EP126: Girard's Scapegoat on Good Friday 2025 - Gracearchy with Jim Babka

Good Friday question: Are you making the social conditions worse or better? Are you willing to sacrifice others on the altar of your politics or religion?

We can move in a libertarian direction in direct proportion to how much we move away from the blame-game, and how much we turn towards our neighbors. Here, we use Rene Girard's Scapegoat Theory to show to illuminate a path.

NOTES
"The Most Important Episode" EP88: René Girard: The Founding of Religion and State
https://rumble.com/v4hj1ur-ep88-rene-girard-the-founding-of-religion-and-state-gracearchy-with-jim-bab.html

Who is your Good Friday scapegoat? Our civilization is built on cruelty by Tim DeRoche
https://unherd.com/2024/03/who-is-your-good-friday-scapegoat/

EP88: René Girard: The Founding of Religion and State
https://rumble.com/v4hj1ur-ep88-rene-girard-the-founding-of-religion-and-state-gracearchy-with-jim-bab.html

EP92: How Rene Girard Unclothes the State, with David Gornoski
https://rumble.com/v4mwhyu-ep92-how-rene-girard-unclothes-the-state-with-david-gornoski-gracearchy-wit.html

EP94: Mimetic Mirror: Jerry Bowyer Explores Jesus's Eye Parable
https://rumble.com/v4pn618-ep94-mimetic-mirror-jerry-bowyer-explores-jesuss-eye-parable-gracearchy-wit.html

EP7: Rene Girard And Mimetic Desire (on AHO Network)
https://youtu.be/8yvv-3WYKIs

EP40: On Colin Kaepernick's Knee
https://youtu.be/KMqgl6fndQQ

CHAPTERS
0:00 Theme
0:24 Health issue
1:06 Rene Girard review
4:09 Missing in libertarianism
5:33 It's the season to discuss At-One-Ment
7:29 Original sin vs Two Great Commandments
13:39 Awareness to agency or buried in Sacrifice
14:29 The First Great Commandment
16:00 Imago Dei vs Original sin
18:02 Levels of consciousness
19:20 Human capacity for evil
23:20 Cain's City and Caiaphas' declaration
25:38 Good Friday story as the shortcut to transform
27:13 Mobs vs Selma March
29:29 Carl Schmitt's Political Theology
32:09 Tariffs, spiritual warfare overlooked
35:55 Beyond tolerance, getting to grace
39:10 Crucify him!
44:31 The only way libertarian can work

Bill Protzmann is your moderator.

This episode is sponsored by Zero Aggression Project. https://zeroaggressionproject.org/

Thank you to Randy Garbin for our amazing episode thumbnails: http://randygarbin.com/

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Be grace-full to each other.