René Girard offers a new way of seeing ourselves and our biblical heritage. His method is to begin, not with theology or the revelation of God, but with an understanding of human beings and human relations that the Bible and the early
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“We hinder the cause of human rights if we chastise anyone who points out humanitarian abuses as imperialist or racist.”
― Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
― Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
“No, that’s your ideological belief, and I don’t have to go along with it.”
― Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
― Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
“If you can orchestrate the words people use and how they use them, you can control their speech and therefore their thoughts.”
― Mao's America: A Survivor's Warning
― Mao's America: A Survivor's Warning
“The majority of my symphonies are tombstones”
― Testimony: The Memoirs
― Testimony: The Memoirs
“But this principle is based on a more profound philosophical idea—that no matter how certain you may be that you are in possession of the truth, you have no right to impose your belief on society as a whole.”
― Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
― Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
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