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At certain points in the life of a society, according to Girard, this mimetic conflict erupts into a crisis in which all difference dissolves in indiscriminate violence. In primitive societies, such crises were resolved by the scapegoating mechanism, in which the community, en masse, turned on an unpremeditated victim. The repression of this collective murder and its repetition in ritual sacrifice then formed the foundations of both religion and the restored social order.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow does Christianity, at once the most sacrificial of religions and a faith with a non-violent ideology, fit into this scheme? 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