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Still, integrating a totalitarian atheist ideology into a religion based on a god who let his creations kill him is obviously absurd.

But not to René Girard, a French postmodernist who took Nietzsche’s ideas and repackaged them for Christian authoritarians.

Nietzsche called morality a scam for the weak. Girard agreed. But he flipped Nietzsche's arguments around.

Instead of Jesus being the loser Nietzsche portrayed him as, Girard made him the final sacrifice—one that justified hierarchy.