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6/ The logic of 'false gods dressed up as virtue', of morally-justifiable violence, of the false sacred disguising itself as true - at a Victim's expense - is nowhere revealed more clearly and repudiated more completely than in the Crucifixion narrative.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 25 Jul 2020

What, then? The murder of Jesus, viewed as a sacred duty by the religios and legally righteous by the pols, reveals the perverse, foundational complicity between cultural status quo and the scapegoat function, declaring the absolute centrality of the position of the Victim. 12/

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Quoted by@dancohen3000 @MintPressNews @KillerMike What instead? Say it. Peace, peace, peace.Quoted by@scott_m_coley In other words, what is ultimately thrown off by the Crucifixion is the mechanism for maintaining cultural order and psychological stability, “the infrastructure of all religions and all cultures,” as Girard describes it.