----- Original Message ----- From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 9:13 AM Subject: Zizek, _On Belief_
> From Slavoj Zizek, _On Belief_ (London & NY: Routledge, 2001,
p. 1):
>
> ***** In the Larry King debate between a rabbi, a Catholic
priest
> and a Southern Baptist, broadcast in March 2000, both the
rabbi and
> the priest expressed their hope that the unification of
religions is
> feasible since, irrespective of his or her official creed, a
> thoroughly good person can count on divine grace and
redemption.
> Only the Baptist -- a young, well-tanned, slightly overweight
and
> repulsively slick Southern yuppie -- insisted that, according
to the
> letter of the Gospel, only those who "live in Christ" by
explicitly
> recognizing themselves in his address will be redeemed, which
is why,
> as he concluded with a barely discernible contemptuous smile,
"a lot
> of good and honest people will burn in hell." In short,
goodness
> (applying common moral norms) which is not directly grounded
in the
> Gospel is ultimately just a perfidious semblance of itself,
its own
> travesty . . . The basic premise of this book[1] is that,
cruel as
> this position may sound, if one is to break the
liberal-democratic
> hegemony and resuscitate an authentic radical position, one
has to
> endorse its materialist version. IS there such a version?
================
For the sake of radicalism[s], let's hope not..............
Ian