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>>18418113
On the dionysiac spirit and Nietzsche himself. Also that quote on the crowd’s unanimity and the mimetic force spread among the individuals of the crowd says a lot. Paganism is the religion of the world, of the crowd and the people - myth points to the primordial events of the formation of the community (unanimity expressed exactly by the common will against the victim, scapegoat mechanism) and hence cultural formation.

>The Christian passion is not anti-Jewish, as the vulgar antisemites believe; it is anti-pagan; it reinterprets religious violence in such a negative fashion as to make its perpetrators feel guilty for committing it, even for silently accepting it.

Reading some of the works by Girard would make everything much clearer and obvious.