WOF 403: Scapegoating in the Digital World
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
Brandon Vogt
4.9 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Friends, why are we so tempted to scapegoat people, especially online? And how do we escape that trap?
On today’s episode of “The Word on Fire Show,” Brandon Vogt and I discuss the great Catholic philosopher René Girard and his theory of scapegoating.
A listener asks, what does Bishop Barron think of classical education?
Links
- Bishop Barron Presents: Luke Burgis
- All Desire is a Desire for Being edited by Cynthia Haven
- I See Satan Fall Like Lightning by René Girard
- Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life by Luke Burgis
- Tolkien’s Faith: A Spiritual Biography by Holly Ordway
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| 0:00.0 | If look everybody, look how divided we are, wouldn't it be better for one as tragic as that might be |
| 0:06.2 | for one to die rather than we all be destroyed? That's the old logic. What does the gospel do? |
| 0:12.0 | Is it fractures that logic? Because God is not a proving of scapegoating violence, |
| 0:17.6 | God is identifying with the victim of scapegoating violence. And thereby, this is Gerard, |
| 0:24.3 | pulled back the veil on this whole demonic process. |
| 0:37.6 | Welcome back to The Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vaat, the host and the senior publishing |
| 0:42.6 | director at Word on Fire. Why are so many of us tempted to scapegoat people, especially online? |
| 0:49.7 | And how do we escape this trap? That's what we'll be discussing today with Bishop Robert Barron, |
| 0:54.4 | who joins us from our new studio in Rochester, Minnesota. Bishop, good to be with you as always. |
| 1:00.3 | Hey, Brandon, good to see you and wondering, is the hurricane heading your way down there in Florida? |
| 1:05.0 | Oh, it's been a terrible hurricane season for us in Florida. Record breaking number of them, |
| 1:09.6 | but for now, we're okay. All right, good. Good. We've been together a lot of times over the last, |
| 1:16.5 | I don't know, two, three months. I was just with you a couple days ago there in Rochester, |
| 1:20.0 | but last month, the two of us attended the annual GK Chester 10 conference. This is sponsored by |
| 1:26.8 | the Society of GK Chester, and in it travels around the country, but this year it was in Minneapolis, |
| 1:32.2 | which is just over an hour away from where you are. And so they invited you to come give the keynote |
| 1:36.6 | talk. Tell us about what you spoke on and what the conference was like. I love the conference. |
| 1:41.6 | It was a lot of fun, great people there. You know, Chester Tonyans, if something in common, |
| 1:45.4 | they're like their master, you know, they're bullying and joyful, and especially Dale Alquist, |
| 1:52.0 | you know, who's the head of that operation. And Dale's talk was so rich and smart and funny, |
| 1:57.6 | and you know, just delightful. I spoke on, it's the hundredth anniversary of the publication of |
| 2:03.2 | GK's book on St. Francis. So that was the focus of the conference. So I read that book as a kid |
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