Christianity: the world's next sacrificial scapegoat

Winter Christian #9

(Before we get started, check out this in-depth interview:)

Interview with Terry Wolfe

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One of the best commentaries on the modern dilemma was given by the French philosopher Rene Girard, who converted to Christ after realizing that the Bible held profound insights into human nature. In his groundbreaking books, Violence and the Sacred (1979), and Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World (1987), he constructs a theoretical model where organized society always centers around a sacrificial victim whose death is twisted over time. The killers turn their victim into a symbol and a mythology, because they refuse to acknowledge what really happened. Christianity, he says, is going to become the ultimate “sacrifice” in the future, because it has the unique role of preventing other “founding myths” from succeeding. Ever since Christ, any attempt to mythologize a sacrificial victim fails.

By eliminating Christianity, the world believes it can create a new civilization upon its tomb, so-to-speak. First they will unite against us a common enemy, and then after killing us, they will be free to create a new mythology about how we were the root cause of all the world’s divisions.

Rene Girard ended up being a fully convinced Christian by studying the relevance of Christ’s message to all of history and the future.

What makes Christianity unique?

According to Rene Girard, Israel was already unique in their honest and self-critical tendency, showcasing the failure of their leadership rather than glorifying them, and blaming themselves for failing to live up to their divine mandate rather than blaming their enemies or a cruel god’s tricks. They lived in the hope of a savior. Jesus was sent by God to fulfill the “savior” role, but he did so in a totally unique way, because he refused to participate in the archetypes of the past. He did not fit the model of the “great man” who conquers, destroys, and builds an empire upon lies. He also rejected the other founding myth, in which a polarizing character (whose message is never emphasized) oversteps their limits and commits some unforgiveable sin, so that they are found guilty and suffer some dishonorable fate. Jesus inverts the story, because he rejects the temptation to conquer the world by force, and he deliberately prevents the lynch mob from rewriting his story after his death. He ensures that his life will be remembered properly through his disciples. The New Testament is not the founding of a religion based on a mythological version of Jesus, but a true account which highlights the conspiracy trying to lie about him. It shows that Jesus was not only innocent, but sent by God, performing miracles, and emphasizes that the world killed him because of their own guilt, not his. His resurrection and triumph give hope to his followers, who become motivated to follow in his footsteps rather than fearing the persecution of the conspiracy.

Jesus becomes the Messiah because he is the final scapegoat: the one who stops scapegoating from ever working again. He revealed the secret of mankind’s system, which was to kill every reformer who tried to expose evil, and blame them for the crisis in retrospect. Jesus instead predicted his own death, talked about its necessity, and accepted all of mankind’s sin and hatred upon himself. He did not defend himself, but allowed himself to be slandered, beaten, and killed so that he could reflect their guilt back to them by his perfection. Finally, for the first time in human history, the conspirators were forced to see themselves for what they were.

Why does Christianity need to be sacrificed?

In Judaism, scapegoats had to be flawless and pure. They attributed their own sins to the animal, sending it into the wilderness to die. This act of collective substitution allowed the people to free themselves and each other from guilt. It ended a cycle of blame that eventually tore apart other cultures.

The New World Order cannot withstand Christian scrutiny. Already, for decades, their attempts to implement global government has been thwarted by activist Christians and journalists raising awareness of the conspiracy, pointing out its injustices, imperialism, and hypocrisy, showing people that it conforms with biblical prophecy. The “neutral” masses do not hate Christianity, and become intrigued by such arguments easily. The conspiracy does everything it can to dull their minds, confuse them, and keep them compliant, but vocal Christians shine a spotlight on corruption. But even besides this “watchdog” role, the religion itself has been an obstacle to Satan’s social engineers from the beginning.

Many attempts have been made to replace Christ as the world’s “moral center” over the past 2,000 years. Humanity will never admit that it loves evil and hates good—that would be far too self-aware—and so it must contrive moral arguments about why it does the horrible things it does. Slavery, war, and injustice are dressed up in philosophical or religious arguments because people hate to feel guilty about the society they’re living in, and don’t want to become its enemy by speaking out. The Roman Empire tried to hijack Christianity movement with Constantine and his “ecumenical councils”; Islam tried to surpass it with new prophecies and commandments; the Enlightenment churned out secular philosophies for centuries; and recently, Theosophical mysticism has been trying to weave itself into the church and unconsciously dissolve it from within. Rene Girard observed (correctly, I think) that the world’s intellectuals are now trying to “out-Christian” Christianity in modern times. They have taken the virtues of tolerance, love, caring for the less fortunate, etc. and exaggerated them to the point of absurdity, because that way they can frame Christianity as being obsolete.

Christians are labeled as “conservative”, backward-looking, hateful, intolerant, and selfish compared to the “progressive” faction which looks forward and moves upward to new and better things. As its label suggests, this movement is desperate to present itself as the future; a more advanced version of biblical morality. Accordingly, progressives don’t just encourage kindness, they criminalize hurting people’s feelings. They don’t just offer forgiveness of sins, but shun the notion of sins altogether. They don’t build coexistence between disparate groups, but call for mandated collectivism. They don’t persuade individuals to be born again as an agent of change, but they want to take care of the whole world and all future generations with loving despotism.

But as the progressive agenda reveals its contradictions and false motives, it too is failing to establish itself as a worthy replacement of Christ’s teachings. Average people are starting to call for an end to the madness of globalism, climate change, transgenderism, and other excesses. Progressive ideology is provoking a backlash among young people. Even while biblical Christianity is mocked and marginalized by every other faction, it still dominates the moral substrate of public discourse, and the Bible (with the New Testament as its conclusion) remains the unmoving pinnacle of ethics.

Doubling down on sacrifice

The liberation of Paris from the Nazis (1944)

Rene Girard grew up in Nazi-occupied France. He witnessed many horrors and saw the transformation of Europe throughout the Cold War. He saw the attempts of international cabals of Atheist philosophers to reshape mankind into new societies, liberated from Christian roots. He argued that the mass-murders of the 20th Century proved that mankind had not learned its lesson. It still tried to build its new systems on top of mindless massacres, and invent new founding myths upon innocent bloodshed. “Sacrifices” got bigger and bigger as the effort to replace Christianity failed, to the point where “depopulation” is an explicit goal of the heralded New Age. With enough death, the social engineers believe they can finally wipe away the old system of ethics and start over. Perhaps 70% of the world population needs to die in order for the remaining 30% to truly tell a new story of history, nature, and Man.

So long as Jesus Christ’s innocence (and thus his wrongful murder) remains the central story of our age, all attempts to start over will fail. The sins of the world will continue to pile up to the point where everyone can see it. Of course, Christianity’s solution to a crisis of guilt is for everyone to repent and acknowledge their own sins personally, taking accountability and finding forgiveness in Christ, forsaking the ways of the world and becoming different from it. But the world cannot tolerate that message. It increasingly hates those who speak it. They need a scapegoat, but first they need to silence the voices of those who sabotage the scapegoat mechanism by pointing out its evil. Christ must be condemned, and Christianity must be sacrificed.

In an age of nuclear bombs, biological weapons, global surveillance, and instantaneous worldwide social networks, a “global mindset” is possible for the first time in history—at least since the Tower of Babel at least. You’d better believe that the engineers of the world, who built these technologies with the hopes of world domination, are going to push for a New Age without the shackles of guilt.

Interplay of guilt and blame

The more guilty a person (or community) is, the more they must seek to blame another. As the cruelty of Satan’s conspiracy increases, more people are being sucked into factions which commit their own sins, hoping for revenge, justice, or at least protection. Fear and hatred will increase, and leaders will rise to take advantage. Fundamentalist, evangelical, biblical Christianity refuses to share the guilt of Catholicism or other denominations, and will not participate in the “mimetic escalation” that Rene Girard documents so well. Violence begets violence; terrorism begets terrorism; at some point, any rational person will feel justified in supporting brutality. But the example of Christ is to love your enemies, denying the impulse for holy retribution.

How then do Christians get blamed? By refusing to participate. We’re already seeing this unfold in the “patriot” movement: biblical Christians are being called cowards, dividers, and dead weight, preventing the mobilization of “Q” and its “Storm” of justice. Christians are simultaneously considered “weak-kneed liberals” by the right-wing nationalist fascists, who want death squads to wipe out the traitors, and “oppressive right-wing fascists” by progressive collectivists, who want to erase western civilization and join an enlightened global technocracy. If we weren’t around to call out both sides for their stupidity, the two extremes could finally have the climactic civil war they’re itching to have. Right now, both of them cherry-pick Bible verses and twist the logic of God’s commandments to try to appease us, while also hating us for not getting wrapped up in their delusional “solutions”.