Innocence Quote by Rene Girard

“The scapegoat is a central figure in human life. A community that feels threatened identifies groups or individuals responsible for the crisis, casts them…

— Yuri Slezkine

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

“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

“More to the point, what was the lesson that the first Christians drew from crucifixion? Today such a barbarity might galvanize people into opposing…

— Steven Pinker

“Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans even as I exclude myself from the community of sinners. But no…

— Miroslav Volf

“The Savior… endured the agony [of Gethsemane], of inquisition, cruel beatings, and death by crucifixion on the cross at Calvary. Recently, there has been…

— M. Russell Ballard

“There must be, and, if we are honest, there always will be at least one situation in our lives that we cannot fix, control,…

— Richard Rohr

Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls believe, but…

— Roberto Bolano

Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.

— William Blake

The myth of the poor Jesus needs to be destroyed, because it's holding people back.

— T. D. Jakes

“Reading backward in the light of the subsequent events, they interpreted the crucifixion as part of the strange, dark divine plan in which the…

— N.T. Wright

“You will not be able rationally to read the Gospel and regard the Crucifixion as an afterthought or an anti-climax or an accident in…

— G.K. Chesterton