the-cross-exposes-the-scapegoat-mechanism-instead-of-enacting-it

At Calvary, religious leaders, empire, and crowd find unity in a single accusation. But where myth hides the victim's innocence, the Gospels attend to it: witnesses contradict, Pilate finds no fault, even Judas confesses innocent blood. They turn the crowd back on itself, and us with it. Rests on: [[the-scapegoat-mechanism-buys-unity-through-a-blamed-other]]