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In an age of polarization and mimetic contagion, we either demonize or idolize, but rarely see clearly. René Girard’s lens helps us uncover the hidden mechanism of “all against one” and discover a new path: not myth, not scapegoating, but the truth revealed in the Cross — the innocence of the victim and the call…
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bilingual Israel Centeno When I realize that I am alive, I am not merely noting a biological fact. I am recognizing something deeper: there is an I that knows itself to be alive. My body breathes, my cells divide, my nervous system processes information, but in becoming aware of it, another level of existence emerges.…
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Israel Centeno Karl Marx anticipated that capitalism carried within its contradictions the seeds of its own end. The antagonism between capital and labor, the growing exploitation, and the concentration of wealth would, in his analysis, culminate in a terminal crisis that would open the way to another form of social organization. History, however, has shown…
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📖 Versión en Español La Sábana no es dogma de fe. No creemos en la resurrección por la Sábana, pero sigue siendo motivo de asombro lo que se encuentra al estudiarla y al tratar de replicarla sin éxito, a pesar de que algunos afirman que fue producida en la Edad Media. La Sábana de Turín…
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Israel Centeno At this very moment, as I type these words, hatred is expressing itself in the world with such force that it makes me wonder whether love will truly have the last word. Lord, why did you go to the cross, if today the same crowd would once again crucify a man without fault…
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Israel Centeno You came from a country where everything was wrong, invaded and at war with one much larger. You thought you could save your life by going far away, leaving behind violence, even the natural call of the homeland. But homeland—what is homeland? In the end, it always belongs to the dead. We are…
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Israel Centeno Those of us who came to the United States seeking refuge from the violence of our lands discovered, painfully, that it reaches us here as well. The cities once presented as safe—Dallas, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Chicago—bear a wound that repeats itself over and over: shootings in schools, in temples, in…
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Israel Centeno Bilingüe. Español e Ingles El primer capítulo de La necesidad de raíces de Simone Weil es una auténtica sacudida al pensamiento político y ético contemporáneo. En un mundo acostumbrado a hablar de derechos como bandera principal de la dignidad humana, Weil da un giro inesperado y profundo: antes que los derechos, existen las…
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Israel Centeno The Eternal as Rebellion: Gen Z, Alpha, and the Return to the Sacred Español El siglo XXI avanza con una particularidad: la transición generacional se produce bajo el signo de las plataformas digitales. La manera en que los jóvenes se definen, debaten y se agrupan ya no pasa por instituciones tradicionales, sino por…
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(Spanish / English bilingual essay) Israel Centeno Español No cabe duda: el ser humano comparte con los animales su naturaleza gregaria. Como muchos otros, vive en manada, protege a su grupo, establece jerarquías y sanciona a quienes rompen el orden. Basta observar lobos, elefantes o primates superiores: la manada impone una disciplina que garantiza la…
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