Issue 48, 1st quarter 2010
Beyond the New Atheism
Carl Packman
Pages 87-91
The perverse core of Christianity
The Cross, for Zizek, reveals God facing up to his own impotence, but further, because God is Christ, the crucifixion demonstrates a gesture of atheism, or as
G.K. Chesterton put it “God seemed for an instant to be an atheist.”