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What does Slavoj Zizek believe about God?

I am confused by Slavoj Zizek's "Christian atheism". Now, I have not _read_ Zizek. I have only watched some interviews with him. If I understand these fragments correctly, Zizek believes that there _used to exist_ a literal, personal, supernatural God. This God incarnated into Jesus, died and turned into an immanent Holy Ghost (a state of being resembling pantheism). 

Is this correct - meaning, is this what Zizek believes? 

The core of my question is: Zizek apparently believes that the life and death of Jesus was a very important event. What was the world and God like _before the birth of Jesus_ according to Zizekian theology?

Thanks in advance!
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Regardless of what Zizek actually believes about the divine, the story of the suffering of Christ is according to Zizek interesting because of God-as-Christ's realization about humanity. 

God-as-Christ's experience of human suffering makes it impossible for Christ himself to believe in God, hence the faith in God as a potent, all-mighty other collapses for Christ. God is reduced to nothing more than a passive, impotent spectator, and therefore an unreliable absolute for humanity to put their trust in. The holy ghost therefore becomes the path forward. Co-operation inherently between humans, and not between humans and their creator. 

In this way, it is not like God existed before Christ, and then the being suddenly dissappeared. Rather, the idea of God was revealed as a great paradox in the supposed God-as-a-Human's suffering. God could no longer function as a fundamental *big Other*.