it is in my unbelief that I am a true believer

Thus the political question of what religion is and what its role can be get tied up in the question of what the individual’s relationship to God must be in a world in which God cannot exist. As Žižek puts it:

‘Authentic belief is to be opposed to the reliance on (or reference to) a(nother) subject supposed to believe: in an authentic act of belief, I myself fully assume my belief, and thus have no need for any figure of the Other to guarantee that belief; to paraphrase Lacan, an authentic belief ne s’authorise que de lui-même. In this precise sense, authentic belief not only does not presuppose any big Other (is not a belief in a big Other), but, on the contrary, presupposes the destitution of the big Other, the full acceptance of its inexistence. 
ie It is in my unbelief that am a true believer