August 30, 2015, The Rev. Doyt L. Conn, Jr. preaching
There was a social scientist named Rene Girard who was interested in human violence. He developed a theory called Mimetic desire, which is defined this way: “What you have, I want, because you have it.” A strong variant of this is sibling rivalry, which brings us back to our story today. The two sons of Isaac and Rebecca, Jacob and Esau, are locked in Mimetic desire.