The Scapegoat and the Universal Evolution of Consciousness to the Christ 2
In our ancestor’s primitive rituals of enacting the dying god as scapegoat, the god impersonates the innocent. That is, the roles are reversed and it is the god identified as the “nascent-minded”, “idiot” or “fool”. This seemingly simple minded one or village idiot is selected usually by their meekness and innocuous nature which ‘stands out’. Rene Girard coins the term “satanic contagion” as the acts of overwhelming desire for sex-murder-greed-fear-sympathy-respect.