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Something I learned from René Girard, which has always stuck with me, is that the Crucifixion was a "trap" set for Satan.
When you think of it as a genius plot to tempt Evil into abolishing itself, the logic is really illuminated and its coherence becomes hard to deny. 🧵
When you think of it as a genius plot to tempt Evil into abolishing itself, the logic is really illuminated and its coherence becomes hard to deny. 🧵
Paul writes to the Corinthians: "If the princes of this world had known [the wisdom of God] they would not have crucified the Lord of glory" (1 Cor. 2:8).”
They thought it would be just another "single victim mechanism." They'd kill Jesus, and it would promote their interests.
They thought it would be just another "single victim mechanism." They'd kill Jesus, and it would promote their interests.
Origen and many of the Greek Fathers compared Jesus to the bait that a fisherman puts on a hook to catch a fish. The fish is Satan.
So how did it work? Well, usually after scapegoating a victim, everyone united in the crime is aligned on a disingenuous narrative. Myths emerge.
So how did it work? Well, usually after scapegoating a victim, everyone united in the crime is aligned on a disingenuous narrative. Myths emerge.
Knowing that the princes of this world had every bit of confidence in their primary mechanisms of control (mimetic rivalry and scapegoating single victims), what if God allowed himself to be scapegoated?
It would short-circuit their whole system.
It would short-circuit their whole system.
The princes of this world “did not understand that the victim mechanism they unleashed against Jesus would result in truthful accounts.”
In the four accounts of the Passion, for the first time ever, the deceptive system of mimetic contagion would publicly auto-demystify.
In the four accounts of the Passion, for the first time ever, the deceptive system of mimetic contagion would publicly auto-demystify.
“Satan is the mystifier caught in the trap of his own mystification. The single victim mechanism was his personal property...
But in the Cross this mechanism escapes once and for all from the control Satan exercised over it, and as a result the world looks completely different.”
But in the Cross this mechanism escapes once and for all from the control Satan exercised over it, and as a result the world looks completely different.”
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