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Episode #078 ... Marx and Kierkegaard on Religion pt. 2

Philosophize This!

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Christianity Is a Herd of Numbers, Not Individuals

Kirkegard: Christendom is pampered with the nonsense that the christian god is a decent and harmless chap. All human effort tends towards herding together, let us unite, et cetera. This is the usual hypocrisy of the scoundrels we are. So millions of men live and die. They are just numbers, and the numerical becomes their horizon. That is to say, they are just copies. And christianity, which, in the divine love, wants everyone to be an individual, has been transformed by human bungling into precisely the opposite.

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