If you are ever going to read René Girard, a french philosopher and a peculiar christian, he would say that the biggest accomplishment is that he exposes the scapegoating meschanism that was prominent human cultures all over the world. According to Girard, the bible is the first book that tells a scapegoating narrative from the perspective of the victim instead of the persecutors. For the reader, it's impossible to deny that Jesus was inocent, and the reader gets sympathy with the lamb that is being sacrificed for the good of all instead of the persecutors that believe that they are working for the good of the community.


According to Girard, societies that are familair with the Jesus story, in the new testament, have gradually lost the scapegoating mechanism as a way to resolve innerconflict. And thus society needs to look for new ways to resolve conflict... or as Jesus said:


For these characters can no longer blame all their ills on one person, one community, one sacrificial lamb and slaughter it to reach catharsis, for they are aware that the scapegoat is innocent. That's what Girard recognises as Jesus' his biggest accomplishment.