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I See Satan Fall Like Lightning (René Girard) | by Charles Haywood (The Worthy House) | Medium

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It has long been fashionable to regard Christianity as myth, no different in substance than many other ancient myths. Sometimes this is…

16 min read Mar 30, 2021 It has long been fashionable to regard Christianity as myth, no different in substance than many other ancient myths. Sometimes this is done to glibly dismiss Christ’s message; sometimes it is done in sorrow, viewing, as C. S. Lewis did before his conversion, Christianity as one of many lies, even if was “breathed through silver.” René Girard entirely rejects this idea, offering an anthropological, rather than spiritual, argument for Christianity being a true myth, and for the complete uniqueness of Christianity, as well for as its centrality to the human story.…

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