...a glutton for punishment, I listened to the whole thing.

An interesting discussion, but one point that they seemed to skim and not fully engage was this idea of belief and knowledge. Zizek is fine with insisting that belief is not an absolute thing, nor does that make religion any less potent. But, I think he cuts modern atheist arguments off at the knees before giving them the same respect as he does Christian apologists.

Maybe its because of the venue, but this discussion is more concerned about why and how things are believed, not what is more likely to be true. One thing they do talk about a little is the way belief (the kind associated with religion) is something we, as humans, are hardwired to engage in. It almost seemed like they dismiss atheist arguments with this reasoning, in that because our minds work like this by default, religions must be in some way "true."

I'll give it an upvote for being interesting even if it made me want to argue, not a bad thing.

No matter how much religion is intellectualized, it is a childish, wishful, notion, which does not stand up to even perfunctory scrutiny and, as such, does not warrant serious debate - apart from the part it has played in human history. The history class is where the last major faiths need to be consigned, along with the myriad "false" faiths that preceeded them.

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