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If you scapegoat someone, it's a third party that will be aware of it. It won't be you. Because you will believe you are doing the right thing.

~Rene Girard

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More than ever, I am convinced that history has meaning - and that its meaning is terrifying.

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Western civilization is, no doubt, predominantly on the side of secular relativism. That is not true in the Islamic world, where faith dominates.

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Paradoxically, we have become so ethnocentric in our relativism that we feel it is only okay for others - not us - to think their religion is superior!

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All of my work has been an effort to show that Christianity is superior and not just another mythology.

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The profound self is a universal self.

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Humanity is the child of religion.

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Why is our own participation in scapegoating so difficult to perceive and the participation of others so easy? To us, our fears and prejudices never appear as such because they determine our vision of people we despise, we fear, and against whom we discriminate.

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Individualism is a formidable lie.

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Salvation lies in imitating Christ, in other words, in imitating the 'withdrawal relationship' that links him with his Father... To listen to the Father's silence is to abandon oneself to his withdrawal, to conform to it.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Historian

Born: December 25th, 1923

Died: November 4th, 2015

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