The Kingdom of God is freedom and the absence of such power... the Kingdom of God is anarchy." — Dermot Griffin
Without God Everything is Permitted — Dostoyevsky
Christian existentialism seems to heavily criticize the rise of modernity and its budding secularism. — Dermot Griffin
I think the emphasis on freedom and responsibility, something we find in all these thinkers, is crucial in understanding the way our world is going. — Dermot Griffin
Without God Everything is Permitted — Dostoyevsky
I think this is Sartre — Tom Storm
"'But what will become of men then?' I asked him, 'without God and immortal life? All things are permitted then, they can do what they like?'" — Tom Storm
There is no crime or misdeed going that theism hasn't sanctioned or advocated in the name of doing a god's will. — Tom Storm
Made famous by Dostoevsky, the question of whether we can be moral without God has always haunted secularism and has consistently been the most vocal criticism of unbelief. "If there is no God, then everything is permitted?" Moral Life in a Secular World — javi2541997
I think we should constantly criticize the modern world without canonizing Kierkegaard, Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche, and other thinkers giving them the last say just as we shouldn't suggest Aquinas gets the last say. I think the emphasis on freedom and responsibility, something we find in all these thinkers, is crucial in understanding the way our world is going. — Dermot Griffin
Søren Kierkegaard is an Existentialist because he accepts, as fully as Sartre or Camus, the absurdity of the world. But he does not begin with the postulate of the non-existence of God, but with the principle that nothing in the world, nothing available to sense or reason, provides any knowledge or reason to believe in God. — javi2541997
From that point of view, I don't read Kierkegaard as an anti-modernist. He belongs more in the 'same as it ever was' camp. — Paine
Christianity will not be content to be an evolution within the total category of human nature; an engagement such as that is too little to offer to a god. Neither does it even want to be the paradox for the believer, and then surreptitiously, little by little, provide him with understanding, because the martyrdom of faith (to crucify one's understanding) is not a martyrdom of the moment, but the martyrdom of continuance." — Kierkegaard. Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments
The deification of the established order is the secularization of everything. With regard to secular matters, the established order may be entirely right: one should join the established order, be satisfied with that relativity, etc. But ultimately the relationship with God is also secularized; we want it to coincide with a certain relativity, do not want it to be something essentially different from our positions in life – rather than that it shall be the absolute for every individual human being and this, the individual person’s God-relationship, shall be precisely what keeps every established order in suspense, and that God, at any moment he chooses, if he merely presses upon an individual in his relationship with God, promptly has a witness, an informer, a spy, or whatever you want to call it, one who in unconditional obedience and with unconditional obedience, by being persecuted, by suffering, by dying, keeps the established order in suspense. — Kierkegaard. Practice in Christianity
What's truly important isn't this life, but the next.
Dumb Christians read Jesus like a peace-and-love hippie. He was (is?) terrifying — Moses
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