Why do people ignore me?

[Lorizael]

Btw, Kid, did Mother Teresa have faith?

[Kidlicious]

You are a very stupid jerk, and you might think I'm catholic.

[Lorizael]

No, I don't think you're Catholic. Is that a no, then? Mother Teresa was faithless?

[Kidlicious]

I just said it seems that you think I'm catholic. I don't know what catholics have to do with my beliefs. Dang you're stupid.

[loinburger]

If Kidicious doesn't care what Kierkegaard has to say about faith then there's little chance that he'll care what anybody else has to say about faith

[Kidlicious]

You're entitled to your opinion loinburger. Don't forget to vote. Your vote counts!

[loinburger]

It would be simple enough for you to provide a quote from Kierkegaard in which he agrees with your definition of "faith," especially if (as you claim) you've actually read Kierkegaard. It does strike me as unlikely that you'll be able to provide said quote, given that I've already provided a quote from Kierkegaard indicating that your definition of "faith" is contrary to his definition, and this does seem to indicate that your comprehension of Kierkegaard is just as poor as your comprehension of the Bible (or of any other piece of writing, for that matter), but nevertheless, you do have the opportunity to prove (or at least provide evidence in favor of the assertion) that you are not a liar and/or idiot.

[Kidlicious]

I must have missed what you posted. I still have to click "view post" each time. However, you seem to think the Book of Kierkegaard is in the Bible. It isn't. I've already quoted the Bible which satisfies everyone who isn't a stupid ass.

[Kidlicious]

Anyway, this isn't for criticism. In The Concept of Anxiety Kierkegaard says that a person becomes anxious because of the freedom to choose between two options. The subject has doubt that he will make the right choice, or that he has made the right choice. Only someone who has faith has no anxiety, because those who doubt are double minded. Doubt is double mindedness.

[Provost Harrison]

So no other book other than The Bible is worth considering then, according to what you define?

[Kidlicious]

If it's not in the Bible, I don't need to know it. That doesn't mean it won't interest me.

[loinburger]

If it's not in the Bible, I don't need to know it. That doesn't mean it won't interest me.

Then why would you use Kierkegaard to argue matters of faith? Why would you interpret the Bible through the lens of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche?

There's a difference from thinking existentially and believing in existentialism. You don't have to know anything about modern existentialist writing to think existentially. According to Nietzsche there have been people who have thought existentially throughout history. Othey existentialist writers seem to agree. Socrates was a very existentialist thinker for example although he never talked about existentialism as a way of thinking, not like Nietsche and others anyway. And like I said the Hebrew prophets were existentialist thinkers. Kierkegaard called Abraham the Knight of Faith. This means that Abraham is like a Nietsche superman, able to think and act in a way that the masses can not. Kierkegaard said he had never met a person in life like him and he didn't consider himself one. There's a difference between writing about existentialism and thinking existentially.

[Kidlicious]

I don't have faith in Kierkegaard, but what he wrote was always what the Bible says as far as I know. There are things that I think he was wrong about, but those things are extrabiblical.

[loinburger]

I don't have faith in Kierkegaard, but what he wrote was always what the Bible says as far as I know. There are things that I think he was wrong about, but those things are extrabiblical.

Abraham was extrabiblical?

[Kidlicious]

K well, you're just going to troll.