…You know what? How would this liberation look? Warning to those who are sensitive, now comes a really dirty story. A joke about Jesus Christ, which was told to me, I love them, by a Palestinian Christian in Ramallah when I was there. The joke is this…

…there. The joke is this one. It's vulgar. Not even a good joke, but I like the logic. The last evening before crucifixion, you know, Christ was there praying in the tent and so on, and of course he was God, and they all knew this is his last day in…

…a little bit before our lord then i pulled out my skirt i spread widely my legs and he looked interesting and then And then Christ looked closely at my vagina, and he said, oh, what a terrible wound, and put a hand on it and closed it totally, you…

…don't underestimate Ramallah, it's a great city, my God. All my, I practiced it there. I told you, the joke I told you about Jesus Christ, I got it in Ramallah. My God, the joke that I repeated here years ago, why do Iraqi women don't want to fuck…

…All that those theological advocates have said was wrong. Which is why I think Job should be effectively read as a precursor of Jesus Christ. What dies on the cross? I think that exactly Hegel had the right answer when he says on the cross it is not…

…whatever. I think that this God, the big other who can have this meaning is death. And the way I see the figure of Jesus Christ in the material history is precisely this divine abdication. I cannot do it for you. I fall into my own creation. I can…

…but your mother and sister are there me and so on then we see him desperate alone on the stadium then the story goes on Jesus Christ he gives him water on the way of the cross and at the end the miracle mother and sister are cured, come back to…

…alone, desperate on the stadium, end of the film. It was just censorship because what happens afterwards is directly Jesus Christ, this was prohibited. But then something miraculous happened. This reduction made out of It's religious propaganda, almost a work…

…that. The establishment of Herod state was, if you want it, public, sorry, private use of reason 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…

…think that this is the greatness of the gospel one of the marginal, not 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,…

…no? Did you notice something strange? Again, no sex, love between Robert Langdon, the symbologist, and this grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-daughter of Jesus Christ, Sophie Neve Orwell. And I even think that this is the utterly perverse economy of the film, that…

…of Jesus Christ, Sophie Neve Orwell. And I even think that this is the utterly perverse economy of the film, that poor Jesus Christ, according to the story, had to make love, you know, all this stupid theory, Christ had a child, blah, blah, just to…

…perverse economy of the film, that poor Jesus Christ, according to the story, had to make love, you know, all this stupid theory, Christ had a child, blah, blah, just to cover up the fact that they had to make love, be sexually active just to carve…

…too much. They fell into some kind of a New Age pseudo-Oriental bullshit. I told them, this is a blasphemy. You are making out of Christ a kind of a stupid, petty, jealous God, you know. Love your wife, but no, no, I want to be loved a little bit…

…loved a little bit more, you know, not too much. I told them, you are totally wrong. When you love somebody, your neighbor passionately, Christ is there in this love. It's not that you have on the side to love him more. Then I really love this. One…

…begin with book of, how do you say, Job, Hiob, the guy who was screwed by God and so on. Hiob, then going on to Christ, which you can view only as a repetition of Hiob, this is something which is not only alive but extremely important today. How can…

…how Auschwitz and Gulag contribute to the beauty contributes to the beauty of the universe and the way I read the death of Christ it's precisely renouncing to this simple transcendent God with some knows how things are no i think that the death of christ…

…of this fundamental anti-Platonic insight of Christianity, where, as Kierkegaard saw it, correctly. you need a totally contingent event, Jesus Christ, and even if this was a contingent human being, somebody walking around 2,000 years ago, the only way to…

…he knows next day he will be crucified, his son of God. He knows everything, of course. So his apostles are gathered Around him, Christ is praying in a tent, and they say, my God, our Lord, he did so much for us. He just suffered. Wouldn't it be…

…front of him and he looked at me with a certain interest. Then I widely spread my legs and showed my vagina to him and then Christ looked at it and said, oh, what a terrible wound and put his his hand on and closed it. This is the spirit, my God.…

…about psychoanalytic notion of a decentered subject, how you are never fully yourself. you are never fully identified with your ideal ego. Christ is tired of doing his propaganda work, so he says to one of his apostles, let's take a week free on Galilean…

…so he says to one of his apostles, let's take a week free on Galilean Sea and play golf there. Okay, they play golf, and Christ hits the ball. Of course, misses it, the ball goes into the sea. So being Christ, who you know, knows how to walk on the…

…play golf there. Okay, they play golf, and Christ hits the ball. Of course, misses it, the ball goes into the sea. So being Christ, who you know, knows how to walk on the water, he goes there, comes to the place, picks up the ball, comes back. And…

…call it, you cannot do it. Even, how is your big one called, the most popular? Sorry? Yeah, even Tiger Woods couldn't do it. Christ says, who cares, I'm Jesus Christ, I can. He does it again, misses again. Okay, the ball falls into the sea, and Christ…

…Even, how is your big one called, the most popular? Sorry? Yeah, even Tiger Woods couldn't do it. Christ says, who cares, I'm Jesus Christ, I can. He does it again, misses again. Okay, the ball falls into the sea, and Christ walks on the water there.…

…Christ says, who cares, I'm Jesus Christ, I can. He does it again, misses again. Okay, the ball falls into the sea, and Christ walks on the water there. At that point, and I like this total historical nonsense, at that point, a group of American…

…them sees this and steps to the apostle and says, but who is that guy there? Is he crazy? Does he think he is Jesus Christ or what? Apostle answered, no, it's worse. He thinks he's Tiger Woods. And in that part, now you will say, I am obscene. But…

…I am obscene. But admit it, if you really, and I did it, read the New Testament. This type of spirit is already there. Look, Christ gives wisdom. Then he says, I will tell you a parable to explain it. Admit it, you never get the point of the parable.…

…will tell you a parable to explain it. Admit it, you never get the point of the parable. You know, like, I claim that Christ... he had a totally provocative different style of reasoning, enough of that. So what I want to say is that on the one hand,…

…of having a proxy. God is the original proxy. I don't know, but he knows for me. I don't, but he does. In Christ, I'm not compassionate enough here. No, God is this very formal structure, which is why, although in Atheist, I don't think we can…

…interrupts the normal run of things. Evil is a cut and so on, which is why, for example, for traditional pagan religions, Jesus Christ is evil embodied. And in a way, they are right, because the message of Christianity is it's over with that karma,…

…of singular existence. He subordinates the singular to the universal. This anti-Platonism has a Christian version, Kierkegaard. versus Christ, and an atheist one, Sartre, existence precedes essence. Then we have the Heideggerian anti-Platonism, Plato as the…

…have no problem with science. For them, for example, for an authentic Christian, a thing like this exists, I doubt. The fact that Christ has risen is a mysterious mystery. For radical fundamentalists, it's a fact of life, which is why, let me give you an…

…afraid of? Okay, if science will prove that it's authentic, and we have there, remember, we have blood of stain allegedly of Jesus Christ. Sorry, but then the question of the Holy Father becomes an empirical question. We analyze the DNA of the Christ and…

…allegedly of Jesus Christ. Sorry, but then the question of the Holy Father becomes an empirical question. We analyze the DNA of the Christ and we will probably learn what most of the people suspect to be brutal. That Virgin Mary was having a nice affair…

…spinning, it's racing here. I can kind of feel the vibrations. In what way is God in pain the fulfillment of God's wish? Is Jesus Christ on the cross the fulfillment of God's wish to see himself? That's a good question and from what I, I don't know a…

…own place, do your particular duty and so on and so on. You know this withdrawal which then I think culminates in the death of Christ. What dies on the cross for me? the messenger of God. It's not that God is up there, he sends his son, okay, sorry…

…and so on and so on this god I think that something tremendous happens in Christianity because remember, after the death of Christ, we don't get back to the Father. What we get is Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit is the egalitarian community bound by love.…

…we don't get back to the Father. What we get is Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit is the egalitarian community bound by love. You know what Christ says when he asks how will we recognize if you are here? When there is love between the two of you, I am there.…

…level of the texture of the text style. My general experience is that, you know, there is a difficult point, theological, and then Christ says, okay, I will tell you a parable, a story. But that story, instead of clarifying things, just mess the thing up…

…you a parable, a story. But that story, instead of clarifying things, just mess the thing up even more, it's as if Christ is playing there a wonderful, provocative game. You know that. His parables precisely are not simple explanations. And this I cannot…

…me. Saint Paul is the Leninist, in the sense of organizing the movement, and I even am tempted to say without Saint Paul. Jesus Christ would have been a rather not too interesting local preacher, and so on and so on. The true problem for me begins…

…This is not authentic Christianity. That's the message of that Eli Eli Lama Sabachthani. Even God went through that phase. Even Christ wasn't sure. You know, so... Again, but again, the problem here is, you know, we don't have time to go into…

…not? Because this would still have implied that they were fully what they were and now from our totality It's clear that Jesus Christ in himself was just a stupid, confused loser. And it's absolutely clear that it was a typical situation of what Lacan…

…but Islam is authentic, I'm not Although there are some hints, redemption, blah, blah, blah, but as we all know, the death of Christ was experienced as a mega trauma, failure. And the genius of Paul was to, as it were, re-read, reinterpret failure as the…

…so on and so on. Maybe, but what I'm saying is that what we miss even more is, how should I put it, what was Christ before he became a Christian? This is the true perversion. What kind of, are we aware what kind of monstrosity Jesus Christ was? For…

…what was Christ before he became a Christian? This is the true perversion. What kind of, are we aware what kind of monstrosity Jesus Christ was? For the eyes of at his own horizon of meaning with the story he told about himself. Because the way we…

…here. So the problem is to see it in becoming. You see my point. What the proof of Christianity is, what was Christ before he became a Christian. That's the truly traumatic point. This is how we should read that wonderful anecdote about Napoleon, you…

…in such an absurd way that you see the nonsense of it. For example, we think that we would all be lost without Jesus Christ, but Jesus Christ came and redeemed some of us. No, my promise says, without Christ, we would all be redeemed. God, in his…

…absurd way that you see the nonsense of it. For example, we think that we would all be lost without Jesus Christ, but Jesus Christ came and redeemed some of us. No, my promise says, without Christ, we would all be redeemed. God, in his vanity, wanted…

…think that we would all be lost without Jesus Christ, but Jesus Christ came and redeemed some of us. No, my promise says, without Christ, we would all be redeemed. God, in his vanity, wanted to be admired by men to redeem some of us. So that then he…

…into account all the pedophilia cases of Catholic Church. You would have a poster, become a monk, do your duty, humanity, live for Christ, and so on. And then you put the glasses on and you would see and you can have... have worked like this, that…

…the lowest, which means Dan Brown. Did you notice how in Da Vinci Code you have Robert Langdon and the grand-grand-grand-granddaughter of Jesus Christ? Did you notice? No sex. And I even claim that this is why poor Jesus Christ himself has to be engaged…

…have Robert Langdon and the grand-grand-grand-granddaughter of Jesus Christ? Did you notice? No sex. And I even claim that this is why poor Jesus Christ himself has to be engaged in sex up there. To mask, cover up the fact that there is no sex here, you…

…lower. Did you notice that in the Da Vinci Code, no sex? And I claim that's how you have to read the fact that poor Jesus Christ himself has to make love. There is sex up there. to cover up the fact that there is no sex here, between Robert Langdon…

…is sex up there. to cover up the fact that there is no sex here, between Robert Langdon and the grand-grand-grand-granddaughter of Jesus Christ. In The Lost Symbol, I think one of the candidates for the worst novel of all times, there is absolutely not…

…universality as such and in this precise sense Hegel, for example, you should be careful to know these details. He calls Jesus Christ an example of example or an absolute example. Precisely in this sense that, you know, everything is an example, but then…

…This is why, horrible thing to say, for example, I am ready to privilege Christianity a little bit, not because I believe in Christ and so on, come on, be serious, but because, you know, it's nice to have a religion where The god is proclaimed king,…

…to this idea that Obviously in Christianity, The only way for me at least, for example, to read the New Testament is to take Christ as a jokester. I mean, people often accuse me of, you never know when I say Hitler was not violent enough, am I joking…

…know when I say Hitler was not violent enough, am I joking or not, or whatever. Well, if you think I'm problematic, read Jesus Christ now and you will see. You know what I mean? Like, for example... you know the story which usually gives an instant…

…have it will be given more and so on and so on. So this ultra-capitalist logic, like it seems that through this Fable. Christ is saying, be like active capitalists, you know, put money in, treat, it's the lesson of There Will Be Blood, the movie, no,…

…official gospels, but also in one of the... apocryphal gospels where it's given a slightly different twist which hints that the point of Christ is not to celebrate the master but simply to show how the true hero is the third one who didn't want to put…

…me Coming back to the point, the greatness of Christianity, this self-mocking idea. For example, again, what I always repeated, again, when Christ said, ah, I will now use a parable to make it clear, where? The parables by Christ always make it even less…

…what I always repeated, again, when Christ said, ah, I will now use a parable to make it clear, where? The parables by Christ always make it even less clear and totally confuse the issue. and so it's I think totally wrong to read the crucifixion as…

…and totally confuse the issue. and so it's I think totally wrong to read the crucifixion as you know this idea of by stupid men Christ was mockingly claimed god but he is the true god no there is no true god christ is a clown from the standpoint of…

…alone, desperate on the stadium, end of the film. It was just censorship because what happens afterwards is directly Jesus Christ, this was prohibited. But then something miraculous happened. This reduction made out of It's religious propaganda, almost a work…

…all this has to happen because, and I claim it's exactly the same formula for Da Vinci ghost. It is the moon. Poor Jesus Christ has to screw where your world And then it goes further. Movies, even more than in the novels, take the earlier novel, Angels…

…So all this has to happen because, and I claim it's exactly the same formula for Da Vinci Code. It is the movie. Poor Jesus Christ has to screw Mary or what to cover up the fact that they don't do it. And you notice, okay, it's between Tom Hanks…

…were not guilty for what they did, exploit the Christian, murder the children, rape their women, or ultimately betray and murder Jesus Christ, but for what they were. And, of course, it is this shift which laid the foundations for the Holocaust, for the…

…of having a proxy. God is the original proxy. I don't know, but he knows for me. I don't, but he does. In Christ, I'm not compassionate enough, he knows. God is this very formal structure, which is why, although in Atheism, I don't think we can…

…interrupts the normal run of things. Evil is a cut and so on, which is why, for example, for traditional pagan religions, Jesus Christ is evil embodied. And in a way, they are right, because the message of Christianity is it's over with that karma,…

…a little bit of hermeneutic of ecology, I warn you, you end up in Da Vinci Code, no? And then you end up with Jesus Christ copulating, you know? It's a small step from one to the other, no? So, again, one has to resist this temptation, which is a…

…is always an element of a belief which is absurd. Belief is not, you don't believe in facts. To say, I believe in Christ, but fuck it, I prefer to sin or I don't take... No, you cannot. It's belief which is by definition... an existentially engaged…

…What happens here on earth, it's not something that God observes from above. And the way I read it is that the death of Christ on the cross, which means It's not just the death of a representative of God. And I think even we should forget all that…

…in this stupid way So what I claim is that something absolutely unheard of happens with Christianity, which is the death of Christ means something very radical. It means in all other religions, we trust God. We believe in God. The death of Christ means…

…the death of Christ means something very radical. It means in all other religions, we trust God. We believe in God. The death of Christ means God trusted us. It means like I give you your freedom. It's up to you. Holy Ghost for me is literal. I take…

…fall back at that level of God is up there sending messengers or whatever. Sorry, but to inform you, although you know this, but Christ is not a messenger of God. Christ is God. I'm just trying to draw conclusions from what this means. I'm sorry if I…

…is up there sending messengers or whatever. Sorry, but to inform you, although you know this, but Christ is not a messenger of God. Christ is God. I'm just trying to draw conclusions from what this means. I'm sorry if I was too long. On the other hand,…

…radical orthodoxy, neither East Buddhism, but that one. I'm very uneasy with that one, because first, this whole, I think they secretly change Christ into kind of an idol, a mere ideal to be imitated, and then in the long term, we all can become Christ.…

…change Christ into kind of an idol, a mere ideal to be imitated, and then in the long term, we all can become Christ. You know, this idea of man becoming God. Gradually, we will all becoming God, connected with another problem, which I find very…

…will be there and love between you, I will be there. Resurrection for me is the Holy Ghost. You don't need any Christ to meddle things up there. Okay, so your definition of Christian Protestantism will be more of the 19th century liberal tradition. Oh…

…limitation for me of all those mystics, like great as he is, but Meister Eckhart cannot really deal with incarnation, with Christ. Did you notice how the whole operation of Meister Eckhart, his mystical rereading of Christianity is based on This basically…

…what happens in Christianity, that I follow here my beloved Gilbert Keith Chesterton, that Christianity, That moment at the cross when Christ utters his, Father, Father, why did you forsake me? This is the moment where God himself does not believe in…

…they systematically reduce... articles of genuine faith to simple statements of knowledge. For them, to be somewhat pathetically Christian, Christ has arisen from the death. It's not this Kierkegaardian crazy wager. It goes against all our knowledge, but in…

…is authentic, that is to say that the stains on it, still discernible, are really the stains of the blood of Jesus Christ, then with today's science, means instruments of science, can you imagine the obscene possibilities? The first one is, what about who…

…I think, unfortunately, I tend almost to agree with those who claim that the neighbor, don't you think this is a kind of a Christ figure? But almost authentic one. No, not in any mystical sense. Because I tried to play the game once with friends and to…

…Amen. Because the whole point is that he is pure passivity. He just looks with a kind of a... You know why I also mean Christ figure? Because the way I read Christianity, no? It's not that Christ saved us in the sense that he did for us. By those…

…looks with a kind of a... You know why I also mean Christ figure? Because the way I read Christianity, no? It's not that Christ saved us in the sense that he did for us. By those theologists who claim that the only way to sustain religion after…

…will help us, but God needs our help. You know that for me, divine figure today is that he sees a catastrophe, this Christ figure there, but can't do anything. He's the observer. We must do it. That's how I read Christianity. It's the other way around.…