Our concern for victims is the secular mask of Christian love. - René Girard

When the father is no longer an overbearing patriarch the son looks everywhere for the law - and finds no lawgiver.

That's why he's called Legion — in a way he's the embodiment of the crowd. It's the crowd that comes out of him and goes and throws itself off of the cliff. We're witnessing the birth of an individual capable of escaping the fatal destiny of collective violence.

The world’s myths do not reveal a way to interpret the Gospels, but exactly the reverse: the Gospels reveal to us the way to interpret myth.