Someone here gave a link to a masterful takedown of Girard's claims in The Scapegoat. Basically, in order to make his claims, he's just making stuff up - about Christianity, and about Oedipus, and about almost everything else he cites as historical evidence for his position. If you look at pretty much anything he cites, and get past his beautiful writing enough to actually think about his claims, you look at the claim, and the citation, and you find that there is no actual evidence for the claim in the citation. He's making up the evidence by reading it into places that don't give evidence for his position at all.

That is not an approach that commends his position to me.

Wish I had kept a link to the article. Does anyone here remember? Will the original poster of that link be kind and post it again?