Hate? I'm sure you're being over the top, but I'm not sure how this is accomplished. It's like the old righties who fight to penalize homosexuality in every way they can but then claim it isn't personal: it's not you that's a problem, it's your essence.
I think there is something Zizekian to be said about the pleasure of religious practice--something about the jouissance of the something-or-other, or maybe just the other. The thingamabetsy. Yeah, that's it. Doug, why don't you ask him about the pleasure of the Dalai Lama (however you want to construe that "of")?
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