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Evil Thoughts

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Here’s what I’ve run across lately: (1) From Charles Bellinger’s essay, “The Joker Is Satan, and So Are We: Girard and The Dark Knight”: “When The Joker says “the only sensible way to live in this world is without rules” he is speaking the voice of chaotic, Dionysian violence. But he also reveals in this scene that the “rules,” the laws and prohibitions that society invents to contain violence, are a sham. The police and the legal system think of themselves as stemming from a different spiritual source than the demonic criminals; but in reality they all flow out of … Continue reading Evil Thoughts

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Tom Fox and Rene Girard

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Tom Fox’s brief allusion to Rene Girard, in Fox’s Nov. 2005 essay “Fight or Flight?”, has been quoted this week in several places, including in this essay, “The Parasites of God,” written by social activist Charles Sullivan, who states at the outset of his piece: “I am not a Christian; nor do I have any desire to be a Christian. I have my own religious beliefs that guide my moral behavior.” Sullivan’s comments about Fox’s reference to Girard: “In a piece called Fight or Flight? written on November 30, 2005, Tom Fox made an important distinction between real Christians and … Continue reading Tom Fox and Rene Girard