critical theory with slavoj zizek: Catholicism over Protestantism: Catholicism is a culture of external playful rituals… …This playfulness should not deceive us: Catholicism is resorting to such subterfuges to save the divine big Other in his goodness, while the capriciously ‘irrational’ Predestination in Protestantism confronts us with a god who is ultimately not good and all-powerful but stained by the indelible suspicion of being stupid, arbitrary, or even outright evil. The dark implicit lesson of Protestantism is: if you want god, you have to renounce (part of the divine) goodness.