5.1. What Does It Mean To Be Human?
It is hard to define what it means to be human. Hardin will introduce a new way to understanding of what it means to be human.
Escalating Violence and the Mob Mentality. Mob behavior is essentially an imitation. There is a violent act which is imitated with a bit of escalation which is imitated with escalation etc. Soon a mob is in full swing.
Religious and Cultural ‘Solutions’ That Moderate Violence. Finding a scapegoat is a way to moderate the violence.
Jesus’ Solution to Eradicate Imitated Violence. Instead of imitating the humans around us, we are called to imitate Jesus, both as we know him as a living person in our lives and as we find him recorded in the Bible.