Learning that we have a scapegoat is to lose it forever and to expose ourselves to mimetic conflicts with no possible resolution. Rene Girard More Quotes by Rene Girard More Quotes From Rene Girard The myth-making machine is the mimetic contagion that disappears behind the myth it generates. Rene Girard disappearsmachinebehindmyth Instead of blaming victimization on the victims, the Gospels blame it on the victimizers. What the myths systematically hide, the Bible reveals. Rene Girard hidemythsblamebible When the Bible and the Gospels say that the victims should have been spared, they do not merely 'take pity' on them. They puncture the illusion of the unanimous victimization that foundational myths use as a crisis-solving and reordering device of human communities. Rene Girard humansayillusionbible Having a scapegoat means not knowing that we have one. Rene Girard havingmeansnot-knowingknowing 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 revealsystemlittleinnocence
