Slavoj Žižek on Christian Atheism, Dawkins & why young people don't read anymore 

Can't understand Mr. "and so on" but I bet he'd get well along with my late father and the thought of them together waivingly knocking the glasses of the table makes me smile.

That is very true in today's information society: ready access to an abudance of information just encourages a superficial engagement with any text, viewpoint or topic.

7:36 - "I think 99% of the people are boring idiots, I don't want to have contact with them"

Hating students seems very on brand for Zizek.

I like to expose myself. - Slavoj Žižak 2024

Żiżek sounds pretty Manichean in his theology... I am not sure many of the Christians he quotes would agree that God is good and bad, or that the God of the Jewish Scriptures is demonic. That's definitely not what Chesterson thought.

Paraphrasing St. John Henry Newman an English scholar who left the Anglican Church and became a Cardinal, 'To deeply study history is to become Catholic.'

Zizek and Dawkins inching towards their deathbed conversions. More power to them.

Going to reread The Idiot.

Best sermon this year...God becomes athiest in Christ's cry "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?"

What an unpalatable "Zizek word-salad" you've served up.

_They put a bunch of random old shoes in a glass box. And that is why it is easier for academic professors employed by the capitalist state apparatus to imagine the end of the world than it is for them to imagine the end of the capitalist state apparatus._

I miss this type of discussion. Brings me back to bongs and endless discussion of unknown and unknowable topics. ❤😂 oh and if god can "screwup" anything, he cannot be God. So there's that. PS nobody wants to look inside themselves because of what they will find there and have to face.. thus the total and ubiquitous lack of self awareness we see in our western culture.😢

I’ve been asking my educated friends with degrees in philosophy to define philosophy. They can all describe philosophy but no one has yet given its definition. Oh and I know all about the multiple “interpretations” argument. Must be that.

I am depressed today

Brilliant! How to make a living by sounding profound to average people, whom you openly consider to be idiots.

Is the box of tissues behind him (which apparently matches the painting, or whatever it is, above) supposed to be a kind of self-deprecating joke?

I’ve always held the belief that in Christian doctrine the quest for truth is an axiom, thus a true scientific sorta thing.

Love this guy. He’s funny & occasionally insightful. But too discursive - nothing stacks - lots of interesting & amusing fragments lying about though

It seems to me the Greek Gods were more fun and interesting than the monotheistic diety who appears to be needy for endless worship and a bit dour.

Brilliant interview with a man who it is like wrestling with a renowned intellectual wolf dressed in teddybear 🧸 fancy dress 👗. You are definitely a woman who has the skills of a circus 🎪 Ringmaster or Ringmistress depending on your interpretation of postmodernism. Really enjoyed the dialectic. Fantastic 😊

He calls himself an atheist but 26:00 all this about the Demiurge and God and Hegel is him revealing that hes a Hegelian gnostic flirting with the esoteric and hermetic secret knowledge of the cultists.

God is Good!!! I just Acquired a new House also receiving $52K bi-weekly profits. Despite all the financial struggles i and my family faced, everything is finally falling into place I'm so grateful to God.

This was truly intriguing

It is condescending in the extreme for our Elites, who don't believe and would be saddened if their children believed, to say it might be nice if the plebs believed... but not literally. The world would be safer place if Muslims believed a little less. Nobody said Judeo Christian society until after the Holocaust. Judaism has nothing to do with our society. Everything good about our society comes from the classics. They are Greco Roman, principles and ideals, nothing to do with Christianity at all. We have a justice system with punishments, not the insanity of he who is without sin... Everyone knows scapegoating is immoral, yet Christianity claims the scapegoating of Jesus to be an act of love.

The only Marxist I find compelling to listen to...even if he isn't really a Marxist.

Bs Sharia for the UK ❤

And so on

Home body needs to go to Turkey to get a hair transplant. It helped me with my confidence tremendously.

Unsubscribing. The day you feature this Marxist sloth as anyone to be listened to is the day I no longer subscribe to Spectator.

The abundance of information we have access to these days should be welcomed even if it does encourage superficial engagement amongst some. Religions in particular have in the past made great efforts to suppress information even though they all claim they are true. If Christianity ,for example, is true, then it should stand up to being researched,questioned & openly discussed without investigation being deemed a sin ! I have searched & come to the conclusion ,along with may others, that most people confuse Christianity with following the teachings of Jesus. They are just not the same ! Christianity is more concerned with what happened to Jesus after he died on the cross & how people like St Paul interupted this. St Paul never met Jesus in person & died 61ce before the Gospels were even written.So where did he get his authority ?. Jesus main teachings, based on Jewish laws, were that we should show care & compassion to others by loving them as we love ourselves, not judging others & being peacemakers. How often do you hear any of this being taught in churches,by street preachers or in schools ? Anyone of any religion or no religion at all could follow the teachings of Jesus but Christianity has made the religion about doctrines,dogmas & traditions. Salvation by faith alone.

The problem with religion is that I am expected to believe what I am told with zero verifiable evidence to support the suppositions. I simply "need" to "believe".