“The failure of mythological genesis, in the case of the martyrs, makes it possible for historians to understand in a rational light for the first time and on a large scale the representations of persecution and their corresponding acts of violence. We come upon the crowds in the course of their mythopoetic activity, and it is not as pretty a sight as our theoreticians of myth and literature imagine” (Girard, The Scapegoat, p. 200).
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