It is because we have wanted to distance ourselves from religion that it is now returning with such force and in a retrograde, violent form. Rationalism was thus not real distancing, but a dike that is in the process of giving way. In this, it will perhaps have been our last mythology. We “believed” in reason, as people used to believe in the gods.
-Rene Girard, Battling to the End, p.119
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