Saturday, April 8, 2017

Girard on the Paradox of Hostility Toward Religion

"The modern tendency to minimize religion could well be, paradoxically, the last remnant among us of religion itself in its archaic form, which seeks to keep the sacred at a safe distance. The trivialization of religion reflects a supreme effort to conceal what is at work in all human institutions, the religious avoidance of violence between members of the same community."

I See Satan Fall Like Lightning, trans. James G. Williams (New York: Orbis, 2001), p. 93.

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