In one case as in the other, the question which gives away … - James Alison

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In one case as in the other, the question which gives away the sacrificial mentality underlying group belonging is the same: are you for us, or are you one of them? It is the question which reveals the impossibility of a cracking of heart, and thus the impossibility of Eucharist.

James Alison

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James Alison (born 1959) is a Catholic Christian theologian and priest. He is noted for his application of René Girard's anthropological theory to Christian theology and for his work on gay issues.

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Benedict XVI René Girard Simone Weil Søren Kierkegaard Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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There is nothing harder than to be told that what we hold sacred is an idol. (64).

The problem is that this 'being identified with the victim' can come to be used as an arm with which to club others. The victims become the group of the 'righteous just' in order to exclude the poor Pharisees, who are never in short supply as the butts of easy mockery.

The 'I', the 'self' of the child of God, is born in the midst of the ruins of repented idolatry.

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