation the indifferent son more easily avoids.””

René Girard

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Instead of blaming victimization on the victims, the Gospels blame it on the victimizers. What the myths systematically hide, the Bible reveals.

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Every time I could escape from Sunday church, I did, from the age of twelve until about thirty.

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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 with them. It seemed to me that very often, the progressive Christianity was an initial step in de-Christianization, but this was probably unfair.

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“The revolutionaries thought they would be destroying vanity when they destroyed the privileges of the noble. But vanity is like a virulent cancer that spreads in a more serious form throughout the body just when one things it has been removed. Who is there left to imitate after the tyrant has been removed. Henceforth men shall copy each other; idolatry…

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I think that historical processes have meaning and that we have to accept this - or else face utter despair.

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“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 one of the great triumphalist themes of modernism. World's fairs were staged in its honor, one after another. Now that globalization is here, however, it arouses more anxiety than pride. The erasing of differences may not…

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“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 the Jungians of this world, or to boil the Bible down to myth, and that is the project of more or less everyone else”

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