Sentences with phrase «scapegoat victims»

No, the blood of Jesus exposes our sacred violence to us so that we can see in our own lives how we make scapegoat victims out of others, and then calls us to no longer live in this way.

What does His death as a scapegoat victim reveal to us?

We would not look for scapegoated victims in every corner of the world if the magnifying glass of the cross had not already helped us see them.

He did so first in the mythic, sacrificial sense that all scapegoated victims do.

Not exact matches

The leaders of Animal Farm maintain thought control by obscuring the facts with smokescreens, rewriting history, creating conspiracy theories about pending attacks, faking victims, slander, scapegoating, murdering opposition, outrageous public works projects to keep the animals busy, and through a large group of useful idiots — sheep — that spread their message unthinkingly and distract dissenters.

What say we work together to help the victim instead of carelessly finding a scapegoat for our anger.

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The Cross as Revelation Girard speaks of the Gospels as texts which reveal the scapegoat mechanism, because they are written from the point of view of the victim, not of the persecuting crowd.

If he committed the crime, and in the same time claimed innocence by playing victim, using his race as a scapegoat, hoping to be set free, and yet put his faith in Christ... his sin could not be forgiven, becaue he did not confess it and acknowledge it publicly.

And Jesus didn't just enter into scapegoating violence to show us it was bad, but to destroy it from the inside (which, as the only truly innocent victim in history, only He was able to do).

But one reason I want to focus on here is that Jesus wanted to expose the lie of the scapegoat: the religious lie that an innocent victim must die for sin.

These frenzies give victims no way out — each victim is simply this week's scapegoat — and they give public figures an incentive to be shameless.

It was we who continued our age - old crime of scapegoating an innocent victim to appease our own guilty conscience.

It is, to use René Girard's terminology, the single victim scapegoat mechanism.

Violence actually can drive out violence» Satan actually can drive out Satan, to use Girard's formulation» by aiming all the escalating and random violence of a culture at a single enemy and victim, a scapegoat for all that ails it.

The averted sacrifice of Isaac; the prophets» condemnation of scapegoating the widow, the weak or the foreigner; the story of Job; the Psalms» obsession with the innocent victim of collective violence; the passion narratives» transparent account of Jesus» death; the confessions of a new community that grew up in solidarity around the risen crucified victim: all these follow a constant thread.

Jesus is the victim who will not stay sacrificed, whose memory is not erased and who forces us to confront the reality of scapegoating.

God breaks the grip of scapegoating by stepping into the place of a victim, and by being a victim who can not be hidden or mythologized.

Most of the victims to this criticism, are merely scapegoats to the actual devils, Stan and company..