Understand violence (and human rights) -- Why are human beings violent? Examining the question and some answers -- "They hated me without a cause": Violence as resistance to growth in selfhood -- "If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself": Violence as crowd phenomenon -- "You shall love God. . . and your neighbor as yourself": Violence as a rejection of balanced consciousness -- Arguments: superficial and deep -- "Which of these three, do you think, was a neighbor?": Jesus and the lawyers' question -- "Those who want to save their life will lose it": Kierkegaard vs. individualism -- "Whoever welcomes one such child": maternity on leave -- "Will he find faith on the earth?": Eric Voegelin vs. Deicide and Homicide -- "I desire mercy not sacrifice": René Girard on Contemporary scapegoats -- "Why do you not notice the log in your own eye?": The deepest irony of nominalism -- Historical reenactments -- "The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them": Everyone struggles against tyranny -- that's our problem -- "I have the power to crucify you": Justice Blackmun = Pontius Pilate -- "Many gave false testimony": Pro-Choice historical revisionism -- "You are descendants of those who murdered the prophets": The slavery/Shoa analogy -- "We would not have taken part with them": Attempted refutations of the analogy -- "The blood of all the prophets will be charged against this generation": Analogies and reenactments -- "Whoever is not against us is for us": Beverly Mitchell, Paul Kahn, Simone Weil, Philip Rieff, Chantal Delsol, Giorgio Agamben, Julien Benda -- The way forward -- "There was a man who had two sons": Pro-life conversion stories -- "You must be born again": Saula of Tarsus -- "Be wise as serpents, but gentle as doves": Win the person, not the argument. Part One. 1. 2. 3. 4. Part Two. 5. 6. 7 . 9. 10. Part Three. 11. 12. 13. 14. "All who do evil hate the light": The Grand Inquisitor of Philadelphia -- 15. 16. 17. 18. Part Four. 19. 20. 21.