Ending the Scapegoating: a Theology of Peace

We live in a world where people(s) are deeply divided by race, nation, sex, religion, and economic power. The division among the people(s) is manipulated and sometimes escalated by the powers of the world, and in this process weak sectors are created and isolated. In order to maintain the order of the world which is constantly unstable the order must inflict the unresolved contradictions upon the weak sectors of the world and sacrifice them for the maintenance of the order of the established world. Scapegoats are constantly being created in this world. According to French literary critic Rene Girard, a community externalizes animosities and uneasiness among its members to a scapegoat and by the sacrifice of the scapegoat the community returns to its normality. The normality of this world claims the victimization of some segments and by virtue of their burden and sufferings the order of this world is maintained.