p.178:
"...we should note that all this 'procedure' to set up Christian religious subjects is dominated by a strange phenomenon: the fact that there can only be such a multitude of possible religious subjects on the absolute condition that there is a Unique, Absolute, Other Subject, i.e. God."

In this passage, Althusser is discussing the methodology by which the Christian religious ideology takes hold on its subjects. When I first read this, I didn't quite understand why he felt it necessary to include this notion in his classification. He goes on to describe a "conversation" between God and Moses, in which God states "I am that I am."

This notion of a direct interpellation to Moses by God seems, in a way, contradictorily assigned. If the subject recognizes, as Moses does, that he is a subject of and for "the Subject", then the notion of ideology beyond the conscious mind is greatly diminished. It appears that the unconscious ideology, at least in the Christian religious context, becomes more of a conscious "mission" with established goals, created and maintained by the Subject. Althusser argues that each subject "can contemplate its own image (present and future)" (p.180), yet to what level is the ideology responsible for this notion of interdependence? If the ideology is dependent on this Other Subject, who has absolute authority, then how could this same ideology produce subjects with autonomy? If the ideology is in fact instilled in the subjects in this manner of brute recognition, then how could one call it an ideology instead of simply a "world-view"?