religion blurb...Christianity is superior to other religions

from HuffingtonPost:Gardels; Is Christianity superior to other religions?
Girard: Yes. All of my work has been an effort to show that Christianity is superior and not just another mythology. In mythology, a furious mob mobilizes against scapegoats held responsible for
some huge crisis. The sacrifice of the guilty victim through collective violence ends the crisis and founds a new order ordained by the divine. Violence and scapegoating are always present in the mythological definition of the divine itself.
It is true that the structure of the Gospels is similar to that of mythology in which a crisis is resolved through a single victim who unites everybody against him, thus reconciling the community. As the
Greeks thought, the shock of death of the victim brings about a catharsis that reconciles. It extinguishes the appetite for violence. For the Greeks, the tragic death of the hero enabled
ordinary people to go back to their peaceful lives.

However, in this case, the victim is innocent and the victimizers are guilty. Collective violence against the scapegoat as a sacred, founding act is revealed as a lie. Christ redeems the victimizers through enduring his suffering, imploring God to "forgive them for they know not what they do." He refuses to plead to God to avenge his victimhood with reciprocal violence. Rather, he turns the other cheek.
The victory of the Cross is a victory of love against the scapegoating cycle of violence. It
punctures the idea that hatred is a sacred duty.
The Gospels do everything that the (Old Testament) Bible had done before, rehabilitating
a victimized prophet, a wrongly accused victim. But they also universalize this rehabilitation.
They show that, since the foundation of the world, the victims of all Passion-like murders
have been victims of the same mob contagion as Jesus. The Gospels make this revelation
complete because they give to the biblical denunciation of idolatry a concrete demonstration
of how false gods and their violent cultural systems are generated.
This is the truth missing from mythology, the truth that subverts the violent system of this
world. This revelation of collective violence as a lie is the earmark of Judeo-Christianity. This is
what is unique about Judeo-Christianity. And this uniqueness is true.

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