@Plough 1/2 Decades of peripatetic, mendicant life—the persistent disloyalty of the bridge-builder—have led me through a vast field of cultural oppositions. Enemies are typically allies in captivity, not essence. The real enemy is the logic of scapegoating, which the Messiah came to end.
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Copy of tweet here: Indeed. As in cyberspace, so below. As in meatspace, so above. On all sides, the murderous dismissal of the Other, experienced and promoted as coherent and socially beneficial, powerfully defines the anthropology of modernity. A hall of mirrors. The war of all against all. 1/ Quote tweet: "I would like us to do something unprecedented, to create ourselves without finding it necessary to create an enemy." James Baldwin 1967
@americamag Girard went further. Scapegoating isn't just a social reflex; it is the blind consecration of violence through collective (often religious) denial—the counterfeit holiness hiding evil: the false sacred. That's the fundamental lie the Gospels unmask: evil wears a halo. 1 John 3:8
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