Ray of Truth

The Crowd and Christianity

“Those 3000 who were added to the con-gregation en masse on Pentecost–isn’t there fraud there, right at the very beginning?… With Christ, Christianity is the individual, here the single individual. With the Apostles it imme-diately becomes the congregation. … It is this concept that has become the ruination of Christianity. It is to this concept […]

Becoming

“‘The Church’ must really represent ‘becom-ing’, while ‘the State’ represents ‘the Establi-shed’. This is why it is so dangerous if the State and the Church grow together and become identified …[The Church’s] idea is becoming. ‘Becoming’ is more spiritual then being ‘Established’.” Soren Kierkegaard

The Crowd is Untruth

“The crowd is un-truth, the untruth of wanting to exert influ-ence by means of the crowd, the numerical, of wanting to make the numerical the authority for what truth is.” Soren Kierkegaard

A crowd

“A crowd–not this crowd or that, the contemporary crowd or a deceased crowd, a crowd of commoners or of the elite, of rich or poor, etc., but a crowd under-stood in the concept–is untruth.” Soren Kierkegaard

The Individual

“The single indivi-dual can mean the most unique of all, and the single individual can mean everyone … The pride in the one thou-ght incites a few; the hu-mility in the other thought repels others …” (POV, 115) Soren Kierkegaard

The Essentially Religious

“Ultimately only the essentially religious can with the help of eternity effect hu-man equality… and this is why – let it be said to its glorification – the essentially religious is the true humanity.” Soren Kierkegaard

Become Post-national

“To be a good member of the human race, it seems insufficient to begin where the race of the nation or the church begin… to be a good Jew, or Czech, or American I cannot keep getting high on flag-waving and land conquest. To cure my patriotic addiction to the worship of family, flag, market […]

Abraham Called Twice

“There would be perhaps yet another Abraham, not only he who received another name in his old age and, at ninety-nine, at the time of his circumcision, felt, by the blow of a letter, the letter H right in the middle of his name; not only he who, later, on Mount Moriah, was called twice […]

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