Quote:
|
Originally Posted by pbradley
On a personal note, Kierkegaard. Or, rather, some of Kierkegaard since he's a bit all over the place.
|
The ongoing debate with Kierkegaard revolves around him not being Christian. There's a lot of people would say that his 'Christianity' is only inches away from Nietzsche's. Personally, I tend to think that Nietzsche is Christian anyway, but I'm often more inclined to agree with my own detractors, in a strange twist of logic.
The thing with Christianity, by which I mean the social Christianity, the Christianity that gives us democracy (amongst other things), is such a saturated epistemic that most atheism is little more than a mourning for lost Christianity, rather than its outwright dismissal. Philosophically, I tend to feel Christianity itself is as much a fight for the 'true' anti-Christ that the now-fashionable 'atheism' forms only an adumbration of that dialogue.
None of this is a comment on anything that's important to the true believers (articles of faith, dogma, trinitarian belief etc etc), which is a whole different thing.