“Only two possible reactions to the mimetic contagion exist, and they make an enormous difference. Either we surrender and join the persecuting crowd, or we resist and stand alone. The first way is the unanimous self-deception we call mythology.” MythologySelf DeceptionCrowdMimetic Contagion Author:René Girard
“Nietzsche is a marvelous antidote to all fundamentally anti-Biblical efforts to turn mythology into a kind of Bible, and that is the project of the Jungians of this world, or to boil the Bible down to myth, and that is the project of more or less everyone else” PhilosophyChristianityBibleMythologyNietzscheJung Book:The Girard Reader Source: The Girard Reader
“The world’s myths do not reveal a way to interpret the Gospels, but exactly the reverse: the Gospels reveal to us the way to interpret myth.” MythologyGospel Author:René Girard
“The resistance to the mimetic contagion prevents the myth from taking shape. The conclusion in the light of the Gospels is inescapable: myths are the voice of communities that unanimously surrender to the mimetic contagion of victimization.” MythologyGospelMimetic Contagion Author:René Girard
“If the Gospels were mythical themselves, they could not provide the knowledge that demythologizes mythology.” MythologyGospel Author:René Girard