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>neighbor is at my house
>he's looking through my collection of books
>sees that I have something by Kierkegaard
>"LOL KIERKEGAARD? CHRISTIAN EXISTENTIALISM LOL WHAT BULLSHIT. TALK ABOUT A CONTRADICTION."
>mfw

i didn't even want to argue with him so i just said yeah.
but is Christian Existentialism a contradiction? I don't really see how it is!
I don't care too much about existentialism myself but when people make claims like this they sound very ignorant. He's an atheist and he's pretty vocal about it, too.

I am a Christian but this isn't a religion debate thread so please no hating.

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>2011 and he's still a christian

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>has an opportunity to take part in a debate irl
>pussies out and comes on 4chan to talk about his butthurt feelings

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>Christian tripfag
>requests no hating
>mfw

>> No.1718912

>>1718898
i thought it'd be a better idea to talk about it with people who might know what they're talking about rather than my neighbor

>> No.1718922

>>1718883
>2011
>reads
>christian

Wow.

>> No.1718933

mfw you all know quentin is a troll

>> No.1718936

>>1718890
>>1718907
>>1718898
>>1718922
>>1718933
you guys wanna discuss Christian Existentialism now?

>> No.1718944

a lot of popular thinkers used the Bible as a pretext for philosophical dilemmas. sartre was another even though he himself wasn't "christian" as far as i know.

your friend is retarded.

>> No.1718952

So apparently /lit/ is full of 14 year old atheists.

And yes your friend is retarded.

>> No.1718958

your friend is probably excited to take part in this era's youth counter-culture

i wouldn't be too hard on him

he's definitely not right though

>> No.1718964

It is not a contradiction at all.

People think it is because of Sartre, who popularized existentialism and described his philosophy as an attempt to work out his atheism in a maximally consistent fashion, but Sartre is not the only existentialist.

>> No.1718988

>TALK ABOUT A CONTRADICTION

i think the K-Man would have preferred the term "paradox"

>"Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor."
— Søren Kierkegaard

I think that in order to understand the motive for kierkegaard's work, you have to understand that he was writing primarily in reaction to GWF Hegel— and from there, forming the basis for his faith.

Kierkegaard really took Christianity out of the dark ages, drew out the essential qualities, and focused on those. Whether or not you agree with the content of his arguments, it was a very important shift away from the aesthetics-driven catholic, lutheran, and calvan movements

>> No.1719066

>>1718883
>believes in the man jesus

>> No.1719073

>>1718988
What this man says.
Kierkegaard abhorred the church much more than anything, and was denounced by it. I wouldn't even call Kierkegaard a christian existentialist, maybe a religious one.

>> No.1719078

>>1719073
i'd say the opposite. he was a christian, but not religiously so
almost just a theist though

>> No.1719122

>>1719078
you're right, been a long night.

I'm an atheist but I still enjoyed reading Kierkegaard a lot more than I enjoyed reading Sartre, and to a large extent found his writings more relevant to me as a person and to my personal development, than I did almost any other philosopher.

>> No.1719126

>>1719122
respect & cosigned from your theist counterpart