Editing Slavoj Žižek (section)

===Theology===
Žižek has asserted that "[[Atheism]] is a legacy worth fighting for" in ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Žižek |first1=Slavoj |title=Atheism is a legacy worth fighting for Slavoj Zizek |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/13/opinion/atheism-is-a-legacy-worth-fighting-for.html |website=The New York Times |date=13 March 2006 |access-date=18 May 2022 |archive-date=28 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161128135937/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/13/opinion/atheism-is-a-legacy-worth-fighting-for.html |url-status=live }}</ref> However, he nonetheless finds extensive conceptual value in [[Christianity]], particularly [[Protestantism]]: the subtitle of his 2000 book ''The Fragile Absolute'' is "Or, Why Is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?". Hence, he labels his position '[[Christian Atheism]]',<ref>{{cite web |last1=Žižek |first1=Slavoj (2017) |title=Christian Atheism |date=10 September 2017 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UOM3C3q7II |publisher=YouTube (European Graduate School Video Lectures) |access-date=4 May 2022 |archive-date=4 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220504152841/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UOM3C3q7II |url-status=live }}</ref> and has written about theology at length.<ref>See his ''The Fragile Absolute'', ''The Monstrosity of Christ'', ''The Puppet and the Dwarf'', and ''On Belief''.</ref>

In ''[[The Pervert's Guide to Ideology]]'', Žižek suggests that "the only way to be an Atheist is through Christianity", since, he claims, atheism often fails to escape the religious paradigm by remaining faithful to an external guarantor of meaning, simply switching God for natural necessity or evolution. Christianity, on the other hand, in the doctrine of [[Incarnation (Christianity)|the incarnation]], brings God down from the 'beyond' and onto earth, into human affairs; for Žižek, this paradigm is more authentically godless, since the external guarantee is abolished.<ref>Fiennes, Sophie (dir.). (2012). ''The Pervert's Guide to Ideology''. London: P Guide Productions.</ref>