critical theory with slavoj zizek: the God of the real – is like the Lady in courtly love, it is das Ding, a capricious, cruel master who simply has no sense of universal justice. God-the-Father thus quite literally doesn’t know what he is doing, and Christ is the one who does know it, but is reduced to an impotent, compassionate observer, addressing his father with ‘Father, can’t you see I’m burning?’ – burning together with all the victims of the father’s rage.