{"id":8161,"date":"2014-03-16T10:50:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T14:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=8161"},"modified":"2014-03-16T10:50:30","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T14:50:30","slug":"from-an-interview-wrene-girard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2014\/03\/from-an-interview-wrene-girard.html","title":{"rendered":"From an Interview w\/Rene Girard"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>in <em>First Things<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a way, Christianity is the end of archaic religions because it reveals that the victim is innocent. When you understand Christianity correctly in its closeness and distance from archaic religion it is the same structure, the scapegoat phenomenon, that Jesus is victim of. Yet the text is intended to destroy your belief in scapegoat phenomenon instead of using it in order to have sacrifices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2008\/11\/an-interview-with-rene-girard\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in First Things: In a way, Christianity is the end of archaic religions because it reveals that the victim is innocent. When you understand Christianity correctly in its closeness and distance from archaic religion it is the same structure, the scapegoat phenomenon, that Jesus is victim of. 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