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“By looking to the glory of the passing years and successive generations as demonstrations of the truth of its religion, Christendom has done away with the sharp shock of having to make a decision that -this- man is -God-, and thus, for Kierkegaard, has done away with Christianity altogether.”

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Book:Kierkegaard's Critique of Christian Nationalism
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Kierkegaard's Critique of Christian Nationalism

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