…a thriving, happy, new communist society, then retroactively it will be justified. For me, this is precisely what the death of Christ means and prohibits this stance. No, let's take 20th century. There are other horrors. In 21st century, let's take... the…

…there are no Jews or pagans, whatever term he used, there are no men and women and so on. We are just united in Christ. I think that this idea of a... egalitarian community of comrades my good friend jody dean wrote a wonderful short book on the…

…on i think it's a vaguer misreading I have a very Stalinist reading of Gostels. All that bullshit has to be censored. As if Christ will really come. No! God is over. You can read. I don't know in which... in which of the four gospels that when people…

…will really come. No! God is over. You can read. I don't know in which... in which of the four gospels that when people ask Christ, some apostles, how will we know that you are back? He says, when there is a love among couple of you, I am there. And…

…speak, you in some sense already believe. And I think that's how all radical theologians read, say, Read the death of Christ. That this very basic geological structure, trust into the big other, disintegrates it's a terrifying experience your world has to…

…the big one. You know, intelligent Christians, theologians noticed something. Paul is not interested at all in all the bullshit, what miracles Christ does and so on. The basic message of Paul is Christ died on the cross. What does this mean? What comes…

…Paul is not interested at all in all the bullshit, what miracles Christ does and so on. The basic message of Paul is Christ died on the cross. What does this mean? What comes before it is unimportant bullshit. So for me, in Christianity, we find even…

…let's take a quick look at two other religions of the book, Jiraism and Islam. Islam is simple in the sense that just Christ is celebrated there, but not as directly son of God, which means God, but as another messenger of God. That doesn't interest me.…

…and so on. And typically, Catholics, almost, not all, but majority, almost treat her as a saint. Oh my God, she knew Christ was, she suspected it, she was good, almost a saint. I much more agree with her. radical protestant who claims quite correctly…

…Paulinian Saint Paul, he was directly an organ of the devil. Why? Because let's say that Pontius Pilate would have set free Jesus Christ. What would then shatter? No Christianity, nothing. Just one that, you know, Christ came here to die and not to redeem…

…let's say that Pontius Pilate would have set free Jesus Christ. What would then shatter? No Christianity, nothing. Just one that, you know, Christ came here to die and not to redeem us, but to redeem us in the sense of Holy Ghost, space of freedom. This…

…Sorry to interrupt you, then you can counter-attack. In the sense that Judas is for me the greatest hero. He, through his betrayal, enables Christ to do what he yes came for so so in the sense ah ah that earth judas is the true hero he does something…

…wouldn't have been fulfilled. So in some sense, Judas was like a necessary part of God's plan. But I think he knew it. That's why Christ gives him a kiss, that kiss and so on. He assumed the most tragic role that you can imagine. so why then do you…

…not so much oil as natural gas and so on. They can do it. So they claim that... God may be in heaven, but Christ belongs to hell. Christ works in hell together with all other sinners, so that some of them even proposed a wonderful formula. better with…

…as natural gas and so on. They can do it. So they claim that... God may be in heaven, but Christ belongs to hell. Christ works in hell together with all other sinners, so that some of them even proposed a wonderful formula. better with Christ in hell…

…to hell. Christ works in hell together with all other sinners, so that some of them even proposed a wonderful formula. better with Christ in hell than with God in heaven. So in this sense, I don't see a problem. The message of Christ is despair, but…

…wonderful formula. better with Christ in hell than with God in heaven. So in this sense, I don't see a problem. The message of Christ is despair, but despair in the sense that there is no hope, but in the precise sense that we cannot count on any big…

…good works, you somehow reach God. No. At that point, when you feel yourself abandoned by God. You are in the position of Jesus Christ of God. So that the gap that separates you from God, it's a gap which from within cuts across God himself. That's a…

…The provenance of the Holy Ghost, no? For Western Christianity, it's from Father and Son. both together, Godfather and Jesus Christ, from both of them arises, emanates Holy Spirit. For orthodoxy, father must remain an unconditional boss, king. It's only…

…screwed it up, so my son, come back to me, and maybe in a thousand years I will try again to send a Messiah. Christ is not a Messiah. As Hegel puts it, it's extraordinary. What dies on the cross is not here a terrestrial representative of God, but…

…had wonderful debates, I'm not floating around, I will answer you, with priests where I asked them a simple, stupid question. When Christ is dying on the cross and bemoans, Father, I suffer, is he bluffing or not? It's incredible how priests who were all…

…they started to fight each other. And I understand them, because whatever you answer, you are in deep shit. If you say Christ is nonetheless God, he was bluffing, then that's horror. Then this means that crucifixion was just a spectacle for us to impress.…

…that one called? Yes, The Biggest Kid, Da Vinci Code. No sex. I mean, how can you screw the grand-grand-granddaughter of Jesus Christ, no? And it's this kind of perverted transmission... The plot of the story is, of course, the vulgar, old, crazy…

…it's this kind of perverted transmission... The plot of the story is, of course, the vulgar, old, crazy conspiracy theory that Jesus Christ really was married. But it's as if, you know, psychoanalysis teaches us this. When you have a great meet out there,…

…When you have a great meet out there, forget about what is out there. Look at what happens here in front of our eyes. Poor Jesus Christ has to make love, has to have, to cover up the fact that there is no sex here. Between Langdom and so on. Let's…

…and Kierkegaard himself knew it very well in his philosophical fragments of how it's usually said, it's precisely Socrates versus Jesus Christ. I'm a Christian here, although an atheist. I think that precisely as he said... The Christian view is that, okay,…

…is precisely like intelligent theologists say. How it's obscene to say, I become a Christian because I found the arguments of Jesus Christ quite convincing. No, if you were in medieval times, you should be burned for saying that. It's the opposite. True…

…Christian. They even applied the same logic, I'm sorry if some of you know this joke, it's from one of my books, on Jesus Christ himself. The story is this one. Jesus Christ is doing his work before he died, and then he was tired, and one of…

…logic, I'm sorry if some of you know this joke, it's from one of my books, on Jesus Christ himself. The story is this one. Jesus Christ is doing his work before he died, and then he was tired, and one of the apostles tells him, why don't we go to…

…and have a holiday, a free weekend, play some golf, and and so on, you know, to relax. Okay, they do that. And then Christ, with a clap, hits the ball. Of course, he misses. The ball goes onto the Galilee Sea water. Christ being Christ, he walks on…

…they do that. And then Christ, with a clap, hits the ball. Of course, he misses. The ball goes onto the Galilee Sea water. Christ being Christ, he walks on the water there and picks up the ball and goes back. And Christ says, then, okay, I will try…

…that. And then Christ, with a clap, hits the ball. Of course, he misses. The ball goes onto the Galilee Sea water. Christ being Christ, he walks on the water there and picks up the ball and goes back. And Christ says, then, okay, I will try again. The…

…Munich with bishops and so on, and I confused them by asking them the most elementary simple questions. Like, for example, when Christ says, if you don't hate your mother, father, sister, you are not my follower. What exactly did Christ mean there? My…

…Like, for example, when Christ says, if you don't hate your mother, father, sister, you are not my follower. What exactly did Christ mean there? My God, it was incredible how, yeah, we have to think about it, blah, blah. Fuck you. You know this…

…bring some new thing, you know. And then it's incredible what stupid answer I got. One of their answers was, we shouldn't absolutize Christ. Like, my God. I thought, my God, in medieval times, I would burn you for this. They told me, God just meant...…

…I screwed up everything. Everything is a big mess. It's some kind of abdication of God. And I think this is what Jesus Christ means. It means... what dies is god of the beyond the deepest message of humanity of christianity and i'm not alone here…

…see that what appeared to you as a stain is part of a global harmony. This, I think, is what the death of Christ symbolically prevents you. It's an obscenity, for example, to say Holocaust, Gulag, or Congo slaughter. This just appears to us as a stain…

…I think he's Benedict XVI, some of my friends were shocked and their reproach was, my God, but this guy really believes in that Christ incarnation and so on and so on. I mean, and this tells us a lot about how this kind of Buddhist, Western Buddhist,…

…so on and so on. Why? Because for them, now I will try to be as clear as possible, for an authentic Christian to say Christ has arisen from death and so on, it's an absurd article of faith. For them it's a simple fact. You know what I mean? They…

…religious profile, as you know. 96% of fellow citizens in this country, my fellow citizens in this country, believe in God. 80% believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God. 51% talk on intimate terms with God at least four times a week. And you say, well,…

…in divine life itself. What I'm totally opposed to. Is this simplistic, stupid Feuerbach reading of Christianity as the incarnation of Christ means that really God becomes man? But in this stupid sense that, you know, humanity is the truth of God, we…

…with some bishops even, and I asked them a simple, stupid, vulgar question. I like these stupid questions which are embarrassing. When Christ says, Father, why have you forsaken me? Is he bluffing or does he mean it seriously? If he is bluffing, that is…

…you notice how sex is disappearing there? Already Da Vinci Code, no sex. Between Robert Langdon and the grand-grand-grand-grand-daughter of Jesus Christ. Not only this, I'm even ready to say that the whole function of Jesus Christ involved in sex. You know,…

…Langdon and the grand-grand-grand-grand-daughter of Jesus Christ. Not only this, I'm even ready to say that the whole function of Jesus Christ involved in sex. You know, the secret is that Jesus Christ married Magdalene, the secret is that every idiot knows…

…this, I'm even ready to say that the whole function of Jesus Christ involved in sex. You know, the secret is that Jesus Christ married Magdalene, the secret is that every idiot knows that they were married, you know? I claim that the logic is, let's…

…makes me a little bit depressed, and I will get booze from this, not applause, I want to be finished as the Jesus Christ, is that it depresses me a little bit, you know, this rhetoric of no Eurovisionists, intellectual labor, blah, blah, nothing, working…

…Is it so perfect? You know, all guys, even I define myself as an atheist Christian. paradoxically. But what I like about Jesus Christ is that what he says are madnesses. He is not wise. He brings radical upheaval. For me, the embodiment of wisdom are…

…the day, because you know that tomorrow, or if not tomorrow, at the end, it will be shit. But if you have heaven, Jesus Christ, and so on, the function of it is not pleasure. to spoil your pleasures, but to render them palpable and easily available.…

…on. So the idea is this one. This is even how I think in a subtle perverted way Christianity Christianity sells you the Christ sacrifice in its perverted version. I hope there is another reading. The message is this one. In pagan universe, you enjoy, but…

…you enjoy, but you have to pay the price. Old age, death, and so on. In Christianity, we are lucky to have a guy, Jesus Christ, who already paid the price. So we can just enjoy. We have to pretend that we follow Christ, but it meant when we are…

…are lucky to have a guy, Jesus Christ, who already paid the price. So we can just enjoy. We have to pretend that we follow Christ, but it meant when we are called for our desires, we can say, yes, we sinned, but sorry, guys, that guy already paid the…

…the core of Christianity? It's a wonderful, an Italian friend taught it to me, that what is Italian Catholic girls praying to Christ? Virgin Mary, O thou who has conceived without making love, allow me to make love without conceiving, you know. Always, and…

…the Orthodox tradition is the notion of theosis, of man becoming like God. Or to quote Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, quote, she, Christ, or God, was incarnate so that we might be made God. End of quote. What should otherwise seem absurd that fallen…

…quote. What should otherwise seem absurd that fallen sinful man may become holy as God is holy has been made possible through Jesus Christ who is God incarnate. And then St. Maximus the Confessor wrote in the same vein. Again, a quote. A sure warrant for…

…good works or self-punishment to become clean. No, it's that at that point, when I'm totally abandoned by God, I identify with Christ who finds himself in exactly the same position with the famous father, father, have you forsaken me? So that it's a…

…as Gilbert Keith Chesterton put it, the moment when God himself becomes an atheist. You know, because remember, on the cross, when Christ says, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani, he for a brief moment becomes a non-believer. which is a crazy moment. You find this…

…this. It's called Incontinence of the Void to appear MIT Press in October. This is what I mean by Christian atheism. You know, Christ as a figure is not an active redeemer. It's just this impassive gaze which gives you the readiness to do it without any…

…couple of provocative questions. One was, what's your attitude towards, you know, that Turin shroud, allegedly the shroud with which Christ was covered with bloodstains, with whatever. They told me frankly, privately, not publicly there, we pray day and night…

…Like this Da Vinci code. My God, what... What? I mean, every normal Christian knows that things are messy between Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene. I thought something politically correct would be to discover that Mary Magdalene was a boy or what.…

…goes on here. No sex between Mulder and the two of them. And I think what if we approach it in the same way? The poor Christ has to have sex to cover up that she is free. Between Sophie and Langdon, no sex. This is why they had to do it up…

…by DNA analysis historical know that today's today's that the that how genetically the truth of that time of around Jesus Christ, we are much closer genetically to today's Palestinians than to today's Jews. These are exciting things for me. You know,…

…idiots. This is the most you can get. And I take that as a compliment. I'm not a compliment. Thank you. How about Jesus Christ? My God, crazy. I wrote three books celebrating what I call my atheist Christianity. You know what happens on the cross? I've…

…why have you forsaken me? At that point, as my favorite Catholic theologist, Gilbert Keith Chesterton wrote, at that point, God himself, Christ on the cross, doesn't believe, becomes a non-believer. So the way I read it is you have father, you have son.…

…that God may be God the father all powerful but morally a total barbarian And that this is how you should read the sacrifice of Christ. It's God's apology. I screwed it up. Sorry. I pay to you with the death of my son. But I speak too much. Well,…

…religious joke they told me. Which is very deep. It shows how God himself is not perfect. It's discentered, alienated from himself. Jesus Christ was tired from his eternal preaching. So he said to one of his apostles, listen, let's take a break. Let's go…

…water and asks the Apostle, but who is that guy who thinks he can walk on the water? Does he think he is Jesus Christ? You know what the Apostle answers? No, it's much worse. He thinks he is Tiger Woods, you know. That's what psychoanalysis teaches us.…

…exhibition that would have succeeded, you have to do things. It always helps if you display a dead cow's body, if you put a statue of Jesus Christ in urine, and so on, and so on. Or a banana on a wall. And then you sell it for 20,000 and so on or…

…here. Intelligent theologists are dogmatic in a correct Marxist way. They know very well that. If you say, I believe in Jesus Christ because I've studied comparatively all religions, and my God, Christianity has the best arguments. If we were to be in…

…if somebody claims that, I would say burn him immediately. The proper Christian answer is, yes, there are reasons to believe in Christ. But to understand these reasons, you have to believe. And it's exactly the same with love. You can say why you are…

…time to go into it now, but I would have said that this is my materialist, I'm a total materialist, Christianity, that with Christ you get a totally different type of joke. Christ is not a savior. He is one who... would understand this joke. I always…

…said that this is my materialist, I'm a total materialist, Christianity, that with Christ you get a totally different type of joke. Christ is not a savior. He is one who... would understand this joke. I always think that we should read the New Testament…

…I always think that we should read the New Testament as a comical book. Like, didn't you get it how, for example, often Christ says something, the disciples don't understand it, and then Christ says, I will tell you a parable. And then this parable is…

…the day, because you know that tomorrow, or if not tomorrow, at the end, it will be shit. But if you have heaven, Jesus Christ, and so on, the function of it is not pleasure. to spoil your pleasures, but to render them palpable and easily available.…

…on so the idea is this one this is even how I think in a subtle perverted way Christianity Christianity sells you the Christ sacrifice in its perverted version I hope there is another reading the message is this one in pagan universe you enjoy but you…

…universe you enjoy but you have to pay the price old age death and so on in Christianity we are lucky to have a guy Jesus Christ who already paid the price so we can just enjoy We have to pretend that we follow Christ, but it meant when we are…

…are lucky to have a guy Jesus Christ who already paid the price so we can just enjoy We have to pretend that we follow Christ, but it meant when we are called to for our desires, we can say, yes, we sing, but sorry, guys, that guy already paid the…

…Yeah, yeah, yeah, but this same sonata got two years earlier the biggest Stalin prize, you know, which is the Christ. It's so, you cannot understand Stalinism without, again, taking into account all this inconsistency. I'm getting lost here. Sorry, no,…

…has to be good in order to have authority. No, no, no, Kierkegaard has, but Kierkegaard is a genius immediately. He goes to Jesus Christ also, you know. He first says to say that father is a... I obey my father because he's intelligent and bright. This…

…and bright. This is a blasphemy, you know. But then he, that's my Kierkegaard, he goes and says the same about Christ. That what Christ says are platitudes which, Kierkegaard's word I'm quoting, every average student of theology today can put it much…

…is a blasphemy, you know. But then he, that's my Kierkegaard, he goes and says the same about Christ. That what Christ says are platitudes which, Kierkegaard's word I'm quoting, every average student of theology today can put it much better than Christ.…

…what Christ says are platitudes which, Kierkegaard's word I'm quoting, every average student of theology today can put it much better than Christ. Christ's message is what he is, not what he says. I talk too much, I promise. Please, if you want to…

…we had a debate on this, how to call it, curing shroud, you know, with those blood stains. this may be the blood of Christ, you know. And the church is of course afraid here because now with DNA, if you analyze those things, what if we can discover…

…church is of course afraid here because now with DNA, if you analyze those things, what if we can discover the DNA of Jesus Christ. And then it's over, this game, God's son. What you discover that his father was some, sorry to be vulgar, Egyptian slave…

…you to be a hit today, you know, to do something like, you know, that scandal in America. The day You put an image of Christ into heat and urine and so on, or you do pictures. You must go to the end further and further. This type of transgression is…

…I think the greatest of our traditions, at least European. Plato, ancient Greek philosophy, or Christianity, they are absolutely anti-wisdom. Jesus Christ is a madman. I mean, in this sense of socially disruptive and so on. You know, if nothing else... The…

…you any cheap paradoxes. I'm just trying to give you the example of, for example, take... Sorry, well-known example. Take Jesus Christ. I can well understand that from the standpoint of Jewish establishment, he was in a way evil incarnated. existence and…

…Don't laugh, please. Da Vinci Code, you know? But what did I do? I did not... Forget about all that bullshit, you know? Jesus Christ and so on, no? You know what I liked about the denouement of the novel? That... obviously you can also read a novel…

…also read a novel as a psychological case of the girl, Sophie, being in her fantasy the daughter of, grand-grand-grand-daughter of Jesus Christ, cannot enter sexual relationship. And at the end of the novel, the solution is not, oh, now she found Robert…

…the Orthodox tradition is the notion of theosis, of man becoming like God. Or to quote Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, quote, she, Christ, or God, was incarnate so that we might be made God. What should otherwise seem absurd that fallen sinful man may…

…God. What should otherwise seem absurd that fallen sinful man may become holy as God is holy has been made possible through Jesus Christ who is God incarnate. And then Saint Maximus the Confessor wrote in the same vein. Again, a quote. A sure warrant for…

…good works or self-punishment to become clean. No, it's that at that point, when I'm totally abandoned by God, I identify with Christ who finds himself in exactly the same position with the famous father, father, have you forsaken me? So that it's a…

…as Gilbert Keith Chesterton put it, the moment when God himself becomes an atheist. You know, because remember, on the cross, when Christ says, he for a brief moment becomes a non-believer. which is a crazy moment. You find this in no other religion. In…

…this. It's called Incontinence of the Void to appear MIT Press in October. This is what I mean by Christian atheism. You know, Christ as a figure is not an active redeemer. It's just this impassive gaze which gives you the readiness to do it without any…

…praised. So he created the world and then people to celebrate him. Consequently, now things became theologically problematic. It was not that Christ came down to earth in order to deliver people from sin. On the contrary, Adam had to fall in order to…

…Christ came down to earth in order to deliver people from sin. On the contrary, Adam had to fall in order to enable Christ to come down to earth and dispel salvation. Balbronus applies here to God himself this deep psychological news side which tells us…

…save me and be celebrated by them. From this, all this, Malbrons draws a terrifying consequence. It is not true that if Jesus Christ had not come to earth to deliver humanity, everyone would have been lost. Quite on the contrary, without Christ coming, no…

…true that if Jesus Christ had not come to earth to deliver humanity, everyone would have been lost. Quite on the contrary, without Christ coming, no one would have been lost. Every human being had to fall so that Christ could come and deliver some of…

…been lost. Quite on the contrary, without Christ coming, no one would have been lost. Every human being had to fall so that Christ could come and deliver some of us. Malgrosch's conclusion again is here shattering. Since the death of Christ is a key step…

…Did you notice, for example, that already in Da Vinci Code, You have a couple, Robert Langdon and the grand-grand-grand-grand-Sophie, the author of Christ, but there is no sex between the two of them. And I claim that We have here a kind of a strange…

…Christ, but there is no sex between the two of them. And I claim that We have here a kind of a strange displacement. Even Jesus Christ has to engage in love. You know, the thesis of the film, the secret. To cover up the fact that there is no sex…

…in a universal communal space independently of your particular role in the hierarchic order. This is how I read my God Jesus Christ, you know, if you don't hate your mother, brother, you cannot be my follower. Of course, it's not the stupidity of,…

…And he simply says, no, my family is here, and so on. And we know that. Sorry to speak such evident obscenities, that Christ loved his mother. So it's not humiliation there or what. But this is so extremely important. Here I totally agree with the idea…

…he had an excellent editor of one of his newspapers, and this editor was a fanatic. For 20 years he didn't take any holiday. So Christ came to him and told him, please take a holiday, you deserve it. No, no, the guy said, I am worried. I am worried…

…of these ten-pound note, no sex. You have a couple, Robert Langdon, the symbol, whatever, and that nephew, grand-grand-grand-grand-daughter of Jesus Christ, but no sex. Even the last novel, one of the worst novels of all times, the lost symbol, absolutely,…

…the very heart of Christianity. For example, the best Christian theologists got it that this is the moment on the cross when Jesus Christ said that, Eli, Eli, Lama, Father, why have you forsaken me? Maybe some of you know it, there is a wonderful…

…you know it, there is a wonderful drawing, not full painting, of crucifixion by Michelangelo Buonarroti. It's known as a portrait of Christ on the cross for Vittoria Colonna. Michelangelo tried then to get the portrait back to destroy it. And it is, if…

…tried then to get the portrait back to destroy it. And it is, if you look at it closely, a terrible portrait. It shows Jesus Christ, his face in total despair. But the key is the right hand. Like, fuck you to God. This is the moment where Jesus…

…his face in total despair. But the key is the right hand. Like, fuck you to God. This is the moment where Jesus Christ becomes truly a neighbor. And again, really radical theologists are aware of it. For example, my favorite one, Gilbert Keith Chester,…

…Only in Christianity, Chesterton says, God himself becomes an atheist for a moment. And I think that it is crucial to connect here Jesus Christ with the figure of, how to put it in Czech, Job. Read the book of Job. I think it's the first text of…

…people who do not believe in God. Only in Christianity, that's Chesterton's beautiful reading, God himself, of course he refers to Christ at the cross, Father, why have you abandoned me? God himself, for a moment, becomes atheist. That is to say, this…

…The novel is too much even for me. Da Vinci Code. Now, I don't buy, of course not, the theological aspect, all this poor Christ has to copulate up there and so on. I think that the best approach to this aspect would be the one developed apropos of…

…was young, saw her, that grand-uncle, paternal figure, in some stupid pagan ritual, whatever. So the key is the same, I think. Poor Jesus Christ has to copulate to cover up the fact that she doesn't. The same structure. What I like in the film now is…

…no? It's not, it's not, it's not, oh my God, Frigid, let's do something, and she will do it herself and stop thinking that poor Christ has to do it or whatever, no? No. The film respects this. Okay, but let me go now to the main line. So we have…

…fact that nothing happens here between the two of them. And it's exactly the same in Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code. Poor Jesus Christ has to make love to cover up the fact that here there is no love between Robert Langdon and the grand-grand-granddaughter of…

…has to make love to cover up the fact that here there is no love between Robert Langdon and the grand-grand-granddaughter of Jesus Christ. Then, in the last novel, one of the worst novels of all time, Lost Symbol, there is absolutely no sex, no tension,…

…no? All this blah, blah, blah. It's Robert Langdon. who at the end we discover she's the grand, grand, grand niece, whatever, of Jesus Christ, and so on. No sex between the two. It was my idea here. Was it popular also here that ex-spies serious? Yes.…

…a wonderful formula for ex-spies. She said, cover up the fact that nothing happens here. And it's the same in Da Vinci Code. Poor Jesus Christ has to make love to cover up the fact that they don't. And it's the same then in The Lost Symbol, which is…

…that the establishment of Herod state was if you want it public sorry private use of religion and the community of believers of Christ was public use of reason. This is how I read these provocative lines, you know, if you don't hate your father, your…

…if you don't hate your father, your mother, you are not my follower. No, it doesn't mean some Oedipal stupidity that come to me, to Christ, and I will help you to finish your fight with your parents. For me, the way I read it, I wonder if you will…

…I think that This is the greatness of the Gospel, one of the marginal, often not noted features. The way I read the Gospel, Christ is doing this all the time. You know, how, for example, when he is asked some question, Christ says, I will tell you a…

…The way I read the Gospel, Christ is doing this all the time. You know, how, for example, when he is asked some question, Christ says, I will tell you a parable, a story. But then what regularly happens is that not only does this story explain nothing,…

…you know, like... So, again, if you are truly Christians, you should explode here. Because I think the very idea of having a Christ, of Holy Spirit, breaks with this. You know, the most beautiful part for me in Paul's letters is when he does refer to…

…that he doesn't exist? Far from being a joke, this exactly I claim is what happens in Christianity. When dying on the cross, Christ utters his father, father, why did you forsake me? Here, for a brief moment, God himself does not believe in himself. Or,…

…continues to function, so it has to die for itself. And this, I think, happens in Christianity. That is to say, why did Christ have to die? The paradox is that God is a fiction, but a fiction which structures our reality. It's a symbolic fiction. It…

…a withdrawer, disconnection from the shared field of communication is a conditioned one-on-off. freedom. This happens with Spartacus, this happens with Jesus Christ, and so on, and so on. Painful as it is, you cannot avoid it. So, to conclude, what kind of…

…but out of the ashes, you, like that stupid bird, whatever, you come back. No, no, no. What comes after crucifixion is not Christ back to daddy. It's Holy Ghost. What is Holy Ghost? Read it literally. When Christ is asked by... His followers, how will…

…no. What comes after crucifixion is not Christ back to daddy. It's Holy Ghost. What is Holy Ghost? Read it literally. When Christ is asked by... His followers, how will we know that you come? You know this famous passage, whenever there is love between…

…you know it from some of my earlier books, was among the Christians of Palestine. Very tender jokes that I like about Jesus Christ, like just one, not obscene one, I love it. I heard this from a Christian Palestinian. I like this total historical…

…Christ, like just one, not obscene one, I love it. I heard this from a Christian Palestinian. I like this total historical inaccuracy. Jesus Christ gets tired of his preaching and he takes one of the apostles let's take go to galilee sea and close to it…

…on water, no? And they approach the Apostle and says, but who's that jerk guy? What does he think that he is? Jesus Christ. You know what Apostle answers? No, it's much worse. He thinks he's Tiger Woods, you know? This is such a wonderful, theoretically…

…thinks he's Tiger Woods, you know? This is such a wonderful, theoretically correct joke, you know, that even God is decentered. Even Jesus Christ had a decentered, ideal ego that he failed, and so on. And you should have been there. This joke was not…

…is, I think, the deepest Christian insight. It's not like in Judaism Messiah will come. No, Messiah did come, the true Messiah, God, Christ. But this does not mean we have to do nothing. This is, I think, the ultimate subtlety of Hegel. Okay, let's not…

…say we produce objective spirit, but the split has to be introduced into objective spirit itself, where you have a subject like Jesus Christ, who is objective spirit itself as a subject and so on. Okay, so let's drop this. Things get maybe too complex…

…Dan Brown novels and films. Did you notice how already Da Vinci called no sex? You cannot screw the grand-grand-granddaughter of Jesus Christ. But did you notice how in Angels and Demons, the last film, something very strange happens. You have... Sex in…

…of other stories. And the best example for me is from the Bible. You remember, you must, the seven last words of Jesus Christ. You remember, like, what are they? I don't know. It's finished, I'm thirsty, forget them, they don't know what they are doing,…

…passion and the one which is really Franco Zeffirelli's, which are disgusting, are wrong. They try to construct one linear narrative. First Christ says, I'm thirsty, then he gets a drink and says, now it's finished, and so on. No, the point is that all…

…it as a wisdom. This is a wisdom. And if from no one else, from your Kierkegaard, you can learn this, that whatever Jesus Christ was, he wasn't a wise guy. He was a provocative man. It reminds me of something you've said about Martin Luther King, that…

…much lower. Dan Brown. Did you notice how in his Da Vinci Code, no sex between Langdon and Sophie, the grand-grand-grand-daughter of Christ? In Angels and Demons, things are even worse. There, there is sex in the novel, but not in the movie. Where are…

…I will not go into this now, just to tell you, I think we as faithful Christians can answer to this. No, it's Christ that loves us, and it's rather a fiasco. Christ dies on the cross because, you know, Elie, Elie, Lama, Sabachthani, he himself doesn't…

…tell you, I think we as faithful Christians can answer to this. No, it's Christ that loves us, and it's rather a fiasco. Christ dies on the cross because, you know, Elie, Elie, Lama, Sabachthani, he himself doesn't know what God the Father wants. I mean,…

…world, who said, let it be light, no, is the devil himself. And then you have this wonderful reading of Christ's sacrifice, that Christ was sacrificed to us humans, that the sacrifice of Christ is a kind of a divine excuse to us. Sorry, humanity, I…

…devil himself. And then you have this wonderful reading of Christ's sacrifice, that Christ was sacrificed to us humans, that the sacrifice of Christ is a kind of a divine excuse to us. Sorry, humanity, I screwed it up, I made you a terrible world, I…

…to cut off one of your fingers and give it to him as a present. Sincere apology. And again, the idea is this is what Jesus Christ was a Yakuza mobster who screwed it up and yet was there at all. So again, what is so important? And now you can also…

…variations as equal. And now, if you are good God-fearing Christians, I will give you the ultimate example. The seven last words of Christ, you know, Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. Then truly I say to you, today you will be with…

…reconstruct a whole narrative so that somehow all these words are spoken, no? And the result is so vulgar, like you have God say, Christ says, I forgot in which movie, my God, why have you forsaken me? And then as if. part of this being forsaken is,…

…you know, when I see, okay, to give you another example, why am I a totally atheist Christian? You know, in what sense Christ brings freedom? I think the only way to include it is in this way. You are desperate. Christ was crucified. You are alone.…

…You know, in what sense Christ brings freedom? I think the only way to include it is in this way. You are desperate. Christ was crucified. You are alone. You cannot count on divine help. I follow Hegel here. What dies on the cross is not just…

…Here is an important passage, but always ignored, from Jacques Lacan from his encore, Seminar XX on Feminine Sexuality. I quote it. Christ, even when resurrected from the dead, is valued for his body. And his body is the means by which communion in his…

…Brown. Did you notice how in Da Vinci Code you have hero and heroine? Robert Langdon, symbologist, and his... The grand-granddaughter of Jesus Christ. Okay. There is no sex between two of them. And I claim that there has to be sex in heaven. You know,…

…There is no sex between two of them. And I claim that there has to be sex in heaven. You know, the thesis is that Jesus Christ married Marie Magdalene and so on, to cover up the fact that there is no sex here, as it were, on earth. Even worse, did…

…you need boredom, this self emptying as an intermediate stage. And again, in Christianity, I claim, following my Chesterton, that even in Jesus Christ is basically bored, like fuck off and so on. Even God gets bored. And so on. And then I will try to…

…notice, for example, that already in Da Vinci Code you have a couple, Robert Langdon and the Grand Grand Grand Grand Sophie daughter of Christ but there is no sex between the two of them and I claim that we have here a kind of a strange displacement…

…of Christ but there is no sex between the two of them and I claim that we have here a kind of a strange displacement even Jesus Christ has to engage in love you know the thesis of the film the secret to cover up the fact that there is no sex here…

…against becomes an argument for. And I don't have time now to go in detail into it, but just read Hegel's theory of why Christ had to die on the cross. And you will see it's practically a Rabinovich joke. The idea is, you know, it's like those…

…look, the whole creation is a big mess. You are nothing special. I screwed up everything. Which is why I think, the death of Christ should be read as a repetition of Job. I think that the death of Christ is not God sent the messenger, it went back,…

…up everything. Which is why I think, the death of Christ should be read as a repetition of Job. I think that the death of Christ is not God sent the messenger, it went back, okay, come back to me, maybe we will try a thousand years later. As Hegel…

…sacrifice of Jesus, to avoid a misunderstanding, I'm a total atheist, this is a materialist reading. I read the sacrifice of Jesus Christ as precisely, the message is precisely, there is no big other, no guarantee of meaning. I give you freedom, you are…

…for communist party and similar institutions, if you want. It's the first egalitarian institution against, you know, here we should read Christ. Sentimentalists like that Christ, you know, oh I bring love, ha ha. I like Christ who says, if you don't hate…

…Christianity and so on. But for me, the message of Christianity is precisely what dies on the cross. I repeat, it is not Jesus Christ. It's as Hegel knew it. God of beyond. What dies on the cross is any transcendent guarantee. What dies on the cross is…

…he will come back. No. Nothing will come back. I read literally those lines in, I don't know which New Testament text, where Jesus Christ said when they asked him, how will we know that you come back? You know, when there is love among two of you,…

…the ancient have geniuses, creative guy who knows, and Christians have Apostles who are just like... He describes in terrifying terms Jesus Christ. I like this Kierkegaard. He says Jesus Christ is like a postman. He was carrying a message, but he was too…

…knows, and Christians have Apostles who are just like... He describes in terrifying terms Jesus Christ. I like this Kierkegaard. He says Jesus Christ is like a postman. He was carrying a message, but he was too stupid to know You know, like a postman…

…like it. How can we be sure that, maybe you know it, I'm sorry, that Judas from the Bible did not betray did not sell Christ to the Romans. Well, whatever you say about Jews, they know the value of what they are selling. No Jew would sell a goat for…

…singular existence, its uniqueness, to the universal. This point was developed mostly by Kierkegaard, like Socrates versus Christ. Socrates, universal wisdom, Christ, uniqueness of singular existence. Then we have Heideggerian anti-Platonism. You know, Plato as…

…its uniqueness, to the universal. This point was developed mostly by Kierkegaard, like Socrates versus Christ. Socrates, universal wisdom, Christ, uniqueness of singular existence. Then we have Heideggerian anti-Platonism. You know, Plato as the key, as it were,…

…in theological terms is that for the orthodox orientation, you know, it's so-called question of the role of the Son, Son Jesus Christ in Holy Ghost, that for orthodoxy, the Holy Ghost originates only from God the Father, while for Western Christianity, it's…

…idea, that only with Christianity something new happens. Christianity is event. Kierkegaard develops this very nicely. How? The death of Christ is precisely a temporary event which can be even empirically located. And that... Oh, I'm sorry. Is it okay? Do…

…Islam plot or whatever. And this guy, they are wonderfully liberated, emancipated, many Palestinians, told me a wonderful obscene joke about Jesus Christ, which is the best metaphor of what I tried to tell you with this reference to Hegel. The joke is that…

…Christ, which is the best metaphor of what I tried to tell you with this reference to Hegel. The joke is that just when Christ was Not dying, but you know, the last night when Christ was praying there in Gethsemane Garden, I don't know where, and he…

…tell you with this reference to Hegel. The joke is that just when Christ was Not dying, but you know, the last night when Christ was praying there in Gethsemane Garden, I don't know where, and he knew, of course, being God, that next day he will be…

…my ancestors. It would be of enormous interest to discover a black literature or architecture from the third century before Christ. We would be overjoyed to learn of the existence of a correspondence between some black philosopher and Plato. But we…