Jose Ovalle’s Reviews > I Came to Cast Fire: An Introduction to René Girard > Status Update

“Ideologies are the updated version of myths, which ‘provide the grand narrative which covers up our victimary tendency. They are the mythical happy endings to our histories of persecutions… In contrast to ideologies, ‘the Gospel… shows us two options.. either we imitate Christ, giving up all our mimetic violence, or we run the risk of self-destruction.”