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as the existatial theologian kierkegaard implicitly states, the knight of faith, a authentic christian, is one with enough passion to abandon what Art calls "what I know" for the trancendental.
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Ok... I knew this was coming, so I think I'll spend a few moments on Kierkegaard.
Kierkegaard's beliefs about faith were shaped by his very strange upbringing as the youngest of 7 children to a depressed, devout Christian - that upbringing made him violently miserable, and he could never shake his Christianity nor justify it,
and he threw away his lover by sleeping around town with prostitutes because he couldn't handle the relationship while baring the awful burden of Christianity and his need to deal with that before the rest of his life could take shape...
Kierkegaard once wrote, "As a child I was strictly and earnestly brought up to Christianity, humanly speaking, insanely brought up: even in my earliest childhood I had been overstrained by impressions which were laid upon me by the melancholy old man who was himself oppressed by them -- a child, insanely travestied as a melancholy old man.
Frankly, Keirkegaard's faith was his poison. I really see his writings about the Knight of Faith to be an attempt to justify himself and his beliefs.
Camus wrote in one of his journals, "All philosophy is a justification of oneself. The only original philosophy would be the one that would justify someone else." My point being, I would be very careful about using Keirkegaard to justify your own beliefs because of how his own beliefs played out in his life, and how his beliefs did not come close to bringing him to happiness.
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it's up to you, if you need faith, then forget about logic or thinking about it. you need to stick with passion...
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I think there is a possible implication here that faith is necessary for passion. It isn't, in the least.