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Since the attacks of September 11th, 2001, the relationship between violence and religion has been the center of focus of ever more discussions and examinations. Darwinism.12 In that speech Girard went on to speak about the singular function of archaic religion, which in his view enabled the development of human culture by giving humans a way to rid themselves of their inherent violence: I believe that the two great institutions of archaic religion, prohibitions and sacrifice, played an essential role in the ability of our still-animal ancestors to evolve into human beings without destroying themselves in the process.13 Like Burkert, Girard places the function of ritual at the foreground of his analysis of religion.\n In the epilogue to Homo Necans, Burkert speaks of a future world inhabited by aggression-less swarms of herring, grooving to the sound of techno music.