Sublime

Both political correctness and victimism stem from an authentic reality from the standpoint of the Christian faith. That reality is God's revelation through Jesus Christ of the victim mechanism and the way into God's new community of love and nonviolence. But Satan has a tremendous ability to adapt to what God does and to imitate God, and so Satan—

the zealot is destined to reappear as the ultimate reconciler, restoring harmony between the generations.

Models are people or things that show us what is worth wanting. It is models—not our “objective” analysis or central nervous system—that shape our desires. With these models, people engage in a secret and sophisticated form of imitation that Girard termed mimesis (mi-mee-sis), from the Greek word mimesthai (meaning “to imitate”).

We make the child serve as the image both of what we desire and of what is altogether outside desire.

the real solution to anthropological enigmas that the so-called science of anthropology has never been able to solve.