goal religious thinking exactly technological research — namely, prac — Ren?� Girard, Violence Sacred

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The goal of religious thinking is exactly the same as that of technological research — namely, practical action. Whenever man is truly concerned with obtaining concrete results, whenever he is hard pressed by reality, he abandons abstract speculation and reverts to a mode of response that becomes increasingly cautious and conservative as the forces he hopes to subdue, or at least to outrun, draw ever nearer.

Ren?� Girard, Violence and the Sacred

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