Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@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.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 15 Jan 2021

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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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @SophiaCycles Hey, the Messiah wasn’t nailed to a cross as can(n)on fodder for mythic platitudes. No, the Crucifixion was a political murder heralding the inevitable dissolution of dominative materialist and religious violence foundational to ‘high culture’ cohesion, stability and legitimacy.Quoted by@SophiaCycles Hey, the Messiah wasn’t nailed to a cross as can(n)on fodder for mythic platitudes. No, the Crucifixion was a political murder heralding the inevitable dissolution of dominative materialist and religious violence foundational to ‘high culture’ cohesion, stability and legitimacy.