{"id":9370,"date":"2025-08-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=9370"},"modified":"2025-05-04T18:35:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T18:35:56","slug":"looking-at-slavoj-zizeks-book-2024-christian-atheism-part-3-of-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=9370","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Slavoj Zizek&#8217;s Book (2024) &#8220;Christian Atheism&#8221; (Part 3 of 33)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0030 So, is this really about [wealth and power]?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For an author that self-identifies&#8230; er&#8230; is selflessly identified as a Hegelian philosopher, a Lacanian psychoanalyst and a Marxist materialist, the uninitiated has a simple question, &#8220;Why not just grasp the bronze serpent of pure atheism and be done with it?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, I suppose that the bronze serpent is a little too nonscientific to intellectually accept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though it keeps us alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After all, plagues can be unnerving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, let me tone down the dragonian imagery and replace&nbsp;<em>the Freudian &#8216;death drive&#8217;<sub>1c<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;with the less draconian term,&nbsp;<em>&#8216;our truth&#8217;<sub>1c<\/sub><\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Of course, in the following figure, the &#8220;our&#8221; is already fading, because, well, the Relativist One<sub>3<\/sub>&nbsp;stands above all jurisdictions, including whatever&nbsp;<em>dominion lays claim to me<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the adjusted picture, where the Relativist One<sub>3<\/sub>&nbsp;stands as the alternative to Zizek&#8217;s Christ<sub>3<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide012.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide012.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide012.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide012-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0031 Isn&#8217;t that more palatable?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, I have not addressed the question, asking, &#8221; Why does Zizek find Christian atheism attractive?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why Christ<sub>3<\/sub>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One answer is that Christianity is not direct.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is the only religion that cannot be accessed directly.&nbsp;&nbsp;To get to the New Testament, one must pass through the Old Testament.&nbsp;&nbsp;The passage is perilous, because Judaism is like a tar baby.&nbsp;&nbsp;Once you touch it, you are stuck with it.&nbsp;&nbsp;And, if you dare to shake the tar baby off, your are left with an indelible stain.&nbsp;&nbsp;Today, that stain is called &#8220;antisemitism&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of all &#8220;-isms&#8221;, antisemitism is unique because it occupies the passage to Jesus, the Messiah.&nbsp;&nbsp;Jesus is Christ because the elites of the second Temple do not want any competitors.&nbsp;&nbsp;So what does the Messiah do?&nbsp;&nbsp;He turns their establishment into a doormat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0032&nbsp;<em>The execution of Jesus<\/em>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<em>a routine political operation<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Roman occupiers<\/em>&nbsp;are intent on preventing the appearance of a king that would unite all Jews with the Second Temple.&nbsp;&nbsp;In this regard, they are like socialists.&nbsp;&nbsp;Socialists are in the business of exercising order.&nbsp;&nbsp;Rome rules an empire.&nbsp;&nbsp;Order is paramount.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Sadducees and Pharisees<\/em>&nbsp;are intent on maintaining their authority, in regards to their &#8220;readings&#8221; of the Pentateuch.&nbsp;They distill laws from the text.&nbsp;&nbsp;The laws multiply, like all regulations do.&nbsp;&nbsp;The elites earn nice incomes from determining laws and devising pathways to evade the laws that they determined.&nbsp;&nbsp;They are&nbsp;<em>the bourgeois who represent God&#8230; er, the Text&#8230; to the proletarians<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;In this respect,&nbsp;<em>the elites of the Second Temple<\/em>&nbsp;are like capitalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0033 The operation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The capitalist<\/em>&nbsp;offers a crisis for the socialists to fixate on, and, in the process, remove a potential roadblock to&nbsp;<em>the status quo of continuing acquisition<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here, the Second Temple elites offer a &#8220;king&#8221;, actually,&nbsp;<em>a potential competitor<\/em>&nbsp;who might undermine their um&#8230; &#8220;business practices&#8221;, for the Romans to worry about, arrest and execute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0034 In Hegel&#8217;s terminology, the capitalists offer a thesis, that produces a socialist antithesis, inadvertently advancing the agenda of the capitalist, while, at the same time, generating an objective being, a &#8220;truth&#8221;, if one accepts the term, that is accessible to&nbsp;<em>all who pay attention<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0035 Above the crown of the dying Jesus, the Romans post a sign, proclaiming, &#8220;King of the Jews&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below the feet of the dying Jesus,&nbsp;<em>attending elites<\/em>&nbsp;mutter about&nbsp;<em>how incorrect that proclamation is.<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;The declaration should say, &#8220;He claims that he is King of the Jews.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide013.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide013.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide013.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide013-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0036 Both are political accusations.&nbsp;&nbsp;They parallel one another.&nbsp;&nbsp;Jesus is actual king<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;by way of Roman authority.&nbsp;&nbsp;Jesus purports to establish&nbsp;<em>his kingdom<\/em>&nbsp;as&nbsp;<em>a normal context<sub>3<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;upon&nbsp;<em>the potential of his rule being not of this world<sub>1<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, wait three days, the divine consequences shake the capital. The political parallels appear to converge on a single point, a single &#8220;substance&#8221;.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Jesus is dead and now&#8230; um&#8230; lives to tell about it.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>An ontological reality<\/em>&nbsp;coincides with&nbsp;<em>a transcendent reality.<\/em>&nbsp;Jesus [is] king<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;and his kingdom<sub>3b<\/sub>&nbsp;manifests the potential of the Messiah<sub>1b<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I [am] who I am<\/em>&nbsp;crowns His Son as&nbsp;<em>king of a sovereignty that is<\/em>&nbsp;both of&nbsp;<em>and<\/em>&nbsp;not of&nbsp;<em>this world<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide014.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide014.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide014.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide014-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0037 To the Hegelian,&nbsp;<em>the capitalist, who is concerned about accumulating<\/em>&nbsp;offers a thesis that taunts&nbsp;<em>the socialist, who is concerned about the exercise of order<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That thesis keys into [wealth and power].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The socialist responds to the capitalist&#8217;s thesis with an antithesis, inadvertently advancing the agenda of the capitalist, while at the same time generating a &#8220;suprasubjective being&#8221;, a &#8220;truth&#8221;, if one accepts the term, that is experienced as a revelation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0038 By 70 AD,&nbsp;<em>the congruence of the two systems that executed Jesus<\/em>&nbsp;ends.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Romans destroy Jerusalem and level the second Temple, in a military act whimsically called, &#8220;Operation Gaza&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0039&nbsp;<em>Christianity<\/em>&nbsp;may overcome&nbsp;<em>the gap that separates humans from God<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;But, that is not&nbsp;<em>the issue at hand<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;For the purposes of this examination, Christ<sub>3<\/sub>&nbsp;provides a way to step on the doormats of capitalism and socialism, or&nbsp;<em>the accumulation of capital<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>the social exercise of order,<\/em>&nbsp;on the way to&#8230; what?.. understanding &#8216;truth&#8217;<sub>1<\/sub>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide015.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide015.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide015.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide015-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0040 Both&nbsp;<em>capital&nbsp;<\/em>and<em>&nbsp;social<\/em>&nbsp;are doormats.&nbsp;&nbsp;In Lacan&#8217;s terms, instances of desire, or mental organization, or fixation, or whatever the French term,&nbsp;<em>objet a,<\/em>&nbsp;indicates, are like doormats, that is&nbsp;<em>actualities<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;that must be stepped upon in order to contextualize<sub>3<\/sub>&nbsp;the potential of truth<sub>1<\/sub>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, the contiguity, [wealth and power], which everyone can talk about even though they cannot picture or point to&nbsp;<em>what it is that they are talking about,<\/em>&nbsp;may be labeled&nbsp;<em>petit objet a<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide016.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide016.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide016.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide016-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0041&nbsp;<em>A petit objet a<\/em>&nbsp;serves as a clue that&nbsp;<em>an objet a<\/em>&nbsp;is present, even though it is too close or too far, too enveloping or too miniscule, to recognize.&nbsp;&nbsp;This makes sense, here, insofar as&nbsp;<em>objet a<\/em>&nbsp;is both matter and form.&nbsp;&nbsp;Plus,&nbsp;<em>matter and form<\/em>belong to&nbsp;<em>the first abstraction<\/em>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<em>a natural philosophy<\/em>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<em>the thing itself<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If&nbsp;<em>capital &amp; accumulation<\/em>&nbsp;(thesis) explains&nbsp;<em>whatever<\/em>&nbsp;<em>demands the exercise of social interests &amp; order<\/em>&nbsp;(antithesis), then where is the synthesis?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0042 Let me make a comparison of&nbsp;<em>Aristotle&#8217;s hylomorphe<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>this perspective-level economic thing<sub>2c<\/sub>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide017.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide017.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide017.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide017-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0043&nbsp;<em>Every term in the above figure<\/em>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<em>an explicit abstraction<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0044 What do I mean by that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spoken words can label everything and anything, wholes and parts, big and small, whatever.&nbsp;&nbsp;In this sense,&nbsp;<em>a spoken word<\/em>&nbsp;precedes&nbsp;<em>its referent<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The label&nbsp;<\/em>precedes&nbsp;<em>the thing that is labeled<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0045 In contrast,&nbsp;<em>the manual-brachial gestures of hand talk<\/em>&nbsp;picture and point to&nbsp;<em>their referents<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Referents<\/em>&nbsp;precede&nbsp;<em>the gestural word<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;This is why humans innately imagine that, when hearing a spoken word, that&nbsp;<em>the referent<\/em>&nbsp;can be pictured or pointed to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This lesson even applies to some rather odd&nbsp;<em>hand-talk names<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consider the paleolithic artifact that combines two hand-talk works, [image LION] and [image MAN].&nbsp;&nbsp;When my compatriot gestures [LION][MAN], I know that the referent is both lion and human.&nbsp;&nbsp;The referent either has&nbsp;<em>the matter of a lion and the form of a man<\/em>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<em>the matter of a man and the form of a lion<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Or, the referent is&nbsp;<em>a mixture of these two arrangements<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is&nbsp;<em>an implicit abstraction<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0046 Aristotle and Peirce agree that&nbsp;<em>speech-alone talk<\/em>&nbsp;confounds our intuition because we expect that every word has a referent that is&nbsp;<em>so whole<\/em>&nbsp;<em>as to be pictured or pointed to<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;That is why&nbsp;<em>hylomorphes<\/em>&nbsp;shine.&nbsp;&nbsp;They substitute for&nbsp;<em>what would be [image MATTER][image FORM],<\/em>&nbsp;if&nbsp;<em>matter [and] form<\/em>&nbsp;could be pictured using manual-brachial word-gestures.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The same goes for&nbsp;<em>what [point to CAPITAL &amp; ACQUISITION][point to SOCIAL &amp; EXERCISE OF ORDER]<\/em>&nbsp;<em>would be,<\/em>if these spoken terms could be pictured or pointed to.&nbsp;&nbsp;But, even though hylomorphes shine in this regard,&nbsp;<em>the explicit abstraction inherent in spoken words<\/em>&nbsp;confuses our intuition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0047&nbsp;<em>A good rendition of a [LION][MAN]<\/em>&nbsp;appears in the 1930s movie,&nbsp;<em>The Wizard of Oz<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;This is the movie where Dorothy&#8217;s silver shoes (in the book) are replaced by ruby slippers (in the movie), shifting&nbsp;<em>what grounds Dorothy<\/em>&nbsp;from&nbsp;<em>the honesty of a precious metal<\/em>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<em>the deviousness of fiat currencies<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Red is the color of both bankruptcy and blood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, back to the movie, at the happy end of the yellow-brick road, in the Emerald City, the lion man, who would be courageous if he only was not a scaredy cat, receives a medal of honor and thereby assumes (through acquisition, thesis) a heroic place in the social order (antithesis).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If&nbsp;<em>the following figure<\/em>&nbsp;fits the above comparison, then what does that imply about the substance, [wealth and power]?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide018.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide018.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide018.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide018-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0048 Am I saying that every citizen has &#8220;skin in the game&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If citizens hold&nbsp;<em>the liberty to acquire property<\/em>&nbsp;<em>and build capital<\/em>, then will those citizens order themselves, as&nbsp;<em>a spontaneous social exercise,<\/em>&nbsp;through the [substance] of [wealth and power]?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hmmm.&nbsp;&nbsp;Does &#8220;capitalist substantiated spontaneous socialism&#8221; 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