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ZIZ009 Why Only an Atheist Can Believe (10.11.2006)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Paradox of Predestination

"I think this is an obscenity for me," he says of the idea that salvation depends on our good acts. "If we approach it with a common sense, it will have been that capitalism ... is most dynamic, competitive system in human history" He argues that predestination is not simply written up there, but you don't know what it's written.

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