Rene Theophile Girard was a French Polymath. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_Girard

I do not share Girard’s positive views of Christianity. I do not believe he is correct, among other things. There were many heroes who were also innocent and in fact they are precisely tragic because they do everything they can to help others despite the corruption of the soul of the other people, and they hate them precisely because they did something they couldn’t even though they needed them. Ajax, Achilles, etc.

The poem I read at the beginning, “Phlebas the Phoenician” is part of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”.

The song Zombie is by The Cranberries.

Featured the video are Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb, Canadian Imam Younus Kathrada, and various other hate-filled Zombies.

The Girard Interview is from Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson. The last bit is “The Pale Blue Dot” by Carl Sagan.

Peace, ειρήνη, pax, pace, frieden, shanti, mir, salaam, shalom.