Comment Comment by quantumofmalice > And of course Jesus is that exact same myth of child sacrifice (with a twist: he dies but lives again). The twist is more complex than that: it is God sacrificing his own Son, which is also Him, in place of all sacrifices. God becomes the scapegoat.Rene Girard talks about this idea in this interview:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNkSBy5wWDk parent quantumofmalice 9 years ago
The twist is more complex than that: it is God sacrificing his own Son, which is also Him, in place of all sacrifices. God becomes the scapegoat.
Rene Girard talks about this idea in this interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNkSBy5wWDk