Date Posted:13:26:44 02/21/08 Thu Author: Shannon Subject: God Vs. Man
In Choruses From the Rock, T.S. Eliot writes:
"You, have you built well, have you forgotten the cornerstone?/ Talking of right relations of men, but not of relations of men to GOD./ 'Our citizenship is in Heaven'; yes, but that is the model and type for your citezenship earth."
I wonder if this is not a good critique of Girard. He seems so focused on the relationships of man that he misses the emphasis in Scripture on man's relationship with God. This is clear in the openning pages of I See Satan Fall, as he jumps imediately to the second half of the Ten Commandments:
"In order to grasp how old it is we must go back to the Fall in Genesis or to the second half of the Ten Commandments, which is entirely devoted to prohibiting violence against one's neighbor."
Yet, he skips the first commandments which refer to man's relation to God. It is out of a proper relationship with God that we can live rightly and peacefully with our fellows. It is like what Christ states in the Gospels, that it is out of our love for him that we ought to love each other.
