Is God Evil, Stupid, or just Counter-Factual
Is God Evil, Stupid, or just Counter-Factual
Author(s): Slavoj ŽižekSubject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Semiology, Comparative Studies of Religion, Philosophy of Religion
Published by: Fakultet za medije i komunikacije - Univerzitet Singidunum
Keywords: God; Religion; Christianity; Faith; Law; Loves; Ghost; Sanctify.
Summary/Abstract: This essay contains additional comments on my previous book, The Monstrosity of Christ (2011). Here, I am following the main didactic line according to which anyone who wants to fight for emancipation should not be afraid to examine all aspects of religious life. The current story fits perfectly the materialist procedure of the immanent self-undermining of a religious edifice – the claim that god is evil or stupid can be much more unsettling than the claim that there is no god since the first claim destroys the very notion of divinity. Christ demands of each of his followers that they become necrophagic fetishists; Christians who justify their ludicrous anti-Semitism by characterizing Jewish people as ‘Christ-killers’ should keep this in mind: the Jews may have killed God, but the Christians ate him.
Journal: Belgrade Journal of Media and Communications
- Issue Year: 4/2015
- Issue No: 08
- Page Range: 143-157
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English