{"id":380,"date":"2023-01-15T15:28:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T15:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/?p=380"},"modified":"2023-01-15T15:28:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T15:28:35","slug":"380","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/?p=380","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It\u2019s the nature of culture to have its agreed-upon lies. Culture holds itself together by projecting its shadow side elsewhere. That\u2019s called the \u201cscapegoat mechanism.\u201d Ren\u00e9 Girard, Gil Bailie, and others have pointed out that the scapegoat mechanism is the subtext of the entire biblical revelation. It\u2019s the tendency to export our evil elsewhere and to hate it there, and therefore to remain in splendid delusion. If there isn\u2019t a willingness to be critical of our country, our institution, and ourselves, we certainly can\u2019t be prophets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the prophet is missing from the story, the shadow side of things is always out of control, as in much of the world today, where we do not honor wisdom or truth.  \u2014 Richard Rohr, OFM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the nature of culture to have its agreed-upon lies. Culture holds itself together by projecting its shadow side elsewhere. That\u2019s called the \u201cscapegoat mechanism.\u201d Ren\u00e9 Girard, Gil Bailie, and others have pointed out that the scapegoat mechanism is the subtext of the entire biblical revelation. It\u2019s the tendency to export our evil elsewhere and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}