David Gornoski on Jesus Christ, René Girard and Scapegoating

Free Thought

English - March 19, 2022 12:21 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
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I talk with David Gornoski about René Girard's ideas on the role of scapegoating in society. David says that Jesus turned the traditional role of scapegoating on it's head. He maintains that Christ changed the course of society by destroying the pagan use of scapegoating.

Chapters:

00:00:00 David Gornoski https://aneighborschoice.com/

00:01:00 Jeff Diest https://mises.org/profile/jeff-deist

00:01:40 Science and U Show https://aneighborschoice.com/show/science-and-u/

00:03:45 Things Hidden Podcast https://aneighborschoice.com/show/things-hidden/

00:04:00 René Girard https://amzn.to/3MZYtqq

00:08:30 Scapegoating & The Science

00:11:00 Jesus Changed the role of Scapegoating

00:13:25 Mimetic desire

00:16:14 The left and mimetic desire

00:18:40 The traditional scapegoat

00:19:40 Jesus and the scapegoat

00:21:05 What's wrong with scapegoating?

00:23:18 Since Christ came, scapegoating no longer works

00:27:35 Marcionite Christian Church against COVID https://aaronolson.blog/2021/11/26/marcionite-christian-church-and-the-covid-scam/

00:30:00 Christ inverts the scapegoating mechanism

00:34:00 Myth helps us contain violence

00:35:09 The Gospels reveal the disgusting sausage-making of scapegoating

00:37:00 The emphasis on the victim is a modern phenomenon

00:37:42 How does this affect an atheist's worldview?

00:40:27 How did Jesus save the world?

00:41:20 Jesus liberated us from the scapegoat mechanism

00:42:55 Belief vs practice

00:44:27 Big tech censorship

00:45:25 Dr. Lisanti, antibiotics and cancer https://aneighborschoice.com/michael-lisanti-interview-on-his-breakthrough-antibiotic-solution-for-cancer-metastasis-atp/

00:49:00 Christianity is about an arch in history

00:50:00 Jesus and skepticism

00:53:42 Fleischmann–Pons Cold Fusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion

00:56:00 Ancel Keys

00:57:33 CBC René Girard Documentary https://youtu.be/g8Y8dVVV4To

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