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“Sacrifice, in my view, is the center of human culture; the original center, of course, is the death of the victim that reconciles the community. This is why human societies have a religious center; human societies are all built around religion. There is no natural human society in the same way that there is a natural animal society; but in a way there is a similarity between the fights and rivalries of animals. However, in the case of humans, the rivalry resolves itself only when a scapegoat is selected.”
― Reading the Bible with Rene Girard: Conversations with Steven E. Berry
― Reading the Bible with Rene Girard: Conversations with Steven E. Berry
“It is not enough for the skeptic, then, to simply dismiss the Christian teaching about the resurrection of Jesus by saying, “It just couldn’t have happened.” He or she must face and answer all these historical questions: Why did Christianity emerge so rapidly, with such power? No other band of messianic followers in that era concluded their leader was raised from the dead—why did this group do so? No group of Jews ever worshipped a human being as God. What led them to do it? Jews did not believe in divine men or individual resurrections. What changed their worldview virtually overnight? How do you account for the hundreds of eyewitnesses to the resurrection who lived on for decades and publicly maintained their testimony, eventually giving their lives for their belief?”
― The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
― The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
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