In this extract from Slavoj Žižek’s new book, Christian Atheism: How to Be a Real Materialist, Žižek argues that the true formula of atheism requires destroying the very fiction of god from within rather than merely denying his existence.Slavoj Žižek will be debating Peter Singer and Nancy Sherman at the upcoming HowTheLightGetsIn Festival in Hay, Wales, on May 24th-27th, 2024. Check out the incredible line-up of speakers and festival programme here. What one should advocate is thus the materialist procedure of the immanent self-undermining of a religious edifice – the claim that god is evil or stupid is not only much more unsettling than Peter Singer’s claim that ordinary peopl…
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