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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 8 May 2021

As such, “The idea of ‘limitless’ violence, suddenly looms up before us,” notes Girard. “For the first time,” he says, humanity faces “a perfectly straightforward and even scientifically calculable choice between total destruction and the total renunciation of violence.” 8/

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Quoted by@holdengraber @voxdotcom @TimothyDSnyder @seanilling end/ “...beyond all that disfigures it in our eyes, the truth of the victim that we at last possess is the greatest, most fortunate event in the history of religion and the whole of humanity.” #RenéGirard