Rene Girard On The Cycle of Sacred Violence: Can It Ever Be Broken?

"Crucifixion is not another sacrifice in the long series of bloody rituals but the final, nonviolent, and revelatory sacrifice that exposes the mechanism of all scapegoating." Rene Girard

In our day and age, violence is legitimized and sacralized — as it’s always been. Nations rise and declare war on each other on the grounds that seem perfectly justifiable.

Since times immemorial, people have believed in sacred violence because there seems to be no other way to set things right when you have been wronged. If a member of another tribe kil…