Guide to Žižek: Christ is Monstrous

I’m today’s lecture, I explain why Žižek adapts Hegel to argue for the “monstrosity of Christ”, why Žižek calls himself a Christian atheist, how it relates to Chesterton’s argument about the atheism of God, the relationship between idealism and materialism, and more.
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The thumbnail is: Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, by Arkhyp Kuindzhi (1901)

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[@substanceandevidence]

34:00 That anecdote about the zen bookshop was absolutely wild 😅

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True story

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[@Verboten-xn4rx]

I always meant to read his trilogy on the monstrosity so useful. But wooden Theology no past it. Thuergy is essential.

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Will you do lecture on Zizeks new Christian Atheism book?

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[@tehdii]

About the toy.
I already wrote my observation on Cosmic Sceptic ( Alex Conor's channel ;) ) I skipped his video randomly to the part that the toy was emiting the sound. In a way I was in a favourable position, knowing nothing about the toy, I was exposed to its sound and despite english not being my native tongue I have heard green needle for the first time I have heard the sound. When I watched the whole explanation preceding the presentation of the toy I did hear brain power the second time and was able to switch what I was hearing.
I suspect that I was exposed more to the specific cadence "green flame" in various D&D online videos that is why I have heard the "green needle" words for the first time. SO in the end even coming with no knowledge about it I might have fill the incompleteness with association.

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[@colinmcnamara344]

I would suggest that the Garden at Gethsemane is more of an explicitly self doubting moment of Christ, since the famous Calvary quote of "My God, My god, why have you forsaken me", is actually a reference Christ is making to Psalm 21, which seems like an explicit lament towards god on the surface, but the psalm provides some interesting additional context to the reference he's making.

[@julianphilosophy]

See the thumbnail 👍😊

[@colinmcnamara344]

@julianphilosophy hahaha, woah! I didn't even notice that, apologies.

[@RuneDrageon]

If anyone else is curious, it's actually psalm 22.

[@colinmcnamara344]

@@RuneDrageon thank you!

[@prestonkrieger7811]

i looked up the monk statue in the asian art museum and its called 'The Dragon Tamer Luohan' but the caption says its long been misidentified as a monk at the moment of enlightenment. Point stands but just thought you should maybe find a different example.

[@julianphilosophy]

Ah, this is very interesting, thank you!

[@bobcabot]

...the subs are disabled! why? fancy shmancy...like flesh is contracting flies hanging around too long

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[@SiiKiiN]

More radical than saying, Jesus was the first atheist, is saying God was the first Atheist

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Christ is the image of God, and Christianity is Christ in the image of man.

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[@gonx9906]

When you read the quote you made the same condescending comment that every christian (educated or not) makes when they want to critizice atheism: "oh you dont believe in god so you will believe anything, you are a moral relativist!", Its just a lame argument dude.