Deadly sin: Worship without Sacrifice
Today I was reading a blog article by Chuck Waterfield of MFTransparency (full disclosure: I am employed by MFTransparency). The article references Gandhi’s Seven Deadly Social Sins:
- Politics without principle
- Wealth without work
- Commerce without morality
- Pleasure without conscience
- Education without character
- Science without humanity
- Worship without sacrifice
That last one got me thinking about René Girard’s mimetic theory, which directly involves the concepts of worship and sacrifice. Did Gandhi understand the mimetic theory?