“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 that we owe the confusion about states, nations, peoples, empi-res, which are Chri-stian.”

• Soren Kierkegaard