"The most effective power of transformation is not revolutionary violence but the modern concern for victims. [...] it is the knowledge that separates the ritual meaning of the expression 'scapegoat' from its modern meaning. it deepens continually, and soon the mimetic reading of the structure of persecution will become more and more widespread. [...] Each time a new frontier is crossed, those whose interests are damaged oppose this change intensely."
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning, trans. James G. Williams (New York: Orbis, 2001), p. 168.
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