You're listening to the Allender Center podcast with Dr. Dan Allender.

This week, Dan launches a new series about the reality of scapegoating.

This is about more than projecting blame.

It's what happens when unmet desire gives way to envy that is turned against another.

This is a crucial dynamic, one that we have all both received

and perpetrated, and we're grateful that you're joining us for this conversation.

I'm quite aware the last thing I ought to be doing as I begin a podcast is ranting,

but I've just spent several hours on the phone, finding documents, trying to deal with what I'll

put in quotation marks an insurance issue. And if you've ever dealt with,

people who hold your money and don't want you to have it back in the form that is both legitimate

and righteous, you know that there is something between you and, shall we say, justice or completion.

And that is social structures built into the service industry that's meant to frustrate you

to a point where essentially you give up. And that's what I've just

spent hours engaging. And they are my current scapego. They have actually always been insurance agencies

in the sense of institutions. I view akin to what Lewis

wrote about in a book called The Hidious Strength. This particular organization, actually, I think

it was called the National Institute for Coordinated Experiments.

And if you see the acronym, nice as not nice, in fact, it's diabolic structures that are intended to thwart.

You make the phone call, you're put on hold.

You eventually have to select whom you're to speak about.

You're put on hold again.

Eventually, you get human contact.

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