The Sacred and the Human

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The Sacred and the Human -- Prospect Magazine

Today's atheist polemics ignore the main insight of the anthropology of religion—that religion is not primarily about God, but about the human need for the sacred. As René Girard argues, religion is not the cause of violence, but the solution to it

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