Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
@TornadoNate Girard, arguably our most incisive interpreter of the scapegoat mechanism which he described as "automatic, ingrained, unconscious and mimetic." His concern, he said, not religion, rather its anthropology and, as such, the staggering evolutionary significance of Jesus' murder.
Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 18 Sept 2021
@antoniogm @roddreher The contemporary Franciscan master, @RichardRohrOFM “Conscious people do not scapegoat; unconscious people do almost nothing else...Low level religion almost always attacks the shadow instead of the ego, the symptom instead of the cause.”
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